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The Eastern Orthodox priest is not correct, and I am surprised at this if his PhD was on Coptic Christianity. Bar Salibi, the great Syrian writer, in the 12th century and long before the Catholic Enc. says the Latins changed from Right to Left insi…
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Anyone can speak with these Protestant tongues. It is a learned skill. (That I do not encourage anyone to try). If I wanted I could 'speak in tongues' right now. But I do not want to and reject the idea that it is a spiritual gift at all. I believe…
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It is dangerous to propose to any Orthodox person that they are capable of accepting the good and rejecting the bad. This has never been the teaching of the Church which has always insisted that we should have nothing to do with those who teach erro…
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We should not watch any Protestant programmes at all. It is better not to watch TV than to watch Protestant programmes. We might as well be attending the Protestant services and this is strictly forbidden.
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Sorry, I disagree. No Orthodox Christian should make a habit of listening to Protestant teaching. It is not for Orthodox Christians to decide for themselves what they will and will not watch and listen to and read. The Church is very clear that i…
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I dont watch CTV so I can't say really. I would be concerned in regard to children that they could be exposed to error very young. That is not me just being a grinch. So id say it depends. And that others may have suitable experience.
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No Orthodox Christian should watch God TV. It is filled with heresy and will damage the faith of those who watch it. User157, you must not take a person's suggestion and try to build a whole life around it. I am sure that mabsoota does not mean, w…
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I have heard this 'joke' used by other clergy and have not found it appropriate. It is of course a universal 'joke' and when I was in the Brethren we also used it. But it seems to me that it is not sound. If an Orthodox clergyman thinks that all w…
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I agree with you, it is awful and we must do what we can. I have many people from an EO background in my own little congregation and we get on as a true family. But news articles such as today's show Orthodox Christians in a very bad light. Don't f…
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A good post, binC. We must also ask ourselves how much we love God, and how much we love the things we hope God will give us. If we have no sense of God's presence are we willing to persevere in loving and serving God as we should, or do we bargain…
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The reason is because the Greeks and Armenians have certain rights over certain areas of the Church which are formalised by law. The Greeks appear to always be trying to extend their area of control and this causes the conflict. It is not theologica…
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Remnkemi, I can't agree with you at all. Who are these 'Psychologists, sociologist, and historians'? No one I would give any credence to, nor would teh vast majority of British people. Those who seek to impose the ideas you describe are, in the UK…
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Thanks both of you. Just what I needed. God bless you
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Most British people believe that our Lord came to England with his uncle St Jospeh of Arimathea. The legends go back many years. The first documentary material dates back to the 9th century. Certainly Christians were present in Britain in the ear…
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Today is the day of salvation. There is no guarantee that you will be able to repent tomorrow. Those who are oppressed by demons are those who have already given themselves up to the power of the demons. No-one should ever consider that they will …
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The problem with WWJD is that it is entirely Protestant. It requires the one asking WWJD to decide for themselves and it essentially means we can do what we want as long as we consider that it is what Jesus would do. How many of those who wear a wr…
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There is no separation of Christianity and society in Britain. Those who try to subvert the relationship between Christianity and our British culture and anti-Christ and are slowly being resisted by the wider society. 71% of the British population …
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There is no need to apologise, but I don't fully understand what you are saying. It is also a fact that Britain, with our ancient Christian heritage, is a different place to the US. We have a Christian culture that is deserving of every effort at p…
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I often write papers to be published in our diocesan publication, the Glastonbury Review.
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If I am to write something it will be soon as I must present a paper to my bishop on some subject of my choosing. So hopefully it will be this week or next. God bless you Father Peter
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I think that there would be value in renewing the ancient British traditions of the Nativity season because they are already rooted in a pre-commercial experience of the Feast and are native to the British culture. They are a means of communicating …
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The Church has always cared for the poor, I can't stop what I am doing and go and find references etc just now, but in Rome the Church was caring for thousands and ten thousands of the poor in the earliest centuries. Do you think a hungry, cold an…
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Christmas is a festival of giving. That is why the Church should be excelling at giving at this time. It is also Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and so especially a time when those who are poor and elderly and homeless are in need. It is not so …
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I can't speak for the experience of Christmas in Egypt, only its meaning in the Christian culture of Britain. It is a communal and a religious festival, indeed it only has value, as all Christian festivals only have value, when it is celebrated wit…
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I don't agree. To deny the consciousness of the souls of the departed is not Orthodox. To suggest that there is no immortal soul is not Orthodox. To suggest that the soul sleeps and that there is no intermediate state is not Orthodox. You seem s…
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Dear Zoxasi Thank you for your Nativity greetings. Christmas is an essential part of British Christian society. It is rooted in our Christian heritage which goes back over 1700 years. The fact that some Christians and many non-Christians, have all…
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You have chosen only two writers. One is a great hymnologist but on this matter errs. Another is not a very well known theologian outside his own realm. On the contrary all the great Fathers believe and teach that the soul of a man is conscious aft…
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Why should we not say that a soul which used to be associated with a body is now with Christ? Are you simply assuming that anthropology tells us everything we need to know about the human person? The Fathers of the Church were well aware that the s…
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It is always easy to criticise those who do not know Christ. It is easier than criticising ourselves. On Christmas Eve I narrated the Biblical account of the Nativity story for the Sunday School that my parents run. It was the least I could do for …
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I'm not sure I agree. For 2000 years all Coptic Orthodox bishops have been monks. It is only in the last century this has changed. Therefore it cannot be a feature of traditional Coptic culture to select a bishop as Patriarch. This is, in the Coptic…