 | About Me | Oct 29, 2008 |
I'm only an ordinary person, loved by God, eventhough I have made many mistakes and followed wrong ways. Here I am to share my pilgrimmage, from simple christianity, into even simpler one, Eastern Orthodoxy.
Wait a minute, is it a simple Christianity? Not really. A lot of histories, traditions, councils, church fathers, liturgies, reflections, prayers, and so on. However, the centre doctrines are quite simple, (not 'quite', though) The Trinity, Two Natures of Christ, and the Church. Orthodoxy uses these three filters to detect any heresies that may enter the Church, Christ's only Bride.
Certain other 'Christians' say that Orthodoxy teaches false doctrines. That's okay for me. Let them say that, because I used to say the same :D.
By God's Grace, however, I am allowed to know this nearly 2000-year-old chuch, and even to study much about this Church, which was based on Apostolic Traditions and blood of the martyrs.
Finally, I'm still sharpening my knowledge in Orthodoxy, and I hope many comments, or arguments, or swears can be displayed here. I'm not afraid to have different views here, or to have criticisms. I consider them as part of every human's spiritual paths.
May God bless you all.
Wait a minute, is it a simple Christianity? Not really. A lot of histories, traditions, councils, church fathers, liturgies, reflections, prayers, and so on. However, the centre doctrines are quite simple, (not 'quite', though) The Trinity, Two Natures of Christ, and the Church. Orthodoxy uses these three filters to detect any heresies that may enter the Church, Christ's only Bride.
Certain other 'Christians' say that Orthodoxy teaches false doctrines. That's okay for me. Let them say that, because I used to say the same :D.
By God's Grace, however, I am allowed to know this nearly 2000-year-old chuch, and even to study much about this Church, which was based on Apostolic Traditions and blood of the martyrs.
Finally, I'm still sharpening my knowledge in Orthodoxy, and I hope many comments, or arguments, or swears can be displayed here. I'm not afraid to have different views here, or to have criticisms. I consider them as part of every human's spiritual paths.
May God bless you all.
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kamperwangi wrote on Mar 11, '09 Thanks Sis for the link... Buat bahan belajar lagi. Si Andre dkk sama Alvin mah gak usah dipusingin. Tidak bisa sekedar berdoa buat mereka, tapi perlu puasa juga, hahaha... Silakan siapa aja deh yang mau berdoa dan berpuasa buat mereka. Kali-kali aja Tuhan berkenan memberi rahmat bagi mereka. Thanks. |
cmoniquee wrote on Mar 11, '09, edited on Mar 11, '09 Dear All, sdr andre widodo, alvin, But first of all one must belong to the One True Church, which alone is the Body of Christ. That One True Church is the Church of the Seven Councils. But to those who will not be saved. . . it is useless to speak. check this out http://www.synodinresistance.org/index-en.html maybe you can learn something; then if you still can't understand, too bad you need to ask God's mercy to reveal his Great Mistery in His True Body, the Orhtodox Church. |
alvinsu wrote on Dec 22, '08 nice, thank you for adding me and thank you for caring about my health. God bless you |
kamperwangi wrote on Dec 22, '08 Boleh bro. I'm open koq. We can share many things if you will. Cuman, jangan terlalu terobsesi dengan conspiracy theory lah. Gak baik buat kesehatan, hahaha.. |
alvinsu wrote on Dec 22, '08 hi, bro. aku telah melihat site-mu. Ternyata ada teman lamaku, bung inhocsigno (IHS) disini. Salam damai en selamat natal buat bung IHS. Juga ada legalist Guru, Andre Widodo dengan capital "A" disini. Menarik...Bro mikhail, it is my pleasure to know you, would you mind if I be your contact? You have special friends of mine, like Andre and IHS in your guestbook, I believe that you are also a special one. I don't think you have something against me, or something secret in your site, do you? I can see that you are a very open person. Please accept my invitation and let me know whether we can be a good friend or just a "friend". Tak kenal maka tak sayang. En orang jerman bilang, "Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser" yg artinya "Percaya itu bagus tapi Kontrol itu lebih bagus". Jika kamu percaya padaku, apalagi sampai menyatakan diri kalau kmu dulunya anti Catholic juga, adalah lebih baik jika kita bisa meningkatkan hubungan dari sebatas kenal menjadi teman. What do you think? |
inhocsigno wrote on Dec 1, '08 Aku baru baca semua tulisan anda. Nice! Andre orangnya tertutup. Dia tidak akan baca tulisan anda. Link yang anda berikan pun tidak akan digubris. Bahkan kalau kita menuliskan tanggapan di blog dia pun dibaca sambil lalu saja. |
kamperwangi wrote on Nov 30, '08 Hahaha.. Gak apa-apa Pak Danny. Sebagai tanda mata keanehannya dia, wakakaka.. Katanya murid Kristus, tapi omongannya koq begitu? Untung dulu para rasul, walaupun orang-orang sederhana, punya argumen dan reasoning yang jauh lebih baik daripada si Andre ini. Ka Je Pe Mat 12:34-35 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. Hahaha... Malah jadi perang ayat. :D |
inhocsigno wrote on Nov 30, '08 Dihapus saja post si Andre di guestbook kamu. Dia gak berani pasang argumen kamu di blog dia tapi dia mau pasang argumen dia di sini. What a man.... Dari dulu suka begitu dia. |
gloriamaries wrote on Nov 30, '08 Makasih atas kunjungannya.. |
andrewidodo wrote on Nov 6, '08 Hahaha...masih on line tuh...ketauan tandanya. Lagi bikin ID baru lagi? |
andrewidodo wrote on Nov 6, '08 Nih saya kutip : The following statements have been used to justify persecution of Jews. Many of the following people were recognized as saints by the Church; none of them advocated physical violence or murder, sometimes arguing, like Augustine, that the Jews should be left alive and suffering as a perpetual reminder of their murder of Christ. * Eusebius of Caesarea, in 325, blames the calamities which befell the Jewish nation on the Jews' role in the death of Jesus: "that from that time seditions and wars and mischievous plots followed each other in quick succession, and never ceased in the city and in all Judea until finally the siege of Vespasian overwhelmed them. Thus the divine vengeance overtook the Jews for the crimes which they dared to commit against Christ."[2] * Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (340-397) - A bishop was accused of instigating the burning of a synagogue by an anti-Semitic mob, and Emperor Theodosius was preparing to order the bishop to rebuild it. Ambrose discouraged the Emperor from taking this step because it would appear to show special favoritism to the Jews: (1) no action was taken against those responsible for burning the houses of various wealthy individuals in Rome; (2) no action was taken against those responsible for the recent burning of the house of the Bishop of Constantinople; (3) Jews had caused several Christian basilicas to be burnt during the reign of Julian, yet had never been asked to make reparation, and some of those basilicas were still not rebuilt. Ambrose asked that Christian monies not be used to build a place of worship for unbelievers, heretics or Jews, and reminded Ambrose that some Christian laity had said of Emperor Maximus, "he has become a Jew" because of the edict Maximus issued regarding the burning of a Roman synagogue. Ambrose did not oppose punishing those directly responsible for burning the synagogue. He halted the celebration of the Eucharist until Theodosius agreed to end the investigation without requiring reparations to be made by the bishop.[3] * Augustine of Hippo in Book 18, Chapter 46, of The City of God wrote "The Jews who slew Him [Jesus], and would not believe in Him, because it behoved Him to die and rise again, were yet more miserably wasted by the Romans, and utterly rooted out from their kingdom, where aliens had already ruled over them, and were dispersed through the lands (so that indeed there is no place where they are not), and are thus by their own Scriptures a testimony to us that we have not forged the prophecies about Christ."[4] Augustine deems the survival and the scattering of the Jews as willed by God for them to give testimony everywhere that the prophecies that Christians interpret as proving that Jesus is the Messiah are no Christian invention, being preserved also by what he calls the Church's enemies, the Jews. Thus, he says, the survival and scattering of the Jews fulfils the prophecy: "My God hath shown me concerning mine enemies, that Thou shalt not slay them, lest they should at last forget Thy law: disperse them in Thy might." * Ephraim the Syrian wrote polemics against Jews in the fourth century, including the repeated accusation that Satan dwells among them as a partner. These writings were directed at Christians who were being proselytized by Jews and who Ephraim feared were slipping back into the religion of Judaism; thus he portrayed the Jews as enemies of Christianity, like Satan, to emphasize the contrast between the two religions, namely, that Christianity was Godly and true and Judaism was Satanic and false. Like John Chrysostom, his objective was to dissuade Christians from reverting to Judaism by emphasizing what he saw as the wickedness of the Jews and their religion.[5][6] * In his Dialog of Justin, Philosopher and Martyr, with Trypho, a Jew, the Christian scholar Justin Martyr advanced arguments for the truth of Christianity and wrote to his imaginary Jewish opponent: "You think that these words refer to the stranger and the proselytes, but in fact they refer to us who have been illumined by Jesus. For Christ would have borne witness even to them; but now you are become twofold more the children of Hell, as He said Himself."[7] * Saint Jerome (374-419) - He denounced Jews as "Judaic serpents of whom Judas was the model". In his The Jews in the Roman Empire (Les Juifs dan L'Empire Romain) [Is this really a work by Jerome, or a modern history?] he wrote: "The Jews seek nothing but to have children, possess riches and be healthy. They seek all earthly things, but think nothing of heavenly things; for this reason they are mercenaries." * Saint John Chrysostom (c. 344 - 407) - wrote of the Jews and of Judaizers in eight homilies Adversus Judaeos, Against The Jews (or Against the Judaizers).[8] "Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? the whole day long will not be enough to give you an account of these things. But do their festivals have something solemn and great about them? They have shown that these, too, are impure." (Homily I, VII, 1) "But before I draw up my battle line against the Jews, I will be glad to talk to those who are members of our own body, those who seem to belong to our ranks although they observe the Jewish rites and make every effort to defend them. Because they do this, as I see it, they deserve a stronger condemnation than any Jew." (HOMILY IV, II, 4) "Are you Jews still disputing the question? Do you not see that you are condemned by the testimony of what Christ and the prophets predicted and which the facts have proved? But why should this surprise me? That is the kind of people you are. From the beginning you have been shameless and obstinate, ready to fight at all times against obvious facts." (HOMILY V, XII, 1) * Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (467-533) - In his "Writings", written about 510 CE, he states "Hold most firmly and doubt not that not all the pagans, but also all the Jews, heretic and schismatics who depart from the present life outside the Catholic Church, are about to go into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." (See also: Extra ecclesiam nulla salus.) ================================== Mbah-mbah nenek moyangmu saja bertentangan dengan Rom 10:1...apalagi pengikutnya? Rom 10:1 KJV Brothers, truly my heart's pleasure and supplication to God on behalf of Israel is for it to be saved. Disuruh mendoakan Israel, ini malah membunuhi Israel....ckckckck |
andrewidodo wrote on Nov 6, '08 Hehehe...saya tidak anti Katolik atau anti Orthodox. Tetapi saya anti false doctrines. Apalagi dengan orang yang tidak jelas ID-nya...saya paling anti. Sepertinya Anda manusia yang pengecut yang besembunyi dibalik ID palsu. Kasihan...  ...semoga Anda bertobat dari kelakuan Anda yang pengecut itu.Omong-omong...apakah Tuhan Yesus juga pengecut? Tentu tidak. Hanya Iblis-lah yang pengecut. |
andrewidodo wrote on Nov 6, '08 Mat 7:6 KJV Give not that which is holy unto ...  , neither cast ye your pearls before ... , lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. ....... ... |