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I'm not a leader by any means but I believe we are to lead a righteous life. That is a moral life. We follow that by obeying Christ's commandments. In church we should be meditating on what the gospel and His word say to us, then to find peace…
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Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I have towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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There are two approachs to this: one is faith; one is works. It all depends on what is happening and the timing of what is happening. What is happening is he is doing something that is not thinking of others. If the girl became pregnant the shame …
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There is no protection in anything he is doing. Himself, and the girl he is going with. If you are his friend then, as we love those who even hate themselves, we do right for those who sin against themselves. To be a true friend would be to say to…
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Welcome mashalan, They joked about Eygptian time when I became a part of the faith, but it is all true. Oh well forgive them. May the Lord grant you security, strength, peace of mind, and all things pertaining t…
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Don't they have a beard to show their wisdom?
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mnc_hnn is right. Genesis3:5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil. This is in reference to the apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Love sodr2 answer. Conscience is knowing right from wrong. There are a lot of disagreements over it. We can use our own conscience as a guide, but the best is to follow Jesus Christ's commandments because it comes from love. It will make you genui…
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Hello Martha, Did you speak to Abouna about how you are feeling? Do so next Sunday if you can. You'll be ok I'm sure, sometimes people take awhile to warm to someone new. Acceptance and rejection is a hard thing but we are all…
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Don't worry imikhail, I didn't think you were judging me or anyone. You are a good man. I wasn't happy that Father Peter withdrew as well and that was all, but the love I was talking about is in 1 John 4:7-16. Overall I try to close seperatio…
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That is what I'm saying PFM. That is why I asked the quesion, would a monk defend with pride or keep his position and offer it?If he is keeping his position, then he is not changing, but making an offer of the position he holds. I'm saying this be…
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Truth is not perfected by pride as pride does not bring people together. Pride is not love. Pride says I belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church and I will use our truth to not accept others. Instead, why not just keep that truth as an offer like our…
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Who are the ones creeping in unawares?I still say Holy God Holy Almighty Holy Immortal every morning and I accepted it with joy and now I know that others treat it with zealous pride maks me feel as there is politics behind what I am saying. Pride…
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sherene_maria, is our church about taking sides? Brother against brother? We take our offerings and sacrifices, but not to argue over them.
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Are we to deny the Catholic Church their Apostle as well? We can say we have been true but we can't deny others their right to believe in their salvation.
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But you are having one apostles road to salvation less than another and possibly not the true road. I think we are the true bride by virtue of being the best we can be in understanding God's nature and being on the path he has for us and the beaut…
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It is of utmost importance to belong to the one family of Christ, but the way you have it like one apostle accepting him and another apostle excommunicating him. How is that one family?Other churches mentioned are grafted onto the same tree in Chri…
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I'm concerned were this leaves us. If we remove a saint from our church who is also a saint from another church then this is not an act of peace. Our Pope sought peace and I am not comfortable that he would want other fathers remove a link between …
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Sorry imikhail, my conscience isn't happy with this as you can see in my arguement. I've looked at both sides of it but I have decided that removing him maybe a mistake. I think you said Pope Shenouda the third said he should be removed. It seems …
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What makes a saint a saint? I believe it's their works. Then this is what they are bound by and that it doesn't necessarily have to be our church. You have said excommunication for unbelief is what God instructed his apostles. Is it for unbeli…
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It is true in what you say concerning the Apostles but as explained in Saint Pauls letter to the romans in chapter nine the goal of the church was to be together, he didn't precisely say that he was looking at the reason why. If Saint Paul saw tha…
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Excommunication is judgement. So where is reconcilation with a church who hold him as a saint? Are we to have him as a saint then reneg on that and remove him? We have God's mercy as a core value in our church and it is humble and shows our relat…
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It was Romans 9 that I woke up to read in the middle of the night and yes it is God's mercy that he told Moses in saying, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."If this is true, then I don't s…
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Are we going to fight evil with evil? Constantine reneged on us so we get to reneg on him. We must think he is in Hades for wanting salvation but the wrong way of getting it.
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It's ok Remnkemi I didn't think you were picking on me or anyone. There is something in me that say to forgive and I know that it is healing and that it puts the things that were full of regret and may of being in the wrong direction on a better p…
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I'm sorry Christ_rose, but I don't think you see the dangers in accept him as a saint even though he did do good for Christ. He was a ruler and he could not let this part of him go and humble himself for Christ and in doing so he had the church tha…
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Christ_rose please respect imikhail as he is quite right in what he is saying and that he has taken Athanasius's point of veiw he that he wanted the church to be true he Athanastius always was truthful as much as he could be. There is a conflict …
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Yes many people do good things as you say, but have they done as much for Christ as being part of the empire that cost him his life and then changing to follow him and also bringing the church together to form a common agreement. Are these things j…
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Ecumenical is to try and unite different churches and righteous is to be morally right, but also to be good and just. To be just takes wisdom. So then we are questioning wisdom. If King Constantine is in the Midnight Psalmody and I don't know i…