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I am not defending Catholic unity. Orthodox is the church that has stood the test of time and has not changed. Since all splitting away has occured from it, no disunity!

Its an amazing thing: The Protestants take the very thing that was guarded (at the cost of many lives) by the Orthodox for centuries, ignore the setting (tradition) it was created in and run with democratic interpretation, not authoritative (aka now 40000 versions of interpretations)...

Yes you are right the Great Schism was a sad thing. The way I see it is that the Catholic Church is the first Protestant division. A protest of what was believed for 1000+ years!

The comparison between the levels of theological disunity in the Protestant divisions is very great compared to Orthodox differences, which as far as I know are not significant. Must be one of those 40000 is right?….unlikely.

Ah! One of the 40001 churches only believing the Bible (Sola Scriptura) that has interpreted the Sola differently than the other 40000. Democratic truth?

I am being saved (remember Paul never considered himself saved: 1Cor 9: Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the...

You haven’t said so I will assume you don’t go on sinning? Satan believes…. Must be saved?

Could this be true? No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.

How do you know all these things?

Yes it is hard or impossible to hide that you are owned by Him (and you know it) and love Him. Because of the Spirit that is in you, you can know if another belongs to Him …. Sometimes, however: ……”don’t pull up the chaff with the wheat leads” you to believe you can’t always recognize those that...

Temporary and Forever Father, let not my temporary barns be full and my soul be empty and faulter If that be so, then take away the things that make my love to You in halters How you have blessed me and I know it How you have given and given me and show it Water my spirit with your...

Loving, Awesome, Unknowable Sweet Lamb of God, there is no doubt You love us! Humiliated, bloodied, whipped and dying you made a Way for us. Eyes flame of Fire, feet burnished bronze as refined by fire When I (John) saw Him, fell at his feet as though dead. Risen in power: He placed his right...

In the Image of the Father, the Son and the Spirit The generosity and goodness of God Creating good, God created the light, the animals, the world and made man in His image and likeness He loved, creating Eve because of lonely Adam His freely open eternal hand of love for us allowed sin...

In joyed both poems.

There are several others that are regional for example south America, North America, Africa,…..I liked all of them

I see that Paul and nearly every great saint thought they were the greatest sinners. My conscience does accuse me sometimes and I will repent. However I don’t have their sensitivity. I wish i had their sensitivity to seeing myself as a great sinner because if that were so it would really mean I...

' 29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of ... He said not to do it…i am more than happy to do whatever He said.

Ah! The wheat and the chaff? No one knows for sure!

Not easy everyone thinks their denom is right. Which one of these denominations hasn’t changed since the beginning? Nah they can’t be right….right?