To: Kolokotronis; MarkBsnr; HarleyD
Doulos is really a servant. A servant is not a slave (captive). When we become doulouoi of God, we do it on our own free willgiving ourselves to Christ (as the Liturgical text says). God does not compel or brainwash us into coming to Him; love does not rape.
10,898 posted on
11/11/2007 5:52:53 AM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: kosta50; MarkBsnr; HarleyD
"Doulos is really a servant."
Sorry; nope, a slave, not a σκλαβος, more of a what we think of as a servant but a slave nevertheless, Kosta mou. Brainwashing, compulsion, rape etc is not at all implicated by the word, however, which might well be implicated by σκλαβος.
10,909 posted on
11/11/2007 2:15:19 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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