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Well didn’t you say that it has been over 7000 years since creation or did I just miss understand what you said?

Well that was a cool theory 2000 years ago.

Aren’t we almost to the six thousand year mark? If so Christ may come back soon.

My question is why did the Georgian Orthodox Church accept 4 Ezra even if it’s not found in the Septuagint? Also why didn’t other Eastern Orthodox Churches accept it?

That was actually really interesting and cleared up some things for me. I have a Cross and I like it to be near me when I pray so why would a icon be any different? Plus St. Gregory makes it clear that you don’t worship them. I quess my idea was that you guys worshipped them in some way and...

The Didache a early Christian writing speaks against abortion “thou shalt not kill a child by abortion” Abortion is wickedness. It’s also a sacrifice for do not “mothers” kill their babies for “happiness” and a “easy life”? Is it any different then a pagan sacrificing their child to molech for...

Okay so you don’t actually pray to let’s say Mary or Michael like you do God you just ask them to pray for you.

So the Saints in Heaven are just as much part of the Church as a person on earth? If so that makes sense but don’t you guys also pray to Saints?

Oh so the Icon is just a representation of that person so kissing a Icon of Mary is like kissing her in real life right?

What would be Veneration of Icons and how is it different then worship?

Interesting. Also now that I think of it didn’t people bow to the ark of the convent which had images of Cherubims? So I quess this matter is very complex.

I don’t see why any Christian would be against the death penalty because the Torah supports the death penalty.

Are Icons Idols? How can you can justify bowing down to something made of wood and paint? Something that is similar to what the pagans did? Isn’t this what books like the Torah, Wisdom of Solomon, Jeremiah, etc warn about? Is there any historical or Biblical justification for this practice...

I mean technically he is being kinda rude about a holy book that the Ethiopian Church believes is inspired. I’m not saying that someone can’t post why they don’t believe in 1 Enoch but they should at least be respectful.

I believe it’s from the Astronomical book which is chapters 72-82 of 1 Enoch.

Your right. It’s undeniable that the New Testament writers were familiar with the book of the watchers (the first 36 chapters of 1 Enoch) for Jude even quotes it. Peter, John, and even Paul allude to the book of the watchers. Even if it’s not inspired then it has many correct oral traditions...

Here is some more interesting parallels Revelation 6:9-10 KJV “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true...

I actually agree with Church Fathers that Esther is part of the second canon. Even later some books of the New Testament were challenged by people. For example Martin Luther believed that Revelation, Hebrews, James, and Jude should be put into the apocrypha. He didn’t in the end but I...

Yeah I don’t believe that a book like Tobit or the Shepherd of Hermas is on the same level of something like the Torah but to be fair some books in the 66 book canon were considered by many to be part of a second canon not the main one. Some of the books were Esther and Revelation. I think it’s...

This site has lists of the ancient canons Ancient Canon Lists and this is where I get most of my information in this post from. First they falsely claim that Athanasius did not regard any of the apocrypha as inspired which is flase because in his list he considers Baruch and the Epistle of...