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.
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
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 …
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..…