[quote author=CopticStrength link=topic=9952.msg121695#msg121695 date=1288736440]
I thought that this will help people with anxiety or faith problems......here you go:
...By faith we leave behind the anxiety
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I certainly needed that.
I don't know what the church says, but I would think that there has to be salvation outside of orthodoxy. Miracles happen outside of the Orthodox church all the time. Christ told St. Peter that he would be the rock upon which the church would be fou…
[quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=9872.msg121024#msg121024 date=1287520822]
I don't know Ioannes, maybe 20 wives is punishment in itself. I think it lends itself for a reasonable argument to prove that there is purgatory on earth.
Before eve…
[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=9873.msg120998#msg120998 date=1287501183]
America is the first liberal state. It claims you are free to believe and say what you wish. But if you say anything that is contrary to the status quo, then you are demonize…
[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=9854.msg120784#msg120784 date=1287106852]
[quote author=George_Mina_Awad link=topic=9854.msg120782#msg120782 date=1287100496]
God told us not to return evil with evil. I think that says enough.
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Not sure if …
I understand that, Fr. Peter. But the statement itself, that there may not be enough Christians in America to really make a difference, almost seems legitimate to me.
This is a prayer by St. Gregory that someone in my church showed us last week. It Instantly became my favorite prayer. It really put into perspective for me how much of a long way to go I have.
[center]Our Lord Jesus Christ, meek and humble of hear…
"When asked by Donahue if stating this on t.v. would hurt his business, he replied, 'THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH CHRISTIANS IN THE UNITED STATES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.' "
Believable.
Hmm. Maybe it's an easier commitment?
I always just shake my head at the people who say the Orthodox church is outdated. I don't understand the "needs" that the Coptic church hasn't adapted to. Change on the scale of the Protestant reformation is j…
It most certainly isn't wrong to talk about being Coptic to a someone who isn't a Copt. If they ask, by all means, tell them!
Also, there have been stories of people seeing the Body as actual flesh during communion. It's certainly possible. I heard…
[quote author=peterfarrington link=topic=9841.msg120702#msg120702 date=1286980777]
IMHO, the statement does read like that of a disgruntled and bitter Copt rather than a Muslim.
He is going on about bishops bowing down to him and people not being a…
Here is a page fighting against all of the groups that are popping up against H.H. The groups that are out there are just so amazingly childish.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Unite-to-Report-Every-Hate-Group-Against-our-father-HH-Pope-Shenouda/1…
This is also addressed in The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel. I've never seen Darwin's theories so throughly shot down before, and it was written in a manner that I, who don't have too much background on this, could understand.
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=9847.msg120614#msg120614 date=1286876917]
Generally speaking, I find Americans quite apathetic towards their own religion, namely Christianity.
I'm not sure whether they understand it. They definately have good int…
[quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=9847.msg120557#msg120557 date=1286821971]
Not only that, but our own youth do not care. They are being assimilated into the Western nonsense. I have discussions with them at times, and I am amazed by their a…
Why does the Bible contain such ambiguity in the first place? Why would God reveal these things to St. John, only for us to read it almost 2000 years later, still without much of clue as to what it all really means? It was placed for us to read, yet…
Although I do agree with minagir that what is going on today does not seem to be the suffering that Christ described. Many of the early Christians suffered just as much, if not more, than the ones who are suffering today (i.e, Diocletian's reign). T…
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=9836.msg120531#msg120531 date=1286812209]
[quote author=peterfarrington link=topic=9836.msg120529#msg120529 date=1286811725]
The Fathers do not allow us to make any of the sort of claims that are being made in this …