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Ioannes, it seems to me to be unfair to categorise an organisation in complete contradiction to its stated aims. You appear to have stated several times that the WCC has the aim of becoming one world church or religion. Yet the WCC very clearly an…
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So you are saying that by your understanding of the canons you believe that His Holiness Pope Shenouda and many of our bishops should be deposed and excommunicated? Is there another way of reading your post? Have I misread it? Do you believe that …
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Ioannes, What is your opinion then of His Holiness and our bishops who do pray with those outside our Orthodox Church, including Protestants, Roman Catholics and Byzantines? Father Peter
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I didn't say we were blessed with many who have a deep knowledge, we don't. :) But we urgently need to seek the blessing of having many who are very well versed in theology. I am glad to be in touch with some of those who are well versed. Father A…
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St John Chrysostom was before. 451 AD was Chalcedon. Although this was not the end of the controversy, and our Orthodox Church did not separate itself from the Byzantine Church until almost 100 years later, the Byzantines do tend to consider all of…
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I am certainly not the OFFICIAL voice of the Church, maybe AN official voice? It is a bit hard to understand exactly what you mean. God is love. So anything about him is love and there can be no selfishness in Him. I know you are not saying that. …
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Everything and everyone after 451 AD. Father Peter
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I would probably expect that some people in each congregation would be theologically literate to a reasonably high degree. Ideally I would sort of expect it to be part of deacon training as much as the hymns. The books you have listed are all good.…
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CertifiedOrthodox, None of our holy and God-bearing Fathers are heretics. About your other question, I hope that I live to see our Coptic Orthodox Church filled with those who love the teachings of our fathers, and know them as well as those who …
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Dearest to Christ, Father Kyrillos, I am most glad to welcome you hear to the tasbeha forum and hope that you will be able to bless us often with your presence and contributions. Seeking your prayers Father Peter
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Dear Mixalhs, You have said.. I am concerned that Father Peter is suggesting that God created the cosmos imperfect, and yet "saw it was good." I also feel compelled to point out that the Church recognizes the three greatest theologians to be St J…
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Thanks for the reference to the table... I have to say that I found it rather defective. (That is not your fault of course). Not only does it exclude St Cyril and St Severus, the greatest of our Orthodox theologians, together with St Athanasius of…
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Let us be aware that His Holiness Pope Shenouda has served for many years as one of the Presidents of the World Council of Churches. If we are going to make sweeping accusations agsinst this organisation then we must be aware that they will also fa…
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It is also the case that clergy can be flattered into thinking they are more spiritual than they are. And the praise of others can convince someone that what others think of them is the reality. Thus sin can be overlooked or excused. This can affec…
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Theology requires us (those who study theology) to be very accurate. A small error can become a great heresy. But I understand that there is also a need for simplicity. Father Peter
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How do you know someone has the Holy Spirit? Our consciences work like an antenna that picks up a signal from the Holy Spirit, but we can bend our antenna out of shape and we can tune in to another signal. Many of the Church Fathers teach us that …
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I will try to summarise my answers in a final sentence. Is the final sentence of the last post clear enough? Father Peter
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Thank you, both of you, for controlling yourselves. I think that the Holy Spirit responds to the yearning of our hearts and the effort we put into becoming holy and God-centered. If yoy remember the parable of the talents. The one who had earned mo…
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Let's not turn this thread into a criticism of others, but try to keep it on topic, which is the content of 654321's paper. Thank you Father Peter
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Yes, I do rather agree. If a thread is more than a few months old then lets not bring it back from the dead, but start a new one if there is something new to be said. Father Peter
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It is especially a rhetorical question that we should all ask of ourselves. If our Lord returns now, will He find that I have faith? or am I just going through the motions? St Cyril says.. But that men would make merchandize of the word of upright…
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Hi Mixalhs, Yes both life and immortality are gifts, but the Fathers are very clear that mortality is an integral aspect of our human nature as God created it. Therefore we need to read Simeon the New Theologian in terms which agree with the Fathe…
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Also, you say that it was by sin that death came into the world. St Cyril and St Severus do not disagree with this. Adam was indeed created mortal but was given the gift of immortality. He had all that he needed to live with God forever. But becaus…
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I am sorry but Simeon the New Theologian (who is an EO figure) contradicts both St Cyril and St Severus. I will find relevant passages later today if you wish. But our Orthodox Church is guided by the teachings of St Cyril and St Severus, and I hav…
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Yes, what is it.
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I am not sure why you are saying that Christ did not inherit Adam's mortal nature. He did. The whole point of the incarnation was that God himself became a man of Adam's fallen seed and restored us to life. If he had not become human in Adam's fal…
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No, I don't think so, because that sort of assumes that God's purposes in the incarnation were not as He willed them to be worked out. In a very real sense the whole of human history included the incarnation, the crucifixion and the resurrection. T…
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The Fathers are clear. Christ was born mortal. He willed to assume humanity in our fallen condition, which means mortal. We are not mortal because we have sinned, but because Adam our fore-father sinned, and lost the gift of immortality for us all…
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I am not sure that any modern teachers are disagreeing with the Fathers. Adam was created mortal and given the gift of immortality if he obeyed the command - do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It would be possible and truth…
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Dear CertifiedOrthodox, I will try to work through these points. Forgive me if I miss anything. I am not sure that there is any disagreement in regard to the first point your raise from His Holiness' writings. You report him as saying that there…