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Noe lived according to Genesis for 950 years. Somebody asked this question here recently, but unfortunately I can´t find the thread anymore :( :( :( I wanted to hear some ideas and comments why and how was this possible. I believe it was possible, because the scientists who are trying to "read"...

There is probably no answer for these questions yet, but I must ask. I have read in a very very old Czech Bible the beggining, creation of world and man. It sounds so simply and clear, yet it brings more questions for me. Why did it happen ? Why God created people ? Why did He put them into...

Can someone from the OC christians explain to me (or send some link ??) the belief that Maria was virgin during and after the birth of Jesus Christ and forever. Do the OC christians believe that Maria is "forever virgin" and why ? She later had children with her husband Joseph - is this based...

Hello, I am trying to learn some things about orthodoxy. Maybe these questions were already answered in some different thread, I really don´t know. But hope to get answers here. I visited an OC liturgy and I didn´t understand quite well the symbolism in all the priest was doing. He was behind...

We will probably have to move from where we live now, because of the difficult situation between members of my wider family. But we still don not have any house or flat where to go. Please, I know there are many much more urgent and important things to pray for, like people who are poor, in...

Please if you could pray with me, I would be very grateful. I believe in the power of prayer, but at this time, I have no real person around me to pray with me and help me in that way :( . So I am happy, that such forum as this one, exists :groupray:. I am tommorow starting a hard fight against...

I am considering to join the orthodox church here nearby and I have already spoken about some things with the priest here. But there are question, which I am too shy to ask him. I am married to a non-believing husband, which makes things rather difficult. I would like to know, how does the...

Please God, save my family. I wish we would be happy again, I wish my husband would believe in you, wish we could bring up our children in love to God. I wish I had again that beautiful feeling of being loved. I feel so lonely now. I don´t know how to pray well, I only hope you wil hear me. I...

I have come upon a verse in the Bible, which I don´t understand. It is said that God is good and there is nothing evil in Him. In the Book of Isaiah chap. 45, verse 7 says that God creates evil. How do orthodox christians explain this verse ? Thanks for answer.