To: Cronos
No offense... Please re-format your post without the constant and ever-present
Italics, then I'll read and respond.
Although, first see my #76 regarding Calvinist contacts with Orthodoxy. Thanks.
Best, OP
80 posted on
01/20/2006 4:57:12 AM PST by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Augustine was no "Crypto-Calvinist". Rather, Augustine was a Proto-Calvinist -- that is, he correctly maintained the Orthodox Doctrine of the Christian Church long before it was utterly corrupted by the Papal Supremacists of Rome.
And how come our Orthodox Christian brethern also have the same Christian beliefs as opposed to your philosophy?
Given that the (Eastern Orthodox) Ecclesial Organization, (Eastern Orthodox) Baptismal and Infant-Baptismal Rites, and (Augustinian) Predestinarian Doctrines of Orthodox Iona were preserved for a thousand years throughout the long dark centuries of bitter Roman Catholic suppression and domination until eventually reinforced and re-established by Knoxian Scottish Calvinism; and...
Some more fairy tales -- did the wee folks and hobgoblins preserve it?
Whatever our disagreements (and here, we Magisterial Protestants are willing to appeal to Orthodox Patristics and Orthodox Patriarchs and Orthodox Tradition in defense of our Theology), we Calvinists
Oh, you're willing to stoop down to let the Orthodox humbly join you in your ways?
Satanic Organization
Anything outside The Church is heretical and by extension Satanical. The Orthodox and Oriental Churches are part of the One Church -- the many Protestants also believe in Christ's teachings could also be included, but not cultists.
99 posted on
01/20/2006 9:15:28 AM PST by
Cronos
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