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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my way, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." All our life is a worship: we must strive to please God. We come with offerings and God...

The second problem is that Christianity is in decline worldwide. Is this because God is selecting far fewer people to save? The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few.

In the beginning it was love… God is love because he is Trinity of persons. Love is not God’s attribute, it’s His way of being. Love can not manifest if there’s only one individual. We aré called to unite with God’s love and we do so by loving Him and our neighbor. Salvation is achieved through...

God loves us with a crazy love while Satan hates us with a savage hatred.

You gain more knowledge of God if you genuinely believe the story of Genesis, than if you intellectualize it and become too savant about it. Intelligence is not a path towards God, but towards pride; pride is the sin that most separate men from God. Honesty and humility are the virtues that...

I agree with you on the point that Genesis is not modern science, but theological message. Science studies God's creation, how things function, whereas the Bible is a guide towards re-uniting with God. It tells you how man got separated from God because of sin and death, how Jesus Christ...

Isaiah 63: Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, proclaiming victory. mighty to save." Why are your garments red, like those of one treading...

Asceticism is the practice of self-denial, as you said, and of denying this world. So, yes, every christian should take up his cross and live in modesty. If we want to rejoice in the goodies of the kingdom of God, we must renounce the goodies of this world. That's the meaning of the cross, of...

The Wrath of God, as explained by the Eastern Orthodox Church, is a metaphor, an anthropomorphism, i.e, a figure of speech obtained by projecting onto God some negative emotions (fury) specific to fallen man, in order to highlight the effects of actions that are contrary to the commandments...

I would use the word iconic for the word literal. Jesus Christ truly IS the living water and the heavenly bread. I believe and confess that the bread and wine I eat on Sunday truly are the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus Christ is God incarnate, not symbolically, but truly...

I don’t understand why you think that 1. eating the Body and Blood of Christ and 2. doing it in remembrance of Him are two mutually exclusive things… Also, another preconception is that “we sacrifice Jesus over and over again”. Why? Because we think it’s really the Blood and Body of Christ? We...

Taste and see that the Lord is good! :) Where do you think the Christians take their power from? You need power in order to deny yourself, deny the world, take your cross and follow Him.

“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples and said: Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: Drink ye all of it. For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many...

The praying position of Elijah:

Worship is only for the triune God. I pray to her, I bless her, I honor her, as the Church One did and still does until this day. "It is truly right to bless you, O Theotokos, ever-blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond...

...it didn't. I am not Roman-Catholic, I am Greek-Orthodox.

I think depression and diabetes II are the diseases of the millennium. Sometimes I feel so powerless that I look with awe and admiration to people who are capable of getting up in the morning and going to their work. In order to fight depression I (try to) do the following things: 1.) I...

I was born in a Pentecostal family and converted to eastern-orthodoxy (or Greek-orthodoxy, Idk which is the term you use more) when I was 21. I love going to church and I think the church is Jesus Christ’ project of launching the new creation into the world and we should attend it in order to...

These words: In the context of the verse, it doesn’t teach us HOW to war, but against WHOM: principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places. This doesn’t change the fact that Jesus Christ didn’t represent (as you claimed) a threat for the...