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If he existed at all it's doubtful he'd only make his existence known through faith.

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Faith isn't about him making his existance known at all, it's about people believing in him through their own belief and through their free will...

Sprawl is and will be with us no matter what. How can it still be here when cars will be severely diminished in number in 50-100 years and possibly almost completely gone in the coming centuries? Not to mention that the economy is going to be going away from being based on big business back to bein...

No not everything is discovered yet in science... However I do not think science will ever discover God.

How can science discover God when he is outside of time? How can they discover God when his will appears to be that he wants people to believe in him through faith and not through science?

Tangental, but it bears mentioning that you also ought to keep in mind that various sects of Protestantism are also disparate from one another and have significant differences in doctrine and scriptural understanding and interpretation.  So I would caution you to not lump all Protestant denominatio...

I guess I ought to repost it... I know many here know the difference between the various branches of Christianity. However, I want to make it clear that Protestantism and the denominations within it do not represent the majority of Christianity, or historical Christianity. In fact, it only makes up ...

akp, is it not God's right to reclaim that which he has created? How is it punishment if the people STILL have a chance to see God's grace in a positive light? Just because they are "dead" doesn't mean they don't exist anymore. Jews believed (and Christians too) that the dead were simply a...

Christians don't go by the old testament. Besides, old testament times was the reason for Jesus as the peoples of that time where so full of sin God was ashamed. This isn't true at all... And to say the God in both the NT and the OT aren't the same is innacurate. In the eyes of Christians, they are...

kcdcchef, Christianity is a religion of sinners and yes, hypocrites... "A brother sinned and the presbyter ordered him to go out of church. But Abba Bessarion got up and went out with him, saying, 'I, too, am a sinner. -The Desert Fathers" It doesn't give Christians a free ride in their si...

Am curious what Jesus believers think of this... On being a  messiah.. - Oppressed Jews were seeking a messiah to save them from there woes (documented in Old Testament) Completely accurate and is what Christianity has always taught. Jews were indeed seeking a messiah for a long time, including up ...

The Orthodox Church teaches "Ancestral Sin", which is washed away in Baptism. It also says that human death is inherited in us from Adam. The Church teaches a doctrine known as "Original Sin".   That means, you were born with sin and hence, cannot escape sinning even if you tried...

I would NEVER suggest that athiests SHOULD kill because they have no God... I'm just saying... If we weren't created by a god, and if there are none. Then WHY should we not act the same as the other animals of the world? They kill each other because of competition and food.

Bad people do bad things whether they're religious people or not. Also, don't start an argument. I think we've already quite nicely covered atheistic morality. Suffice to say, your statement has been shown to be false. Not trying to start an argument... The statement is actually very true... If the...

"If there is no God, then all things are permitted"

Also beautyfromashes... I am NOT here for an argument. I have seen arguments from all sorts of people against Orthodox claims, and personally I cannot give definitive answers and cannot represent Orthodoxy, especially since i'm not Orthodox yet.

beautyfromashes, we must not forget that the early Christians and Apostles were mostly Jews. The Early forms of Christian worship were in fact Jewish. Yes they were in houses because of persecution, but there were bishops and priests. James was the Bishop of Jerusalem and presided over the first cou...

Former Protestant becoming Eastern Orthodox... My growing up as a Protestant was definitely a good thing and led me to the original Church. I've been trying to fully immerse myself in Orthodoxy and mold myself to the Orthodox world view and to an Orthodox mindset even though I'm not even a Catechume...

Do I not also have the right to post and use material that is already in the public domain? Besides, how in the heck was I supposed to know that material isn't to be used? Someone does a Google Search, the image pops up... They click it, then click it again when it pops up at the top of the screen, ...

As far as I know, if they don't have a copyright mark on their picture, and that it is on a website that is open to the public (as well as searchable on Google), and the fact that I NEVER claimed it was mine, doesn't that mean I didn't break the law? Copyright laws were written to keep people from s...

We never used to, and all the other forums I post on, and have been on, people never do. Is there a reason you started enforcing this rule bahua?

When did we start attributing pictures on this website?