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  • [quote author=zandali link=topic=9784.msg155773#msg155773 date=1337405672] You obviously speak from a Christian perspective, but its incredibly arrogant to say that you've got the monopoly on the truth, and that everyone else is wrong. I think God a…
  • Our Lord and our God answered and said to His mother, O my beautiful mother, when Adam transgressed My commandment, I passed upon him a sentence, saying, Adam, thou art earth and thou shalt return unto the earth again. For also I, the Life of all me…
  • My understanding is that St. Mary is the Queen of Heaven, higher than the Cherubim and Seraphim.  I don't know what that means metaphysically.  I know she intercedes for us and her body was assumed into heaven (paradise?).  I have heard Coptic Pri…
  • This leads into a question about our prayers for the departed.  We say in the Liturgy, "repose their souls in the paradise of joy, in the heavenly Jerusalem... in that place."  I don't exactly understand how our spirits enjoy the Heavenly Jerusale…
  • Heaven and Paradise are often used by the Church interchangeably, like the words soul and spirit. Heaven can mean: 1) Paradise, the waiting place of souls/spirits made righteous by Christ, where they wait consciously for the resurrection. 2) The …
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=69.msg158184#msg158184 date=1343437745] What I want to clarify, is that there is a difference between heaven as paradise, and heaven in the context of the kingdom of Heaven. [/quote] and heaven in the context of th…
  • You can not have a successful Matrimony between a Moslem and Christian for the following reasons: 1)  Marriage is a sacrament where the Man is the Icon of Christ and the woman the Icon of the Church.     This union is impossible if one or the oth…
    in Re: Unions Comment by metouro July 2012
  • [quote author=Peter Gergis link=topic=69.msg869#msg869 date=1082745524] Orthodoxy teaches that, after the soul leaves the body, it journeys to the abode of the dead (Hades). There are exceptions, such as the Theotokos, who was borne by the angels …
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=13480.msg157883#msg157883 date=1342730257] The faith is different because the EO rejected our agreement. We initially agreed on their interpretation of the two natures and were ready for a full communion. However, E…
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=13480.msg157862#msg157862 date=1342709843] Just to clarify: The EO and the OO do have different faiths as I explained in my previous posts. [/quote] I still don't understand how the fait is different.  As I stat…
  • [quote author=imikhail link=topic=13480.msg157801#msg157801 date=1342577471] The EO and the OO are two different Churches with different faiths. The EO rejects the OO position on Christology since 451 AD. They do not consider us to have the same fai…
  • [quote author=Severian link=topic=13480.msg157702#msg157702 date=1342388030] [quote author=metouro link=topic=13480.msg157636#msg157636 date=1342202580] take the icon of Pope (St.) Leo and replace it with an Icon of St. Dioscorus. [/quote] Leo, is …
  • [quote author=fortunatus link=topic=13480.msg157619#msg157619 date=1342143774] +Irini nem ehmot I am not sure how many of you are aware that on this topic, there is probably nobody in the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate (of which the BOC is a part) m…
  • [quote author=Father Peter link=topic=13480.msg157606#msg157606 date=1342106925] The owners of the orthodox[mis]info site are not properly Orthodox but belong to various extremist schismatic groups. Their opinions are their own. I am presently in a…
  • I ask why the owners of this orthodox information cite are allowed to publically publish such opinions without the review of their clergy, particularly their bishops and patriarch, unless their heirarchy do indeed concur with what is being said.  …
  • Specifically, the above quote comes from this page: http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/copts_orth.aspx And continues similar rhetoric here http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/copts_orth.aspx by saying... Monophysites, or Non-Chalcedonians—Armeni…
  • The following opinion was found on orthodoxinfo.com: The Copts are Monophysites and thus heretics. Their Mysteries are invalid and, should they join the Orthodox Church, they must be received as non-Orthodox. Indeed, now that most Copts have reject…
  • [quote author=childoforthodoxy link=topic=13432.msg157377#msg157377 date=1341533499] My dear metouro, They are, indeed, distinguished, and not in thought alone, but in point of fact. "He made it one with His Divinity, without mingling, without conf…
  • [quote author=childoforthodoxy link=topic=13432.msg157377#msg157377 date=1341533499] My dear metouro, They are, indeed, distinguished, and not in thought alone, but in point of fact. "He made it one with His Divinity, without mingling, without conf…
  • [quote author=childoforthodoxy] ..... with one Hypostasis, Miaphysis, with two Ousias, is Jesus Christ... [/quote] I believe this.  However when I mention Two Ousiai in Christ, most Coptic priests I have spoken to  say it is unacceptable to speak t…
  • [quote author=childoforthodoxy link=topic=13432.msg157095#msg157095 date=1340682786] "God became man so that man might become a god." ~St. Athanasius the Apostolic When we partake of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, we do not eat…
  • [quote author=Pharaoh714 link=topic=13432.msg157009#msg157009 date=1340438680] Actually, Pope Shenuda is very correct that we DO NOT eat Divinity in the Eucharist. The Human Nature did its part (ie ate, drank, experienced all emotions/suffering) …
  • The Late Reverend Father Seraphim Rose, considered a Saint by the Chalcedonian Orthodox was a practicing homosexual until he accepted Orthodxy.  He was later ordained a Heiromonk.  He repented and struggled against this disposition.  A brief biograp…
  • We say He rose from the dead, raising us up with Him. He rose from the dead BODILY. Yet most Christians have not yet been raised bodily. Does, therefore, the phrase, "raised us up with Him" refer to the future?
  • "Christ is risen from the dead, by death He trampled death, and granted life to those in the tombs." What does  "granted life to those in the tombs" mean?  Did He do this immediately or does the statement refer to the future bodily resurrection?
  • The intellect or mind is rooted in nature and not in the hypostasis... just as the will is also rooted in nature. In that Jesus has two wills, he also has two minds from which he operates. Otherwise, if the mind is personal or rooted in the person t…
  • Most Kind K-Man, Peace and grace to you in Christ. Reasons to Believe in Christ: - Fulfilled Prophecies and Martyrdom of EYEWITNESS TESTIMONIES [/b]  Historical, extra-biblical evidence exist that many people were killed for the eyewitness test…
  • We know that Most Fathers believe in the conscious and intermediate state of souls.  What is needed is a rebuttal to answer whether or not these Fathers are influenced by Platonic /Greek ideas and if so to what extent and do these ideas reflect rea…
  • 1) The guest in the video says Jesus refused worship. He quotes Jesus quoting Isaiah saying, “ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And[e] honor Me with their lips, But their heart…
  • 6)  Jesus ate, slept and prayed because He became Human.  This is very easy to answer.  Christ came from two natures.  Fully God and fully Man.  If He did not eat, sleep, drink, bleed, die, etc, He would not be fully human.  Christianity teaches tha…