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You seriously can’t imagine what someone else might be thinking?Thats what makes no sense to me usually means. I just cant wrap my head around it.
I don't acquiesce to rude demands. Treat me with anything other than respect and "we" gets nothing.Hey, if you can't back up what you claim, not anyone else's fault but yours. You even provided the link, but couldn't point out what's actually relevant there. It's hard to take an argument seriously when you avoid making any specific points to back yourself up.
This most certainly is a serious concern. And the true issue is, if Hamas does take control or re-arm and break rhe peace then Trump will back off completely and grant Israel free reign to do whatever they need to do. Snubbing Trump like that will make him a personal enemy. Hamas certainly can't be trusted at all. The utter destruction of Gaza will be in order should they re-arm and launch any attacks. Civilians will receive no cover anymore if Hamas pulls an attack off.Those who dream of martyrdom seem to fear for their lives. The US is to act as guarantor to convince Hamas of Israel's tactical retreat without the organization having to fear that Israel could immediately launch another military strike after the hostages are released. Hamas is already regaining control of areas from which Israel has withdrawn. It will regroup and rearm from the very first minute of the ceasefire. Israel reserves the right to respond immediately to any threat. Hamas, and it must be said cynically, can be relied upon. And because this is the case, there is no alternative: the terrorist organisation must be crushed once and for all.
I first heard of character traits from you, so why should I define them. Righteousness is to be in right standing with God. that means God does not hold anything against you. You are sinless in His eyes.Character traits in general are simple to understand but there are lots of theological constructs around righteousness that make it difficult to understand, so let’s put the discussion about righteousness on pause for a moment. Please define what it means for someone to have a character in general and the way for someone to attain a character trait in general, then we can correctly understand what the Bible says specifically about righteousness in that light.
I'll bite, was he?
As soon as he shows up with the receipts to prove it, sure.
Yes I said this is a theological debate. Mary is human, not something different. We say she is immaculately conceived, you do not, although you still agree she is sinless, correct?Forgive me, but according to my understanding of Roman Catholic Christology and the EO-RC Joint Theological Declarations, I believe it would be an error to assert your church believes that the Blessed Virgin Mary is of a different nature, substance or essence from other humans, since Ephesus and Chalcedon declare our Lord is in a hypostatic union of two natures, His uncreated divine nature and the human nature He assumed in the incarnation, which are united hypostatically without change, confusion, separation or division. If the Theotokos actually has a different nature, which every Roman Catholic theologian I’ve met denies was the intention of the Immaculate Conception, then our Lord would not share our human nature.
Indeed a primary reason why the Orthodox object to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is because of concerns it would lead people to deny the full humanity of Christ our True God and His consubstantiality with us, that is to say that God became one of us, a man, in order to redeem our fallen nature, restoring and glorifying it through His Passion and Resurrection.
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man without change, confusion, separation or division. Indeed St. Athanasius, who your church very strongly venerates, said God became man so that man could become god, becoming by grace what Christ is by nature.
I can indeed quote numerous Catholic liturgical texts that prove Christ is of the same essence as the rest of humanity.
Rather, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, if understood correctly, means that Theotokos was conceived without original sin, but with our human nature, but in objecting to the saying that she had the same nature as the rest of us, and by implication objecting, by accident, to the full humanity of her son, you illustrated the main concern the Orthodox have about the idea of the Immaculate Conception.
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I would also note that most concerns you might have about the Orthodox rejection of the doctrine are likely predicated on the basis of St. Augustine’s model of original sin, but we use the model of St. John Cassian’s Ancestral Sin, in which original sin is less about inherited forensic guilt and more of a hereditary disease that predisposes us to the sinful passions and causes us to be mortal. This model does an equally good job at precluding Pelagianism since no one afflicted with this disease could save themselves. However one can, through faith in Christ, who defeated death on on the Cross and remade humanity in his image, becoming the firstfruits of the resurrection, we can be saved, as the Blessed Virgin Mary was, and so close to God was she, closer physically than any other human by virtue of carrying Him in her immaculate and voluntarily sinless womb, that in response to her faith, which she affirmed in agreeing to carry Christ our God at the Annunciation, that when she reposed, she was taken up into Heaven bodily, which the Orthodox church has always celebrated, since the first century, on the Feast of the Dormition, celebrated by the Armenians at the end of July and by everyone else on August 15th, called the Assumption by the Oriental Orthodox, but which your church apparently did not formally dogmatize until Pope Pius XII declared it ex cathedra in the 1950s, which has the unfortunate effect of causing some anti-Orthodox polemicists to falsely accuse us of having followed the Roman church in adopting a recent doctrinal innovation (ignoring the fact that the Eastern Catholic churches had celebrated the feast since antiquity, and the Roman church historically was liturgically minimalist, particularly in August, probably due to the notorious heat in Rome in that month, and thus the Transfiguration was also never a prominent part of the Roman calendar).
At any rate the assumption of the Theotokos at the time of he repose is one of many indicators of her obedience, this being an honor previously granted only to a few, notably St. Moses and St. Elias, who as prophesied were present at the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. Orthodox hymns describe her as Immaculate. But we do not say, nor do we need to say, that there was anything supernatural about her conception, because our hamartiology, while perfectly refuting Pelagius, does not require this. It should also be noted that historically the hamartiology of St. John Cassian was preferred in the West as well, until St. Augustine overtook him and all other Church Fathers during the early Scholastic period.
Thanks for your encouragement.That’s why I suggested her. She’ll help you equally attractive in less formal attire. You’ll learn your best colors, silhouettes and get a seasonal guide for your wardrobe.
~bella
Yes, she told them to do what Jesus said, but she did not request anything from Jesus.Does anyone remember "DO what JESUS says to do ? " Religious people don't know this, or forget/forgot, and do not obey Jesus.
Personality flaw perhaps.Why do you keep saying that to me?
That movie is creepy.I totally had a panic attack watching Rosemary Baby for free recently, on YT.
It freaked me out because of all that we are currently experiencing in the year 2025.
She was a sweet and naive young woman and she was led astray !!
We can't just blindly trust our leaders or innovators, like Mr Gates, because of evil.
No I’ve signed twice as well. There is no hard and fast rule. You can sign twice or just once.So, it's OK to not do the Sign twice if you're going to the cup? (I'll ask the Priest, sorry for making a thread in which the Priest could answer this)
I tend to think people that attend the same Mass tend to get to know each other. If you do other activities outside of Mass within the Church, you get to know more. Volunteering is a big avenue of knowing even more people. Daily Mass is pretty much a given that you’ll get to know people. That’s been my experience anyway.I don't know how to describe exactly how big this parish is (same parish I described in my post before). I think that the church can fit a few hundred people. There are five different Masses for the weekend: 4:30 Vigil, then for Sunday there is 7:30 am, 9 am, 11 am, and 6 pm. Each of them is quite crowded. Granted, the "least" crowded one is probably the 7:30 one but I don't know firsthand, actually. The parking lot is jam packed otherwise.
I will acknowledge that it has some ways to make inroads in the parish but it's so large that you feel that you may never know enough people. I feel like you can easily feel invisible here. It's not as big as a megachurch but that feeling like you're a drop in the ocean isn't altogether different than being in a megachurch. I am not a member of it and don't plan to become one at this time.
The second to last one I bought was from Amazon and it smells funky. After two or three months the smell is finally disappearing. I should’ve read the reviews….other customers complained about the same thing.
I hold my pen the usual way but I tuck my thumb in behind my index finger.I have seen people holding pens in extraordinarily grotesque manners.
Google "awkward pen holding." I've seen all of them. In first grade in the 50s, we had "penmanship" using a tall, pointy ballpoint shaped like a calligraphy quill pen. I remember our teacher spending a good amount of time getting us holding the pen correctly. The fact that I have clear memory that far back indicates how significant the lessons were. Penmanship and phonics: The lessons I remember most vividly from Mrs. George's class.
I don’t know what that all means but I’m glad that at least you have comfortable ways to read.
God's Justice Is In Perfect Agape (Love Beyond all imaginations of men).Genesis through the Revelation shows all sorts of things, but not consistently. For example, one can easily see God's eternal love in the entire Bible. However, one also sees God's justice, as well. Justice is not love, is it?