In Genesis 4:1 and Genesis 14:22, Moses records that Eve and Abraham uttered God's Persona Name. He also says in Exodus 6:3 that God's Personal Name was not revealed to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. so meaning of knowing God's personal name must mean som…
So then God's Personal Name being revealed first to Moses and not To Abraham and the Patriarch as indicate in Exodus 6:3 means that the full meaning of His Personal Name, was not fully experienced or understood until the time of Moses and the exodus…
Does anyone know why Exodus 6:3 says that God's Personal Name was not known before Moses even though Eve and the Patriarchs use His Personal Name before Moses?
God, who is love, calls all people to holiness. Christians are to bend their will to God's will, deny themselves and carry their cross, including those Christians who suffer from same-sex attraction, not affirm our fallen natures, and not to encou…
It's not a judgement but a fact. If the Church officially has a stance teaching one thing and members of the Church disagree and believe something else then clearly they are not in communion with what the Church teaches.
Marriage for an Orthodox …
"Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you wer…
While we all walked in the way leading to death because of sin (adultery in the heart/lust, greed, pride, idolatry, drunkenness, fornication, divorce, homosexual acts, etc.) in the New Testament we hear Jesus saying that He forgives us, and He calls…
True love and true mercy involves telling the truth. This is the Christian truth. Christian life involves a denial of the self, carrying our cross, combat - with God's grace- against our fallenness, and struggle for holiness in constant repentance…
If a clergyman contends that we are a body, soul, and spirit, then comparing to Jesus, he MUST say that Jesus also has a body, soul and spirit that is created (and united to the Divinity of the Hypostasis of the Logos).
If a clergy man speaks only…
Are there ANY Church Fathers, Chalcedonian or otherwise, that state that Jesus has a created human spirit that is distinct from his human rational soul and body?
There is a belief among some that we can only talk about a body and human rational so…
Are there ANY Church Fathers, Chalcedonian or otherwise, that state that Jesus has a created human spirit that is distinct from his human rational soul and body?
There is a belief among some that we can only talk about a body and human rational sou…
Is it worth depriving them of the joy of chanting to Christ or when their hearts are at their heights with God to suddenly switch to Arabic and they lose their focus and they are suddenly dropped from heaven to the ground? Perhaps, yo be fair this …
The amount of times I have seen dedicated Chinese, Venezuelan, white, and second and third generation Egyptians sitting lost through Arabic Sermons, doxologies, revivals, vespers iver and over again infuriates me out of zeal for what they are missin…
If I no longer live in Egypt (though Egypt lives inside me) I should not feel as though I am forced to pretend that I live in Egypt just because I want to offer the right worship to God. I know some people feel that their hearts and mouths can not …
The last sentence first paragraph in my reply to Zoxasi above should read "In Arabic-culture-dominated Churches, this is what frequently happens with the ARABIC language."
Peace and grace.
Chalcedonian: (Rome, Antioch, etc.): Physis = Ousia
Pre-Chalcedonian: (Alexandria, Syria, etc): Physis = similar to Hypostasis
Natura (as used by Rome, I think): Could mean either
Coming from these roots, for a …
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Dioscoros was excommunicated for mismanagement. Not for heresy. It is interesting to see how he could go from mismanagement to "heresy" in less than a few years...
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In corresponding with the Chalcedonians, I have read th…
There are many videosbon Youtube bluntly calling St. Dioscorus a heretic and a criminal and asking Copts to leave their Churches to join the non-chalcedonians as they are concerned for our salvation.
There are some written responses in the commen…
Was the definition placed on behalf of the Non-Chalcedonians a strictly Eutychian Monophysite definition? If so, I can see why St. Euphemia (who is also in our Coptic Synaxarium) would agree with the Chalcedonian definition? However, since Chalced…
I just realize that this may cause confusion as the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandira is also called Theodoros II, who replaced Petros VII since 2004.
No worries, though, we can call the Coptic Patriarch Theodorus the II, as opposed …
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Tawadros is the authentic way of saying the name in Coptic - brfore 1858 when Aryan Moftah chan…
Doesn't this idea deny Jesus' words to the theif on the Cross, "Today, you will be with me in Paradise" How would one justify Tertullian. Would one render that verse, "Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise"?
What about St. P…
Tertullian also says that those who deny that the faithful wait in Hades are “proud”
and "servants above their Lord", and "disciples above their Master"
since Christ descended into Hades where they are unwilling to go.
The martyrs are the only grou…
In "De Paradiso," he is reported to have said, "Yet not all souls enter the ‘lower world.’ There is one exception. The souls of the martyrs pass immediately into Paradise, where they are in the presence of the Lord. ‘For no one, on becoming absent …
Holy Mother of God, Saint Mary.
I don't know if your soul has been reunited to your body or not. I know you your soul was taken by Christ into the bliss of Paradise, where you are the Lady and Queen of us all. I know your body was also assumed up…
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... a sermon by Evodius of Rome, translated into Boharic Coptic dated to the mid-sixth century in Egypt, which says...
While our Saviour was yet speaking with us, we hear…