Charles Tingler
@CLTOhio1991
☥🩸Coptic Oriental Orthodox Revert/Catechumen🩸☥ | 🎓College Student🎓| 📜Aspiring Pillar of Orthodoxy📜
“Many suffering from incurable diseases were restored to health by his prayer and the invocation of the holy name of Jesus. His presence was everywhere fraught with blessings and consolation.” ~ Saint Pantaleon
"God hears and fulfills the prayer of a man who fulfills His commandments. 'Hear God in His commandments,' says St. John Chrysostom, 'So that He might hear you in your prayers.' A man who keeps the commandments of God is always wise, patient, and sincere in his prayers. Mystery…
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. — Colossians 3:13
Original sin was not a legal event requiring penal substitution. It introduced a disease into human nature that had to be healed. The solution is therapeutic and medicinal, not juridical. That’s why Jesus died. Not to fulfill a legal requirement, but to destroy death. He did it…
"The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord." - St. Isaac the Syrian
Do you agree with the fasting and abstinence rules in apostolic churches?
“Rest assured and do not think too much about any matter. Leave it to God who is in control.” — Saint Pope Kyrillos VI of Alexandria
Saint James the Apostle, Bishop of Jerusalem, Brother of the Lord, pray for us!
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. — Matthew 20:28
You can have all the doctrine in the world. You can study the Church Fathers, read the Scriptures, memorize the canons and decrees of the councils, quote your popes, bishops, and priests. But if all that knowledge isn’t producing a real spiritual life, and if you’re not doing it…
Which authority holds the highest rank in making binding decisions for all Christians?
Saint Anthony the Great “This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God and to expect temptation to his last breath.”
