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To: kosta50
I would venture to guess that they share the same belief on predestination as we (Eastern Orthodox) do.

This is my impression as well. We believe in divine foreknowledge of all things and in God knowing His elect at all times; we believe in the free will of men to accept or reject divine grace, and we believe that God wants all to be saved and extends His Grace to all. We reject predestination of the reprobate. We beleive that any contradiction in the nature of God that might arise in our minds as we try to reconcile the above beliefs is only a limitation of our mind unable to embrace the sovereignty and omnipotence of God.

We believe those things because that is the eternal Word of Christ that subsists in the entire Holy Tradition of the Church; those who read segments of the Word from the translations of parts of the inspired written revelation outside of the council of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church endanger the salvation of themselves and others who they attempt to teach.

1,968 posted on 01/24/2006 7:55:11 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
This is my impression as well. We believe in divine foreknowledge of all things and in God knowing His elect at all times; we believe in the free will of men to accept...

Everything in your post is the same as Orthodox belief.

1,991 posted on 01/25/2006 4:14:58 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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