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Recent content by CopticOrthodox

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    (Saint) Augustine Of Hippo?

    Do the Eastern Orthodox have one calender of saints? For us each Church has thier own calender of saints, and of course there are universal saints who are venerated by all... For us St. Augustine is not in the Coptic Synaxarium or that of our sister Churches to we do not call him saint or...
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    How does FOREVER work?

    God's name is I Am. He is He Who Is. We receive our existence from Him, but He doesn't receive His existence, He has no source, existence is part of His Nature, of who He is. God is not something in the universe, He is existence Himself, and everything comes from Him. He never came into...
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    Is this true?

    I believe that twice disputes arose between the Bishop of Rome and the North Aferican Churches over whether the Baptism of heretics should be accepted. The bishop of Rome did not think that those Baptised by heretics should be Baptised when coming into Orthodoxy. They turned to Alexandria for...
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    Becoming A Member Of The Clergy?

    The way it works in the Coptic Church is that when a church needs a priest they select a member of the congregation who is worthy, and he is sent to be ordained. If there is a great need for a priest and no one among the congregation is worthy then one can be sent from outside, but this is...
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    Becoming A Member Of The Clergy?

    sorry, double post
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    If Christ came to save.....

    In the OT we have talk of the grave, or sheol, eg in the Psalms prayers like will the dust in the grave praise You? etc. In Revelation we have talk of the lake of fire, or Gahenna, into which the fallen angels and unrighteous will be cast at the end of time. We also have talk of Paradise, the...
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    Is this true?

    The split was in 451 over politics and misunderstandings over the nature of Christ which largely came about because of the use of different languages which lead to misunderstandings. Each Church at least unofficially acknowledges the Orthodoxy of the other, but we still have a ways to go before...
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    The meaning of this?

    All sins can be forgiven if we repent of them. The sin which cannot be forgiven is the sin that we don't repent of. The Holy Spirit works in us to prompt us to repent. If we suppress the working of the Holy Spirit and persist in our sins, not cooperating with His grace at all, this is...
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    Am I Nuts?

    Don't Catholics believe that indulgences cannot determine whether you go to heaven or hell, but only reduce the time spend in purgatory? Don't they believe that they only remit the temporal punishment for sins already forgiven in the confessional and for venial sins, rather than being for the...
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    Good Works for Salvation

    The Bible says "work out your salvation with fear and trembling" and "faith without works is dead", etc. But that doesn't mean that we can do good deeds and have that save us. Only Christ can save us, we are incabable of reaching heaven except by God's grace. But that doesn't mean we can sit...
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    Why do Catholics leave the Church?

    I'm probably going to offend at least someone with this... but I honestly don't mean to, only to throw out some observations for consideration. Someone previously mentioned the homes, and I think that's so key. If people aren't raised in a way to experience the faith on a daily basis, of...
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    Coptic And Eastern Orthodox differences?

    The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches (Coptic, Ethiopian, Indian, British, Eritrian, Armenian, Syrian). The Eastern Orthodox Church is made up of Churches like the Greeks, Russians, etc. The two have been separate since ~451 A.D. when we split over a controversy...
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    monastary attacked

    St. Antony's Monastary in Egypt, the oldest monastary in the world, has been attacked. Please visit this web site and pray: http://geocities.com/stanthonywww/tracks.htm
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    Couple ???'s 4 Y'all!

    I'm not sure how it works in other Churches, but on our altars there's a wodden box that the chalace is placed in during the Liturgy. In the Ethiopian Church, this box is made to resemble the Ark of the Covenant from the OT. The reason for this is that, as Chanter said, the Ethiopians...
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    Ecumenism: The Kiss of Judas?

    I'm sorry but I don't know enough about the Greek to be able to be any help here. We never talk about Christ's Divine will desiring one thing and overcoming His human will which desired something else. We also don't say that He had only a divine will which overcame His humanity. We talk...
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