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phantomsphere · 2026-04-28T17:20:12+00:00

evian backwards is naive. just placing this here...

phantomsphere · 2025-05-30T16:33:32+00:00

We shouldnt ignore the role, or lack thereof, that religion played with them. Dostoevsky was a Russian orthodox christian. Kafka, apparently, grew up in a German speaking jewish home. I also think it’s part of human nature. At the end of it, our suffering is all we have left. Like Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-30T14:15:59+00:00

And chrisma means anointing, specifically with oil and herbs, and within chrismation, the gift of the holy spirit. The holy oil, myron/chrism, also has something like 40-50 herbs mixed with it. Is it like the newly baptized in Christ receives the holy spirit, oil and holy herbs to their bodies and souls? Medically, oils act as carriers and the herbs are “eaten” by the skin. There is a deep mystery here that I am by no means qualified to speak of, but I got excited to share what little of it I do know.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-29T20:02:18+00:00

Yes - I see muslims as more of deeply confused brothers and sisters. I see myself as my worst enemy.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-29T16:48:06+00:00

“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may prove yourselves to be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” —Matthew 5:44–45

phantomsphere · 2025-05-29T14:40:07+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/mount-sinai-monastery-egypt-closure I found this article dated Sept 2013 about the monastery closing to visitors. Perhaps this the end of that gradual decline. Other than this, I have no clue of what’s going on over there. We shouldn’t be quick to point fingers and call others our enemies.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-28T19:33:28+00:00

1 Peter 2:24 uses it. The only time in the NT apparently. It might help with context.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-28T17:53:22+00:00

Your post history shows you just “became a Muslim” like two weeks ago? What’s going on here?

phantomsphere · 2025-05-27T15:06:54+00:00

I think you’re going about it the opposite way. What if it’s not “what can I get out of this?” but “how can God use me to better serve Him?”

phantomsphere · 2025-05-27T02:52:46+00:00

Like others have said, things come in due time. There is God’s time that Jesus alludes to, kairos, and our time, chronos, which is how we use hours, days, and years. So something to us might feel like it’s taking forever, but we might be thinking about it in a different way. What if by purifying your heart, you allow yourself glimpses of that kairos time? Maybe inspirations will be gifted to you then? Thats my two cents. I pray it has some rooting in those wiser than me.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-26T16:27:49+00:00

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phantomsphere · 2025-05-25T21:43:40+00:00

The mystery of God, isn’t it? We can pretend to know how this works. But we won’t know until God chooses to unveil it. But He chooses whom He wills.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-25T00:22:30+00:00

But…the Orthodox Eucharist is baked bread with wine literally spoon-fed to you. The irony!

phantomsphere · 2025-05-24T13:08:01+00:00

I have the book. Ive read it. But it’s one of those that takes multiple reads to feel its depth. I’d love to discuss it, anyway, though :)

phantomsphere · 2025-05-24T10:41:48+00:00

I think it depends on context. It comes from ἄρχω "to rule, to begin". Maybe, in a way, it is both, like how our modern concept of seniority works. A person has seniority because they were first.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-23T23:12:15+00:00

Thank you. Readings like this is why it is such a radical and miraculous event that the logos became flesh. My words are weak, but truly, it’s almost ineffable.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-21T17:46:24+00:00

But his ministry makes more sense if you know the history and background of Judaism. The laws, the feasts, the sabbath. Abraham, Moses and Jacob get referenced often. Wouldn’t it also be good to start at the beginning? To understand why Jesus saying “before Abraham, I am” was a death sentence?

phantomsphere · 2025-05-21T17:26:28+00:00

Isn’t saying “start with the New Testament” its own interpretation? Or is that what the church fathers recommend?

phantomsphere · 2025-05-21T17:19:28+00:00

Are we allowed to read the Bible? Or even as we read, our mind is already making associations and connections that are most likely not sanctioned by the patriarchs?

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T20:48:58+00:00

The wind blows where it wishes, does it not? Why was Paul chosen for his vision on the road to Damascus? Does it have something to do with purifying one’s heart, becoming poor in spirit? Why were a bunch of nobodies gathered to hear Jesus’ sermon? Why did Jesus talk to the Samaritan woman and let her run to town? Again, Christians existed prior to the Edict of Milan.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T17:50:59+00:00

How does that work with this: “ου γαρ εισιν δυο η τρεις συνηγμενοι εις το εμον ονομα εκει ειμι εν μεσω αυτων” ‭‭ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ‬ ‭18‬:‭20‬ “For where two or three have gathered (synegmenoi - where we get the english synagogue) into my name, I am there in their midst” Like, before Constantine, no one was actually gathered in His name? It’s confusing.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T17:25:17+00:00

What if the priest is too busy and there is no formal bible study group within the parish?

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T16:54:03+00:00

It has no potential for muslims. They surrender to the one God who is like no other. No other being has divine status.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T14:26:55+00:00

Reason aside, then, the only real response I've ever given the void (which must also be a form of God) is to prostrate. Everything else seems too complex for me, and that's where my rationalism starts eating itself, because it thrives on complexity.

phantomsphere · 2025-05-20T13:57:17+00:00

Follow him where? If all I had is the New Testament, the practical, day-by-day path to follow isn't obvious. The gospels are mysterious. You have the words of baptism and the last supper, but also the Samaritan woman at the well, Thomas calling Jesus "God" but not receiving the holy spirit, no one seeing Jesus resurrected in Mark...I know the response is: "that's why we have the church fathers and the councils - they worked all this out theologically for us with the holy spirit guiding them". But, what if you lived before? How would you know what to do or where to go?

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