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    Is Jesus portrayed in the Gospels as Anti-Torah?

    But Jesus, foreseeing that the disciple's return to his house would throw him into serious inheritance care and controversy, which would cool his jealousy, said to him: Follow me and leave your relatives, who seem to be alive, but really because of their unbelief they are spiritually dead, to...
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    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    1 Corinthians 1:22-25 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of...
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    Understanding the holy scriptures is impossible unless God gives you the interpretation

    27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” 28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and...
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    The Trinity - What on Earth is it?

    https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/12/12/103526-saint-spyridon-the-wonderworker-bishop-of-tremithus According to the witness of Church historians, Saint Spyridon participated in the sessions of the First Ecumenical Council in the year 325. At the Council, the saint entered into a dispute...
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    The Trinity - What on Earth is it?

    During the era of the Old Testament because all the religions of the world were polytheistic, if not all most of them, if the Old Testament talked about the Trinity there was a danger Jews and others might believe it talks about three gods. Even though there were hints like when the three "men"...
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    The Holy Fire - Myth or Miracle?

    There was someone a few years ago on Greek tv who wrote a book to "prove" it was a scam. During an interview he had a candle on which he had put a chemical and it lit by itself a few moments later. Does it prove anything? So a human can make a candle light by itself and the Almighty God the...
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    Meeting with God, How is it possible?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palamism Addressing the question of how it is possible for man to have knowledge of a transcendent and unknowable God, Palamas drew a distinction between knowing God in his essence (Greek ousia) and knowing God in his energies (Greek energeiai). The divine energies...
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    Who Or What Is Israel?

    God Himself is the one who created Israel as a nation for a mission and gave them that name. If they fail and don't behave and others fulfill that mission better what stops Him to use other people and give them that name? Both in the Old Testament and the New Testament God Himself says...
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    Who Or What Is Israel?

    https://copticorthodoxanswers.org/orthodox-spirituality/why-does-god-allow-pain-and-suffering/ Why does God allow Pain and Suffering? St John Chrysostom says “where man leads, creation will follow…” In this very sense all of creation was now subject to corruption and chaos because of that is...
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    Who Or What Is Israel?

    Matthew 21 40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” 42 Jesus said to them...
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    Damnation

    When he created humans he put them in paradise. But he didn't create robots. He gave them free will. It is like someone gives you 100 billion dollars and says you are free to use them as you like but there is a condition. There is one certain cent among them, he tells you which one, you can't...
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    Was Jesus Crucified?

    Apostle Paul, 1st Corinthians: 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 20 Where is...
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    For trinity believers: Does your world come unravelled if Jesus is not God,but ONLY Gods Son?

    When Abraham saw three people visiting him why did he address them as Lord, one person/god even though there were three persons and not Lords? There is a reason there were three persons/angels visiting him and not one, two or four. At that time and in the time of Moses and the Old Testament...
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