I'm also a fan of beer. I like tasting new kinds of beers. A huge fan of trappist beer myself. A friend of mine took me out once to taste some trappist beer, and I've been a huge fan ever since :) I also have (rather jokingly) thought about becoming…
Wait, I'm seriously interested as to what reason they have for saying he was. from just a textual historical perspective. Like forget the theology of salvation for a second, what reason would they have for naming Christ married?
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I don't know much about what else he's said. Not a personal fan of Aghapy TV or CTV myself so I'm not aware. But I suppose I would agree with you, Mina. Not because he's not good at theology (he could be good or bad, I'm not too sure) but just like …
I remember HH also related the Orthodox church and the Protestant church as two mothers. Why should I leave my mother and go to another? I was shocked to hear that, and extremely saddened. When my mother nursed me, she nursed me milk. The other "mot…
Christ condemns and damns all worship where the focus is not him. If the focus of worship is symbolism, then the focus is not XC himself. This is not to say that symbolism is unimportant. But it is to say that it is not nor should it be the focus. T…
Before we are "coptic" as a faith expressed through culture, we are Christians, meaning we follow the teaching of Christ who damned the focus on symbolism. Symbolism is used as a free expression of that faith which is within us. The faith which sets…
Wrote a long response to Rem. Deleted it. Not even worth it.
Ill put it this way. The Coptic Church as adopted the writing of Pope Shenouda on this matter as it's manifesto. Go ahead and read it. It translates to "Ew, Homosexuals are Yucky!" A pit…
The quickest way to rid an ideology is to encompass the ideology with a word. Once you can group all people who oppose you as one group, all you need to do is sit back and watch the magic begin. We categorize because we are afraid. We categorize Naz…
I very much enjoy Met. Kallistos Ware's lecture on Salvation! An excellent lecture that brings it back to basics and organizes some excellent thoughts on a subject that really can't be encompassed easily. Take a look here! I also echo Mina's opinion…
As regards B, what must they repent of exactly. You must be specific since we are talking about the mystery of repentance, and to repent of something that is not sin seems to be almost counterproductive. Shall they repent of who they are? Or for suc…
@Tobit, iI enjoyed your pos, though, to be honest, I've spoken to many priests (many is an understatement as I was very involved with most priests from my area) and I cannot say that in my WHOLE area (the GTA) that there is a single priest who I hav…
The Homosexuality questions opens up again. First, et me start by saying that you will receive tons of wrong answers, both from clergy and from those who were raised in the church. Unfortunately, as over the past couple decades our church has suffer…
Oh, Ioannes, a priest in my church saw me walking around with a Copy of the Synodial decisions that I found in my church library and looked at me like a dear in headlights. Like he knew what was coming. Its not followed because certain clergy make e…
@cyril, you're in the habit of starting a fire, watching it burn, and then standing there saying that fires are destructive, and giving instructions on how to put it out. You can fuel heat, and then stand back and say something like "don't feed the …
@cyril
As regards beauty, the fathers termed it "Philokalia" for a reason. "Love of the Beautiful." Dostoevsky said it best when he said "true beauty will save the world." So beauty is important. The problem is that the modern contemporary trend is …
I spent three hours my friend. I would say something, and for the next hour I would get many stories to illustrate a point I never disagreed with. Then when I show how the stories were irrelevant, he would go off on another hour long irrelevant tang…
My dude, preaching to the choir. Any attempt to convince priests with a certain mentality of embracing a true sense of Orthodoxy falls on the dumbest of ears. Unless your Bishop in North America is either Bishop Youssef or Bishop Serapion, you've fa…
Sounds awesome! I'm not a non-believer or anything like that. What I'm saying though is that I tend to be natural very careful with miracles. Id like to do more research into the concept of non-corruptability as regard possible natural explanations.…
Off the Top of my head
- Guidelines for Prayer by Fr. Matta El Meskeen- Orthodox Prayer Life by Fr. Matta El Meskeen (people are often told that it is very advanced, but if they say that, they obviously haven't read the book because his core premise…
Mississauga. Bishop Mina. Less stable than Francium undergoing rapid radioactive decay. Yes our priests also carry the greatest responsibility in this matter. In this and like matters, having approached our priests, Ive decided it isn't a productive…