Dear byrdele,
There is, indeed, something shocking about Christians behaving with intolerance towards other Christians. But of course this is a difficult one. St. Athanasius was pretty intolerant of Arians, and St. Cyril was equally tough on Nesto…
Dear Hailemikael,
Thank you for posting the link; the service was, I am told, very moving; Abba Seraphim's speech was an eloquent plea, and we are organising further campaigns to focus attention on the plight of the Patriarch.
I would ask all our …
Dear byrdele,
Thank you for your forbearance - and kind response.
We must all of us find Him as He finds us, and your Church and mine have much in common; where there are differences I find no problem respecting them; if it is His will that we, Hi…
Dear byrdele,
You ask:
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Dear Anglian,
Btw, I am simply curious as to how someone from the C of E in Britain knew enough about the Coptic Church to join. When my doctor in the…
Dear byrdele,
I am in agreement with Thomas and yourself.
The Internet can be a great blessing when, with sites like this, it allows us to converse with fellow Christians from across the globe, gives us access to articles on the Faith, and allows …
Dear PopeKyrillos,
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Like my friend said He went to ae and the cheapest pair of shorts he could find was 30 dollars or 60 Euros for the people on this site from the UK.
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Dear byrdele,
A moving post, but I would say that we should all acknowledge that in a fallen world we are all sinners; some simply get a bigger canvas on which to commit their sins, and few are immune from the temptation to persecution when the ch…
Dear Kyrillos,
You ask:
[quote author=PopeKyrillos link=topic=5534.msg73934#msg73934 date=1183952008]
Does a good deed cover up a bad deed in the eyes of god?
For example if i lied and then gave to the poor would that balance out?
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to which…
Mina is surely right here? We must avoid falling into the sin of pride - which would be to think that the Devil would single Copts out because we are somehow more virtuous.
That said, it is surely the case that he tries hardest where he thinks we a…
Dear byrdele,
welcome back, hope Ireland was wonderful!
Thank you so much for taking the time to tell us properly about what it is that the Roman Catholic Church actually believes about these matters; it is so important that we communicate in this…
Minagir is correct; all sins must be confessed. To be attracted in lust to a person of the same gender, or one of the other gender to whom one is not married are both wrong.
If you have a look at the thread here on Homosexuality you will see what i…
Dear QT,
I thought you'd cracked that one and could give us all advice?? ;)
But seriously, you are right, it can be a problem in the west. One should not use the Church as a dating bureau, but obviously it is the best place in the west to meet fel…
Dear QT,
I think Kerestina's comments about balance are spot on. We get to know people through a variety of ways - and I can see that the Internet might be one.
Of course one needs to be careful on the Internet, but so does one in real life. A fri…
Dear Mike,
You are in my prayers.
Please do not think that anything you have written will have caused anyone to have doubts. Those who had them any way will have recognised what you were thinking; those who do not will have seen the answers any wa…
Dear Esakla23,
Interesting viewing, but I would ask your FoC about this. It is a Protestant Evangelical site, and I would doubt that their views on doctrine are those of the Orthodox Church.
This is not to say that they are not good men doing the …
Dear Mike, Dear QT,
I am rather with Kerestina on this one. I don't know how the site works, but suspect the moderators might have something to say.
If one erases one's own posts then some of the subsequent ones will not make a great deal of sense…
Dear Mike,
Minagir is correct.
As St. Cyril wrote, the Holy Spirit helps to restore us to the image of God in which we were created originally, but which has been marred by the effects of sin.
In Christ,
Anglian
Dear Κηφᾶς,
We are, as so often, at one here.
Moreover, what is being said here has an obvious application elsewhere on this site. There have been many interesting questions being posed on the basis of how we read scripture, and what they all help…
Dear bentBABAyasooa`,
Κηφᾶς hits the nail on the head.
Commitment is a difficult thing; there are times when the awesome nature of a commitment to marriage can make both parties hesitate - that is a good thing as it means they enter into it in the…
Dear QT,
Haha... how can we not read scripture literally? We are meant to read it metaphorically??
I am sure that Κηφᾶς will answer this himself, but I read him as saying that we read the scriptures in the light of the teachings of the Church.
Κηφᾶ…
Dear Mike,
Let me try to help, although I would appreciate the help of others much more knowledgeable.
His Holiness, Pope Shenouda III has written on this:
But when the Lord breathed on them it was to give them
the sacrament of the Holy Orders (P…
Dear QT,
'Unequally yoked with unbelievers' is not an exhortation to live a cult-like life associating only with fellow Christians (or, given the number of Christian denominations, only those in one's own Church!).
It has traditionally been read a…
Dear QT, Dear Mike,
In as far as those who did the stoning in the OT were obeying their conception of the Law they were not sinning. But it seems pretty clear from what Our Lord said concerning the woman taken in adultery that their understanding h…
Dear Copticcross3,
How do you CHOOSE to find out what that plan is and to follow it to the end?? What's going to happend is going to happen...and i do think God wanted robots....
It is very clear that God gave us free will; it was the misuse of thei…
Dear Mike,
It seems pretty clear that those who did cast stones (for example those who stoned St. Stephen) were not without sin - so the point Our Lord was making is that such people were hypocrites. Yet again we see how well Our Lord knows us poor…
Dear bentBABAyasooa,
[quote author=bentBABAyasooa` link=topic=5521.msg73746#msg73746 date=1183510736]
Hey Guys.....
I have a couple of questions, I need your opnions on them and also expirences (If you'd like to share them).
1. Can a person find l…
Dear QT,
I think it is fine for us to have friends who are not Orthodox; we live in a world which is not Orthodox, and by the witness we each bear to our Faith, others can come to a view of it.
One of the many good things about this site is that I…
What Κηφᾶς has to say is, as ever, spot on target.
God gives us free will. If He wanted robots He would have created them. Our true nature is to be made in His image and to be like Him, but the effects of sin have marred that nature, weakened and …