Beautifully put. I would add that the Incarnation has already made us one flesh with God. Christ's life was the full absorption of all aspects of our common...
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Brian Fink
brfinkster
Mar 14, 2007 10:13 pm
Too bad St. Barney (whew... for a second I read that, I was thinking of the purple demon dinosaur) couldnt be more of an influence on Opie to NOT direct the Da...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Mar 14, 2007 11:37 pm
I actually thought that there might have been a Barney (Barnabas, Bernard, Barnaby) hailing from the old Kingdom of Fife in Scotland. There were a couple...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 6, 2007 9:39 pm
The Paschal sermon of St John Chrysostom is read aloud in every Orthodox parish at the Divine Liturgy of the Great and Holy Pascha Jesus Christ (this service...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 12, 2007 9:18 pm
"The Gospel without the Atonement?"<http://cranach.worldmagblog.com/cranach/archives/2007/04/the_gospel_with.html>is a very interesting discussion at Cranach ...
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Randy Asburry
rasburry2
Apr 16, 2007 5:10 pm
Perhaps one of our Orthodox friends might try to weigh in on that discussion with the following excerpt (following my signature line) from Fr. Thomas Hopko's...
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herrdave2_prime
Apr 18, 2007 1:56 am
Yes, that's true. We thus have canons harmonized with Paul's admonishing to avoid those who cause divisions....
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krolechka
Apr 18, 2007 1:50 pm
Christ is risen! ... I'd say, same way as the Fathers started. I'm sure, they did not see the same things in the Scripture that other Fathers saw before them. ...
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Brian Fink
brfinkster
Apr 20, 2007 3:59 pm
Shhhhh..... you weren't supposed to see that. We're trying to keep that all under wraps. The impact that it would have on the Lutherans would be... well......
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Randy Asburry
rasburry2
Apr 21, 2007 6:14 pm
Ah, thank you so much for the admission! ;-) (Admission of what? That you're "trying to keep that all under wraps," or that the Atonement is certainly there?...
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Randy Asburry
rasburry2
Apr 21, 2007 6:14 pm
So, has anyone put that quote from Hopko out on a Lutheran blog to see what the response would be? (I just don't frequent blogs that much, and I'm happy to...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 21, 2007 7:42 pm
Watch Your Metaphors<http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/watch-your-metaphors/> <http://wordpress.com/tag/catholic/> By Fr. Stephen Freeman Metaphors...
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tantuslabor
Apr 21, 2007 8:12 pm
I just finished reading Fr. Stephen's blog (the icon is beautiful, too). What a fine post he's made here! The unworthy priest, Fr. Gregory ... ...
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Anastasia Theodoridis
anastasiatheo
Apr 22, 2007 6:36 am
Dear Everyone, Pls. excuse my temporary absence from the discussion and add my family to your prayers. On Wednesday, my sister, Barbara, had surgery to remove...
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Randy Asburry
rasburry2
Apr 22, 2007 10:45 am
Anastasia, You and your family are in my prayers! May our gracious Savior, the Good Shepherd of the sheep, keep you and yours in His tender care and keeping! ...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 22, 2007 5:25 pm
I would very much like to hear a discussion on what 'forgiveness of sins' means to the Orthodox outside of a penal substituion or forensic substitution model....
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herrdave2_prime
Apr 23, 2007 2:16 am
Fr Fenton, How does one from the LCMS brand of Lutheranism deal with the new fuzzier version of truth coverting to Orthodoxy, when it is not the infallible...
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tantuslabor
Apr 23, 2007 10:52 am
Dear "HerrDave," Christ is risen! I'll chime in here, if I may. In the first place, the infallible scriptures do not guide all doctrine and practice in...
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Salvatore Sberna
salsberna
Apr 23, 2007 1:03 pm
I guess I always believed that one could never depart from the grace received at Baptism, regardless of how one lived. While that view doesn't seem very...
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Rosemarie Lieffring
lieffring
Apr 23, 2007 3:10 pm
Sal wrote: <<Is that worshiping the Virgin or have we just been venerating God?>> Interesting that you should say this. I heard a lecture (on tape) by Father ...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 23, 2007 4:45 pm
All the parables of the Lord relating to the Kingdom, the Church, refer to both wheat and tares, good and bad fishes, etc. In the Church there are both. The...
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herrdave2_prime
Apr 23, 2007 5:08 pm
I agree that dogma is an official church pronouncement, however what is officially fuzzy may not be actually tolerated. The fuzzy part can be generally...
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tantuslabor
Apr 23, 2007 5:18 pm
Dear "HerrDave";, Perhaps you're aware, perhaps not, that a long line of church fathers understood the creation account in other-than-7-24-hour-day terms, long...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 23, 2007 5:29 pm
... St. Gregory the Theologian said in his day that "to be orthodox at that time [Nicea] was only to be slightly in error" - referring to the fact that the ...
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herrdave2_prime
Apr 23, 2007 7:18 pm
Yes ... b...
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tantuslabor
Apr 23, 2007 7:46 pm
Dear Herr_Dave, I thought I remembered your name from before, and doing a search on the Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue list I came across a post that said you were...
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Fr. Robert K. McMeekin
padrerkm
Apr 24, 2007 4:36 pm
Hi everyone! I'm long overdue to greet you all on this forum. I was a Lutheran minister (ELCA) for eleven years and now an OCA priest of about the same...
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Salvatore Sberna
salsberna
Apr 24, 2007 8:15 pm
Thanks guys, That does clear things up a bit. But I'm just wondering if worshiping and venerating...um...*feel *any different. This sounds like a silly...
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Laura Frizelle
lfrizelle@...
Apr 24, 2007 11:39 pm
Hi Sal, As far as feeling goes, I can't say much. I am still on the Lutheran side of the fence and haven't had much opportunity to worship regularly with the...
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Christopher Orr
christopher3rd
Apr 25, 2007 12:31 am
On a practical level, I was raised only to pray to one person (well, three, you get my drift): God. So, I do have to remember to whom/Whom I am praying. That...
