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We should pray for his safety. Besides the fact that Chicago is the murder capital of the USA, drivers are notoriously self-centered, inattentive, and generally reckless. I'll say this: the man got cajones to be driving dat thing.!!!

I make no assumptions. I follow what the Church has taught from the beginning, therefore, your accusation is that the very first Christian pastors, saints, and martyrs were not led by the Spirit. As for your question regarding my acceptance of the Orthodox faith, I have been on a long and...

https://http4281.com/2020/04/10/will-judas-be-forgiven/

https://http4281.com/2019/06/13/does-all-really-mean-all/

It is hard to disagree with someone who holds to the idea of "sola scriptura" and that everything that must be believed must be in the Bible. You have a limited understanding of Christian history. I don't blame you for leaving the Catholic faith. The Catholic Church, according to Scott Hahn, a...

Also this: https://http4281.com/2019/06/13/does-all-really-mean-all/ If God is going to save all, then Judas is included.

https://http4281.com/2020/04/10/will-judas-be-forgiven/

Does a local synod have the same binding authority over the entire Church as an ecumenical council? As for the condemnation, Origen taught a number of things which were highly questionable regarding orthodox theology (pre-existence of souls, etc). Was Apokatastasis mentioned specifically, or...

Scripture and universal tradition are not against this. For the first 500 years of the Church, there were four theological schools which taught Universalism without so much as a single whimper against them or anyone calling them out for "heresy." They were closed by Emperor Justinian, who...

Okay. I understand. I still feel that judging someone's salvation should be left to God alone. Do you think it is possible that a person can have such a conviction of sin that salvation from sin is initially that person's only concern, but as they grow, they begin to understand relationship?

Matthew 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? (I fail to see Jesus asking the disciples "Is salvation your only concern?) Mark 10:26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? (Same thing...

If you are not Orthodox, you are not in the Church. Christ established His Church upon the authority He gave to the Apostles and those who would come after them. Throughout the history of the Christian faith, those who came up with the "strange fire" of different doctrines were no longer part...

Here is some thought. For the first 400 years of the Christian faith, there was no Bible. The Christian faith was something entirely new and different from Judaism. Yes, it was a fulfillment of that which Judaism promised, but there were things that had to be worked out in it. Now who would be...

What happens after the names are blotted out of the book of life? They are cast into the Lake of Fire to be purged of their wickedness. To be in the Book of Life simply means that you avoid this painful experience, and you go into life. We are to become gods. Not THE God, for no one could be...

The way that you believe in "faith alone" was not taught by the first Christian pastors, hence, it is not what the Scriptures are teaching. You are following a personal understanding of angry and disaffected X-Roman Catholics (Luther, Calvin, etc.). You cannot find this teaching for 1500 years...

Of course I am unwilling to "read and understand for myself" when what you are asking me to understand defies that which was taught from the very beginning. As I said in another post in another thread, the CHURCH is the place where truth is found, not in our personal opinions. Personal reading...

This is why we need the Church. What you are doing here is what all Protestants do - personal interpretation of the Scriptures. This is why you have thousands of different assemblies with hundreds of different dogmas, each one claiming they alone have the "true understanding" of the Bible and...

And many of us actually wind up getting there! :oldthumbsup:

Yes, but we are talking about people who were discipled by the Apostles and taught that baptism regenerates: Justin Martyr “As many as are persuaded and believe that what we [Christians] teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly . . . are brought by us where there is...