I Am He

هذه هى المدونه الأولى باللغة العربيه ، بعدما طلب منى القراء ترجمتها ، اتمنى الفائدة الروحية للجميع Theologians, please do not be upset أرجو عدم زعل اللاهوتيون I recently attended a conference about Bible doctrine and the Church Fathers. Here is what I noticed: The Religious science used to be a window for the believers to transform their hearts and minds. “ And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what   is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 The Writing of St. Athanasius, St. Cyril and others are not meant to be a way to study hypotheses and create new theories, but are meant to be “ Lex Credendi” [i] Which means, the way we believe in God, the true faith. Writing a paper about the writing of one of one of the saints should not occur without bringing it to our daily life, and how we believers can feed this knowledge into daily practice, bring...

(Title adopted from the title of the ecumenical patriarch or the patriarch of Alexandria “First among others or first among Others) (notice the sensitivity of letter’s case position) The picture is copied from http://www.unitedwaysteelecounty.org/About_Us.php                               Recognizing the presence of the others is a valuable virtue. Without the other, you do not exist. In the 20 letters of St. Anthony, Samuel Rubenson mentioned that one important quality of St. Anthony the Great is that in order to be saved, you should lead others too to their ways of salvation. This reminds me of a quote from the Indian creed, “the hurt of one is the hurt of all and the honour of one is the honour of all,” which also coincides with what the blessed St. Paul said to his disciples Timothy in his first epistle “ For this   is   good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ...

In my service I started to realize this concept about we are creating pharaohs.  Sometimes, I see a “movement” started by one of the youth and later many people were attracted to this “movement.” Later this group becomes led by this person, and whatever s/he says they follow, mindlessly.  This phenomenon reflects another deep problem:  why do you not have your own self-identity and instead of being just an enslaved by another person’s identity, being an identity yourself who seeks God’s unique stamp in your life.   My advice to those “pharaohs” who enslave others, be careful my beloved, ruining minds is a great tragedy, do not be part of it. The blessed St. Paul said, “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). So Christ is the focus. Here is a simple tool for discovering if your participation in a meeting or group will be valuable to you:  Ask yourself the following questions: 1- What is the objective? 2- Why are w...