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@BearGrylls What's your faith by the way?

My faith doesn't give me a map for life. It gives me a compass.

Black People WILL be Orthodox Christians ☦️ 📿 More and more Black brothers & sisters are coming home to Holy Orthodoxy ☦️

@Nerpho74 @CodyThomas1776 @CuriosityonX "mathematically certain in my opinion" is a very ScIeNtIfIc claim. 😅

What a hubristic and unimaginative view point. You believe in the god of the bible but can’t wrap your head around other life forms in the vastness of space? Not only is it statically improbable for us to be alone, it is a mathematical certainty in my opinion. Whether or not we would ever make contact is another story all together.

There must be life on one of these dots

@hahussain Here is the opposite story: x.com/i/status/19549…

Palestinian Christians and Arab Israeli Christians say they live in total security in Israel, Bethlehem, Haifa, Jerusalem and call on Lebanese Christians to visit the holy sites across Israel. Let’s add Muslims to the list of Lebanese who want to live in peace with Isrsel, visit the Jewish state, and invite Israelis to visit Lebanon. youtu.be/fJpKWvzq-xk?si…

@DracoReformans "Scriptures will set you free." It is said in the Scriptures.

To be deep in the Scriptures is to cease to be Roman Catholic or eastern orthodox

@worldclick56 Bitcoin.

If you could sit here and chat for 1 hour with anyone, who would it be?

@Gnosisinformant "Something was something, before it became something else" Strong philosophy background here.

Athos is a pagan site named after Athos the giant that fought Poseidon. It was a ‘holy mountain’ before Christianity even existed. Pliny the Elder said that people who lived there lived for 400 years.

@noetic_healing Their kids might be CIA agents. CIA's contribution on "building this country" is really out of the question 😅

Yall crying on Tik Tok you can’t afford your grub hub and iPhone and don’t realize people in America used to live like this and they built this country.

Forget the rituals. Be kind.

@orthodox_33ad But because, we, husbands are a bit selfish, maybe the other verse works better: "He who loves his wife loves himself." 😅

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for her. — Ephesians 5: 25

@TexasRose1836 The core of every sin is selfishness. A general rule for all humans is that, we say one thing, we do another, and we say we do another. So... "righteous anger": let's leave it for the Saints.

☦ The Orthodox View of Righteous Anger In the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church, anger is one of the eight passions that wars against the soul. Yet Scripture commands us: “Be angry, and do not sin” (Eph. 4:26). So how do we understand "righteous" anger? The Fathers teach that our natural “incensive power” (thumos) — the fiery energy of the soul — was given by God not to rage against our neighbor, but to fight sin, the demons, and the passions within ourselves. St. John Cassian and Evagrius Ponticus are clear: the only truly righteous anger is the anger we turn against our own sin. True holy indignation does exist. We see it perfectly in Christ when He cleansed the Temple (Jn. 2:13-17) — not out of wounded pride, but out of pure zeal for His Father’s house. The saints sometimes showed this same fiery love for God’s truth and for the salvation of souls. But the Fathers warn us with one voice: we are not those saints. Most of what we call “righteous anger” is simply our fallen ego dressed up in pious language. As one priest wrote, “I have never seen a single case of human righteous indignation.” Our anger almost always blinds the eye of the soul and gives place to the devil (Eph. 4:27). How do we know the difference? - If it’s about me being offended → almost certainly sinful. - If it’s about God’s honor or the protection of the innocent and it is free of malice, self-righteousness, or desire for revenge → it *may* be righteous. But even then, the safest path is to take it straight to the Cross. The cure for all anger? Repentance. Prayer. Confession. The Jesus Prayer. And the constant remembrance that every human being — even the one who wrongs us — is made in the image of God and beloved by Christ. “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” 🔥☦️

Eastern Orthodox Church teachings not only give us the safer path to come close to our Lord, Jesus Christ but heal our various psychological problems, obtained from our sinful and egotistical life.

As Orthodox Christians we do not judge the souls of others — that belongs to God alone. But we do know where the True Church is: in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church that has kept the Faith “once for all delivered to the saints” without addition or subtraction for two thousand years. We say this not in pride, but in humble gratitude and love for every soul Christ died to save.

"Men argue. Nature acts." | Voltaire

What makes life wonderful, and connects us to each other, are the little things.

@Fragbaza Everyone has the gift of freedom. Both righteous and wicked. Only God knows this delicate balance. And remember, Cain did kill Abel, as well as, the Roman emperors killed thousands of early Christians. That doesn't make them losers.

Why do the righteous suffer while the wicked prosper? Why is it that those striving for righteousness are often beset by trials, sorrows, and infirmity, while the transgressor appears to dwell in uninterrupted peace? Consider the hunter: he wastes no arrow on the carcass, nor does he strike the prey already bound within his cage. In this same manner, the Devil—the Great Hunter of Souls—sets his sights only upon those who are spiritually vibrant. He does not waste his strength on those who already wear his chains; he reserves his fury for the one attempting to escape. To the spiritually dead, he grants a false peace—the quiet of the graveyard. A Call to Vigilance: Let not the heart be deceived by a season of ease, for the silence of the Enemy is often the greatest proof of his ownership. The peace of the sinner is not a blessing; it is a numbing anesthetic administered before the final blow. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)

That was a very entertaining and delightful episode! Thanks a lot 👍 You can watch it on @Tubi as well! #wilderness

Ethnophyletism is a heresy. #Orthodoxy #Church #Christianity

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." | John Muir

The people of Missolonghi (Greece) welcomed the Holly Icon of Virgin Mary Axion Esti, from Mount Athos. #Orthodoxy #Church #Christianity