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To: Forest Keeper; HarleyD; .30Carbine
It sure seems to me that you are disparaging Paul when you say that his Biblical teachings are not part of the faith. :)

The Church position is that Protestant understanding of +Paul's teachings, and not +Paul's teachings, is faulty and out of context. There is very little doubt that +Paul's was a controversial Apostle and that his writings have been the subject of much debate and multiple interpretations, each claiming to be the "true" one.

However, I don't think we can say that everything we perceive as bad is always caused by sin in the world

Not getting a job you mention did not leave you stranded, starving, having to hunt to feed your family, did it? You simply didn't get what you wanted, so you perceived it as something bad. But God gently reminded you to accept things handed to you as He may have great rewards for you. "Thy will be done -- no matter what" is a difficult principle to live by. Yet, when we can truly say it in any situation and believe it we can probably say we have reach theosis.

Now, that being said, it is easy for us who have been blessed undeservingly, and sit in comforts of our homes typing away our own theological philosophy, safe and secure, not hungry or thirsty, and not sick, to say that. It is totally unrealistic expect those much less fortunate to feel as upbeat as we are.

Rather than patting each other on our backs, we should be doing works of charity and praying unceasingly that the world may come to the knowledge of the Savior of the world and to make themselves open to His love, to convert their hearts, that goodness and mercy may prevail, and the world made perfect in His name.

The reason there are people less fortunate than us is because of sin -- theirs and ours.

15,800 posted on 06/28/2007 7:41:56 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Rather than patting each other on our backs, we should be doing works of charity and praying unceasingly that the world may come to the knowledge of the Savior of the world and to make themselves open to His love, to convert their hearts, that goodness and mercy may prevail, and the world made perfect in His name.

I will certainly join you in this. AMEN!

15,814 posted on 06/29/2007 1:18:52 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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