How am I to interpret the silence?
1. You don't see Christ in the scriptures?
2. You don't know anyone who sees Christ in the scriptures?
I had hoped that someone could praise God for a picture of Christ in the scriptures, but apparently not.
So…
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Hi Jerry,
I'd highly recommend this short book you can read online or download: An Introduction to the Coptic Orthodox Church.
It's a short but informative overview of the Chur…
God needs nothing. Therefor he cannot be obligated by our gifts as the pagan gods. We are to learn to put off the old man and put on the new. If we cling to the things of the flesh and of things of this earth they ensnare us. Giving them wholly to …
Thanks for asking. The four voices stand out as the four heads of the waters of Eden, the four faces within the wheels, and the four animals which carried bread, the four gospels, and the four points of the cross, as well as others. The symbols are…
Four voices.. Jesus spoke as prophet, priest, king and judge. What is not orthodox about that?
I think that your are imposing meaning upon my paraphrase. I may not verbalize things the same way, but I doubt that anything I said is too far off.
Ch…
The whole book of Jonah has a hidden narrative of Christ. As such the very record of Jonah's life is a prophecy of Christ. I believe this is the essence of what Christ shared on the road to Emmaus when he said that all the scriptures spoke of him. H…