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  1. truthseeker32

    Promised I'd pop back in when I was baptized

    Hello everyone. I hope you are all well! My son and I were baptized yesterday here in Utah. He took the name Seraphim and I took Isaac. Many years to you all.
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    Leaving the group

    This will be my last word here as I am not interested in arguing, but I thought it only fair to answer your confusion. The very things you find so edifying might be the very things that have driven me to leave. In fact, one of the recommendations I would give to individuals interested in...
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    Leaving the group

    Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thanks to those who helped me along the way. For those of you who don't know I have been a catechumen for almost two months now and it is going great. That being said, I have decided to leave this group for good as I am not a fan of the direction it is...
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    buying an icon?

    I've always been pleased with the selection at skete.com
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    Please pray for my wife and I

    Thanks, everyone. She is handling it in a very loving way, but I can see the sorrow in her face even though she tries to hide it.
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    Please pray for my wife and I

    This evening I finally opened up to my wife about sins I have struggled with for over a decade. She is understandably sad and disappointed about my confession. Please pray for my wife and I.
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    Did you feel weird tranistioning from other Christianity to EO?

    My transition to Orthodoxy has been very difficult. I came from a Mormon background where the church was ran pragmatically; more like a social club or business than a religion. There was a heavy emphasis on the usefulness of the gospel, or how it is good for you. Things like the safe communities...
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    Do people like Ken Ham help or hurt Christian evangelization?

    You keep stating things like this, but you have yet to explain how this is necessarily the case. Things in this world break down and new life springs from this entropy. It is easy for me to see how God would create such a self-sustaining system, without "logical" contradiction. The only way I...
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    Do people like Ken Ham help or hurt Christian evangelization?

    And in response to the OP, Ken Ham, in my opinion, is bad news. If there are good arguments against evolution he didn't use them. Even Pat Robertson spoke out against him.
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    Do people like Ken Ham help or hurt Christian evangelization?

    I would like to see that logical formula. Depends on what "the Fall" means. If one insists that it must mean and event in which man fell into physical entropy, then your conclusion follows, but this isn't the only interpretation. Two things: 1. Just because one believes evolution has happened it...
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    Well, first of all I don't think I have to choose. As to why I believe in evolution, it is because once one has taken the time to fully understand it denying it would be akin to denying the existence of dinosaurs. To deny evolution is to affirm that God has organized the world to deceive us. Our...
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    Because we as humans carry God's image in us. Why ought we to think this will go away if our physical attributes change? In comparison to humans just 5000 years ago we are taller, we have bones and organs that are now obsolete, on average our IQ is higher, etc. If 5000 years from now humans are...
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    Truefiction1, I don't actually think it is wrong for an Orthodox Christian to affirm biological evolution. Both of my priests say it is perfectly fine and even two bishops I have spoken with think it is perfectly fine. I am merely trying to understand the reasoning of people like rus...
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    So if I understand correctly, the primary reason given here for rejecting physical death before the fall is that the consensus of Church Fathers support this view. Does this mean that if in 1000 years there is an even split or even reversal in the consensus of Church Fathers it will then be okay...
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    That sort of goes around my question though. Why couldn't it be the case that things prior to the fall broke down physically and it was only spiritual death that entered the picture with the fall?
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    A Catholic writes concerning East-West union. Thoughts?

    This is also relevant: Spitting in Rome’s Eye: A Reflection on How Orthodoxy’s Sinfulness Prevents Reunion | Red River Orthodox
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    What did humans and animals eat if plants couldn't die?
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    "Adaptations" and other "givens"

    How do we know that Genesis isn't referring only to spiritual death?
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    A Catholic writes concerning East-West union. Thoughts?

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