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Great Lent: The Season of Fasting

...3 — Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America A Tale of Two Easters ~The Didache~ CHURCH FATHERS: Apostolic Constitutions, Book VII https://www.buzzsprout.com/3196/52849-fasting-for-divine-intervention-fasting-edition-45 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection…: Section 18 Chapter 3: Fasting Through The Patristic Era | Bible.org Lent Reading/Devotional Plan: 40 Days with the Fathers: A Journey Through Church History 40 Days with the Fathers: Companion Texts...

Melchizedek to Jesus: The Divine Thread of Bread and Wine

...(from the Greek meaning “thanksgiving”), also known as Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper, is central to Christian worship, or at least, it should be. In partaking of the bread and wine, Christians around the world and throughout history join in a spiritual mystery. As Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:16–17, “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” In every Communion service, we are not merely remembering a past event but participating in the ongoing...

What is Monarchical Trinitarianism?

...n 1:18 in Greek). As Justin Martyr explains, “For Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared above that He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists” (Justin Martyr, First Apology, Chapter 46). This highlights that the Son, the Word, existed eternally with the Father before being begotten and manifested. Similarly, Hippolytus expounds on this concept, noting that “God, subsisting alone, and having nothing contemporaneous with Himself, determined to create the world … For He was neither without reason, nor wisdom, nor power, nor counsel...

Lent: Day 12 - Justin Martyr: First Apology, Chaps. 1-11

...which in Greek and Roman times was more like a profession, since it had its own clothing style to display this (similar to how you'd recognise a vicar today by the white dog collar). To this end, Justin argues that there are those who wear the “garb” of philosophers, but who “do nothing worthy of their profession”, yet not all philosophers are punished for this just because they claim the name. Similarly, there were poets who would get a laugh by insulting the gods and who also “taught atheism”, yet to the contrary of how Christians were treated, the Romans “bestow prizes and honours upon those who euphoniously insult the gods”! “Why, then,...

New Covenant Israel is no longer physical (nor literal)!

...er Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. And finally, Romans 2:28-29 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God. Did you catch that? It is not literal. Thus, it follows then, that it is the Church and C...

The Coming Kingdom of the Son of Man

...that the Greek word for “generation” should be translated as “race”, changing the meaning to say “this race shall not pass away” despite all other instances of the word “generation” meaning just that: a generation. You can read a more detailed counter-argument to this “race” claim, and all the implications of it, here: americanvision.org/1689/norman-l-geisler-generation/. Jesus talks about judgement coming on "this generation" more than just here in Matt 24 where the context and grammar is the same (Matt 12:41-45; 23:36; Mark 8:36; Luke 11:50 to name a few). This interpretation is just a weak argument which willfully ignores other parts of...