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Hi everyone! Since this Sunday we (the orthodox Christians) will celebrate the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, I wanted to submit to your eyes the images above which depict the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (a pagan Roman emperor that lived in the 2nd century A.D.) and...

The Holy Eucharist is the reason for the Sacrifice on the cross. So we, too, can partake in the life of the Triune God. From the body and blood of Jesus Christ, we receive power to deny this world, we receive true life, life in Christ. We have spiritual bodies, too. Not only carnal. By eating...

Uhm... no. Just no. Christianity is about eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus Christ under the image of bread and wine. We do this in remembrance of His sacrifice on the cross. His sacrifice on the cross was once far all. Not the Holy Eucharist. This is every Sunday and in some...

Jesus Christ was crucified on Friday. In the Old Testament, darkness is called night and light is called day. The darkness that prevailed over everything during crucifixion, from noon to 3 P.M. is the first night. The second night is Friday to Saturday and the third night Saturday to Sunday.

Scary...

I already gave the source and the quotation in my post nr. 3. Herod ordered the execution of all boys under the age of two and NOT EVEN HIS OWN SON was spared from the massacre. I will ... re-write it...and I will put in bold the reference to the Holy Innocents. In the book Saturnalia, written...

So, in the icons, Elijah is portrayed with long hair and Elisha is portrayed (most of the time) half-bald.

It has to do with the slaughter of the innocents... it is a commentary about it, and it's from a book, other than the Bible. The purpose of my post was to highlight the fact that this biblical account of Herod ordering the slaughter of the children under the age of two (an account which is...

From the Bible... why would the children call him bald if he weren't? I searched icons of him and he is portrayed as being half-bald. Edit: actually, I found icons where he has hair all over his head...

More than 42 because it says that the bears mauled 42 of the boys. We don't know how many. Once Elisha turned around and looked at them, some of them stopped jeering (those weren't attacked). I don't know about Elisha's age. He was actually bald. For the Jews of that time, baldness was...

As I was doing a research for my diploma, I accidentally fell on a quotation by Caesar Augustus (aka Octavian, the first Roman emperor) in the book Saturnalia written by Macrobius. In book two, Macrobius records some of the witty sayings of Octavian and there reports: "On hearing that the son...

Mark 9:43-49: If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be...

Yes. Thank you. :giggle:

Interesting approach. There are also those who resort to "euthanasia". Clearly, people who don't believe in God and hell.

I don't believe it speaks of the ultimate fate of the wicked. It is Jesus Christ who represents the biggest revelation of God, thus, we should look at what He has to say about the kingdom of God and the ultimate fate of the wicked. Why do you think the fire is "everlasting" if its purpose was...

Sodomah and Gomorah were destroyed by material fire. The fire in hell is of another nature and is, like you pointed out with biblical verses, everlasting.

It all boils down to this: what is more scary: to be tortured and/or destroyed, or to be separated from God? A real christian should be able to say: give me hell, but don't separate me from my sweet Jesus Christ! And this was exaclty the attitude of the early martyrs who would rather die...

To Runningman, who cherrypicked some biblical verses (from the Old Testament) to sustain his view and asked me how do I understand them. I understand them in balance to the verses from the New Testament which talk about eternal suffering. In the parable of the ten virgins, five are accepted...

Those who claim that hell is "anihilation" either try to win converts by appealing to their instinctual fear of death, or they try to give a "humanistic" face to hell, whom they perceive too cruel. Their reasoning goes something like this: it's too cruel to suffer eternally, it's more "human" to...