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Recent content by Steinbeck

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    Thinking of leaving Orthodoxy

    Holy Communion is not a right, something one receives on demand. If circumstances intervene and you cannot receive for whatever reason, it's not the end of the world. You keep living your faith and you try again.
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    Whether I want it, or not?

    If one is praying the prayer, if one is doing what one can to give that little bit to God, one obviously wants to be saved. But, of course, one also falls into sins. One's desire for God is inconstant. So, we pray that God save us despite our inconstant desire for Him, because though be be...
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    May Russian Orthodox church split due to Crimea? (moved from main TAW forum)

    Let's not go from being preachy about politics to being preachy about Lent. How about this thread--18 pages of useless idle talk? :)
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    Do EO churches recognise OO baptisms ?

    To say, "We recognize your baptism," what does this mean? To me, it's meaningless. It's some modern concept to make people feel better about themselves.
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    Midnight...Why?

    It's one night out of the year for the biggest feast ever.
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    Can you help with a theological debate?

    "Nephilim" does not, theologically, fit for people who, frankly, are not nephilim. It is important not to try and fit things to our own way of thinking, but to conform our way of thinking to the thought and mind of the Church.
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    Can you help with a theological debate?

    The Nephilim were still descendants of Adam, even if they were children of a weird demon-human union. As for it continuing to happen, I don't think that necessarily follows given that several things have changed since then--foremost being the Incarnation of Christ, but also the cataclysm of...
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    May Russian Orthodox church split due to Crimea? (moved from main TAW forum)

    Apparently, Khrushchev wanted to get power after Stalin, but he needed the support of the Ukrainian Soviet deputies. But he needed them to keep silent over his role in the artificial famine, so he signed over Crimea to Ukraine.
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    May Russian Orthodox church split due to Crimea? (moved from main TAW forum)

    The so-called Kiev Patriarchate is a schismatic body. The only canonical Orthodox church in Ukraine is the autonomous church under the Moscow Patriarchate. All the Orthodox world recognizes this, and the situation isn't going to change due to worldly politics.
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    Fasting / food problems

    Real fasting is not, I don't think--for most people, at least--about denying ourselves the bit of food and water we happen to need, but about denying ourselves the unnecessary food and water (and whatever else) that we may want, but is not essential. Eating due to need (and with some healthy...
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    What To Do About certain "Orthodox" FB group

    With regard to Orthodox Facebook groups, I found more Orthodoxy in "Ask an Orthodox Hipster" than I did in "Ask an Orthodox Priest."
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    What To Do About certain "Orthodox" FB group

    I think before worrying over it that you should join the group and read what is there and then weigh whether what is said there is Orthodox or not. To me "progressive" doesn't say anything.