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Unfortunately, wherever these laws are embraced, we see them creeping over into determining the future of a growing portion of the very chronically ill who are not dying—subtly or overtly pressuring them to take this step. They become the canaries in the coal mine of the shifting perspective...

Thank you, Joseph!

Thank you very much! Yes, a lawyer will soon be involved, but I need to come up w possible courses of action first and am at a complete loss the more I learn about the laws. I’m unable to have the conversations of be present for the appointments.

I am in my mid 40s and not in the position of having a tight knit family. I'm currently housebound/bedridden and living with my parents who are extremely elderly. I became ill suddenly on a mission trip as a minor. I do NOT have siblings who are compassionate, believe in following medical...

Hi, Toby. I'm rarely on this forum but am so glad to see you here. A number of the friends I communicate with most online are from the UK and are not Christians and perhaps find it a bit odd that I am. May God meet you in special ways as you learn the great story of the Bible!

Thank you, Christoph!

Thank you, Riley!

Thank you!

Thank you!

More Gregory: Sin, indeed, is a miscarriage, not a quality of human nature: just as disease and deformity are not congenital to it in the first instance, but are its unnatural accretions, so activity in the direction of sin is to be thought of as a mere mutilation of the goodness innate in us...

I might possibly be able to use a couple of lines from this: The perfect form of goodness is here to be seen by His both bringing man into being from nothing, and fully supplying him with all good gifts: but since the list of individual good gifts is a long one, it is out of the question to...

Thanks. I'm not actually EO but definitely like some of your thought. If I had to sum up what I was hoping to find in a quote, it would be something like, "Our theological anthropology must be rooted in Creation, not the fall." But I can't really quote myself--ha--and would love to hear it in...

No, it was a good guess and a good quote to hold onto--just won't do what I need it to. I had no intention of providing glosses on this poem, but sometimes I hit problems because poets and readers today are largely biblically illiterate and may not pick up on most biblical allusions and so...

Huh! Looking around I do see that there are discussion sections under St. Justin, St. Athanasius, and St. Basil. And I guess there are more recent threads there. I thought those were stickies, not sections (I'm new to CF). Oh! And I see "the normal threads" that are suggested are in fact within...

I was referring specifically to the EO community on this forum. The most recent posts I see are from more than a decade ago.