Very nice post, CopticStrength,
may our Lord protect Egypt and the Egyptians with His Mighty Hand,
and may His good and perfect will be done in the country..
You are not alone, many will be praying fervently for this cause..
Well, I have clearly not misinterpreted what ILSM said, since he seems so fond of bashing my opinions regardless of what those opinions are, I doubt he even reads my posts before he displays ignorance when 'answering' them and 'attacking' my opinion…
I don't care what you ARE, internet phenomenon or not, what matters to me is how you conduct yourself in this conversation, a way that I see as completely unfit. They were not kind words, nor hurtful one's, simply an observation.
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Clearly some people are not fit for reasonable debate and conversation, I guess whatever fancy' school they apparently went to didn't teach them that...
May God have mercy.
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Truthsetsfree,
Who spray painted on the Dome of the Church of the Holy Sepluchre "Allah Akbar"? Was it the Israelis or the Palestinians?
Who helps the Coptic Juris…
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They have conducted themselves towards land for peace
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You must be kidding.
I hope you are.
Could you spell "naively succomb to propaganda" if you saw…
Why would anyone WANT to change God's Will?
His will is perfect, His will is our salvation, He knows best what is good for us for He knows us better than we know ourselves..
I think, when it comes to prayers and intercession, Jesus Himself taught…
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i actually think sometimes IT IS the best sentence....if a person doesn't repent from such consequence of his action, what else would?! there are actually a great true …
@childoforthodoxy:
I agree with you to a certain extent, this forum has taken up a very extremistic turn lately, I don't see much of what is Christian on it anymore, certainly it does not provide a good image for anyone who visits here..
When I fir…
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First of all, not all Palestinians are Muslim. There is a small percentage that are Christian.
The Israeli government's treatment to Palestinians is many times hypocritica…
I cannot believe how people can think sometimes, makes me feel sorry for them...
Anti-semitism is one thing, anti-Israel is another..
The Israeli government refuses to implement judicial decisions in favour of the Copts,
they are also a racist g…
"Blessed is our Lord who taught us love"
I love how his holiness stressed the importance of love,
a message that is most needed in these circumstances..
That's Christianity, that's our God, God Who is Love!! :D
May He keep his holiness and bless …
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can I honestly feel that I love another person, am showing them active love and service, if I feel that they are so different, that they are beyond redemption, that they simply…
His Holiness called for us to be wise and calm. He said problems will be solved in calmness.
He also warned Copts not to join in demonstrations as some non-Christians join those demonstrations, taking advantage of the situation, to destroy and do un…
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Same here, i want to help them by money, but i am afraid they are the kind of people that spend it …
Also because otherwise the fast of Jonah would be 40 days instead of 3 lol
but how can we be sure that the mistakes made in the translation are limited to unimportant, small one's?
are there any other mistakes that where made in the translation of …
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Has anyone done Bp Surial? I was totally blown away by his candor and forthrightness; blunt and to the point.
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working on it now..
Well, in a sense, he was correct. I do believe that many (both Catholic and Coptic) believe that we HAVE to perform certain duties in order for us to get to heaven. This is not the correct view of christianity, nothing we do will 'buy' our way into …
We are in the New Testament now, I believe that purity no longer is a physical thing, it's a thing of the heart.. especially when it comes to the menstrual cycle, it is not something that has anything to do with our behaviour and should thus not be …
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I'm inspired to learn Austrian just so I can speak with the same fervor. The inflection in the voice and the syllabelization are enough to make a statement and argum…
What you are saying implies that everything that happens to us is according to God's will..
But I think there is a distinction we have to make:
according to God's will could mean that this is actually the best thing for you, because it's what He wi…
does America need 'a day of prayer' to pray?
What does 'In God we trust' and 'God bless America' mean when they're starting illegal wars against other countries?
I think I know in what god some people trust, he's green!
The world would be a bett…
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Hi Zoxsasi,
I find great guidance from these verses:
Matthew 5
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 But I say to …
You talk as if everything Arab is bad, well, I beg to differ: what about Arabic music, calligraphy, poetry, philosophy etc. and I believe the Arabic language to be everything but dumb.. but I guess that's a matter of taste
It is normal for cultures …
So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, th…