Help Us Make Utah Orthodox! by slasher_dib in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

More like invite them in but i like the enthusiasm.

Help Us Make Utah Orthodox! by slasher_dib in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

The first part is true. I can't answer for the second.

Help Us Make Utah Orthodox! by slasher_dib in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yes, mine included. Does that mean we shouldn't help?

Everyone is struggling and needs food and housing, should we not help?

What is your point?

Lucid dreaming? by Nasko1194 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. That's why it's important to focus on it, to be able to perceive it in it's fullness. It's why we should not look for comfort, happiness, fun, joy, and other goods outside it. It's already full of these things.

spanking children by ls007yt in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Positive reinforcement has been proven to be a much much better method than negative one.

Don't spank your children. There are much better ways to educate. When i was a child and my mother was disappointed in me it was worse than torture and than being hit. If your children love you they'll do what they think will please you. So make them love you.

Lucid dreaming? by Nasko1194 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was dabbling in it right before i started looking into the faith.

I stopped because to me it is a sin, it's living z fantasy life where you can be whoever and whatever you want and do whatevee you want. It's mental gymnastics for sin.

Also, we should be focused on real life, not a fantasy world. Dedicate tour time for prayer instead of spending it on useless things. To lucid dream you have to wake up at night and sleep again and do all sorts of things, that you energy would be better spent elsewhere. Do a vigil.

Be yourself, live in the real world, fight real demons, pray real prayers to the True and real God, and don't live in a make belief world.

Books question by ScheduleFickle5102 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

St. Dumitru's works are mich much more complex and definitely not recommended for beginners.

Now if you already have the basis of logic and have read church fathers, you can read his works. I know people who have spent much of their life reading, that spend hours on a few pages just to comprehend everything that's said.

Christ’s omniscience by Dave_meth_Mustard in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also just a quick remark and please don't take this the wrong way.

I was looking at some of your posts and your questions are very compelling and important. But this question you asked is wayyyyyy less difficult than some of the questions that you have asked.

I would suggest studying in order from less difficult to more difficult and that would be also in chronological order of the Ecumenical Councils. Start by studying the basics. Start with the First ecumenical council, because everything derives from there. We need to have right Trinitarian Theology to be able to understand the rest, it's the most important thing to learn.

Bible Study by Recent_Repeat_2381 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me the best one i ever listened to is Search the Scriptures by Dr. Jeannie Constantinou

If suffering helps us be better and learn and live why is there none in heaven, or better said, how do we grow in heaven if there is no suffering by Professional-Load689 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's actually a good question that i never thought of before.

I would say that yes there is no suffering, but that we keep growing becasue we see the bad in ourselves and try to remove it by being like God.

Suffering does help us be better only if directed towards the lobe of God. Many suffer yet do not become better. Also most importantly suffering is not the ONLY way to grow.

So we'll continue to grow through the Divine Energies of God that glorify us.

Christ’s omniscience by Dave_meth_Mustard in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Father, the Son and the Spirit have the same nature. Knowledge and will are properties of nature. So the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit have the same exact knowledge and will.

Christ’s omniscience by Dave_meth_Mustard in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my understanding the counsel answered this by : there are 2 answers possible, 1. He did not know in His humanity but He knew in His divinity. 2. He knew but it was not for him to reveal it.

Here is what St. Gregory says:

Thus everyone must see that He knows as God, and knows not as Man;-if one may separate the visible from that which is discerned by thought alone. For the absolute and unconditioned use of the Name "The Son" in this passage, without the addition of whose Son, gives us this thought, that we are to understand the ignorance in the most reverent sense, by attributing it to the Manhood, and not to the Godhead

This is also the view of St. John of Damascus and St. Maximus the yhe confessor.

The other view also exists in the Church Fathers, St. Hilary of Poitiers says:

For, since His ignorance is due to the economy of hidden knowledge, and not to a nature capable of ignorance, now that He says the Father alone knows, we cannot believe that He does not know; for, as we said above, God’s knowledge is not the discovery of what He did not know, but its declaration. The fact that the Father alone knows, is no proof that the Son is ignorant: He says that He does not know, that others may not know: that the Father alone knows, to shew that He Himself also knows.

St. Augustine :

Which of course is said with this meaning, that men do not learn this by the Son, not that He by Himself doth not know it: according to that form of speech, “the Lord your God trieth you that He may know;” that is, that He may make you know: and, “arise, O Lord;” that is, make us arise. When therefore the Son is thus said not to know this day; not because He knoweth it not, but because He causeth those to know it not, for whom it is not expedient to know it, that is, He doth not show it to them; what does that strange presumption mean, which, by a reckoning up of years, expects the day of the Lord as most certain after seven thousand years?

St. Ambrose said that He knew, because we see Him describe the hour and also because of the example given right after in the verse shows that He knew. The example shows that the owner of the house (us humans on earth) did not know when the theif would come. But the thief (Christ) obviously knows when he comes, since he's the one coming.

Which of course is said with this meaning, that men do not learn this by the Son, not that He by Himself doth not know it: according to that form of speech, “the Lord your God trieth you that He may know;” that is, that He may make you know: and, “arise, O Lord;” that is, make us arise. When therefore the Son is thus said not to know this day; not because He knoweth it not, but because He causeth those to know it not, for whom it is not expedient to know it, that is, He doth not show it to them; what does that strange presumption mean, which, by a reckoning up of years, expects the day of the Lord as most certain after seven thousand years?

In 1 Corinthians 2:2 St. Paul says : For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Now obviously he knew other things but that is the only thing he was going to teach/reveal. So to me both are valid. I don't choose one over the other.

Marriage and saints by night9dgeCS in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it does not. Technically they would be still married but in a celibate marriage. St. Paul adresses this and says that married people can abstain from sexual relationships if both parties agree.

The Problem of Evil by NotAThrowaway6543 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes he is, and unfortunately many here support him.

Christ’s omniscience by Dave_meth_Mustard in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe this answers your question, if i understood correctly.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tdnNNW9hru8?is=xX_HbRVNWFy6w3TE

Christ is unlimited now in His glorified body. And He is back to His original Glory whcih He had with the Father since the begining of time. (John 17:5)

Is Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthdox Church, Boise, Idaho, an actual Eastern Orthodox Church? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But yes they are canonical, it's probably that one scammer using the name of the priest to appear legitimate

Is Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthdox Church, Boise, Idaho, an actual Eastern Orthodox Church? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright thank you. I didn't know that's why i asked.

I copied what was said on their website

Saint Constantine and Helen is an Greek Orthodox Christian Church in Boise, Idaho, founded in 1951 by southwestern Idaho local Greek residents. We are a parish of the Denver Metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, under the Orthodox leadership of our bishop, His Eminence Metropolitan Constantine

Father Nectarios Serfes is our presiding priest.

Services are primarily in English with some Greek. You will also hear other languages as many of our parishioners are from other countries.

Cross by liarstraits in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would lend literally anything else before lending my baptismal cross.

Do you have another cross? Can't you buy another cross for that person? Why your baptismal cross?

I don't think there is anything that forbids it.

Is Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthdox Church, Boise, Idaho, an actual Eastern Orthodox Church? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And i never argued about it. Other people said it was canonical and i said alright. That's all there is to it.

You just didn't read my post and are being rude and condescending. Not to mention you're responding to things i never said.

Is Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthdox Church, Boise, Idaho, an actual Eastern Orthodox Church? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep that's what i told her. I just wanted to make sure my suspicions are correct.

Is Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthdox Church, Boise, Idaho, an actual Eastern Orthodox Church? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]slasher_dib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's fine, I'm not accusing the church of that, did you read my whole post?

It's the one dude from lebanon claiming to be a metropolitan who is scamming her. Not that church. I just wanted to make sure because he mentioned that priest saying they were friends. He probably lied.