Below are six reasons we do not allow women to be ordained as priests in the Orthodox Church. God came as a man. When man (i.e., Adam and Eve) sinned and fell, the Almighty, Omnipresent, Omnipotent God took flesh and became man to restore humans to their original incorruptible state, i.e., to redeem them. Some Church Fathers write and say that God has no…
The origin and development of the Christian ministry have always been subject to research and study. It had been even more significant from reformation and afterwards, triggering many arguments regarding the role of bishops, presbyters, and deacons in the Early Church. In this article, we will refer to the church tradition and apostolic fathers' writings to examine the nature of ministry in the early…
In revivalist religious systems, salvation does not include the material body. Salvation is for the spiritual state only, isolating what is spiritual from what is materialistic. The isolation of the spirit from the material body in salvation is called dualism. In the revivalist view, Christians who preach that material reality has a role in salvation (materialistic worship) are usually regarded as superstitious or even…
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7, NKJV). The Lord God formed man of dust and his divine breath. A man was created out of the material and immaterial, the visible and the invisible, the earthly and the divine. This is the nature…
