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Dear ignatius, Welcome to the forum. I hope it will be a blessing to you. I don't think you are correct in your interpretation of Corinthians. Perhaps I might be allowed to explain why. i. The Apostles are clear that the abstaining from meat off…
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I do wonder why the Church in Australia has not done something about this then. Perhaps it is because in Britain there is a still a sense of being a Christian country. A national poll taken very recently shows that 71% of people consider themselves…
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Welcome to the Tasbeha forum, and the Lord bless you. Father Peter
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Hezekiel The Lord bless you. I think you are ignoring all of the testimonies from the Fathers, the testimony of the historic tradition of the Coptic Church, the Catholic Church and the continuing testimony of the Ethiopian Church. On what basis i…
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Superman, What you have said is good. We do need to be aware of how much faith we have. But I don't think the OP was only talking about money. And I don't think we should restrict it to money. In my own evangelical background there were stories …
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Pi Onkh Have you been able to read all the Fathers I have quoted through this thread? You have quoted this passage from St John Chrysostom... The food is not unclean in itself; only human intentions might make it unclean. Those who do not know wh…
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Yes, but also the monks of Georgia, and also I think a great deal of ignorance, some fear, much indifference.
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Another Patristic reference is found in the Didache, written in the first century when some of the Apostles still guided the Church. It says.. See that no one causes you to err from this way of the Teaching, since apart from God it teaches you. Fo…
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GeorgeT, Thank you for reminding me of the account of Daniel, Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego, and how the Lord prospered them when they refused to defile themselves with the Kings meat. I think that this has a much greater meaning than the issue …
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The Church understands St Paul in 1 Corinthians 10 as balancing two contrary positions he wants to challenge. The one is that since I am a Christian I am now free to eat at the local temple whenever I want. And the other is that now I am a Christia…
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This situation has brought home to me how vigilant we need to be in our daily lives. The Christian life is not a joke. We either live it or we don't. It has been easy for me to be frustrated and annoyed when I hear that school children somewhere …
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Let me add that Tertullian explains the Christian understanding of blood prohibition by stating that it means that meat should not be eaten from an animal that has been strangled or suffocated, and which therefore has died with the blood within the …
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My understanding is that when Allah is used by Christians it is used to mean 'God', but when Muslims use it it is as the name of their god. These are two different usages and I don't think that they are confused. To say 'the Muslim god, Allah' is …
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In the UK we have not been living under Muslim majority, and I do not think most want to. So you must forgive us if we are not so understanding of every Arabic and Islamic term. The issue is not the halal status of all foods. But that animals are b…
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As far as I can see it has been the historical position in Ethiopia to the present day for Christians not to eat meat slaughtered by Muslims. And it seems that until the 17th century Copts also preserved the strict adherance to the tradition and wo…
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By what authority do you think that is so? We must be careful not do things just because we think they are right. What are the teachings of the Fathers for? I am becoming deeply concerned that people are willing to eat food offered to the god, All…
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I will do so shortly. But it is a principle of Scriptural interpretation that we are guided by the explicit and clear passages in interpreting less clear ones. The Apostolic Council gave a clear and unambiguous instruction saying that it was NECES…
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A very good quote Aidan. The Lord loves a cheerful giver, and we are not our own, we have been bought at a great price. Nothing we have belongs to us. We are deceived if we think our time, our possessions, our work or our education belongs to us. …
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How is it loving to help someone only when they are in dire need? Surely our Lord says, 'Love your neighbour as yourself'. Do we only love ourselves when we have some great need? It is often wise to have a measure of discretion, especially when mo…
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The Romanian and Oriental Orthodox Churches are very close indeed. Both have accepted in Synod that the other is Orthodox. This being so, we should consider each other Orthodox. The issue of formal inter-communion is separate and plagued by other …
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I find it strange that Orthodox Christians should think it strange that Orthodox clergy should encourage their faithful to abstain from foods offered to false gods. Clearly when the food is slaughtered it is blessed in the name of Allah. When we d…
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When the Christians were suffering under the Roman empire what were they to do? What did they do? It seemed an easy thing to offer a pinch on incense to the roman emperor. Surely it was only symbolic? But our Fathers among the saints, and ten thous…
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Please pray for Tina whom I will baptise God willing this weekend. Father Peter
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pets10, everyone else seemed to have made sensible comments, and there are a great many threads on Tasbeha that say the same thing. i. Dating is for those who are seeking to discern if the person they are attacted to is the person they should marry…
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Lots of people through history have to go to work after the Liturgy and still have to go to work after the Liturgy. It is good from all sorts of angles to be able to keep the day for family and in a degree of quiet. But this has never always or oft…
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Dear ophadece, I don't like commenting on the language issue but I think we have rather misunderstood each other. I am not sure how you have come to think that I do not consider it absolutely essential that we recover an identity as an intellige…
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In the hail Mary, the most common prayer of all Catholics, they say, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners... Holy Mary is exactly the same as Saint Mary. Saint is after all only the Latin word for holy. Until modern times no-one was calle…
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I think we need to be clear that there is no eternal reality called the 'Coptic Church'. There is only THE Church of which we are members, together with tens of millions of other Christians in the Armenian, India, Syrian, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orth…
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It would be good if anyone in a Church in London or the South of England was able to make sure that the first Orthodox Education Day on 9th October was added to the notices. Or even better that copies of the flyer I linked to were printed and made a…
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The first Orthodox Education Day is coming up soon. It's October 9th. As far as I can see we have had NO Copts, other than British converts, register for the event. It would be very sad if all the effort was put in by bishops and clergy to arrange …