A Historic Orthodox Christian. A student of the Scriptures. A sinner justified by grace. An heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ.A servant of righteousness.
I know a person who has a humanistic concept of Freedom,even a worldly way. And she is very adamant about it!
But freedom from the godly point of view is to be free from evil,from darkness,free from whatever is not true; and to exist in a world of righteousness, truth, and light.
@lukeappleton That gibberish was not talking in tongues. There is a legitimate speaking in tongues as 1 Corinthians declares, but it is not a “heavenly language” as the charismatics think!
Water Baptism is a testimony of the individual to die, to be washed clean through the water which was a testimony of the Word of God, the cleansing of our lives by obedience to the water of the word (King David spoke of this in Ps.119:9), and to live a new life.
One interpretation of Acts 4:31 is, that, if we speak the Word of God/the truth, boldly (unapologetically), that that is one indication of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
“Boldness” is the Gk. ‘Parrhesia’ and it means to be outspoken, to be blunt, to speak in frankness.
@dpatrikarakos@gpview@DailyMail And even a sadder fact is, that, even few born again Christians are even concerned about the atrocities in Northern Nigeria!
I’ve been thinking of Suffering in the life of the Christian. Suffering to unregenerate man is an dreadful experience; but to the man or woman living a sanctified life who willingly chooses to suffer for the sake of God, it is redemptive. That may sound strange, but it isn’t.
To Josef Stalin’s daughter-Svetlana Alliluyeva, she found in Christianity what Communism had denied: the possibility of redemption without permission. To her, forgiveness was not doctrine, it was rebellion against hatred.
You shall not turn away from him that is in need, but you shall share all things with your brother and shall not say that they are your own. For if you share what is immortal, how much more things which are temporary?
The Didache
@American_Stroke I didn’t have these symptoms when I had my brain hemorrhage stroke in 2014; what I had was an immediate paralysis on my entire right side, and an increasing loss of vision. But I don’t remember having what you catalog here! Can you tell me why?