Recently I was taught how to bake prosphora and am just starting out on baking on my own (!). The way I was taught was to pray before commencing from "Holy God" to the "Our Father", "Saint Euphrosynos Intercede for us", and then "Most Holy Theotokos Save us." ...
Father Seraphim of Platina's book Genesis, Creation and Early Man is a good look at how the Orthodoxy church views the first part of Genesis, and thus the rest of the events of the old testament that the modern mind wants to ignore. And FWIW we Orthodox know the difference between a subject and a di...
Don't make me give you a History lesson young man. I know you are having trouble in that particular area, but apparently you are having trouble with defining the word agression as well. I do need the history lesson apparently - who fired the first shots on the union troops stationed at Fort Sumpter...