I know … my psychiatrist reminds me all the time.
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Ah… something on which we can agree.
Yes indeed … it good to find some common ground.
Glad to hear you’re heading in the right direction. It comes as a surprise to many Christians that the Church didn’t start with the so-called Reformation - the Church came into existence about 1500 years prior.
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Meanwhile, there’s probably a Catholic church located reasonably close to you …
Until you resolve your distance issue, maybe you could consider attending a Catholic church for the Mass celebration … anyone is welcome to attend, although only Catholics can receive the sacrament of Communion. I imagine the Catholic Liturgy would be similar to that offered in an Orthodox church.
The RC church here only gives communion under one kind, which is abhorrent to what Jesus said – I won’t darken that door from fifty feet away.
Not. Even. Close.
Covid. bro. My parish hasn’t offered Communion in the form of wine since 2019.
Have you ever been to a Catholic Communion (Mass)
I am guessing not.
There is littlle difference in liturgy. The man difference is that Catholics believe the host and wine are Christ while the rest of us believe they are symbolically in remembrance of Him.
Richard
Comparing the theory of gravity to a theory that attempts to explain the evolutionary history of life is ridiculous … for reasons that should be obvious.
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What’s obvious is you don’t know how the terms ‘theory’ and ‘fact’ are used in science (nor how much evidence there is supporting evolution).
This may describe you as well?: A recent post.
I don’t think so – physicists still haven’t the slightest clue what gravity actually is, and they’re not entirely sure they really understand what it does. Biology is in somewhat better shape.
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I dont know … that post is too deep for me to understand. Sorry.
The major problem with Orthodox churches is that they’ve separated themselves from Peter, who alone holds “the keys of the kingdom of heaven” given to him by Jesus (Matt 16:18-19).
For that reason, I don’t believe the Orthodox represent the true Church, even though they have valid holy orders, sacraments and apostolic succession through the episcopacy,
On the other hand, scientists can perform experiments with gravity … no one can perform experiments with fish evolving into mammals, for example.
But they can predict successfully and find fossils. Maybe Chicko 
hasn’t read to you about Tiktaalik, an example of just that.
How quickly he forgets.
In case you didn’t recognize it, “I don’t think it’s going to happen in a lab any time soon” was gross understatement. It ain’t gonna happen. But don’t be even a little surprised when they isolate genetic sequences that alone or in combination with others that can radically change morphologies!
And that is comparable how?
And you really do not see this as a problem, or factor?
What it means is that evolution can never be a fact, in the real sense.
Been there,
Evolution is only a hypothesis but due to longevity it has been granted theoretical status.
But, in science a theory is considered fact if there is no conflicting scientific theory.
So evolution became a fact by scientific manipulation.
Brilliant
Richard
Go here: A recent post.
What is your conflicting scientific theory to evolution? It cannot be theistic evolution, because you admit that it is not science.