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| bio | website | theonion.com/content/node/… |
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| location | St Louis, MO | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | May 22 at 19:26 | |
| stats | profile views | 30 |
I started out as a member of the Churches of Christ, also known as the Campbell-Stone Movement or the Restoration Movement.
At age 25 I converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I currently attend a Russian Orthodox parish.
I'm a C# programmer.
I have a wife and two beautiful children.
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Apr 15 |
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Why is Easter celebrated on a different day every year and Christmas is not? @AndrewVit, it might interest you to know that only in Germanic languages is the holiday called something like "Easter." In most languages of the world, it's called something akin to the Greek Pascha, which comes from the Hebrew Pesach, which simply means "Passover." The notion that Easter has connections with fertility rites seems to spring from the notion that the term of Easter is said to come from the name of a goddess called Ēostre. But even this is doubtful; see the Wikipedia article on Ēostre for details. |
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Mar 23 |
answered | What did Luther think of the Eastern Orthodox and vice versa? |
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Mar 23 |
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When did Martin Luther lose his Apostolic succession according to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churchеs? @brilliant, that's a fair question. There's a difference in the way Roman Catholic clergy are viewed by the Orthodox Church as opposed to, say, Anglican clergy. Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church says: "Anglican clergy entering Orthodoxy, if called to serve in the Orthodox priesthood, have always been reordained, whereas in the case of Roman Catholic clergy who become Orthodox there is usually no such reordination." See also this from Wikipedia: Apostolic Succession |
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Mar 23 |
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When did Martin Luther lose his Apostolic succession according to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churchеs? @AffableGeek, there is in fact a whole book on the subject, containing the correspondence: Augsburg and Constantinople: The Correspondence between the Tubingen Theologians and Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople on the Augsburg Confession |
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Mar 22 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Mar 22 |
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When did Martin Luther lose his Apostolic succession according to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churchеs? edited tags |
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Mar 22 |
answered | When did Martin Luther lose his Apostolic succession according to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churchеs? |
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Mar 6 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 6 |
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Why did Jesus use the expression, “I tell you the truth”? The fact is, we have a lot of expressions like that in English. |
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Feb 2 |
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Who are the two witnesses in the book of Revelation? @Sven, this question is not the kind of brain-dead simple question that would be discouraged on this site. People don't need to Google it first unless the question is so simple that the first Google result leaves nothing else to talk about. |
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Feb 2 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 2 |
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Is there any sense in being baptized as an adult after being baptized as an infant? Added text of the two scriptures referred to, and made a few formatting changes |
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Jan 21 |
answered | Primacy of Andrew in Eastern Orthodoxy |
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Dec 22 |
answered | What is the biblical basis for and against the “filioque”? |
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Dec 22 |
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Orthodox churches recognized by Catholic Church Furthermore, the fact that Orthodox are permitted to receive the Eucharist (for instance) at a Roman Catholic parish doesn't necessarily mean that they will do so. We Orthodox are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and we are not to receive their sacraments except in extraordinary cases. Such a case might be imminent death with no Orthodox priest nearby. From the Orthodox point of view, "recognition" by the Roman Catholic Church has little to no significance. |
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Nov 14 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 11 |
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What is the biblical basis for the doctrine of Papal Infallibility taught by the Catholic Church? It would be better to ask "Is there a biblical basis?". In the Roman Catholic Church (along with others), tradition is a source of faith and practice; doctrines aren't required to all have a biblical basis. |
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Oct 16 |
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Should Catholics silently hum the Tetragrammaton when they're supposed to sing it?' I'm intensely curious what song this would be, being sung at a public school, that actually includes "Yahweh" as one of its words. |
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Oct 7 |
answered | Writing / recording capabilities around Jesus's time |
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Oct 4 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
