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thank you for that scripture it helped me alot

I just read the spirit reports website not YouTube etc and it does put a lot of fear in me.I think they mix truth with falsehood to lure people in.

So do you think those testimonies and visions are from the enemy?they criticize the word of faith but even word of faith has visions confirming their beliefs so you can’t really trust extrabiblical revelation all the time? I studied the early church writings and realized worshipping icons and...

Ignore my name btw I’m a charismatic Christian for the last six months

Victoire afangbedzi had a Alleged meeting with Jesus where Jesus said we go to hell and other people on spiritreports website have said we are cursed etc actually the entire spiritreports website has made me very scared of Christ to the point I don’t even dare sleep with short sleeves in hot...

I visited a Bishop yesterday and he dispensed me from the vow.

Hello guys,I talked to bishop anba arsemy the top Bishop in The Netherlands,and he dispensed me from the vow,prayed over me and made me kiss the cross.We also talked a bit about why I decided to come to orthodoxy.he's very intelligent and Kind.he speaks english,dutch and arabic fluently.his...

I contacted them,hope they will reply.I think the OO church sees vows as binding forever and irreversable.if that is the case then I would have to become a monk afterall.

Does clerical dispensation exist in the oriental Orthodox church and is a vow valid if it isn't done in fron of a episcopal authority?

Before I decided to become orthodox I made a private vow of celibacy,but I now see that i can't do it for the rest of my life.I wanted to ask does the OO church only bind you on public vows accepted by a priest or bishop or also private vows,and can it ever be dispensed and how?

So I've been reading alot on the controversy,and I see that chalcedon was mostly political and it seemed to depose people on illegal grounds,and also seemed to support a crypto-nestorian Christology? since the 80s the OO and EO have come to a conclusion that we are both orthodox(save some...

So Basically we reject double predestination?

We call predestination God’s eternal decree, which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others (Institutes 3.21.5; Calvin 1960:926). what is the oriental...

Does the OO church deem the calvinist idea of predestination,that God actively misguides people to be Heretical?personally I consider it heretical but I'd like to know the official orthodox view on this?

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