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If they ask, that's it, the Holy Spirit may have led them to you. It is your obligation to become the vessel of God, and preach with humility, love and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This is difficult, well, at least for me, since I am such an arr…
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Are you serious? God saw that Adam was alone. He knew that Adam needed a human companion. God made Adam- he knows Adam better than he knows himself. God did the same with St. Mary when He chose her a husband, and to become pregnant. As I said, onl…
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I want to laugh. Only a modern man would make this accusation! I love you Vas. You bring an interesting point, and I hope you will bear with me. Yes, this was an arranged marriage. But I think God knows who Adam would want. Secondly, when we all c…
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You can order online: http://www.orthodoxbookstore.org/hisholinesspopeshenoudaiii.aspx Further, his books can be read free online: http://www.coptic.org.au/modules/resources_literature/index.php?category=11 God bless.
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=6868.msg92274#msg92274 date=1215185646] Clay - how important is language?? For goodness sake - look : of course our father spoke in a language. Greek was then as English is now. Its like the "official" language. U s…
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[quote author=QT_PA_2T link=topic=6868.msg92270#msg92270 date=1215179719] Clay, As far as I know, and please someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but Greek did play an important part in our Church, but I think in an oecumenical way only. Greek was a…
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Greek was the original language of the Liturgy! Not only that, Greek is the Catholic Language used by all Orthodox Churches and the Apostolic Fathers and many of our Church Fathers (even Coptic Fathers) wrote and spoke in Greek. It is as much our he…
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[quote author=clay link=topic=6788.msg92140#msg92140 date=1215007392] [quote author=Hisservant link=topic=6788.msg92122#msg92122 date=1214997313] [quote author=clay link=topic=6788.msg92088#msg92088 date=1214964453] I am twenty. I have been "in love…
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[quote author=Hisservant link=topic=6788.msg92122#msg92122 date=1214997313] [quote author=clay link=topic=6788.msg92088#msg92088 date=1214964453] I am twenty. I have been "in love" many times. I thank God that I have kept the Christian (not Coptic! …
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I suggest listening to these sermons: http://www.orthodoxsermons.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=122&Itemid=26 God bless.
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I am twenty. I have been "in love" many times. I thank God that I have kept the Christian (not Coptic! No true authentic Christianity would allow casual dating) teachings in this regard. If only I kept it in other things.
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I agree with Matthew. Perhaps, because I don't think my immediate relatives in Egypt are so adversely affected. I concede that it is easier for me to interpret the Sermon on the Mount in that way. From the synexarium, I think that is the obvious way…
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Yes. Read St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, specifically chapter 2, and you can easily see that anything that brings us to Salvation (that is to the holiness of God) is by the grace of God. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not…
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Grace in the Old testament still is an unmerited dynamic gift to salvation. By salvation, I mean being saved by the wrath of God, or from further corruption. I do not mean from the sins in which we will be judged. So, God's grace has always been for…
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This may be useful: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm
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It was in reply to the question, "What usefulness is a Guardian angel given that we already have God?" I was never taught that we had a specific guardian angel.
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In Re: to your last question, I think by now you should have realized that God uses people and His Angels to participate in His grace. We learn from our mothers virtue, our dad's hard work, etc. God works through us, for us, and with us.
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I remember C.S. Lewis remarking that Christianity has culturally conditioned society to esteem virtues that in pagan Europe was considered abhorrent- uneconomical- though these virtues still were called on by some and declared. We have St. Augustine…
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Send me a message with your address, and I can post you our Christian Orthodox e-Reference Library. But here is H.H. Papa Shenouda's online e-book library.: http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/pope/index.html#books
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http://www.suscopts.org/q&a/index.php?qid=976&catid=349
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It is a prophesy. He may as well have said, "Moses, I am going to show many wonders and signs to bring Pharaoh to repentance. But because he will by My signs deny my sovereignty, his heart will be hardened. Instead of humbling before my awesome powe…
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AHHHH. I feel frustrated. QT, God does this with everyone. He does this with me; he does this with you, and he so happened to do it on a grand scale to pharaoh. God had a will that had to be achieved. Either Pharaoh let's go of his ego; or he doesn'…
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If you had a big ego, and I showed you that I am more awesome than you- making you unsure/insecure of yourself, two things can happen: (1) You are humbled (2) You will be in denial, and continually try to prove yourself Essentially, Pharaoh respon…
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I recommend St. Athanasius, "On the Incarnation".
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God does interfere with man's will. He does influence it. But the relationship is difficult to describe. But, yes, he allows a reasonable autonomy, too.
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I very much disagree with the delineation. In Heb 4:12, the relationship between Soul and Spirit, is likened to that of joints and marrow. This shows that they are elements of the same being, even if somehow distinguished; and can only be delineated…
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This is difficult for me to comment. Marx seems to believe that if there is a god, it is an impersonal one; that god or the first cause is unknowable, and all religion is an externalization of man; and that reality here can only be understood by dis…
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I like this analysis by C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity; http://www.philosophyforlife.com/mc22.htm): Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions, or Faith in Christ. I have no right really to speak on suc…
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Some scholars of Hebrew believe the flood was not a global flood, but one that went over all the land where man lived. He argued that everyone lived so close in the primitive ages of human civilization. I don't have the references with me, however. …