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St Mary was indeed sinless (i'm not sure if this is only from the moment of conception, ie the H. Spirit overshadowing her to conceive Christ), this is the believe of the majority of Eastern Church Fathers. I can't be bothered to find the link to th…
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orthodox11, thanks so much for sharing your wisdom with us ;) On top of everything that was said, I think it's not logic to think that Christ died instead of us simply because we still die. If he really died INSTEAD of us...then what is the point o…
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Mercy = Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice, and = Alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed The word mercy as QT said has a totally different meaning in…
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Some words of enlightment from: http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/christcross.aspx Many of the Holy Fathers wrote on this theme of Christ as sacrifice. Origen (who is not a Holy Father) and, following him, St. Gregory of Nyssa, posited that the…
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Gee, i wonder who would ever come up with such an idea, nikhoros tiro ::) ;D And yes, I remember the pop song, it was nice to hear, although not really traditional lol. The best act however was the french sketch where these girls were imitating anb…
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I agree with Mina_Ameen, hell is a CHOISE from us, not a punishment from God. This clearly is also the teaching of Christ (see my previous quote from the gospel of St John). There's also this wonderfull saying of St Basil: "The evils in hell do not …
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Well the question is whether penal substitution was taught to us by our early church fathers in the east, not whether we learn this in sunday school nowadays :-X Oh btw, penal substitution focusses also on the "unlimitedness" (is that a word? lol) …
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The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, not some kind of a force or "aura" or some impersonal strange thing. The Holy Spirit is a PERSON that we have a relationship with, that we talk to personally as we do in the third hour tropari…
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[quote author=Irini* link=topic=6588.msg89803#msg89803 date=1212961476] I love Dutch :p [/quote] No you don't :P
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Oh yah, it's one of the hardest languages in the world lol (no wonder English is so easy to us :P). Did you by any chance hear the hymns that were chanted by us (partly) in dutch last year in the EYM? lol
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Hell is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the whole of Christianity. One problem is the mistranslation for the words "hell". In hebrew there is two words that describe the afterlife: Shehol (hades in greek, ga7eem in arabic) and Gehenna (goh…
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Here is some interesting orthodox articles about hell and heaven: http://aggreen.net/beliefs/heaven_hell.html http://www.orthodoxpress.org/parish/river_of_fire.htm Someone else on this site had directed me to them, and they were very beneficial f…
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Here in my country we learn english from primairy school, and in high school (depending on which level and school you go to) you study French, german, latin/greek. This is all in adition to dutch of course, and if you have foreign roots you may happ…
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Only on Pentecost the procession is during Matins, because after the Praxis the third hour agpeya prayers are to be read followed by the hymn of the Paraklete. You can't do a procession and a Pentecost celebration in the same time, now can u? ;)
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Don't tell me that whilst having sex with another man's wife and killing her husband that "God was still with him"... no.. I don't believe. I believe the Holy Spirit left Him at that time God never leaves us, and David knows it. He says in psalm 139…
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I never said David was fine while performing the sin. In fact, he was greatly affected by the words of Natan the prophet because at that time he woke up from being "high from the kick that sin gives. Yet, it's temporarily. His regret and pain was so…
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We need not to forget that being in sin and not being in communion with God is in itself a natural punishment. Even if this murderer was not punished here on earth by being jailed or so, don't think he has rest and peace deep down inside of him. God…
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This is taken from the book of HH pope Shenouda named "salvation in the orthodox concept".
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Wait a minute QT, isn't the church of ville juif kinda in the centre of Paris? I remember going there with my cousin by public transport, and it wasnt so far, but that of course depends on where u live... i know many youth who come every friday even…
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[quote author=josephgabriel link=topic=6615.msg88303#msg88303 date=1211457268] No man, you've misunderstood me. When I said penetration I meant the moment when the sperm breached the outer membrane of the ovum, I didn't mean sexual penetration i.e. …
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[quote author=josephgabriel link=topic=6615.msg88299#msg88299 date=1211456080] Ok, so thats the mechanism, but my question was how long does it take for fertilisation to occur after this penetration? Or, wait a minute, are you saying fertilisation …
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lol, well QT, here's my attempt to explain the female cycle for u: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation_cycle It'll take a long time to explain everything in detail, so u better just read the article. In short the cycle looks as follows: da…
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the pill doesn't cause a termination of a zygote, exactly because it prevents the ovulation. The morning after pill does, and therefore it's an abortive pill (at least if u concider life to start from the conception). Perhaps u'd like to have a loo…
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jup, especially if he quotes COPTIC fathers ;)
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Man and redemption, Fr Tadros Malaty, 1992 Alexandria, page 14 and further In this chapter he quotes many church fathers (Mostly St Athanasius) explaining the role of God in salvation. I think it speaks for itself! 7. TO RENEW OUR NATURE In the Epi…