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Up, Down! Left, Right! Yikes! I just wanted to know why and not get directions to the Movies! LOL Thank you everyone who responded, the answers are all good examples of what I needed to understand. I think I will try doing my cross the way you Orthodox do it.

Could be that he is Born Again. Their service is the same no matter where you go, -Rock Bands playing Christian Rock music -People speaking in tongues -Laying of the Hands (Benny Hinn lol) -Talking about the Rapture and the State of Israel as necessary for the salvation of Christians...

I like to believe we are not 'saints' specifically but saints in the making and only if we do what it is that our Lord Jesus Christ has mercifully explained to us through the Holy Bible. As for the hypthetical situation, I'll pass since I'm not a saint. :holy:

Good point. Thomas Aquinas is a very good example of someone who is called a 'saint' but the reality of his lifestyle and beliefs were very antithetical to Christianity.

I know this isn't addressed to me but I would like to comment on this since I have had a discussion about this with an Orthodox Priest. Job was favourable and God heard his prayers and would instruct others not 'worthy' to approach Job who would pray (intercede) for them. My question to the...

Good point about unspecific prayer. The problem is not specific prayers/requests, but the problem is assigning specifics to saints. I'm not talking about the individual praying specifically for a need, but the ideas applied to saints by the Church that identify each saint as being divinely...

I was wondering if anybody here knows why the RCC and the EO Churchs do their crosses differently? As a member of the Lutheran community I know that some Lutherans cross themselves the way the RCC does, but I couldn't help but notice that the Orthodox do their cross differently. What is the...

Good point, I got carried away with the terminology. Sainthood veneration is viewed as 'Dogmatic' as according to Orthodoxy, the 'Church Triumphant' is in complete communion with Heaven and the Church on earth. To pray to saints is as if to be praying to Christ (is what was told to me). Praying...

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This is amusing because I know some Lutherans who 'scowl' when I make the sign of the cross and then I have to remind them that even Martin Luther in his small catechism recommended doing the cross on our persons in all our endeavours! lol I personally blame the puritans for this! :D

Exactly! For example, the Prophet Elisha who was laid to rest after his death had a dead Israelite thrown hastily onto his bones and was suddenly brought back to life! If you know anything about Elisha (the follower of Elijah), he was able to do this while living, and only because of GOD! and...

On a personal note, yes, I have experienced a deeper and more profound understanding of my beliefs as I grew older and will probably do so hereafter if the good Lord allows me to live a long life. Perhaps our 'vague' answers may become much more precise if you give more detail to your...

A friend of mine sent me a excerpt from one of your Orthodox Monastics named Seraphim Rose. It addresses this question about UFOs very well. I will try to locate it and post it for you Orthodox folks.:thumbsup:

This is precisely the problem! Every Orthodox Christian tells me a 'cookie cutter' answer that has nothing to do with my concerns! Its very frustrating. On one hand it sounds like the RCC and on the other it is not 'officially' accorded by the Orthodox in a form of Dogma (at least the 'divine'...

This is interesting because I had this discussion between my Orthodox and RC friends at work and we all agreed that such unknowable cirumstances of the afterlife are ultimately left to God and not to our understanding and definitions. Why would God allow a newborn to die and then be punished...

DanHead, in a previous post you accused me of avoiding your questions and this is not the case. You'll excuse me if I don't go back page after page searching for responses not anticipated by those I was not addressing in the first place. One particular question and comment you made I will...

Martin Luther didn't promote spontaneous or random ideals that would continue to formulate onto themselves. He had realized in his search for understanding the problems he was facing, that structure without rules would ultimately lead to no structure and consideration to rules. The social...

'you' pray to God directly moreso than Lutherans? How so if we pray to God directly while the RCC and EO Church call on saints to find lost items, for birthing, for safe travels, for protection against the devil? Many RC and EO Christians always dodge this point and start justifying saints...

Our Thoughts, hand written paper, computer monitor etc. is not what makes anything 'spiritual'. It is only our Faith that makes prayer worthwhile.

Lust is but one deadly sin that we must observe alongside other sins that give it a sense of sustainability or are directly an influence towards Lust. Christ teaches us that when we physically sin or just think it, it is the same. We nourish our Lust by accepting what we see. When we refuse...