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Dear Bonaventure You appear to be a new member, and have posted material which I have moderated. I am Father Peter Farrington, the moderator on this site. I would appreciate it if you did not post material which is offensive. It is possible to be c…
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The Orthodox Fathers are very clear and very explicit over and over again. We are not born sinners, but we are born mortal. They are also very clear that a new born child is guilty of no sins whatsoever. Father Peter
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I am not the best person to give an opinion because I am culturally not in favour of tattoos at all. I think I would say that I would find a tattoo on the face particulary problematic because it seems to me that the face has something very substant…
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Personally I think that Adam did have a tummy button. The reason is that I believe that all creation had an inbuilt history. When God created a tree it looked exactly like a mature tree, eve though it was 5 seconds old. It looked exactly like it ha…
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I am not sure what answer you are looking for? It seems to me that most Orthodox theology requires a variety of images and analogies to help us gain a fuller understanding. When nations practiced slavery, and of course it is still taking place, t…
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I guess you need to study some books about evolution from a Christian perspective because it is not likely that a random person here will produce all the detailed information you would need to assimilate.
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Well we are all connected as people and we do bear some responsibility even for our forefathers actions. There have recently been a whole series of apologies by nations and organisations for things that happened a long time ago. These are controver…
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Adam is one man, he was created by God. He is the father of all mankind. I am not sure why he would not have been created without a belly button? Father Peter
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If I am a rich man and spend all my money foolishly then my children and their children will be poor. This is part of the consequence of being created as rational and responsible people. The things we do have consequences. Yet we have no excuse, b…
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Please remove the spam links from your signature or I will have to remove this post as well.
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Wiki provides a brief introduction.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperges It is a remembrance and renewal of our baptism. Father Peter
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geomike, he DID kiss the Koran. A bad mistake and error of judgement. But it is a lie to say that the Catholic Church founded Islam. Father Peter
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Whoever said that to you is talking dangerous rubbish. There are reasons to be critical of some aspects of Catholic teaching and practice but no need to make up lies. Catholics have suffered as much at the hands of Muslims as Orthodox.
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The Fathers of the Church are very clear, we should not be credulous and we should be sceptical of every vision, dream and miracle. There is no getting around it, this is the Orthodox spiritual teaching of our Church. Many people have been deceived …
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I would not listen to it. Would you listen to something in Arabic if you knew it was constant obscenities, or was the worship of Satan, or was abusing your mother? Even if you didn't understand it? What we listen to gets into our heads and memorie…
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Can you do web development? Is there a local charity that helps the elderly or something that you could be supervised while doing work with? Could you deliver leaflets or something? Not all the time, but so that you are doing something helpful. Is …
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Why not find a local charity and offer to help. If you can do web design you could create a website for a charity, visit and find out what it is about, take photos, spend some time in serving others. Father Peter
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My opinion, it is not gambling if you are doing something competitive that is not just a matter of chance. If you were competing with a friend, or some friends, to see who could lose the most weight then that is not gambling, and the reward which y…
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As I said, we have discussed this before and you can clearly see the person walking around and going up onto the roof.
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I think we have discussed this video before and a real, live monk can be seen walking around earlier than in this section of the film, so it is not a miracle at all. We must be faithful, but not credulous. Father Peter
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The reason that it is necessary to address this issue to a person's own spiritual father is that the sin, if it is a sin, is not in the physical act of smoking one cigarette, but in the choices and reasons and desires behind the smoking of that one …
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I would normally expect that any parents bringing their children for communion would also be prepared themselves to receive communion. Otherwise we are surely creating some sort of dissonance, some sort of do what I say not what I do. Today I commu…
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Why do you blame God? Why do you expect your life to be always looking bright? These are just questions. Father Peter
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The Holy Communion is a spiritual medicine. We wouldn't deny medicine to a child because it does not understand it, nor so we deny the eucharist to a child because it does not understand it. Indeed it is a mystery which means that none of us entirel…
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If you wish to study in some depth, here is a website with the texts, in English, of the ancient tradition... http://www.uoregon.edu/~sshoemak/texts/dormindex.htm God bless your studies Father Peter
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There is a piece here about her, with a video of her and her children singing a Christian song.. http://formermuslimsunited.americancommunityexchange.org/2010/07/10/nagla-al-imam-egyptian-convert-to-christianity-sings-about-religious-persecution/ …
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We have lots of sex education here in the UK and a younger and younger age, and our last socialist government wanted to impose it on kindergartens too. Free contraceptives and abortions are arranged for teenage girls without their parents knowledge …
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I am not sure that makes sense? Firstly looking in the sky will cause an accident, and secondly not looking away from temptation will lead to sin. This is not some novel teaching, it is what the spiritual Fathers have always taught. Father Peter
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I think I understand what Zoxasi means, but there is benefit in looking at the ground when we are surrounded by things that might tempt us to sin. It is a good practice for a man, if he notices a woman, to look away or at the ground. It is part of …
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No, I think it would start working again. There would be no more cheap labour, and the millions on benefits would have to start doing jobs they don't necessarily want to.