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Dear Coptic Youth, Have you tried getting a mutual friend that is always with him, and is firends with you to be involved, meaning like did u try having someone who he hangs out with hang out with you so all three of you can be friends in public. …
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Wow Vass, your story sorta scared me lol i mean thats defnitley unpriestly like manner...but u cant judge why he did it as for the preist taking Communion after what he did: In the Synaxarium, it tells this story about what our Great Father Abba Jo…
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ya good point I never got that how come we say: "Crucified under Pontious Pilate" When PP washed his hands of Christs Blood? Like why do we still consider him guilty of the Lord's Blood.
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This Is H.H. Pope Shenouda's Answer regarding mesntration and the Eucharist: from his book: Dogmatic Questions IV (which can be downloaded from www.copticpope.orgB Kinda long but hey, it answers all your questions: Is it allowed for a woman while …
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http://www.theholysynod.copticpope.org/m016.htm hope this helps! Please Pray for me
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Well in the Past (pre-451) the Roman Church was regarded as the strongest church among the others, what I have to say is that I guess this mentality stuck. Even though there are clearly many splits with in it, not only that but if someone searches "…
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Of course they can, I mean I know someone who was baptized by the Pope "the head of the bishops"...
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ok this is kinda deviant from the original question but... One of my friends once told me that sometimes "the weeping or the dripping of oil can be devil-manifisted" does any one have any insight on this? thanks
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Actually that opinon was suggested not to long ago due to the Hepatitis C outbreak, specially among the Egyptian community, but from what I heard was taht the idea was rejected on the basis that it would be against the "tuks" of the Church. Persona…
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Very Very Very informative, thanks anglican but just to clear up one murky detail? I'm pretty sure Nestorian was deposed, because of his heresy? I mean even if there was "political motives" those would have only been a secondary reason to his depo…
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wow..........good point like i honeslty would have never looked at it this way but just to clear up someting the only reason I asked this questoin was cuz i was kinda confused cuz on the Holy Synod website it lists his name but when you click on …
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Dear All especially Joy, I defnitley know what you are talking about: I come from a family were my father is a Physical Therapist, one of my uncles is a Doctor, and then 2 of the others are engineers. To add to that I have two cousins in Pharmacy,…
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Also, H.H. Pope Shenouda IIIl, commented on this verse in his book: "The Seven Words of our Lord on the Cross" You can download it I believe from, www.copticpope.org
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hmm thats another way to look at it, good points but from wat i understand according to this one muslim kid i know, hadiths are the "words and laws' mohammed recieved? so aren't those writtne in the koran?
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Ya I too wish they'd give Orthodoxy a chance, but at the same time I understand why they dont: Prior to convertion, they were Muslims, Muslims BASE ANYTHING and EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD ON THEIR KORAN, that sorta parralels to the Evangilical Church,…
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ok thanks alot, that would be great
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I heard that too, but there are some rare cases for example Bishop Bolous I belive was a (non-wed) priest for I remember reading in one of the earlier Kerazza Magazines about him as a priest (not a monk b/c his last name was stated plus he wasnt wea…
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Basically Ya, i.e. Tay-Sachs disease is a recessive disease that is common in a group of people called the Ashkenazi Jews, who basically breed within their own. What happens is that the baby is born with too much fatty acids in the nerve cells in …
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Ya i guess I see were your goin about the commonality of being in the family, but still when you spend a lifetime with a person whether you know them or never seen them, your gonna find a lot to talk about. Secondly, I understand your view, about w…
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My Dearest Brothers, The reason it "bothers" me (as stated before) is that I grew up going to a COC were touching of the Holy Body or Blood by a non-ordained priest/deacon is completely unacceptable, to the point that if a peice of blood were to sp…
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Hi Gregory! I just have a small question: You said in point 2 below that cousins will usually grow up in the same familial environment? What's wrong with that? and finally, with respect to having the same grandparents as each other: U are right in …
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From what I heard the conflict is that Origen who castrated himself...went to preach out of Egypt and was ordained a priest by the people there...without the permission of Pope Dioscouros. The Pope objected to this, and thus had to excommunicate …
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ya uhmm from wat i heard here in egypt,nhe story plays out like this: abouna was crippled and abused his wife and she worked with a muslim fellow who she complained to and he took advantage of that and so on and so forth ...then they were involved i…
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my brohters, i have a 20 page essay titled "islam unveiled" explaining the reasons why the Quaran isnt' what it seems, or in other words it basically proves its falsehood. I'd be more than glad to send it to anyone, who wants it. The author is un…
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my dear brohter, i live in a muslim country, and from expierience the best thing to do is to AVOID DISCUSSING RELIGON IN-DEPTH with these people for if they are so "ignorant of another faith" then they will not comprehend anything u explain to them…
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I was on a website, that struck up a good point regarding this controversial point: The point stated that: We have to look at God's Wisdom.....concerning Sexual Intercourse By this, what is meant is: The Lord's Intent concerining Sexual Intrecours…
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brother, everyone sins, and the devil is sneaky, so he knows that person's very weak points and attacks them constantly so that person maybe prayin all the prayers the Agbeya, and reading the Holy Bible, and Fasting, but he will still attack and ge…
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Personally i think the marriage of cousins is wrong for the following reasons: 1) the child will have the same "great-grandfather" on both sides....which is too close 2) cousins are closer to being brother and sister, than being just friends 3)Most…
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uhmm wow...so i read the thread and i remember as a kid goin to a RC school i remember learning that at Vatican II the Catholic Church did its best to "bring in more people" so it did things like: a) abolishing the usage of the Latin Language b) sho…
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Dear Brothers and Sisters This is a very tricky topic, and you guys def. did an above-excellent job of explainin it but what sorta helped me understnad it was John 1:1-17 (the Gospel we read in the First Hour in the Agpeya) "In the beginning was …