My Uncle was Bishop THeophilos. He was a Motron (metropolitan bishop). He was from my dad's side of the family. Is this the same person?
Was this bishop ever made into a motran??
[quote author=josephgabriel link=topic=6294.msg83864#msg83864 date=1205791179]
Right Guys, here goes:
Judging is simply is passing a judgement on something, e.g. in a court of law, a judge passes judgement on the convicted, or I judge in my mind th…
[quote author=Hizz_chiilld link=topic=6294.msg83751#msg83751 date=1205500950]
You contradict yourself.
Can you please rephrase, I'm having trouble understanding....
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Hi.
My apologies, i was just thinking out aloud whilst I was typing.
Can…
[quote author=Hizz_chiilld link=topic=6294.msg83749#msg83749 date=1205496058]
no, it's not up to you to say that a human being is rude. You could however decide that its not ok to insult people, hence you are judging the deed not the person.
Let m…
[quote author=Hizz_chiilld link=topic=6294.msg83747#msg83747 date=1205474422]
No, it's not okai to judge someone.. you can judge actions not people.
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Hi Hizz,
Did abouna say that?
So what's the difference exactly between judging actions a…
I think there are two issues here that need to be ironed out that people have really gotten mixed up:
1) There appears to be some confusion between "judging" someone and "condemning" someone.
We have the right to make judgements. We have no right…
[quote author=Iqbal link=topic=6106.msg81155#msg81155 date=1200750958]
There is a lot of demonic nonsense and slander against the Orthodox Church on the internet. The article you link to is saturated with typical logical fallacies, the primary one b…
The 1st line starts with: "The Copts are Monophysites and thus heretics"
If that's his understanding, of course he will think we are heretics. We are miaphysites.
The questions that I feel have to be posed are:
a) What made the other orthodox ch…
Hi,
Well, I see this discussion has really blossomed. I guess this topic must have struck a nerve with everyone. Now, i noticed that no one has really answered the underlying "base" question in all this:
What is the effect of praying in a language…
OK Gentlemen,
Let's summarise:
Here are the pros and cons of each solution:
PROS OF Enforcing Coptic in the Sunday School Curriculum.
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1) We are 100% Orthodox compliant
2) We avoid protestant and catholic son…
[quote author=aem581 link=topic=6063.msg80698#msg80698 date=1199225146]
Dear Severus, CertifiedOrthodox, ilovesaintmark, and josephgabriel,
I can see your points about the language dying out in all of the countries except Egypt, and I understand eve…
Gentlemen,
What do we do?
Do we promote Coptic hymns and therefore coptic as a language? (we CANNOT sing coptic hymns without teaching the coptic languages).
Do we just use protestant songs ?? (for me, although they are "theologically correct" …