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Recent content by wgw

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    The Holy Rosary

    It's my opinion that it's simply impossible for us to discuss Christianity in a meaningful way when the Jehovah's Witnesses operate as an organized team on this forum. What is needed is a separate DIR for the Jehovah's Witnesses, just like there's s separate DIR for Mormons. Regarding the vain...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    The blood and body of our Lord exist in quantities sufficient to feed his flock. When, in the Orthodox Divine Liturgy, we pray the prayer known as the epiclesis we believe the bread and wine are changed into the actual body and blood of our Lord by the action of the Holy Spirit (rather than...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    In my experience taking the Eucharist in the Orthodox Church if actual transubstantiation occurs the effect of the elements can be radicalLy different. This is why we call them "mysteries." I've had stomach flu and other ailments cured by the Eucharist properly consecrated. You and most...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    It's a cult thing when the threat of shunning is used to enforce submissiom to church authority. Tertullian actually left the Church of Rome (I.e. The actual church in Rome) and moved to a Montanist community in a remote province because he felt the Roman church was too forgiving and should be...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    And with that you just exposed the cult aspect of your faith that has made it so controversial. I'm an Orthodox and we don't practice shunning. Families are not required to break up if one of them leaves the church. In fact if the wife of an Orthodox priest became a Baha'i or an Atheist or...
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    Deity of Jesus Christ

    Tertullian also accepted all four gospels as canon, coined the term Trinitas in Latin, and later became the member of a rigorist sect, the Montanists, founded by a man claiming to be the Paraclete. So not the best source for you to cite Id say. By the way, were you at one time a Processean...
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    Deity of Jesus Christ

    What Spirit? Paul said "If anyone comes to you preaching another a Gospel than we have taught, even if it is an angel from heaven, let them be anathema." Fallen angels routinely masquerade as the Holy Spirit in order to deceive; it is one of their preferred means of attack. Read The Screwtape...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    Recall that the "Bible Students" believe that only 144,000 will be saved to the extent of living with Jesusmin the clouds, the rest enjoying a sort of sensuous paradise on a New Earth. To,date, more,than 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses have given testimony they are among the 144,000. But either...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    The Jehovah's Witnesses in general seem to prefer to ignore the qualifies scholarship in each area. By the way, let me also say this, Pagan does not mean bad. If the church adopted and baptized aspects of pagan worship, as part of the process of acculturation, that is good. For remember...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    There is nothing pagan about the fourth century church deciding in its wisdom to commemorate the incarnation of the divine Word, our Lord and Savior. If anyone's birth is worth commemorating, it is his. What is more, Dec 25 is close enough, based on dating from the vision of Zecariah at Yom...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    No, Haggis are acceptable on non-fasting days. It's just black pudding, which is pork intestines stuffed with dried clotted pigs blood, offal,and oatmeal, that is prohibited according to the Council of Jerusalem. And when you think about it...YUCK. I can't believe I ate that stuff. There is...
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    Was Jesus born on Christmas?

    John 14:9, "He who has seen me has seen the Father." What John 1:18 refers to according to Orthodox doctrine is that God in his Essence is unknowable, He can be perceived only according to His Energies. This differs from the Roman Catholic doctrine of Absolute Divine Aimplicity introduced by...
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    Do You Think I'm Going to Hell?

    Eihwaz, your charity is commendable. The Eastern Orthodox Churches that salvation involves becoming god, not God in an absolute sense, but being deified through Theosis, which is accomplished through humility and control of the passions attained through the joys of fasting and the unceasing...
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    Love your enemies

    I don't know where you're getting this from; I suspect a literal reading of the Book of Revelation combined with snippets of fundamentalist chiliastic claptrap (the Darbyite Rapture nonsense), et cetera. This is not the belief of the Orthodox Church, nor was it the belief of the early church...
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    Love your enemies

    To my knowledge nothing like that ever happened in the OrthodoxmChurch. The only bloody stain on our record (well, on the record of the Russian Orthodox Church; the Greeks were actively opposed to it) was the persecution of Old,Believers who resisted the liturgical reforms imposed by Patriarch...
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