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If a man, after committing a sin, wishes to be reformed, let him turn and beg for forgiveness; the door of the Physician is open and not confined to the penitent.

- Saint Ephraim the Syrian

Theological question.
I asked in another orthodox group this:

How are saints saints if the judgement hasn't happened yet? Are saints defined as martyrs for christ?

I got this answer:

There are 2 judgements..


Im ignorant of this.

Can anyone shed light please?

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Original Christians..
This is the Persecuted Church...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPijzzinKg

2 Timothy 4:1-2

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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Good informative video
Are icons idolatry ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_D5psrz58

Acts 19:8-9
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

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Ignorance truly is bliss

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Acts 19:10
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

A brother said to Abba Pimenes, "I am troubled by thoughts that do not let me think of my own sins, but make me notice only the faults of my brother." Abba Pimen told him about Abba Dioscore, that he was crying for himself in his cell; and his disciple lived in another cell. When the disciple came to the elder and found him weeping, he asked him: "Father, what are you weeping about?" He replied, "I am weeping for my sins, child." The disciple said to him, "You have no sins, Father." But the elder answered him, "I assure you, my son, if I could see my sins, four more men would not be enough to join me in weeping." At this, Abba Pimen said, "He is truly a man who has known himself."

(Ancient Patericon)

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St. Gregory Palamas on Islam

St. Gregory Palamas ca. 1296-1359

It is true that Mohammed started from the east and came to the west, as the sun travels from the east unto the west. Nevertheless, he came with war, knives, pillaging, forced enslavement, murders, and acts that are not from the good God, but instigated by the chief manslayer, the devil. Consider now, in times past, did not Alexander (the Great) prove victorious from the east to the west? There have also been many others, in many other times, who set out on military campaigns and dominated the world. Yet none of the peoples believed in their leaders as you revere Mohammed. Though Mohammed may employ violence and offer pleasures, he cannot secure the approval of the world. Albeit, the teaching of Christ, though it turns away from (worldly) pleasures, it has taken hold to the ends of the world, without violence, since it is opposed to it. This phenomenon is the victory that overcomes the world (1 Jn. 5:4).

Acts 19:11-12
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 12. So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.”

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“If the Lawgiver Himself fasts, who among those who keep the law has no need of fasting?” -St. Isaac the Syrian

Saying grace before meals is a simple yet powerful way to build piety in your family.

Artist: Natalya Klimova, “My First Prayerbook”

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