Faith Issues - Tasbeha.org Community https://tasbeha.org/community/categories/faith-issues/p73/feed.rss Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:53:55 +0000 Faith Issues - Tasbeha.org Community en-CA Deacons https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3786/deacons Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:18:42 +0000 lildude30894 3786@/community/discussions Antichrist here?!?! https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3833/antichrist-here Sat, 06 May 2006 01:27:11 +0000 mtanious32 3833@/community/discussions
Here's the article
http://coptichymns.net/pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-326.html (Sorry if that does not show up as a link)
Please can someone help me to see if this is fake or not
Thanks and God Bless]]> Saint Macarius the great https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3813/saint-macarius-the-great Wed, 03 May 2006 15:32:58 +0000 PrincessMary 3813@/community/discussions thanks]]> Saint Mary's apparition in Assyuit https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3808/saint-mary-s-apparition-in-assyuit Tue, 02 May 2006 05:43:50 +0000 3808@/community/discussions Can anyone confirm whether Saint mary appeared in Assyuit?? I got some emails, i even saw a video of people screaming in a church with lights going on and off, but it wasn't clear.
Is it a confirmed miracle?]]> Help with prayer https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3716/help-with-prayer Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:53:09 +0000 WMA 3716@/community/discussions A way to die before the end of the world without taking any risks. https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3779/a-way-to-die-before-the-end-of-the-world-without-taking-any-risks Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:49:54 +0000 lildude30894 3779@/community/discussions
And by the way please don't say god say God, god is like the idols. ]]> The Tatoo of the cross on your wrist. https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3778/the-tatoo-of-the-cross-on-your-wrist Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:30:42 +0000 lildude30894 3778@/community/discussions Is classical music really acceptable to listen to? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3640/is-classical-music-really-acceptable-to-listen-to Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:06:09 +0000 mikeforjesus 3640@/community/discussions
Any arguments for classical music? apart from mind and body benefits?

And if some classical music is not sinful to listen to.. how do you which types of music are okay and which are not okay to listen to?
]]> Ethiopian Orthodox Liturgy https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3770/ethiopian-orthodox-liturgy Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:36:28 +0000 3770@/community/discussions
Does anyone know which liturgies are used in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on a day to day basis? I've heard that its related to Coptic liturgical practice, but the style of music and worship is so different that I can't recognise it.

In the EO all the churches use the liturgy of St John Chrysostom on most days, St Basil on some special occasisons (I think 10 times per year) and St James (the oldest liturgy) is used twice a year.

Do the Ethiopians use St Basil, St Gregory and St Cyril like you do? and if yes, are there any differences in their arrangement as well as any additional hymns particular to the Abyssinians?]]> John 8:29 https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3772/john-8-29 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:39:43 +0000 mikeforjesus 3772@/community/discussions
29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

From
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joh 8:29;&version=9;

Would the Father leave Him alone if He ever sinned? But the Son and the Father are One.. Could they ever become seperated if Jesus sinned. ?

Im not sure if my question or questions makes sense..



]]> Who came 1st in life? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3771/who-came-1st-in-life Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:54:28 +0000 lildude30894 3771@/community/discussions ]]> The Papal Sermon for the Feast of the Resurrection, 2006 https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3745/the-papal-sermon-for-the-feast-of-the-resurrection-2006 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:21:05 +0000 theophilos 3745@/community/discussions I strongly urge you to read this sermon.

This is the English translation of the transcription of the sermon given by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III during the Liturgy of the Feast of the Resurrection this year.

Pay close attention to the last section of the sermon. According to people who have seen the video, His Holiness "snapped out" of what seemed like a spiritual rapture, returned to earth, and ended his sermon abruptly. I need to see this video if anyone has it!

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I congratulate you, my brothers and my sons, on the occasion of the Glorious Feast of the Resurrection, hoping that it will bring both you and our beloved Nation all goodness and blessing, praying that peace and love may envelope the whole world, and that God may save it from wars and calamities.

On the day of resurrection, a most wonderful and overwhelming meeting will take place, unlike any that history has ever seen. The righteous shall have a gathering full of joy in the dwelling place of grace, whereas the evildoers will have another gathering in the outer darkness, apart from the congregation of the saints.

But today we will talk about the meetings of the righteous. The first meeting will be that of the spirits with their bodies. The body will rise, whole and unharmed, bearing no defects, no weakness, no disease, no blemish, and no disability. It will rise a spiritual body, over which neither instinct nor desire has no authority, and it shall no longer resist the spirit as it sometimes did in a time past! It shall now be a heavenly body, suitable for life in Heaven, no longer having any relation to physical matter or gravity; for if it were physical, it would fall from Heaven to earth!

The spirit will recognize the body, and unite with it in earnest longing, having come back after perhaps generations of separation and estrangement since death. It finally returns for one last meeting, and what a wonderful meeting it is…

The second meeting will be the meeting of family, friends, and loved ones, a joyous meeting after the sorrowful separation cause by death.

For in the resurrection, spouses shall meet one another, and so shall children meet their parents, grandchildren their grandparents, and all kinsmen together. And so on for all members of the family, with all its branches, despite many generations having passed between its elders and its young ones. Perhaps even those who were last seen as children will be seen again, this time as elders! And so shall scattered friends meet again.

In the resurrection also, ages shall meet ages! The age of our father Adam and Abel the Righteous his son, meeting with the age of our father Noah and his children who survived the Flood in the Ark, and the age of our Fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the age of Moses, Aaron the high priest, and Miriam the prophetess their sister, and the age of David the Prophet and King and his son Solomon the Wise, with other ages that have followed since. Each era has its own environment, characteristics, and personalities.

The Patriarchs shall meet, each bearing his own history, worthy of reverence and respect. They shall make each other’s acquaintance, and share their memories while rendering to each other their due respect. Personalities hailing from thousands of years of history, finally meeting by way of the resurrection, even though they previously lived in different eras, and under different circumstances.

In the resurrection also shall meet all the martyrs, the righteous, ascetic witnesses to the Truth, witnesses to the Faith, and witnesses to virtue…all the martyrs, from among princes, commoners, knights, clergy, women, and children.

Each has their own story, their own struggle, their own witness, and their own bravery. Martyrs from the age of Nero, Diocletian, and others like them. Martyrs who have resisted idolatry, and Communism, and atheism, and deviations, and heresies…the heroes of Faith, who have defended it, and for its sake they endured injustice and torture. How wonderful shall be the meeting of all of those together, consoling each other with the glory they just attained in the resurrection!

All those shall meet the righteous from every generation, those who were role models of virtue, of ascetism, of humility, of bravery, of redemption, and of purity of hand and body.

In the resurrection, people from every race and tribe, from every language and colour, shall meet: fair skinned, olive skinned, and dark skinned…the Caucasians with the Africans, the Americans and the Native Indians…all colours shall meet! I do not suppose that people’s colour will change in eternal life!

Those who were masters will meet those who were servants, but have now been freed in eternal life. For a person’s status will change in the next life. All shall meet, but not all will have the same status.

Divine Justice will once again sort people apart, giving them ranks different from those they had during their lives on earth. All shall be re-arranged, this time according to their works and the purity of their hearts. And as it has been said of people in eternal life, a star shall exceed another star in glory. However, even with these differences in rank, all shall be happy.

But perhaps the most confounding of all these meetings will be the meeting with angels. The Kingdom of God in Heaven shall encompass both humans and angels, and so will humans meet Archangels Michael and Gabriel, and the rest of the archangels, the Cherubim and Seraphim, and all the innumerable host of the Heavenly powers.

Oh what joy, and what glory, shall be in that meeting! And what spiritual implications! Here I shall stop explaining, for it is a scene exalted above explanation!

For a wonderful celebration of first encounters will take place in Heaven…will one group of angels introduce those who have just been resurrected to those who have preceded them? Or will God grant people a spiritual sense with which they will recognize one another? Or will every saint, for example, have in their appearance features that distinguish and identify them? Or will there be another way to make someone’s acquaintance? I do not know.

What is important is that this massive celebratory meeting will take place in Heaven, between those of the past with those who had just arisen. Perhaps this celebration will last a long while. What is significant in this meeting is: how will all communicate with each other in Heaven? Through the spirit? Or through some language? And what will this language be? Is it a Heavenly language? Or is it the language of angels (do they even have a language)? Or will one understand what the other person intends to say, without articulating a single word? And I wonder what subjects the inhabitants of Heaven will talk about?

And will everyone join in one song and one praise? What shall it be? And who will lead this praise? Who shall write its words? Who shall compose its melodies? Who shall arrange its music? Who shall sustain its rhythm?

Pardon me my brethren, for I must now descend, and cease talking about Heaven to talk instead about our life on earth. We ask for peace and stability for our Nation, under the leadership of President Mubarak, and all the faithful soldiers of Egypt. And may you have many years of happy returns.]]> Non-Orthodox Religious Music https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3747/non-orthodox-religious-music Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:37:29 +0000 3747@/community/discussions
Is it permissible to listen to religious music even though they might contain heretical ideas?

For example, is it acceptable for me to listen to a reggea tune which states that God should be the focus of our life, that we should do good, fear the judgement day, work to create justice in the world and not focus on the accumulation of money and committing sexual immorality - all Christian values - BUT which at the same time hails Marcus Garvey as a prophet and Emperor Haile Selassie II of Ethiopia as God (the second coming of Christ) - a great heresy?

Your thoughts please

thanks]]> IS ST. PAUL ABOVE GOD S LAWS? 1 https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3732/is-st-paul-above-god-s-laws-1 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:17:28 +0000 tk 3732@/community/discussions Feeling confused and disagreeing I question teachings like:

“All things are made lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

And in 1 COR. 9

20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

God laws are constant, just and for the good of man. And so we see through the history of God revelations to mankind that all Prophets not only preached and did practice same.
Not only did following God s laws bring peace and justice it also prepares us for better lives in the hereafter.
Now, St. Paul is claiming to have been given exception to this and I wonder by whom, where, and under what authority [rationale]

This contradicts:

MT 10 v4: The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

Is Paul given a license do all it takes to gain converts?
There are more verses like this I believe some of us may have had similar view about.

]]> judas fate https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3726/judas-fate Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:42:17 +0000 epshiri 3726@/community/discussions
plz help

epshiri]]> Greek orthodox agrees? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3729/greek-orthodox-agrees Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:46:54 +0000 LifeinChrist 3729@/community/discussions GODS WILL ? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3734/gods-will Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:17:21 +0000 copticcross3 3734@/community/discussions
THANX Luv
mary ]]> Ananias and sapphira, Repentance https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3712/ananias-and-sapphira-repentance Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:46:59 +0000 mikeforjesus 3712@/community/discussions
Why did God kill them without a chance to repent if thats true?
shouldn't we always be in fear that God might kill us one day without us having a chance to repent?

But I read somewhere I think (and I think it was from something coptic orthodox) that God always gives us a chance to repent..
]]> Judas documents (300A.D) https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3615/judas-documents-300a-d Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:23:04 +0000 habib-el-rab 3615@/community/discussions
what are your thoughts about this? did Judas write this in order to get others to percieve him as innocent although he himself betrayed God without God telling him to do it. What about the effects this may have on the church to those weak in faith. ]]> were was adam made? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3442/were-was-adam-made Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:52:24 +0000 mickey the smart 3442@/community/discussions Athiestic thoughts https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3530/athiestic-thoughts Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:55:21 +0000 coptic_princ3 3530@/community/discussions Im so confused about the trinity, a little help??? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3705/im-so-confused-about-the-trinity-a-little-help Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:43:15 +0000 mazza 3705@/community/discussions
I have a question, you might have heard it before but I honestly need a correct answer.

When Jesus was on the cross, he said "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?". Jesus and God are one, so why did he call on God. Isn't that just like calling on himself?

The same when he said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Also, in the gospel of the second coming, Jesus says, "No one knows when the second coimg is...nor the angels in heaven, nor the Son of Man, only the Father...", again, Jesus and God are one, so shouldn't they both know?

Don't get me wrong, I believe that the father, the son and the Holy Spirit are one. Like the sun gives heat, rays and light, but is one, I just want to know the answer to those questions.

Sorry if im confusing anyone else.

I would love to hear your replies,
Mazza
God Bless]]> Thok te ti gom https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3582/thok-te-ti-gom Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:19:45 +0000 WWJD86 3582@/community/discussions Honour https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3662/honour Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:36:23 +0000 mikeforjesus 3662@/community/discussions Question about Jesus' Death https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3688/question-about-jesus-death Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:50:17 +0000 WMA 3688@/community/discussions
Is death eternal? If it is, can someone please explain how Jesus' death on the cross was eternal and spiritual [i.e. seperation from God?]. I'm a bit confused on it. Any books etc on the subject would be appreciated too. Thanks heaps]]> From Release of the Spirit by H.H Pope Shenouda III https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3639/from-release-of-the-spirit-by-h-h-pope-shenouda-iii Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:37:07 +0000 mikeforjesus 3639@/community/discussions discriminate between a man and a woman, between an old
woman and a young girl, and between a beautiful girl and an
ugly one..
Such bonds also make one discriminate between money and
stones.."

http://tasbeha.org/content/hh_books/relspirt/index.html


Is it possible to be released from these bonds (or that bond) ? if so, what my aid in that? prayer? what else?

]]> Questions about Noah and the flood https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3679/questions-about-noah-and-the-flood Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:38:26 +0000 WMA 3679@/community/discussions
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
This verse seems to say he took two of every animal. But Genesis 7:2-3 says:
You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; 3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.
This says 7 birds, 7 of the clean animals, and 2 of the unclean. I am confused. Can some please help me understand this verse? Also, why 7? How many males and females? Why only 2 of the unclean? Thanks greatly for the response.

Also Genesis 7:4 says:
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”
This says it will rain forty days and forty nights.

But Genesis 7:24 says:
And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Is this saying that it rained 150 days? Or that is how long it took before the waters went away? [So 130 days for the waters to disappear and dry land to appear]

I thought Genesis 8 would explain it more but I got confused with the way the days and months are mentioned [It seems to say it took 600 years for the water to disappear?]
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
Can someone please help me with my confusion? Thank you greatly]]> Weak faith: What to do? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3664/weak-faith-what-to-do Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:23:41 +0000 WMA 3664@/community/discussions
This questioning and doubt that enters into my heart upsets me as it makes me feel seperated from God, and the unsureness about Christianity makes me feel further removed from God because I begin to doubt about who He actually is in the first place. What could be causing these problems and what can I do to combat it? I thought it may have been from lack of spiritual material in my life, but I have been reading a lot of spiritua books, listening to a lot of Hymns and reading the Bible and praying more and more each night, but at moments like now I feel my faith wavering, and it feels like it is constantly being drained to the point where I don't know what to believe anymore. I try praying for God to watch over me and to help me see the Light that is in Him, but the doubts and fears still creep into my mind, such as "What if I'm wrong and I go to hell?". So, in summary: What can I do to avoid moments such as this, and what can I do to come out of moments like this once I enter them? Please pray for me all, I really need your prayers right now. Thank you.]]> Some questions https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3670/some-questions Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:25:21 +0000 WMA 3670@/community/discussions Palm Sunday: Why 4 Gospels???? https://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/3581/palm-sunday-why-4-gospels Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:18:24 +0000 WWJD86 3581@/community/discussions