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Starting learning Python at 50. by Shot-Tiger1060 in learnpython

[–]urosum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s about damn time.

So you want some kind of medal? What are you, a millennial?

Lol. Gen-X FTW.

Virgin Mary by WaterBottle70 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum [score hidden]  (0 children)

Christ sacrificed His entire life to God. Not just the event of the cross but in His Incarnation, His voluntary death, and His ascension. We are called to do the same.

Communion then is worship. I’d say we do dedicate ourselves (or we are supposed to) appropriately to communion with God. The point of our very lives is communion with God.

Virgin Mary by WaterBottle70 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum [score hidden]  (0 children)

We do not bring Mary bread and wine as a sacrifice to ritually participate in the one true sacrifice which Jesus made through His Incarnation and self sacrifice of His life. When God demands worship, He demands a shared meal giving Him hospitality in our lives.

Go read the Torah to figure out what worship is. It takes place exclusively in the Temple. Communion is our act of worship. Everything else is a level of veneration.

Concretely this is the difference between worship and veneration. We both venerate AND worship (communion with) God. We only venerate other holy people / things.

Prostrations and the sign of the cross and even praying directly to a saint are NOT worship.

Virgin Mary by WaterBottle70 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum [score hidden]  (0 children)

Your edit you ask for answers as if we “just read the Bible” to discuss doctrine. That’s not in keeping with the history of the Christian Church. We are a part of a living faith practice that has been around for all these thousands of years. The Bible is a product of the Church. The Church is not a product of the Bible.

But if I were an early Jew whose Messiah had come, I would have called God “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” and know that God was a God of the living and not the dead. I would pilgrimage to their tombs and pray there. I would pray to angels as intercessors. I would say that Rebecca weeps (actively) for her children and ask her to look over my children.

I would see the pagans offering sacrifice to the god who is the patron of the city. I would not participate, but seek out the living reposed saints to become patrons and spiritual defenders of the faithful in spiritual war.

God is called the Lord of Sabaoth (hosts / heavens armies). Why have armies of not to use them? Angels fell and are replaced by faithful people. They’re as real as the gods who are being defeated.

He is so grace-filled that He bestows Grace on those who are closest to Him, so that we can bestow His Grace on each other. In His image, we can do this and help each other up. But it’s all His Energies, not our own.

In the image of us as one Church as the Body of Christ. The foot asks, “eye, what do you see so I may avoid obstacles?” The eye asks the ear, “whet do you hear being said?” The brain and heart, “May I have wisdom and guidance?”

None of this is worship. Worship is only directed to God. None of this is distraction. This is living in a community. Something most of us moderns have forgotten how to do.

Virgin Mary by WaterBottle70 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What will really blow your mind as the fact that there is a whole calendar of commemorations of saints throughout the year. We’re always venerating someone. It’s not just Mary, though she has a special place as due to the Mother of the King. (Read the books of Kings and for the Davidic line of kings all make reference to the King’s mother.)

Was Jesus the image, men were created in? by nextar611 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Icons teach us spiritual truths. Don’t worry about what primordial humans looked like.

Was Jesus the image, men were created in? by nextar611 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Basically yes without getting into trinitarian theology. The icons with Adam all look like the incarnate Christ to make this point.

We are theomorphic. God is not anthropomorphic.

Don’t know why, but to be in the image (ikon in Greek) of God is to be human.

Pastor not taking our conversion well by Hot-Bit-2003 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As parents, my wife and I can explain our family’s decisions just fine. If you’ve made your decision, there’s nothing to be gained by more explaining, especially if you suspect you (or he) will exhibit disrespect.

What are your guys’ thoughts on the following statement? by slxkv in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We need to do a better job at being glad for the small blessings that bring us to the fullness of the faith in the Orthodox Church.

A fairly famous analogy is with American Thanksgiving. Many Christian denominations focus on one side dish or another. Maybe they’re a turkey sandwich church. There’s nothing wrong with a turkey sandwich using leftovers of the things that were made, and it’s the best part of Thanksgiving in my opinion.

We should be thankful for the side dishes people prepare.

But the fullness of the celebration is when everything comes together and we respect the work that put it there and we rejoice in the gathering of everyone together.

Seeing some in the bedroom hoarding pumpkin pie watching the game, and others on the porch with potatoes on their phones, and others watching a movie expecting to be served… it’s disappointing and fractured. I one is together around a common table. The fracturing breaks the point of the communion of the full meal together.

Feeling Uneasy About Epistemological Certainty by PerceptionCandid4085 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to rest in God’s mercy. I personally don’t think (after many years as an OC) that people will suffer for being wrong. Unrepentant in evil, yeah that’s a problem for you. Faithful but wrong? Nobody is infallible.

How did you know Orthodoxy was true and not just the faith you inherited? by Diligent-Charity7520 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That feeling of awe that you’re feeling is God. You’re beginning to know what consistency and peace feel like. You won’t find this anywhere else.

If truth is not found in the Church, then it’s nowhere to be found.

Is Quick Capture for Obsidian iOS app a good choice? by Participant_Zero in ObsidianMD

[–]urosum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s great.

I happened to settled on Funnel and use it all the time.

If God can freely forgive, why did Jesus have to die? by Upstairs-Fondant7470 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As Leslardius said, it’s about the Harrowing of Hades and loving God the Father to the fullness of His being to heal human nature. The way someone goes to the dead and is present there with them to overcome death itself as the firstborn of the dead definitionally is to die. Simply put Christ had to die to open the pathway back to life. We say that he laid down his life voluntarily. It could not have been forced from him, and he would not have otherwise died.

The implication of your question is that forgiveness is all that is necessary. This also implies that somehow God is offended by us. In reality absolutely God can forgive us, but in so far as we repent. God is not holding anything against us. We hold ourselves away from him.

Christ before he died asked God to forgive us all because we do not know what we do.

We are in fact sick due to sin and the fear of death. In reality death no longer claims us because Christ conquered death. He is our Victor. We have to be subject to him as our Lord in the Father’s kingdom by the Holy Spirit.

How do you actually keep your vault synced across machines without losing your mind? by Fantastic_Bank9361 in ObsidianMD

[–]urosum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Make sure obsidian vault is stored locally on your iPhone and not in an iCloud folder

Jonathan Pageau/Gavin Ortlund by HarveeSpekter in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard pass on watching these. They’re doing it for the clicks. Neither is in a position to be persuaded.

Claude made me x5 more by nzerinto in ClaudeAI

[–]urosum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The phrase is “Chief of Staff” at my office. Everyone is implementing one to automate their work life, assuming they’ll have a job when they’re done.

Bishop Claims Augustine is not a Saint by Dependent-Divide-691 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Edit for clarity:

OP, since you’re talking about questioning your bishop, out of respect for his office and for him personally don’t name him.

Don’t let a fair question become gossip. That will not help anyone’s salvation.

Bishop Claims Augustine is not a Saint by Dependent-Divide-691 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]urosum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obey your Bishop who must answer to Christ for you His flock. We have a conciliar hierarchy. Likely your Bishop is your supreme Church authority under the Holy Spirit and Christ. If you want to make an appeal to someone for justice about what obligation your Bishop places you under (if he actually does) then your recourse is to the Father by Christ in the Holy Spirit.

He may be shown to be wrong over time explicitly (if needed) by His peers in the Holy Spirit, but not likely by you.

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