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#27, RE: there is a difference
Posted by jdrywood on Mar-19-2002 at 08:59 PM
In response to message #26
ahki Paul, I admire your tradition and upbringing and think its wonderful that it has been preserved in a country that tolerates your religious views and mine although we are 180 degrees apart. I see a major flaw in your chart that even you are not able to see because your background and tradition will not allow you to. From my vantage point and Byzantine tradition the COE are no different from Roman Catholics or Orthodoxy because all of you divide the Godhead into three parts regardless of specific abnormalities among you. When two Jacobites/Marionites visited our church recently and handed me ‘Marganitha’ to read, I compared it to your COE ‘four Qnome’ and creeds and thought it strange that people could be divided over trivial definitions and man made commandments centuries from the apostles. And then I thought about the persecution and intolerance suffered for the name of Christ in this troubled world among these groups and realised how different I was not having the same persuasions yet believing. We both are bias by our traditions and I believe Christ died for us knowing our weaknesses. But there is one difference between our fellowships that will always separate us as brethren and that is that CHRIST DIED FOR HIMSELF which deity cannot do in order to save us. And then I thought how Jesus must have felt when after three and 1/2 years of preaching, feeding multitudes and showing great signs and wonders in the earth, literally pouring out his cup, that after his passion only 120 followers could be counted who met in that upper room as his friends. If so few from so many were drawn to the master how much less can we expect to be transformed by words in conflict. So let your light shine on whomever it will by any means that even ahki Yukhanan might see more clearly the beauty of holiness in our promised Messiah. The Sun is shinning.  jdrywood osyqdw Nnxwy Nm aml4
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