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- Tue 9 July 2013 4:47 am
- Forum: Theology and Tradition
- Topic: "The Pillar and Ground of the Truth"?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5315
Re: "The Pillar and Ground of the Truth"?
how about fornication? By fornication I mean sex between two unmarried people. This is NEVER condemned anywhere in the Bible--Old or New Testaments. Only adultery--which involved married people--was condemned, and the word "pornea" used in the New Testament that is often mistranslated as ...
- Tue 9 July 2013 4:11 am
- Forum: Praxis
- Topic: Jordanville Prayer Book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1743
Re: Jordanville Prayer Book
Here's a couple other parts I don't understand. At the end of the Akathist to Christ, it says: "...for frightful and terrible is the place that I must pass through when I have separated from this body, and a multitude of dark and inhuman demons awaiteth me, and there is no one to come to my hel...
- Mon 8 July 2013 11:53 pm
- Forum: Praxis
- Topic: Jordanville Prayer Book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1743
Jordanville Prayer Book
I like this prayer book very much, but there are indications of what seem to be contradictions in it. For example, in the last page of the supplicatory canon to the Theotokos, it says: "...for I have no other help beside thee, no other intercessor, nor good consoler, except thee, O Mother of Go...
- Mon 8 July 2013 11:39 pm
- Forum: Praxis
- Topic: Forgiveness Sunday 2013
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7028
Re: Forgiveness Sunday 2013
Maria, There is no way you could know whether or not a person would accept your apology. And it is judgmental to assume a person a "swine", in order to avoid the humility of seeking reconciliation. I think when Christ talks about not casting pearls before swine, he is recommending that peo...
- Mon 8 July 2013 6:17 pm
- Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
- Topic: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4650
Re: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
A good question you never hear asked is: How could a just God allow people into Heaven? If He treated us justly, we would all be lost.
- Mon 8 July 2013 6:16 pm
- Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
- Topic: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4650
Re: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
William Lane Craig discusses the problem of evil in several of his debates on Youtube.
Here's one video:
Also, On Youtube, Norman Geisler addresses this issue.
I know these men are not Orthodox, but they are good philosophers.
- Mon 8 July 2013 6:10 pm
- Forum: Religious, Moral, and Ethical Topics
- Topic: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4650
Re: Could You Really Make a Deal with the Devil?
I still don't get why there is so much evil in the world and why we have to suffer. The Bible explains these things. Have you ever read it? Modern philosophers are agreed that the existence of evil does not present any problems for Christianity. In fact, the existence of evil is evidence for God, n...