my traditional church became a pentecostal church overnight

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how does that even happen?

Just met a christian for the first time that actually "fasted" for 6 weeks. Real one

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new pastor

The whole congregation went with it?

it’s never too late and we’re never too far gone ❤️✝️

Been learning about repentance and Gods grace, such a gracious God.

Only want to do it right and on the narrow path moving forward.

yoooo add me to the list! I'm an Orthodox Christian. This is the first time I see this thread and I'm glad this exists

Opinions on experiences and descriptions of angels in the Old Testament, like Ezekiel’s?


Are Ezekiel’s visions meant to be taken literally? There’s different literary styles used in different books of the Bible, I’m not really sure what to make of the book of Ezekiel.

pride and despair are according to aquinas, very similiar. And are motivated by the same desire to play God. this echoes in the doomer mindset which seemingly has a total lack of humility of the fact that even the wisest among us do not know what is to come or how things will play out

Angel in Greek just means messenger. There's many different types of heavenly beings, with different characteristics. Notice how in the gospels they always look like ordinary humans.
Ezekiel is a trip, and depending on what chapter you're reading it could be literal or metaphorical.

augustinian theodicy argues that evil is not a thing which exists in itself, it is not a separate entity in competition with God. evil is simply a pervasion, a negation. it is an aspect of death or withering away, something that has to depend on something good. it is inherently parasitical upon being. when you have something created or a living organism, death is something that depends on that life, it's not something that exists without it. just like darkness in itself does not exist but is merely the lack of light having penetrated the area

furthermore if we believe God and his creation which proceeds from him, are perfectly good we must affirm that God is in a sense incapable of creating something evil; because creation is good therefore all beings must have in them goodness at least in so far as they participate in being

human evil is the result of free will, God however judged the existence of free and rational beings as such an enormous good that it justified allowing the possibility that some of them would voluntarily choose to turn away from God and to commit evil

natural evil (earthquakes, cancer etc) are according to Augustine, the inevitable consequences of finitude. if a finite world exists in which things come into being, and pass out of being, in which things are perishable, and in which there is finitude at all then some degree of falling away from perfection is inevitable and hence there is a kind of metaphysical evil at the core of finite existence

this then begs the question, if a certain amount of evil is necessarily attendant both to the existence of free rational creatures and more generally to the existence of a finite world at all, then why bother creating the finite world? Augustine has his answer for this too

Felix culpa

Anyone been to a Lutheran church?

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With God on our side, how can we lose?

@mods I feel like this should be moved to relationship SZN cause we in a relationship with GOD

Nah jokes I ain’t even a christian, but I fw the Gospel.

I read God created the sun on the fourth day… it got me wondering… how were the first three days defined?