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AN, I'm glad you came by to voice your concerns. I hope you can come by more often. Unfortunately, ILSM no longer posts here. I will not pretend to represent what ILSM meant or said. Thank you for the clarification in the Armenian Church. Come by m…
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@bassemwilliam,The Coptic Church does have an official position on contraception: No abortifacient (or more accurately no abortifacient that explicitly is taken to abort the fetus). Contraception is allowed (more accurately, devices or medication t…
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If you are interested in Orthodox Churches in Nigeria, the Eastern Orthodox (under the Patriarchate of Alexandria) has an Archdiocese in Lagos. There have a few churches.http://orthodox-world.org/world_advanced_search_result.php?keywords=NIGERIA&…
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I think Ka;olikon `ebolqen (Houi]) `n`epictoly is not correct. I think it has to have the feminine definite article. So it would be Ka;olikon `ebolqen ]houi] `n`epictoly. Otherwise, everything Ophadece said is correct.
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What many people don't realize is that this hymn is probably one of the most popular hymns sung in every Orthodox and Apostolic Church. Its popularity among the other Orthodox churches is incredibly high. There are literally dozens and dozens of mus…
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We all wish there was a quick fix. There is only one fix and it's very slow if never achieved: Stop fighting about hezaat. Stop fighting about language. Stop fighting period. Fighting is not the spirit of hymnology nor the mind of Christ to begin wi…
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FACT: There is no such thing as a "correct pronunciation" Why: Linguistic categories of "correct" and "wrong" are proscriptive, not descriptive. Linguistics is a descriptive science. It only describes and methodologically analyzes the characteristic…
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There is no need to delete your messages or close your account. We are all hear to learn. It seems your question really has nothing to do with the veracity of Isaac of Nineveh but about ecclesiology and denominationalism. You should have clarified …
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Are you coming here to pick a fight? If Isaac the Syrian stated Christ is a divided person, then he is a Nestorian. It is irrelevant whether he accepted the seven councils (none of us here did), nor does it matter if he is well liked among Copts, ev…
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Yes you can loose redemption and salvation. A person who is baptized can fall into sin and not repent. He would have lost salvation. We see St Paul was aware that he could abuse his authority in preaching the gospel. In order to prevent that, he su…
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Sorry Mina this is late. St Moses Abbey bookstore is where we bought printed English liturgical books in our church. http://www.stmosesbookstore.org/index.php/books/church-books
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The Last Friday of Lent is important because it is an acknowledgement of the grace received through fasting. The Kandelion Service (Andeel) is a foretaste of the healing received in the Resurrection. The problem here is people misunderstand what fa…
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Linguistically speaking,Salvation means you are saved from something bad. Redemption means you are redeemed or you returned to a previous status that was taken away. In Orthodox soteriology, both are done through Christ simultaneously so there is re…
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Ask the closest bishop to you. If you don't ask, then you are breaking Church canons. Bishops routinely give pastoral exceptions if you are very far from a Coptic Church. But don't take it upon yourself to give yourself absolution from the Church ca…
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Did a quick comment on Abba Apollo and Abba Abib. You are forgetting a few canonized saints in your list. I will get back to you with that also.
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I have this kind of audio converterhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IVR2HRC?psc=1 If you want to send me tapes, I will digitize as much as possible. Just remember, whoever you send your tapes to, make sure they are copies. Do not send originals.
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If one understands miaphysite Christology, it becomes so easy to understand "monotheletism" as a composite miatheletism. As a composite hypostasis requires a composite nature, a composite hypostasis requires a composite volition. And as absurd as it…
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Aelwyn82, We can unequivocally say either the Coptic bishop misrepresented Coptic Christology (which I highly doubt) or the Chalcedonian priest is making a claim that has no substance and no proof, neither in contemporary Coptic Christology or ancie…
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Aelwyn82, I don't know if that comment was addressed to me or to ShareTheLord. It applies to ShareTheLord's question very nicely. To expand some more, ShareTheLord, your analysis is the miaphysite understanding. If I understand your question correc…
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If, according to such traditionalist Chalcedonian accusations of miaphysitism, Christ's human nature does not function with its own natural energy and powers - and if we affirm that to be human is to function with a natural energy and power that is …
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Your Chalcedonian priest doesn't know what he is talking about. Not only will we support St. Dioscorus and Severus, we will die defending the faith they confessed. I have high doubts he spoke to a Coptic bishop (at least a canonical one). Never in t…
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I meant the spousal right to divorce since you were talking about the "victim" of the infidelity. Just because two people are married in the church, doesn't mean they can't sin sexually. Sex is the act of sacrificial love and unity, not a carnal de…
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Good question. Divorce itself is a sin and sex does not absolve a couple of this sin. God absolves sin through the Church to the bishop to the priest through the sacrament of repentance. Sex also does not constitute acquiescence. If a separated coup…
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http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/view/685 Lent doxology #5 (scroll down). Does this count?
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That's what I thought also. Prosopon to the Orientals is too close to Sabellianism. In fact, we find one of the most commonly used polemics against Nestorius and Chalcedon is the use of the word prsosopon. This is because prsosopon in Alexandrian th…
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Technically, there is no Coptic verb for life. Life itself is "onkh" in Bohairic Coptic and "ankh" in Ancient Egyptian all the way down to Sahidic. The verb in Coptic is "ti" which literally means "give". So there are 4 morphemes in the word "Pireft…
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Wouldn't a "lifer" also mean one who has life? Reftankho literally means the one who gives life. So unless we can semantically distinguish one who gives life and one who has life, then "lifer" is too ambiguous. Plus, life in English is not a verb. S…
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Anyone who says a word is a "corruption" from another language does not understand how contact linguistics works. Tiagp is Coptic. It is a feminine noun with the feminine definite article "ti". Knowing it is feminine, one can bilingually transform t…
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tanqo (I believe) is an abbreviated form of tianqo, which means "give life". This is the verb form. Adding ref before it, turns the word into a noun meaning "doer" of the verb, or person who does the verb. In this case, it would mean "the person doi…
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There is no difference between mei and alethine. Both mean "true". One is Coptic and one is Greek as you said. The reason, I think, the words are used this way is to illustrate a bilingual idiom. In Coptic, repeating a word usually adds emphasis or …