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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Nicholas Damascus

As an infant, I was baptized as an Eastern Orthodox Christian. However, I would say that becoming a Christian is a work in progress, and I often wonder would there be enough evidence to convict me of becoming a Christian. The Orthodox Church is the ancient Church that Christ and the Apostles established. It is not a religion but rather a way of life. It is not about rules and regulations but rather guide posts to make choices to transition to what we were designed to become. Becoming Orthodox is not a conversion but more so a transformation of self. It’s not about being right: it is about “right being.” In John 14:6, Christ says I am the Way (to love and serve one another), the Truth (there is only one reality), and the Life (that life source is love). I invite you to submit any topics or questions to “Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian” on the website. Join me in finding our way back home to the original teachings of the Church. When you change the way you look at things, things change the way they look.

Viewpoints: Where is God in Natural Disasters?

From a Christian perspective this statement seems to imply that God is NOT everywhere, present, and fillest all things or that he is present and chooses not to intervene for reasons beyond our understanding. If he is absent in any experience or event, does this imply that God can only be in one place at a time? Would he be God if that were the case?

Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian: Is yours the only true church?

However, through the father’s revelation to man (sending his son into the world) and his energies, we can understand that his intention and purpose is to save all of us, not just some of us.

Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian: Does Your Faith Have Prayer Rules?

For the Eastern Orthodox to pray means to think and live our entire life in the Presence of God, always, everywhere, and at anytime.

Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian: Alpha and Omega

Revelation 1:8 says “I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, Who is, Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty.”

Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian: Triune God

God implies the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God reveals himself to us in this paradoxical belief.

Ask An Eastern Orthodox Christian: Meaning in Iconography

When a priest gives a blessing in the Eastern Orthodox Church, he holds his fingers of his right hand to form IC XC, blessing with the sign of the Cross and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Sin

In the Eastern Orthodox Church (EOC) the word for sin in Greek is "αμαρτία" which is defined in the following way: 'failure' or — more specifically — 'missing the mark,' 'going astray,' 'erring,' 'severing a relationship,' or, ultimately, “failing to achieve the purpose and benefit of life for which one is created.'

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