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  1. James the Persian

    The Descent into Hades

    What would you prefer we use? The Teutonic pagan one you used? Not sure it's relevant but I doubt there's any particular reason why that tends to be used (other than the fact that we do, after all, still tend more towards Greek for our theological language). In English the teaching I was...
  2. James the Persian

    Why is universalism heresy?

    I was just passing by, curious to see what's happened here since I left and I saw this. Even though I hadn't intended to post, this made me want to and who knows, maybe I'll stick around. Anyway, firstly I'd like to point out that we Orthodox do not have, contrary to this post, patron saints...
  3. James the Persian

    Jesus was Mithra Re-Hashed?

    Your position is the same one I and many Orthodox hold. Some agree with the RCs, which is fine as we aren't dogmatic about this stuff, but I've yet to hear anyone give me a reasonable explanation as to how NFP can be OK but barrier methods not. It just seems utterly inconsistent. Of course, we...
  4. James the Persian

    Python fans

    No, it's because they couldn't afford real horses - and I heard that direct from the horse's mouth, or John Cleese anyway (on a documentary, not in real life, more's the pity). I'm a fan and, just to further depress Cardero, so's my wife, though she only just discovered them in the last...
  5. James the Persian

    Jesus was Mithra Re-Hashed?

    I'm no Roman Catholic, but I know that this isn't true. If it were then they'd be demanding that post-menopausal women refrained from sex and outlawing 'natural' family planning, and they certainly don't. I don't agree with the Roman Catholic position (I happen to believe that it's based on a...
  6. James the Persian

    Jesus was Mithra Re-Hashed?

    What you describe is a peculiarity of the western Church - both Roman Catholic and Protestant. It is not something found in the Christian east - everything God created is good. It is only misuse of His creation that is bad and we have never suffered from the almost Manichaean aversion to the...
  7. James the Persian

    Jesus was Mithra Re-Hashed?

    True. That doesn't mean, though, that we do not consider them His siblings - we do. Legally there is no doubt that they were his siblings as legally Joseph was His father. Also, we simply do not know by what means the Incarnation occurred. It is a Mystery that we simply accept did happen. It...
  8. James the Persian

    Any George Harrison Fans?

    I'm not a fan exactly (I like some songs but i don't go wild about his music), but I am kind of an ex-neighbour. Admittedly, I didn't exactly go around for coffee or anything, but when we were first married my wife and I rented a small house in the grounds of a large house next door to the...
  9. James the Persian

    Christian Responces Wanted....

    You may have heard of Nicea, but you clearly have not actually researched it. Go and find out what actually happened at Nicea, read up on the precursors to it, find out about Arius and especially about his opponents and the pre-Nicene Fathers views of God. Find out about the development of the...
  10. James the Persian

    Baptism?

    Yes, except in extremis. It is theoretically possible to be baptised by pouring in certain circumstances (such as being too ill to be baptised by immersion - something which very occasionally happens with very sick infants) but the canons call for baptism by triple immersion, whether the one...
  11. James the Persian

    I'm not dead

    Well I hope I do rather less than four months, but Barnsley to Oxfordshire's no joke either. We're unlikely to be able to regularly attend a Romanian church, though we will be close enough to London to get to the church there from time to time. Most of the time I should think that we'll end up...
  12. James the Persian

    I'm not dead

    Thanks guys, it's nice to be welcomed back. I sincerely hope that any changes since I have been gone have been for the better (I'm thinking mainly of the quality of the discussions - they were in their usual rubbish summer mode when I dropped off). Hopefully nobody else has vanished in my...
  13. James the Persian

    I'm not dead

    Hi all, Just thought I'd best let people know what's been happening and why I haven't been around for a while - just in case anyone was wondering. Some of you may know, though most probably don't, that shortly before I vanished I had been having some 'difficulties' here and the first thing I...
  14. James the Persian

    How well do you know Catholicism

    I got 93%. I'd love to know what I got wrong because I tried to answer as I would myself as an Orthodox (real ;) ) Catholic except where I knew that Rome taught wro... er, diferently. That means that with regards to one of those questions our attitudes are further apart than I thought and...
  15. James the Persian

    The Atonement is the important part - Not the Crusifixion

    Firstly I did not say that I cannot, I said I will not. I certainly can and said as much but all it would do is end up with each of us saying the other is interpreting the verses wrongly, because there really is no such thing as the plain meaning of any text. No text, in fact, has any meaning...
  16. James the Persian

    Why was the DiVinci Code so bad?

    I know what he's saying and it's a lie. The 'history' is not true. There are, in fact, so many elementary errors, all of which miraculously aline themselves perfectly with his anti-Christian neo-gnostic agenda, that the history is not even approaching true. His knowledge of the early Church is...
  17. James the Persian

    The Atonement is the important part - Not the Crusifixion

    Here here. Christ is consubstantial with the Father in His Divinity and with us in His humanity. His death and Resurrection were important, no doubt, for by them He 'trampled down death by death' and in so doing destroyed death's hold on humanity, but to take any one point, from the Word...
  18. James the Persian

    Why was the DiVinci Code so bad?

    If you say so (though given the absolute impossibility of many of his claims being even vaguely true, I disagree) but that does not alter my points which were that a.) Dan Brown did not intend the work to be pure fiction at all and b.) that people who claim to be Christians, such as Tom Hanks...
  19. James the Persian

    The Atonement is the important part - Not the Crusifixion

    How could He not? Do you not believe that He was fully human and fully Divine? Do you not believe He is the one Mediator between man and God (yes both of these are clear from Scripture, even should you wish to ditch the rest of Holy Tradition). As for your ludicrous demand that I engage in...
  20. James the Persian

    The Atonement is the important part - Not the Crusifixion

    No, the important part isn't 'the Atonement', it's the Incarnation - all of it from the Annunciation to the Ascension, not just anyone one moment/moments within the period. The important thing is that Christ was, and is, fully human and full Divine and thus, through Himself, reconciles Creator...
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