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  • Merry Christmas to you too! It's funny that you just posted this. I was thinking the same exact thing these past couple of days. In my albeit imperfect understanding of this, I think what is necessary to take into account is the reason for which S…
  • Gabriel, [quote author=GabrielYakub link=topic=12639.msg148728#msg148728 date=1323311596] No one every set out to prove the Tooth Fairy exists because we already know she doesn't. [/quote] Correction: the Tooth Fairy is in fact a he. Thank you.
  • I was going to qualify it. Anyway, OK.
  • Perhaps it should be good to make a distinction between two types of atheism: honest and dishonest atheism. The dishonest atheist seems to be the more common. He is the "pseudo-intellectual" that ridicules all belief in God simply because it seems …
  • Hey again, Biboboy: I don't think it's a fair assessment to say that atheism is necessary for a true Christianity. Aside from the fact that I find it hard to believe that the great saints in our church who were "cradle" Christians had to have gone …
  • Gabriel, Welcome. I rarely post here, but I figured it would be nice to become a better member of the community by welcoming someone else. :) Also, were you ever known as "dustymoot" somewhere else online? Mike
  • I was hoping no one would notice...  :P I shall move this discussion elsewhere.
  • Also, since this post thread exists... What about the word "athlophoros"? It has, until recently, been translated as "struggle-mantled", but that is not what the original Greek word meant. It comes from "athlon" (prize) and "foros" (bearing), and m…
  • There is a translation to correct, I think: In the hymn of Ti-mit Esnooti (http://tasbeha.org/hymn_library/view/1350) for the Patriarch, where the Coptic reads timetrefo-ou en-heet (i.e. the penultimate virtue), it should say "long suffering" or "p…
  • Abanoub, God be with you as you make this decision! I'm graduating high school in less than two weeks and I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with my life. Thankfully, my parents are not pushing any career path on me, and I'm going to a liberal …
    in My future? Comment by mikehenry May 2010
  • through the interceptions of the whole choir of the cross-bearers.... lol
  • I clicked the link about 5 seconds ago and it worked...
  • My two cents: WHY God does something is not always clear to us. I think that's part of being creatures/humans. He's the Creator. We have to trust that He knows what's best for us. Why He created people that would live bad lives is for Him to know..…