Prayer is very important but one needs love even more. Remember the Pharisee and the tax collector. The Pharisee also prayed but did not have love in his heart. A heart filled with love will resonate truth and sing unto the Almighty with every beat. Grace and Peace be with you all!
Do they give Communion to new calendarists in that church, in total violation and disregard of the 2002 Encyclical and the two Florinite Protocols 13 and 1191? Or are they obedient?
"Never did I say to them aught except what You (Allah) did command me to say: 'Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, but when You took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all things. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole world). [5:117]
And (remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection): "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: 'Worship me and my mother as two gods besides Allah?' " He will say: "Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my inner-self though I do not know what is in Yours, truly, You, only You, are the All-Knower of all that is hidden and unseen. [5:116]
Hold on, now what he is saying is that Christ listens to prayers and ignores them. then he is saying that he only gives us what we need; how about the famine, people dying of hunger, im sure at some point they prayed!!! but i guess they dont "need" food and food is not what christ wants for them!!!
"Prayal is like a therapy, a therapy that can cure rare diseases like cancer"
I don't see any rational reason to attack Christianity, since it's an excelent therapy. When you pray you will not be harming anyone(except if you are from certain churches that suppose that God is deaf). Some people spend lots of money with psychiatrists, psychologians, analists... when they can simply look for a priest, and pray in an Othodox event, it's a great sensation.
@randomgraduate whats the point of making fun of Orthodoxy? All we do is spread a loving word of God and you put us down because why?I dont get it... I hope you find your way sometime because the church is beautiful and can work wonders in your life
No need to dumb down religion and have such hostile views of it. Seems as if the very same hostiles bred into the minds of Protestants who think anything whatsoever to do with science is negative already. Your taking the exact same stance and it is obviously distorting your views as well as your arguments. Its almost as if you put negative propaganda into your mind that all religion is evil no matter what. It is this same attitude that gets nations into war and causes unnecessary hostilities.
This is very clear cut and precise. Bp Christodoulos articulated this very well. Very good video and feel many will benefit from this wise advice. Glory to God!
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The Greek orthodox church is a scam much like any other religion. This religion single-handedly destroyed all the knowledge of the ancient world and was responsible for leeching the byzantine empire to death. After its fall it conspired with the Ottoman empire to perpetuate its existence by enslaving a nation.
Even today its a force of destruction for Greece. The only thing it cares for, is wealth and power. And enslaving a nation by keeping science out of the schools.
@tilemacro: In other words, you don't believe in sin/evil and death? You must live on some other planet -- one with no need for laws or funerals. You are not making any sense, even to an earthly scientist.
@tilemacro: I take it that English is not your primary language, since you keep misquoting me -- for I did not write anything about a 'law of funerals' or a planet where laws of physics don't apply. I was speaking of civil laws (i.e. to curb crime, violence, and murder -- i.e. sin/evil), and funerals for the dead (i.e. earthly realities). You professed unbelief in these earthly realities, when I mentioned that our bondage to sin is responsible for these earthly realities.
@tilemacro: If what you say is true, then how do you explain the tendency and commonality of crime, violence, and murder? This is in part, what we mean by sin -- the universal tendency of all to commit crime, and deprive their neighbor of the love that is their due. And there is PLENTY of evidence to back it up, as it is documented in nearly every medium/article, and even studied by scientists. Your ignorance of this, shows that you are in fact a slave.
@tilemacro: Again, my question (rephrased for more clarity, and in three parts) is: How do you explain why every society has civil laws to curb crime, violence, and murder? In other words, why are these human phenomena so common and pervasive (i.e. the essence of what we mean by the word sin)? And why are so many social sciences devoted to studying these phenomena?
@tilemacro: Thanks for supplying a video which underscores what I have already stated, and which you continue to ignore. BTW, your wooden definition of sin is very short-sighted -- not to mention unscriptural. Why then, if sin is merely limited to an offense against God (spirit) as you purport, do the ten commandments and many of Christ's commandments equate offenses against fellow men with offense against God? This shows that you neither understand science nor religion.
@TheKbugga You think that the origins of violence and crime is attributed to a guy who ate an apple 6000 years ago from a magical tree and a talking snake.
And i say the origins of violence and crime is studied by scientist and we know a lot about what cause it and what can reduce it or even some day eradicate it completely.
You say we need to pray.
I say we need to learn more about it and do something to correct it.
This argument is over your a brainwashed believer i hope some day you get free.
@tilemacro: In case you haven't noticed, you're the only one here saying that the Genesis creation account (which doesn't speak of any 6000 yrs, BTW) is responsible for today's violence and crime. This is what is called a straw-man accusation in formal debate. I agree that we need to pray, and I agree that we need to repent (as you have just suggested). At least we agree on that. May God truly bless your desire to do so.
@tilemacro: Again your primary language must not be English -- as you continue to misunderstand its use and terminology. It's also apparent that you misunderstand the Scriptures (and the Orthodox Church, in particular), which is not surprising given the abundance of misinformation about them on the Internet and secular news. If you truly desire to understand the Church's true teaching on these things, then you need to listen carefully and ask sincere questions -- rather than bandying insults.
@tilemacro ( I say we need to learn more about it and do something to correct it. )
why would you need to correct the way of God ? or is that what use like to do, change to your ways for your benifits. God says, you do. not learn about it an do something to correct it.. lolll
@sylvaticalexpro I was an Orthodox for 16 years and I live among them for the last 20, i know what the holy fire is and where it comes from, both what the church say and what people think.
The official position of your faith doesn't say the candles light them selfs, look it up.
And look it up hard not a casual look. You wont get a clear answer.
Besides what does it say for your god if his most glorious Miracle is lighting up some candles.
Seriously now.. have you seen the man made miracles?
@tilemacro: For us, it's not question of whether you want to be a slave or not, but of whom you ARE a slave. The Scriptures speak of obedience to God/Christ, which it also equates with freedom -- freedom from the oppressive slavery to sin and death. Expressed another way, it is the choice between Life and death.
The Priests or Presbyters of the early church were instrumental in building up the ancient church of christ and continue to do so as one of the three orders of the ordained ministry (bishop (lit. overseer), presbyter, and deacon)
@tilemacro The word Priest comes from the word Presbyter or literally elder. The word comes from the New Testament. Just trying to verify a truth and may God bless thee to find the truth!
@tilemacro. The name of Priest in the greek is just that, the origins come from that word. therefore the name also comes from that word, they are essentially the same. And by the way Paul instructs us to be slaves of righteousness. We are to love God with all our heart, soul and mind. Being in such a state is what God had created us to do so in the first place. and there is nothing wrong in being a virgin. Need I remind you that Christ was born of a virgin mother?
@tilemacro they're the same entity, specify what your actually talking about cuz that's where the name comes from. Additionally, there is nothing wrong in being a slave of righteousness Paul in fact commands us to be as such. Moreover, virginity is a depiction of purity and obedience to God, need I remind you of Christ's birth from the Theotokos who was a virgin.
@TheMikerussian Born of a virgin wow.. i guess thats important. i guess i was wrong...
Then maybe again i wasnt..
List of Gods virgin births, Pharaoh Amenkept III, Perseus, Romulus, Mithras, Genghis Khan, Krishna, Horus, Melanippe,Buddha, Attis, Quirrnus, Indra, Adonis, Auge and Antiope.
Also.
Hercules, Osiris, Bacchus, Hermes, Prometheus, Perseus and Horus.
Fun yea?
Without proof to back up your claims your holy book is in the same league as a superman comic book.
@tilemacro: None of the god's you have listed were born of virgin births. While the Zeitgeist hype you are referencing, is so beyond dead, that to consider it scholarship would be to commit academic suicide. Irrespective to that fact, it would be illogical to determine that a faith is untrue based on two correlating principles. Such reasoning participates in committing the genetic fallacy. Horus was born of Osiris and Isis through the jealous rage of Set. I suggest you brush up on history.
@tilemacro love your effort in attempting to dumb down religion as mere blindness trust but that is not the case. The proof lies in the lives of the saints whom themselves were able to withstand punishing tortures, harsh environments without much food, and change entire hostile nations. Plus, religion does not rely on proof the same way science does and at one point the two were intertwined and science required a certain level of faith.
@TheMikerussian What your so called saints accomplished is nothing more than what men and women accomplished through the ages, accomplishments of humans belong to the human species and not some imaginary father figure.
Yes religion does not rely on proof, it rely of faith, which is belief with no evidence.
Science requires no faith, thats a load of bullish sir.
@tilemacro Men do not die for what they know to be a lie. That is the amazing thing about the original saints; the apostles. They were with Jesus and saw Him risen. If that had been a lie, they had every reason to recant their stories. But instead, they preached and thrived in the face of brutal opposition. All but John, the only one who stayed with Christ during the execution, gave their lives as martyrs.
@tilemacro As far as science goes. It can neither prove not disprove the existence of deity. The faith he talked about was the faith used in the interpretation of facts (which happens often), not the facts themselves. About the "virgin births". Good list and good debate. But only Christ's birth was recorded 700 years prior to the event. Not just the birth, but the town, and the time and then verified by witnesses. There is so much I wish I could fit in this small box about this subject.
@tilemacro Not necessarily, I never heard of men and women throughout the ages surviving being in fires without a scrath, as well as controlling the very beasts of the forests. Not so sure you know much about the saints my friend, might want 2 do some research before you go roughshed like that. Again I'm not gonna hit my head against the wall, you can have an open-minded approach or a closed minded one, the choice is up to you
who sed Jesus died on the cross for our sins? did Jesus say? so if i dont believe that then im damned i dont believe that just because i didnt believe Jesus died for my sins i will go hell.....although i believe in God isnt that enough
@PrInCeSsuk8: The Bible, His disciples, and the Church today all testify that Jesus died take away the sins of the world and conquer death for us. He died for all, but we all must accept the Life that He gave us. If we reject the Life that He gives us, we condemn ourselves. Accepting the Life He gives is to accept a life of repentance and prayer, and active participation in His mysteries. It's often said that the rule of faith for the Church is the rule of our prayer. Come and see for yourself!
@PrInCeSsuk8: You can find an Orthodox parish in the UK via englishliturgy[dot]org/directory or goo[dot]gl/pFPoa Just replace the "[dot]" with a period for these links, since these comments do not allow direct hyperlinks.
@PrInCeSsuk8: BTW, a more direct answer to your 'what is enough to be saved' is that you need to partake in His Life-creating mysteries to be saved -- as He commanded (e.g. John 6:22-59) his disciples (the Church). In short, believing in God requires obeying His commandments, which you can find in the Holy Gospels. And where will you find His mysteries today? Read and you will see that Christ is manifest in His Church.
@TheKbugga lol i didnt say i dont believe in Jesus i just cant believe a man can be God incarnate, moses did miracles his not God. it just dont make sense to me i beleve Jesus as being a good teacher of God like Moses but i cant believe a man can be God. my ancestors believed in all sorts of things like God encarnated as a man every now and then so he can understand what humans feel. id just stik wid beliving in God with no form atleast il hav a good excuse on judgment day.
@PrInCeSsuk8: So you were only feigning confusion, eh? FWIW, there is no excuse for suicide (spiritual or otherwise). You now say that you can't believe that Jesus can be both God and man, as though you think that God can't do something that basic (or perhaps, humiliating?). He explains that God gave Moses and all Israel manna in the desert to eat, as a foretaste of the Life-creating mysteries that He gives His Church. There is no excuse for suicide...
@PrInCeSsuk8 weve heard all that God becoming a man stuff before coz my ancestors did. i dnt have to create sumet e.g. a table and become it to feel wat it feels i know how it works i created it. lol God is supreme he only does Godly things not stupid things. Jesus was a man! did Jesus ever say 'I am God worship me'? ur faith is baised on lies its a pagan belief.
@PrInCeSsuk8: In this response you show your ignorance of the Scriptures -- but more than that, you show your willingness to mock God. This is not wise for the reasons I've already stated, and is why I will not bother to show you your fault with the Scriptures. Come and see for yourself - for you clearly need milk, not solid food.
@PrInCeSsuk8 Jesus himself said in the Gospel of John that he was the great "I Am" - meaning He is God, and in the first part of the book of Hebrews, Jesus is called God, not to neglect in Colossians that Jesus is stated to be the fullness of deity indwelt in bodily form. PrinCeSs, Biblically speaking, Jesus is both a man and God-
@PrInCeSsuk8: cont. Just to be clear, when we say that you need to obey Him to saved, we do not mean that those who never find the Church cannot be saved -- for the Church is a spiritual body or building, like God. We just trust (God) that they can obey Him too. This idea is illustrated, for example, in Christ's parable about the laborers in the vineyard (Mat 20:1-16).
im confused! why cant God just fogive us has he not the power to do that? why does God have to die? i mean the son or erm was it God that dies ahhh confusing?
@PrInCeSsuk8: God can and does forgive the repentant. God's only-begotten Son died to show us how to repent, conquer death for us, and demonstrate His promise to save those who will repent. What is confusing about that?
@PrInCeSsuk8: The Bible teaches us that God is one, manifest in three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). How God can be 1, and yet 3 manifestations/persons is a great mystery -- one that we can't fully understand. God the Son (Jesus) became incarnate (i.e. both God and man -- another great mystery) of the virgin Mary about 2000 yrs ago, and taught us the ways of repentance and prayer. When He was crucified, He conquered death by rising on the 3rd day, and now rules in heaven. (TBC)
@PrInCeSsuk8: cont. In summary, there are many difficult truths that we know from the Scriptures. We don't pretend to know how the Trinity can be both 1 God and 3 persons. We don't know how God really became incarnate (both God and Man). We don't really know how Christ turned water into wine, or bread and wine into His body and blood. We just accept them as mysteries.
I do not hate priests, i just feel contempt for people who give up their capacity of thinking and let others do it for them. I do not like orthodox priests because:
1) They counseled submission to the Turks saying it is the will of God and that the faithful must obey.
2) The stories they tell about saints are full of lies and discrepancies, but they use them to emphasize obedience to whatever the church says, even if it goes against any common sense.
If this guys pubes are on his face, then what does he have down there??? What the fuck is a demon? I still haven't seen one! I want to see a demon chick and eat her pussy!
@eddo1983: God is not one's personal genie. Prayer is a means of surrendering to God's will -- to save your soul. As such, Christ our God has conquered death by His own death in order to give eternal life to those who are willing to accept Him in faith and in love (agape).
@TheKbugga I cant accept him till i see a miracle. Telling people they are born in sin and that the only way to be saved is through Jesus Christ is immoral.
@eddo1983: That's appropriate, given that we commemorate St Thomas' similar sentiments this Sunday. FWIW, Orthodox do not teach original sin, at least not in the sense that you've stated it. Thus, your condemnation of immoral teaching is just. Jesus saves those who surrender to Him. There is nothing immoral about His love.
@eddo1983: This again is not what Orthodoxy teaches. FWIW, it's even a distortion of most knowledgeable Protestant teaching on such matters. Mind you, however, that there are many, even in Orthodoxy, who may not understand this distinction properly. For Christ came to save sinners, not those who feel that they have no need for a physician. Praise be to God, who has not left us to our devices (true evil)! He grants His Life to all who will surrender to Him.
I love the diversity in Christianity and how organic it is. I am a Roman Catholic, but I have the deepest respect for the Eastern Right, the Coptic Christians and the Orthodox Churches. Together we make up the body of Christ. I pray for unity.
GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
@TheKbugga3 - GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
And those who are Jews and Christians and Sabaeans; whoever believes in Allah (God) and the Last Day and does right, surely their reward is with their Lord, and there will come no fear upon them neither will they grieve)
@johnnymohammed123: Surely you realize that it's a great stretch for anyone to believe that someone ~600 years after Christ (like Muhammad; or more recently Joseph Smith) can be trusted to re-write Christ's history. You need proof that everyone before him was wrong, and you have NONE. 80% of the world is converting to Islam, eh? Sounds like the broad road to me...
@TheKbugga GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people , getting along with others and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
@TheKbugga GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
@johnnymohammed123: At the end of the day, you'll have your religion and I'll have mine? And we ALL [presumably religious people] do good deeds? This is universalist/new-age talk, not pure Islamic or Christian doctrine. Charity and kindness may be good in a worldly perspective, but they are merely novice-like requirements with regard to Jesus teaching about good deeds -- not sufficient enough in and of themselves. Would that you and I could do good works! Our "good deeds" are filthy rags!
@Kixkaxia: True. I didn't mean that we cannot or should not do good works -- only that the Christ made it plain that "good works" are only possible through faith in Christ, fasting, and prayer. Thus, even our best intentions do not automatically translate to good works. Christ is risen!
@TheKbugga Not yet. Maybe when the Anti-Christ comes. Also, Muslims believe in Christ, just in a different context. You believe he died, they believe he got away and is still alive in heaven.
@Kixkaxia: It sounds like you know some of the Scriptures, but they clearly aren't in your heart. Have you never read or heard about Christ's ascension into Heaven ~40 days after His triumph over the grave? It's all recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Bear in mind though, that sincere study of any book, and especially God, requires humility and agape love.
You do realize that that verse was abrogated by more vicious and violent Surahs (i.e. 9: 5 and 9: 29) right? God later reveals some very intolerant verses having to do with Jews and Christians. This is why they are treated so badly in the Muslim world. Also, you do realize that Surahs that are similar to 2: 62 (i.e. 5: 69) are contradictory in their Arabic wording right? 5:69 starts out with "Imna" (accusitive case) and says "sabi un," when it should say "sabi-dim."
@Kixkaxia Yes, that is very offensive. However, Jews didn't raid throughout the known world destroying, subjugating, raping, and pirating the culture and wealth of others and establishing religious rule, now did they? And don't even bring up Israel. You can't compare the establishment of a humane, refuge-based state to the infamous Jihads of the Muslims. If not for Jews and Israel, all of Christianity's holiest places would be destroyed by the Arab Muslims.
@ManOnFia 9/11 was done by the government controlled by the Jews. And translation gets altered. And no, they welcomed him at first, but then in the end, they were his biggest enemy, they were the reason he was forced to leave. Also, Israel was snatched and given to people who don't even come from that area IE Ashkenazi Jews.
And no, what it really says is, to kill he who forces you to stop following your religion.
@Kixkaxia I think the Defense Department has more than enough evidence to convict al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Muslims blamed the Jews, of course. The entire mindset of Muslim individuals has been formed to have a great suspicion and prejudice towards the Jews. I'm telling you, they rejected Muhammad because they realized he was screwing around and they told him to get lost. He attacked them mercilessly (i.e. Battle of the Trench). The Qur'an and the Haddiths give greater detail.
@Kixkaxia I think the Defense Department has more than enough evidence to convict al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Muslims blamed the Jews, of course. The entire mindset of Muslim individuals has been formed to have a great suspicion and prejudice towards the Jews. I'm telling you, they rejected Muhammad because they realized he was screwing around and they told him to get lost. He attacked them mercilessly (i.e. Battle of the Trench). The Qur'an and the Haddiths give greater detail.
@ManOnFia The Jews are already destroying some of the most holiest places in Palestine. And also, like I said, there are lots of non-Muslims in the middle-east so don't give me that shit, also the Israelis were burying towards the Prophet's tomb, another place they wish to destroy in the future.
@Kixkaxia Surah 9:29: "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low."
@ManOnFia Jews and Christians aren't treated badly in the Muslim world, the Jews were banished from Saudi-Arabia because they wanted to kill the prophet, but the Christians are still there, just a small number.
@Kixkaxia They took up arms against Muhammad because he instigated them. The Jews actually welcomed him in Medina, but they noticed that he didn't understand holy scripture that well (i.e. The Sabbath). They rejected him, and he later attacked their tribes. Many Jews were killed; the rest were expelled from Arabia. It's common knowledge that non-Muslims are treated as second-class citizens in the Muhammadan world and are under attack quite often. Just look at what's happening in Egypt.
@Kixkaxia Give me a break. There was never a genocide in Palestine. If you think genocide is simply the killing of armed combatants and rioters, then you need to take a look at Sudan and the Congo. Even Arabs were killing each other over tribal rivalries before the British Mandate! Israelis have certainly committed crimes, but they wouldn't have to arm themselves to the teeth if their Arab neighbors and the rest of the Muhammadan world were always calling for their destruction.
@ManOnFia Are you a dumbass? The Israelis are launching white phosphorous at SCHOOLS. Don't tell me that's not genocide. Also, the Arabs are too weak to fight anyone, and the Americans are using the term "jihad" to justify the killing of freedom fighters and whatnot. What you're telling me is, that if you rush into a country, take it over, all of the people suddenly become terrorists, I sense Asperger's Syndrome.
@Kixkaxia When you fight against a political regime and target the enemy's military and government officials, that's freedom fighting. But when you target civilians and your ultimate goal is to wipe out an entire group of people (i.e. Jews) and establish an Islamic state in Israel, then you are most certainly fighting Jihad. What happened to the $1 billion aid package given to Palestinians by the U.S.? Oh yeah, they used it to buy more weapons instead of food, clothes, water, etc.
@ManOnFia So? The Jews are causing genocide. The US didn't supply 1 billion dollars, because once, someone tried to supply the Palestinians with food, the Israelis caught them, and arrested them. The US isn't doing shit for Israel, and your taxes are being used to supply Israel. The Jews control all the banks, thus the economical crisis, and the Jews will be the end of us all. They think that they have their own DNA, and they are the most dogmatic people on Earth.
@ManOnFia Mossad and the CIA did 9/11. Here are some facts. Why didn't NORAD intercept the jets when they were flying into the twin towers, even though they managed to intercept over a hundred jets that year? Why did FEMA lie about their presence in New York? What was the cause of the melting steel? Why weren't there any windows on the plane? Where was the wreckage of the one that crashed into the pentagon? If one plane was supposedly heading towards Washington DC and NORAD was uninformed, why
@Kixkaxia A call came into Cary, NC (U.S.) from a passenger explaining that they had been hijacked by two Arab passengers who said that they were going to fly the planes back to the airports. The U.S. has photographic evidence and witness accounts of the hijackers at the airports and their hotels. They cut communication to the radio com towers so it was difficult to locate the planes, plus they said they were coming back to the airport, not the twin towers. Steel? Jet fuel is hot as hell.
@ManOnFia Isreal was once Muslim territory, it was taken from them, they have every right to fight to take it back.I am sorry, you foo,, but that IS freedom fighting.
@tehhalonastergamer The only people that have ever established autonomy in that region are the following: The Jews, The Seleucids, and the Romans. In fact, Rome coined the name Palestine (Sea Invasion). Palestine became the territory of The Ottomans, the Arabs and Turks of that region never established autonomy. In fact, most names of places in Arabic were rendered from Hebrew. The Jews have the greatest legacy in that land. The Arabs had let the land go to waste.
@tehhalonastergamer No autonomous Arab/Muslim state has ever existed in the land of Palestine. Just because the Islamic faith spread to Palestine doesn't mean that the Palestinians Arabs ever achieved any political status. It even became the backwater of the Ottoman Empire. They used the land as passage to Arabia. Only the Jews, Greeks, and the Romans have ever established autonomy in Palestine. In fact the very name of Palestine is Latin for "Sea Invasion," describing the Roman conquest.
@tehhalonastergamer: 2 millenia, eh? I suppose it's no different than Joseph Smith's fantastic claims about his plates. But even IFF you had a mosque for ~2 millenia, what of it? How does it substantiate your founding prophet's claims ~600 yrs after Christ? Surely you realize how great a stretch it is to believe a tale like Joseph Smith's (i.e. the similarities btw Islam and Mormon claims seem striking). Do you have proof that everyone before Muhammad was wrong. Did Muhammad rise from the dead?
@TheKbugga Bringing up mormonism was random, and don't ask me about it.There are more differences than similarities when it comes to mormonism and islam, though I see your point.
@ManOnFia "The Non-Jews have been created to serve the Jews as slaves" [2] - Midrasch Talpioth 225 "The Non-Jews have to be avoided, even more than sick pigs" - Orach Chaiim 57, 6a "Sexual intercourse with Non-Jews is like sexual intercourse with animals" - Kethuboth 3b Only the Jews are humans, the Non-Jews are not humans, but cattle" (goyim = human cattle) [1] - Kerithuth 6b page 78, Jebhammoth 61a "As you replace lost cows and donkeys, so you shall replace dead Non-Jews" [4] - Iore Dea 337,1
That's true, here on earth God is with everyone, either we realize it or not, that's why we experience good things in our lifes, it's all from God when we feel good, always.
The Qur'an teaches that Islam is the continued faithful religion in the same line as the Prophets who were before Muhammad: The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah ... and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (42:13 AYA). The result of this view is that the scriptures given by these Prophets are considered to be genuine scriptures from God:
The Qur'an teaches that Islam is the continued faithful religion in the same line as the Prophets who were before Muhammad: The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah ... and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (42:13 AYA). The result of this view is that the scriptures given by these Prophets are considered to be genuine scriptures from God:
Prayer is very important but one needs love even more. Remember the Pharisee and the tax collector. The Pharisee also prayed but did not have love in his heart. A heart filled with love will resonate truth and sing unto the Almighty with every beat. Grace and Peace be with you all!
asalamulekum 2 weeks ago
Jesus was a Muslim and prayed like a Muslim I don't know what these Christians are doing
855842 1 month ago
@855842 Jesus was a Jew...how was he a muslim?
SageAndOnions 1 month ago 2
@SageAndOnions
All Messengers were Muslim according to the definition of Muslim
855842 1 month ago
Do they give Communion to new calendarists in that church, in total violation and disregard of the 2002 Encyclical and the two Florinite Protocols 13 and 1191? Or are they obedient?
Pilgrim1411 1 month ago
"Never did I say to them aught except what You (Allah) did command me to say: 'Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, but when You took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all things. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole world). [5:117]
john1136 1 month ago
And (remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection): "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: 'Worship me and my mother as two gods besides Allah?' " He will say: "Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my inner-self though I do not know what is in Yours, truly, You, only You, are the All-Knower of all that is hidden and unseen. [5:116]
john1136 1 month ago
Hold on, now what he is saying is that Christ listens to prayers and ignores them. then he is saying that he only gives us what we need; how about the famine, people dying of hunger, im sure at some point they prayed!!! but i guess they dont "need" food and food is not what christ wants for them!!!
SUTEX89 2 months ago
@SUTEX89 These are things that we have created, not Christ
SageAndOnions 1 month ago
You talk baba.
Mee551able 2 months ago
"Prayal is like a therapy, a therapy that can cure rare diseases like cancer"
I don't see any rational reason to attack Christianity, since it's an excelent therapy. When you pray you will not be harming anyone(except if you are from certain churches that suppose that God is deaf). Some people spend lots of money with psychiatrists, psychologians, analists... when they can simply look for a priest, and pray in an Othodox event, it's a great sensation.
Corvusdotensis 2 months ago
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CHRISTIANS ARE HYPOCRITES, THERE THE REAL SATANIST. BUNCH OF TOOLS THEY ARE.
exordiumdeath 3 months ago
Wow Powerful, "Demons will help us do anything as long as we don't pray"
stefanwlb 3 months ago
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atheisTurkish 3 months ago
wheres the little boy here??? in the back room? or do orthodoxes prefer goats?
randomgraduate 4 months ago
@randomgraduate whats the point of making fun of Orthodoxy? All we do is spread a loving word of God and you put us down because why?I dont get it... I hope you find your way sometime because the church is beautiful and can work wonders in your life
tmancuso111 3 months ago
@randomgraduate
STFU, heathen! Orthodox priests have wives and children. It has no(or almost no) wretched priests!
Corvusdotensis 2 months ago
No need to dumb down religion and have such hostile views of it. Seems as if the very same hostiles bred into the minds of Protestants who think anything whatsoever to do with science is negative already. Your taking the exact same stance and it is obviously distorting your views as well as your arguments. Its almost as if you put negative propaganda into your mind that all religion is evil no matter what. It is this same attitude that gets nations into war and causes unnecessary hostilities.
TheMikerussian 5 months ago
@TheMikerussian well said
tmancuso111 3 months ago
@the888CCCC Amem!
iagoabdulah 5 months ago
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god bless u father
durex19990 5 months ago
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MrLukasart 6 months ago
@MrLukasart fuck yeah
EDDlEMEDUZA 5 months ago
god bless you
batanso 6 months ago
This is very clear cut and precise. Bp Christodoulos articulated this very well. Very good video and feel many will benefit from this wise advice. Glory to God!
FrVladimir33 6 months ago 5
@FrVladimir33 :-)
GreekOrthodoxTV 4 months ago
May God bless u all
hailkid3262 7 months ago
This is so awesome
hailkid3262 8 months ago
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The Greek orthodox church is a scam much like any other religion. This religion single-handedly destroyed all the knowledge of the ancient world and was responsible for leeching the byzantine empire to death. After its fall it conspired with the Ottoman empire to perpetuate its existence by enslaving a nation.
Even today its a force of destruction for Greece. The only thing it cares for, is wealth and power. And enslaving a nation by keeping science out of the schools.
tilemacro 8 months ago
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@tilemacro
Bad troll...now gtfo -.-
riissanen93 6 months ago
@riissanen93 Trolling is saying nothing just to provoke an answer,
You feeling lonely lately ? cause you just trolled me :)
tilemacro 6 months ago
To believe in sin is to believe in adam and eve.
To believe in adam and eve is to ignore science.
To ingore science... stop typing comments on your computer.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: In other words, you don't believe in sin/evil and death? You must live on some other planet -- one with no need for laws or funerals. You are not making any sense, even to an earthly scientist.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@TheKbugga You live in some other planet where the laws of physics dont apply.
Whats the law of funerals ? ...
Some type of paratheistic heresy?
Your not making any sense... period.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: I take it that English is not your primary language, since you keep misquoting me -- for I did not write anything about a 'law of funerals' or a planet where laws of physics don't apply. I was speaking of civil laws (i.e. to curb crime, violence, and murder -- i.e. sin/evil), and funerals for the dead (i.e. earthly realities). You professed unbelief in these earthly realities, when I mentioned that our bondage to sin is responsible for these earthly realities.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@TheKbugga You mix real things like crime violence and murder with imaginary things like sin.
You bondage to sin is imaginary it has nothing to do with earthly realities.
The concept of sin is just in one book of one religion with no real evidence to back it up.
Have fun being a slave.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: If what you say is true, then how do you explain the tendency and commonality of crime, violence, and murder? This is in part, what we mean by sin -- the universal tendency of all to commit crime, and deprive their neighbor of the love that is their due. And there is PLENTY of evidence to back it up, as it is documented in nearly every medium/article, and even studied by scientists. Your ignorance of this, shows that you are in fact a slave.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@TheKbugga You're the Christian.
You're the sheep.
You're the slave.
You're the one ignorant of science in general.
And proud of it.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: You speak of science ignorance, and yet have denied several of its most basic findings. What is your answer to my last question?
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@TheKbugga Basic findings of science? We still talk about sin?
We commit violence crimes and murder cause a Guy ate an apple ? This is science?
tilemacro 8 months ago
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@tilemacro: Why is it that you are so hung up on your mockery, that you refuse to answer my question? Why do you fear giving a scientific answer?
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@tilemacro: Again, my question (rephrased for more clarity, and in three parts) is: How do you explain why every society has civil laws to curb crime, violence, and murder? In other words, why are these human phenomena so common and pervasive (i.e. the essence of what we mean by the word sin)? And why are so many social sciences devoted to studying these phenomena?
TheKbugga 8 months ago
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tilemacro 8 months ago
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@TheKbugga watch this "Dr. James Gilligan on Violence"
Sin is an offense against God. specifically the Christian god Yahweh. The broad meaning you give this word is wrong.
Its a mistake you do cause you were raised as a Christian.
Science and religion are two different opposite things don't try to mix them. Its 100% fail.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: Thanks for supplying a video which underscores what I have already stated, and which you continue to ignore. BTW, your wooden definition of sin is very short-sighted -- not to mention unscriptural. Why then, if sin is merely limited to an offense against God (spirit) as you purport, do the ten commandments and many of Christ's commandments equate offenses against fellow men with offense against God? This shows that you neither understand science nor religion.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@TheKbugga This only shows that i dont care about your religion nothing more nothing less.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@TheKbugga You think that the origins of violence and crime is attributed to a guy who ate an apple 6000 years ago from a magical tree and a talking snake.
And i say the origins of violence and crime is studied by scientist and we know a lot about what cause it and what can reduce it or even some day eradicate it completely.
You say we need to pray.
I say we need to learn more about it and do something to correct it.
This argument is over your a brainwashed believer i hope some day you get free.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: In case you haven't noticed, you're the only one here saying that the Genesis creation account (which doesn't speak of any 6000 yrs, BTW) is responsible for today's violence and crime. This is what is called a straw-man accusation in formal debate. I agree that we need to pray, and I agree that we need to repent (as you have just suggested). At least we agree on that. May God truly bless your desire to do so.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
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@TheKbugga "I agree that we need to pray,"
Agree with who ? me ? did i suggest we need to pray ?
"and I agree that we need to repent (as you have just suggested)."
... did i suggest praying ? or repenting ?
" At least we agree on that."
Is this how a religious person views the world ? If you can distort written text so much...
Your either a Troll or a complete deluded retard. either way im not going to feed you.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: Again your primary language must not be English -- as you continue to misunderstand its use and terminology. It's also apparent that you misunderstand the Scriptures (and the Orthodox Church, in particular), which is not surprising given the abundance of misinformation about them on the Internet and secular news. If you truly desire to understand the Church's true teaching on these things, then you need to listen carefully and ask sincere questions -- rather than bandying insults.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@tilemacro ( I say we need to learn more about it and do something to correct it. )
why would you need to correct the way of God ? or is that what use like to do, change to your ways for your benifits. God says, you do. not learn about it an do something to correct it.. lolll
albfire 7 months ago
@albfire Religion and faith without evidence has rotted your mind.
tilemacro 7 months ago
@tilemacro: Still bandying nonsense, I see.
TheKbugga 7 months ago
@tilemacro um there is evidence
sylvaticalexpro 7 months ago
@sylvaticalexpro 5 year olds play this game.
There are not.
tilemacro 7 months ago
@tilemacro what ewer comes to you
and try looking up holly fire and read about it so you can see where it comes from
sylvaticalexpro 7 months ago
@sylvaticalexpro I was an Orthodox for 16 years and I live among them for the last 20, i know what the holy fire is and where it comes from, both what the church say and what people think.
The official position of your faith doesn't say the candles light them selfs, look it up.
And look it up hard not a casual look. You wont get a clear answer.
Besides what does it say for your god if his most glorious Miracle is lighting up some candles.
Seriously now.. have you seen the man made miracles?
tilemacro 7 months ago
"The Scriptures speak of obedience to God/Christ, which it also equates with freedom"
WTF...
Freedom from what sin ? some kind of imaginary adam who ate the apple?
Are serius?
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: From your bondage to sin and death, like I said. Or you do you presume to be sinless?
TheKbugga 8 months ago
Christodoulos = Christ - slave = slave of christ.
No repsect for people who want to be slaves... even to God / Gods
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: For us, it's not question of whether you want to be a slave or not, but of whom you ARE a slave. The Scriptures speak of obedience to God/Christ, which it also equates with freedom -- freedom from the oppressive slavery to sin and death. Expressed another way, it is the choice between Life and death.
TheKbugga 8 months ago
The Priests or Presbyters of the early church were instrumental in building up the ancient church of christ and continue to do so as one of the three orders of the ordained ministry (bishop (lit. overseer), presbyter, and deacon)
TheMikerussian 8 months ago
The name of the priest in Greek means slave of Christ.
Never hear advice about life from a 40 year old virgin who calls him self a slave and is proud of it.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro: It makes far more sense to not trust the advice of 'macro' who does not even realize that he is a slave of anyone...
TheKbugga 8 months ago
@tilemacro The word Priest comes from the word Presbyter or literally elder. The word comes from the New Testament. Just trying to verify a truth and may God bless thee to find the truth!
TheMikerussian 8 months ago
@TheMikerussian I meant the name of the priest as the person priest... not the meaning of the word priest....
May God bless you to find a brain to use.
tilemacro 8 months ago
@tilemacro. The name of Priest in the greek is just that, the origins come from that word. therefore the name also comes from that word, they are essentially the same. And by the way Paul instructs us to be slaves of righteousness. We are to love God with all our heart, soul and mind. Being in such a state is what God had created us to do so in the first place. and there is nothing wrong in being a virgin. Need I remind you that Christ was born of a virgin mother?
TheMikerussian 6 months ago
@tilemacro they're the same entity, specify what your actually talking about cuz that's where the name comes from. Additionally, there is nothing wrong in being a slave of righteousness Paul in fact commands us to be as such. Moreover, virginity is a depiction of purity and obedience to God, need I remind you of Christ's birth from the Theotokos who was a virgin.
TheMikerussian 5 months ago
@TheMikerussian Born of a virgin wow.. i guess thats important. i guess i was wrong...
Then maybe again i wasnt..
List of Gods virgin births, Pharaoh Amenkept III, Perseus, Romulus, Mithras, Genghis Khan, Krishna, Horus, Melanippe,Buddha, Attis, Quirrnus, Indra, Adonis, Auge and Antiope.
Also.
Hercules, Osiris, Bacchus, Hermes, Prometheus, Perseus and Horus.
Fun yea?
Without proof to back up your claims your holy book is in the same league as a superman comic book.
tilemacro 5 months ago
@tilemacro: None of the god's you have listed were born of virgin births. While the Zeitgeist hype you are referencing, is so beyond dead, that to consider it scholarship would be to commit academic suicide. Irrespective to that fact, it would be illogical to determine that a faith is untrue based on two correlating principles. Such reasoning participates in committing the genetic fallacy. Horus was born of Osiris and Isis through the jealous rage of Set. I suggest you brush up on history.
dimic 5 months ago
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@dimic yea yea fun i know, let me repeat again incase you missed it.
"Without proof to back up your claims your holy book is in the same league as a superman comic book."
tilemacro 5 months ago
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@tilemacro haha ... well superman aint going to safe u .... u will see that at the end .... live with ur ignorance n u going to meet krishna
durex19990 5 months ago
@tilemacro love your effort in attempting to dumb down religion as mere blindness trust but that is not the case. The proof lies in the lives of the saints whom themselves were able to withstand punishing tortures, harsh environments without much food, and change entire hostile nations. Plus, religion does not rely on proof the same way science does and at one point the two were intertwined and science required a certain level of faith.
TheMikerussian 5 months ago
@TheMikerussian What your so called saints accomplished is nothing more than what men and women accomplished through the ages, accomplishments of humans belong to the human species and not some imaginary father figure.
Yes religion does not rely on proof, it rely of faith, which is belief with no evidence.
Science requires no faith, thats a load of bullish sir.
tilemacro 5 months ago
@tilemacro Men do not die for what they know to be a lie. That is the amazing thing about the original saints; the apostles. They were with Jesus and saw Him risen. If that had been a lie, they had every reason to recant their stories. But instead, they preached and thrived in the face of brutal opposition. All but John, the only one who stayed with Christ during the execution, gave their lives as martyrs.
ILoveYeshuah 5 months ago
@tilemacro As far as science goes. It can neither prove not disprove the existence of deity. The faith he talked about was the faith used in the interpretation of facts (which happens often), not the facts themselves. About the "virgin births". Good list and good debate. But only Christ's birth was recorded 700 years prior to the event. Not just the birth, but the town, and the time and then verified by witnesses. There is so much I wish I could fit in this small box about this subject.
ILoveYeshuah 5 months ago
@tilemacro Not necessarily, I never heard of men and women throughout the ages surviving being in fires without a scrath, as well as controlling the very beasts of the forests. Not so sure you know much about the saints my friend, might want 2 do some research before you go roughshed like that. Again I'm not gonna hit my head against the wall, you can have an open-minded approach or a closed minded one, the choice is up to you
TheMikerussian 5 months ago
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tilemacro 4 months ago
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@TheMikerussian You want me to list a hundered myths right out of the top of my head?
Go read about the ancient world, about the 12 heroic acomplishments of hercules, thiseas and the minotaur.
And think hard on what makes those wrong and your saints right.
Quote: "you can have an open-minded approach or a closed minded one, the choice is up to you"
tilemacro 4 months ago
who sed Jesus died on the cross for our sins? did Jesus say? so if i dont believe that then im damned i dont believe that just because i didnt believe Jesus died for my sins i will go hell.....although i believe in God isnt that enough
PrInCeSsuk8 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: The Bible, His disciples, and the Church today all testify that Jesus died take away the sins of the world and conquer death for us. He died for all, but we all must accept the Life that He gave us. If we reject the Life that He gives us, we condemn ourselves. Accepting the Life He gives is to accept a life of repentance and prayer, and active participation in His mysteries. It's often said that the rule of faith for the Church is the rule of our prayer. Come and see for yourself!
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: You can find an Orthodox parish in the UK via englishliturgy[dot]org/directory or goo[dot]gl/pFPoa Just replace the "[dot]" with a period for these links, since these comments do not allow direct hyperlinks.
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: BTW, a more direct answer to your 'what is enough to be saved' is that you need to partake in His Life-creating mysteries to be saved -- as He commanded (e.g. John 6:22-59) his disciples (the Church). In short, believing in God requires obeying His commandments, which you can find in the Holy Gospels. And where will you find His mysteries today? Read and you will see that Christ is manifest in His Church.
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@TheKbugga lol i didnt say i dont believe in Jesus i just cant believe a man can be God incarnate, moses did miracles his not God. it just dont make sense to me i beleve Jesus as being a good teacher of God like Moses but i cant believe a man can be God. my ancestors believed in all sorts of things like God encarnated as a man every now and then so he can understand what humans feel. id just stik wid beliving in God with no form atleast il hav a good excuse on judgment day.
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TheKbugga 9 months ago
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@PrInCeSsuk8: So you were only feigning confusion, eh? FWIW, there is no excuse for suicide (spiritual or otherwise). You now say that you can't believe that Jesus can be both God and man, as though you think that God can't do something that basic (or perhaps, humiliating?). He explains that God gave Moses and all Israel manna in the desert to eat, as a foretaste of the Life-creating mysteries that He gives His Church. There is no excuse for suicide...
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8 weve heard all that God becoming a man stuff before coz my ancestors did. i dnt have to create sumet e.g. a table and become it to feel wat it feels i know how it works i created it. lol God is supreme he only does Godly things not stupid things. Jesus was a man! did Jesus ever say 'I am God worship me'? ur faith is baised on lies its a pagan belief.
PrInCeSsuk8 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: In this response you show your ignorance of the Scriptures -- but more than that, you show your willingness to mock God. This is not wise for the reasons I've already stated, and is why I will not bother to show you your fault with the Scriptures. Come and see for yourself - for you clearly need milk, not solid food.
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8 Jesus himself said in the Gospel of John that he was the great "I Am" - meaning He is God, and in the first part of the book of Hebrews, Jesus is called God, not to neglect in Colossians that Jesus is stated to be the fullness of deity indwelt in bodily form. PrinCeSs, Biblically speaking, Jesus is both a man and God-
csoul7811 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: cont. Just to be clear, when we say that you need to obey Him to saved, we do not mean that those who never find the Church cannot be saved -- for the Church is a spiritual body or building, like God. We just trust (God) that they can obey Him too. This idea is illustrated, for example, in Christ's parable about the laborers in the vineyard (Mat 20:1-16).
TheKbugga 9 months ago
i really liked wat he sed! dont get me wrong it better than the other denominations
PrInCeSsuk8 9 months ago
im confused! why cant God just fogive us has he not the power to do that? why does God have to die? i mean the son or erm was it God that dies ahhh confusing?
PrInCeSsuk8 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: God can and does forgive the repentant. God's only-begotten Son died to show us how to repent, conquer death for us, and demonstrate His promise to save those who will repent. What is confusing about that?
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@TheKbugga i was confused about who died on the cross was it God, or son of God coz everybody tells me Jesus died and that his God.
PrInCeSsuk8 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: The Bible teaches us that God is one, manifest in three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). How God can be 1, and yet 3 manifestations/persons is a great mystery -- one that we can't fully understand. God the Son (Jesus) became incarnate (i.e. both God and man -- another great mystery) of the virgin Mary about 2000 yrs ago, and taught us the ways of repentance and prayer. When He was crucified, He conquered death by rising on the 3rd day, and now rules in heaven. (TBC)
TheKbugga 9 months ago
@PrInCeSsuk8: cont. In summary, there are many difficult truths that we know from the Scriptures. We don't pretend to know how the Trinity can be both 1 God and 3 persons. We don't know how God really became incarnate (both God and Man). We don't really know how Christ turned water into wine, or bread and wine into His body and blood. We just accept them as mysteries.
TheKbugga 9 months ago
this is beautiful! all he said is correct and true and mind opening. I'm a devout Catholic but I love the Orthodox too!
sradefarras 9 months ago
logic....
MrCalathea 9 months ago
Pray for the Pope of Rome!!!
SuperGreatSphinx 9 months ago
I do not hate priests, i just feel contempt for people who give up their capacity of thinking and let others do it for them. I do not like orthodox priests because:
1) They counseled submission to the Turks saying it is the will of God and that the faithful must obey.
2) The stories they tell about saints are full of lies and discrepancies, but they use them to emphasize obedience to whatever the church says, even if it goes against any common sense.
vottiaia 9 months ago
If this guys pubes are on his face, then what does he have down there??? What the fuck is a demon? I still haven't seen one! I want to see a demon chick and eat her pussy!
trekkian88 9 months ago
If prayer worked, 911 would be a church hotline.
eddo1983 10 months ago
@eddo1983: God is not one's personal genie. Prayer is a means of surrendering to God's will -- to save your soul. As such, Christ our God has conquered death by His own death in order to give eternal life to those who are willing to accept Him in faith and in love (agape).
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga I cant accept him till i see a miracle. Telling people they are born in sin and that the only way to be saved is through Jesus Christ is immoral.
eddo1983 10 months ago
@eddo1983: That's appropriate, given that we commemorate St Thomas' similar sentiments this Sunday. FWIW, Orthodox do not teach original sin, at least not in the sense that you've stated it. Thus, your condemnation of immoral teaching is just. Jesus saves those who surrender to Him. There is nothing immoral about His love.
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga If you tell someone that they will suffer or go to hell if they don't accept Jesus is evil
eddo1983 10 months ago
@eddo1983: This again is not what Orthodoxy teaches. FWIW, it's even a distortion of most knowledgeable Protestant teaching on such matters. Mind you, however, that there are many, even in Orthodoxy, who may not understand this distinction properly. For Christ came to save sinners, not those who feel that they have no need for a physician. Praise be to God, who has not left us to our devices (true evil)! He grants His Life to all who will surrender to Him.
TheKbugga 10 months ago
I love the diversity in Christianity and how organic it is. I am a Roman Catholic, but I have the deepest respect for the Eastern Right, the Coptic Christians and the Orthodox Churches. Together we make up the body of Christ. I pray for unity.
zzzak123 10 months ago
Unto the ages and ages, praise be God and Jesus Christ! He is risen!
God Bless
dragongolds 10 months ago
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GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
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@TheKbugga3 - GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
I havn't prayed in a while, and I was at the mercy of the demons, I was getting hit left and right of tempation.
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johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
And those who are Jews and Christians and Sabaeans; whoever believes in Allah (God) and the Last Day and does right, surely their reward is with their Lord, and there will come no fear upon them neither will they grieve)
Quran - (Al-Baqarah 2:62).
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
@johnnymohammed123: Surely you realize that it's a great stretch for anyone to believe that someone ~600 years after Christ (like Muhammad; or more recently Joseph Smith) can be trusted to re-write Christ's history. You need proof that everyone before him was wrong, and you have NONE. 80% of the world is converting to Islam, eh? Sounds like the broad road to me...
TheKbugga 11 months ago
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@TheKbugga GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people , getting along with others and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
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@TheKbugga GOD is for everybody no one or anything in this world could be greater than god but at the end of the day you have your religion il have mine jews have them ! we all do good deeds such as charity , being kind to people and all those things and forbid evil and worship God ALONE ! peace
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
@johnnymohammed123: At the end of the day, you'll have your religion and I'll have mine? And we ALL [presumably religious people] do good deeds? This is universalist/new-age talk, not pure Islamic or Christian doctrine. Charity and kindness may be good in a worldly perspective, but they are merely novice-like requirements with regard to Jesus teaching about good deeds -- not sufficient enough in and of themselves. Would that you and I could do good works! Our "good deeds" are filthy rags!
TheKbugga 11 months ago
@TheKbugga You will only enter the kingdom of Heaven through me and nothing but me, through Jesus' name, -remember that brother.
dragongolds 10 months ago
@dragongolds: Christ is risen!
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Maybe the good deeds done by the people of the now. But just because they are "filthy rags", that does not mean you shouldn't do them.
Every little helps.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia: True. I didn't mean that we cannot or should not do good works -- only that the Christ made it plain that "good works" are only possible through faith in Christ, fasting, and prayer. Thus, even our best intentions do not automatically translate to good works. Christ is risen!
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Not yet. Maybe when the Anti-Christ comes. Also, Muslims believe in Christ, just in a different context. You believe he died, they believe he got away and is still alive in heaven.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia: Not quite, but nice try. Christ is risen!
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Then where is he?
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia: It sounds like you know some of the Scriptures, but they clearly aren't in your heart. Have you never read or heard about Christ's ascension into Heaven ~40 days after His triumph over the grave? It's all recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Bear in mind though, that sincere study of any book, and especially God, requires humility and agape love.
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Oh ok.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@johnnymohammed123
You do realize that that verse was abrogated by more vicious and violent Surahs (i.e. 9: 5 and 9: 29) right? God later reveals some very intolerant verses having to do with Jews and Christians. This is why they are treated so badly in the Muslim world. Also, you do realize that Surahs that are similar to 2: 62 (i.e. 5: 69) are contradictory in their Arabic wording right? 5:69 starts out with "Imna" (accusitive case) and says "sabi un," when it should say "sabi-dim."
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia "Jesus is in hell and is being punished by being boiled in semen. Christians are boiled in dung"
- Gittin 57a(Jewish Book)
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia Yes, that is very offensive. However, Jews didn't raid throughout the known world destroying, subjugating, raping, and pirating the culture and wealth of others and establishing religious rule, now did they? And don't even bring up Israel. You can't compare the establishment of a humane, refuge-based state to the infamous Jihads of the Muslims. If not for Jews and Israel, all of Christianity's holiest places would be destroyed by the Arab Muslims.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia 9/11 was done by the government controlled by the Jews. And translation gets altered. And no, they welcomed him at first, but then in the end, they were his biggest enemy, they were the reason he was forced to leave. Also, Israel was snatched and given to people who don't even come from that area IE Ashkenazi Jews.
And no, what it really says is, to kill he who forces you to stop following your religion.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia I think the Defense Department has more than enough evidence to convict al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Muslims blamed the Jews, of course. The entire mindset of Muslim individuals has been formed to have a great suspicion and prejudice towards the Jews. I'm telling you, they rejected Muhammad because they realized he was screwing around and they told him to get lost. He attacked them mercilessly (i.e. Battle of the Trench). The Qur'an and the Haddiths give greater detail.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
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@Kixkaxia I think the Defense Department has more than enough evidence to convict al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Muslims blamed the Jews, of course. The entire mindset of Muslim individuals has been formed to have a great suspicion and prejudice towards the Jews. I'm telling you, they rejected Muhammad because they realized he was screwing around and they told him to get lost. He attacked them mercilessly (i.e. Battle of the Trench). The Qur'an and the Haddiths give greater detail.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia The Jews are already destroying some of the most holiest places in Palestine. And also, like I said, there are lots of non-Muslims in the middle-east so don't give me that shit, also the Israelis were burying towards the Prophet's tomb, another place they wish to destroy in the future.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
Respond to this video... Muhammad's tomb is in Medina. Jews can't go there. How can they bury their dead there?
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia In Islam, killing non-Muslims is against the law, because nobody is really Muslim if your force them. Islam is encouraged, not forced.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia Surah 9:29: "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low."
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia Jews and Christians aren't treated badly in the Muslim world, the Jews were banished from Saudi-Arabia because they wanted to kill the prophet, but the Christians are still there, just a small number.
Also, Shias and Sunnis have a different Qur'an.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia They took up arms against Muhammad because he instigated them. The Jews actually welcomed him in Medina, but they noticed that he didn't understand holy scripture that well (i.e. The Sabbath). They rejected him, and he later attacked their tribes. Many Jews were killed; the rest were expelled from Arabia. It's common knowledge that non-Muslims are treated as second-class citizens in the Muhammadan world and are under attack quite often. Just look at what's happening in Egypt.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia One last thing. You completely forgot about the genocide in Palestine. Muslims did no such thing to the Jews.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia Give me a break. There was never a genocide in Palestine. If you think genocide is simply the killing of armed combatants and rioters, then you need to take a look at Sudan and the Congo. Even Arabs were killing each other over tribal rivalries before the British Mandate! Israelis have certainly committed crimes, but they wouldn't have to arm themselves to the teeth if their Arab neighbors and the rest of the Muhammadan world were always calling for their destruction.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia Are you a dumbass? The Israelis are launching white phosphorous at SCHOOLS. Don't tell me that's not genocide. Also, the Arabs are too weak to fight anyone, and the Americans are using the term "jihad" to justify the killing of freedom fighters and whatnot. What you're telling me is, that if you rush into a country, take it over, all of the people suddenly become terrorists, I sense Asperger's Syndrome.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia When you fight against a political regime and target the enemy's military and government officials, that's freedom fighting. But when you target civilians and your ultimate goal is to wipe out an entire group of people (i.e. Jews) and establish an Islamic state in Israel, then you are most certainly fighting Jihad. What happened to the $1 billion aid package given to Palestinians by the U.S.? Oh yeah, they used it to buy more weapons instead of food, clothes, water, etc.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia So? The Jews are causing genocide. The US didn't supply 1 billion dollars, because once, someone tried to supply the Palestinians with food, the Israelis caught them, and arrested them. The US isn't doing shit for Israel, and your taxes are being used to supply Israel. The Jews control all the banks, thus the economical crisis, and the Jews will be the end of us all. They think that they have their own DNA, and they are the most dogmatic people on Earth.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia Palestine I mean.
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia Mossad and the CIA did 9/11. Here are some facts. Why didn't NORAD intercept the jets when they were flying into the twin towers, even though they managed to intercept over a hundred jets that year? Why did FEMA lie about their presence in New York? What was the cause of the melting steel? Why weren't there any windows on the plane? Where was the wreckage of the one that crashed into the pentagon? If one plane was supposedly heading towards Washington DC and NORAD was uninformed, why
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia A call came into Cary, NC (U.S.) from a passenger explaining that they had been hijacked by two Arab passengers who said that they were going to fly the planes back to the airports. The U.S. has photographic evidence and witness accounts of the hijackers at the airports and their hotels. They cut communication to the radio com towers so it was difficult to locate the planes, plus they said they were coming back to the airport, not the twin towers. Steel? Jet fuel is hot as hell.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia wasn't it smashed into the white house?
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
@Kixkaxia Nope.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia Isreal was once Muslim territory, it was taken from them, they have every right to fight to take it back.I am sorry, you foo,, but that IS freedom fighting.
tehhalonastergamer 10 months ago
@tehhalonastergamer The only people that have ever established autonomy in that region are the following: The Jews, The Seleucids, and the Romans. In fact, Rome coined the name Palestine (Sea Invasion). Palestine became the territory of The Ottomans, the Arabs and Turks of that region never established autonomy. In fact, most names of places in Arabic were rendered from Hebrew. The Jews have the greatest legacy in that land. The Arabs had let the land go to waste.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@tehhalonastergamer No autonomous Arab/Muslim state has ever existed in the land of Palestine. Just because the Islamic faith spread to Palestine doesn't mean that the Palestinians Arabs ever achieved any political status. It even became the backwater of the Ottoman Empire. They used the land as passage to Arabia. Only the Jews, Greeks, and the Romans have ever established autonomy in Palestine. In fact the very name of Palestine is Latin for "Sea Invasion," describing the Roman conquest.
ManOnFia 10 months ago
@ManOnFia Oh really?Then may you please explain why there has been a mosque there for the past 2 millenia?
tehhalonastergamer 10 months ago
@tehhalonastergamer: 2 millenia, eh? I suppose it's no different than Joseph Smith's fantastic claims about his plates. But even IFF you had a mosque for ~2 millenia, what of it? How does it substantiate your founding prophet's claims ~600 yrs after Christ? Surely you realize how great a stretch it is to believe a tale like Joseph Smith's (i.e. the similarities btw Islam and Mormon claims seem striking). Do you have proof that everyone before Muhammad was wrong. Did Muhammad rise from the dead?
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Bringing up mormonism was random, and don't ask me about it.There are more differences than similarities when it comes to mormonism and islam, though I see your point.
tehhalonastergamer 10 months ago
@tehhalonastergamer: For a seemingly unbiased comparison of Islam and Mormonism, visit goo[dot]gl/U9mPE. Replace the [dot] with a ".".
TheKbugga 10 months ago
@TheKbugga Excuse me, what does mormonism have to do with anything?
tehhalonastergamer 10 months ago
Kixkaxia 10 months ago
That's true, here on earth God is with everyone, either we realize it or not, that's why we experience good things in our lifes, it's all from God when we feel good, always.
d789b 11 months ago
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@Adonomos
The Qur'an teaches that Islam is the continued faithful religion in the same line as the Prophets who were before Muhammad: The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah ... and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (42:13 AYA). The result of this view is that the scriptures given by these Prophets are considered to be genuine scriptures from God:
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
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The Qur'an teaches that Islam is the continued faithful religion in the same line as the Prophets who were before Muhammad: The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah ... and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (42:13 AYA). The result of this view is that the scriptures given by these Prophets are considered to be genuine scriptures from God:
johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
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johnnymohammed123 11 months ago
The Quran rejec