I was just told last night by a man that speaks at least five languages, that I know of, that when the Russian Orthodox recite the Creed that they use a word in their language that joins our meaning of "catholic" to the meaning of "concilliar". Are any of you informed about this?
Whether they be country leaders, business owners, Bishops, Senators or moderators.
That we should all create peace with God..
2COR 10:8 For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed-
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All heresy employs the Bible to justify itself. Heresy is by its very nature unbiblical because its ultimate basis is not the vision of Christ in His Uncreated Divine Glory seen by the Prophets, Apostles and Saints, but by a philosophy constructed on the basis of human reflection and the law of...
Is worship something we understand or experience every day?
How do we know when we are worshiping the God that created all things, or are we?
Is worship the same as veneration?
Below is a great speach Met. Phillip gave stressing the need for jurisdictional unity amoung the American Orthodox
If you love unity, you'll love this ! ! !
Calling for Orthodox unity, with diversity
By TERRY MATTINGLY
Scripps Howard News Service
23-FEB-05
Week after week...
I coming into water I know little of. This morning it dawned on me that if space is curved it has to be infinite because a curve has to eventually meet itself and make a circle or sphere which is infinite in itself, am I thinking wrong?
"HEB 10:29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?",
what does that mean?
Please join with me in sharing the great quotes of our Fathers in The Faith that we may learn more of knowing our Creator.
"Unless a man hates all the activity of this world, he cannot worship God. What then is meant by the worship of God? It means that we have nothing extraneous in our...
The passions that can rule our lives can be the greatest enemy to our entering into the Kingdom of God. The tools that The Church gives us are many and varied. What tool/tools have you benefited the most from in recent days?
The most difficult tool for me to grasp and be consistent is...
"People in our time speak of the divided Church and the urgent need of reuniting it. Father Florovsky remarks that 'the Church is not divided, has not been divided, did not divide ... and is not divisible.' What is divided is the Christian world. This 'is in a state of descent, conflict and - is...
This dogma was not in the Christian realm until approx. 150 years ago. The Church of antiquity could not imagine this becoming a dogma or even in discussion.
When you divorce the Holy Tradition of the Church from the Scripture you by default have to come to the logical end of either throwing...
Purgatory exists in the minds of those who have misunderstood the root meanings of Ghena, Hades etc. and not understood the Fire of God and the energies of God being synonymous.
Gods fire that the RC and Protestants interpret as a physical fire that will burn forever is in reality the...
I would prefer to call the "Pascha" or Passover that the diciple had with our Lord the "First Communion" rather than the "Last Supper" for it was the end that gave us a new beginning, No?