what do you know about coptic christians..!!?
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The word Copt or Coptic means Egyptian. While the Muslim population of Egypt generally calls themselves Arabs, the word Copt or Coptic refers to the Christian population of Egypt. \n\nSaint Mark the Evangelist introduced Christianity into Egypt. An unbroken succession of leaders for the Coptic Orthodox Church starts with Saint Mark and continues to the present Pope Shenouda III. He is the 117th successor of Saint Mark. His website is at http://www.copticpope.org/index.php
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"Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." is a really great thesis ......... but can someobody tell me how the hell am i going to learn if i don't ask? Only fools don't ask.\n\nI believe in God, but still there are so many issues i don't understand, not just about my religion - others too (i respect each and everyone's religious choices and i want to learn about them ..... if for nothing else, then at least for the sake of debate).\n\nOne more thing, in islam we are always ordered to inquire and search for answers, we are encouraged to seek knowledge and no one will stop me but God Himself.\n\nNow, you have a nice day - great question indeed :)
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Ummmm what i can say ... great history..or Um kolthoum ????\n\nSO ....i just can say they have UM AL-DONEY
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Greetings in Salaam, Peace, & Shalom from Jesus Land,\n\nAfter more than two thousand years, Christian families are still living, witnessing, & worshiping in the land where Jesus Christ was born, lived, died, & was resurrected. We are NOT immigrants. We are NOT converts from Judaism or Islam. We are the descendents of the original indigenous Christians who first believed in our Lord Jesus Christ. We live in Nazareth, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, & other places in the Biblical Palestine, Israel, & Jordan. We are Arab Palestinian Christians (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, & others). Together, we comprise the MOTHER CHURCH, the Church of Jerusalem. Zion remains the Mother of All the Churches, & Urushalim the Holy City.\n\nHave you ever wondered what happened to the descendants of the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and the descendants of other Jews, Arabs, Canaanites, Greeks, Philistines, Romans, and Samaritans・who accepted the Messiah when He was with them in the flesh? Today, their direct descendants number around a million. These are the Palestinian Christians who still maintain the faith and tradition.\n\nGod bless Palestine
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You have absolutely no understanding of the concept of the TRINETY. God is ALL THREE, FATHER/SON/HOLY SPIRIT\n\nSlavery is part of YOUR religion, not Christianity.\n\nYou should look BEYOND your teachings and your fellow Muslims if you want a TRUE understanding of Christianity. Otherwise you are only spreading ignorance to strengthen your own orthodoxy.
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For the christians- not big, but there is a large muslim community, you should be carefull with them.\nChristians have their orthodx church, but after 50 years of communism its role is insignifficant thou people recently come back to it again,little by little.
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Sparky First let me say I appreciate the 10 pts. I don't know what I did to piss you off though. I told you to look up the work "Qumran" because it is one of the best documented archaeological finds in the world and I knew that there would be plenty of info online (which would be convenient for you). Would you rather me refer you to the dozens of books that I know of offhand or to an infinite # of archaeological reports that are incredibly boring to read? I studied Qumran under Jodi Magness at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she is the foremost American Archaeologist in the world concerning the "holyland." In particular, she is definitely the foremost authority on Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  In case you don't know, archaeology is SCIENCE, not religion, and archaeological reports and finds are scientific and are not at all connected to the Church or any religion.  \n\nNothing in my answer to you dealt with religious dogma, I simply tried to answer your question as to why SOME Christians see a threat in the DaVinci code. Now, as for your claim that the bible was written 200 years after Christ, well that's true for some of the later NT books, but not of the Gospels. Some of the gnostic texts were much later than the gospels, which is part of the reason they were rejected by the church. \n\nAnd lastly, you claim that the bible has changed so many times that it's all crap. What do you have to support this? Go see the Dead Sea Scrolls some time, which were written between 2500-2000 yrs ago (as I visited a DSS exhibit about a month ago in Charlotte, NC). And then compare that to the KJV or the American Standard Bible.  The Old Testament found in the 1950s in the Caves near Qumran is nearly word for word with what we have today.  It is amazing that in 2000 or more years the Jewish text has changed so little!  This means that we should all reexamine the amount of credit we have granted the Jewish oral tradition that was so important to the early Christian Church.  IT IS ACCURATE, whether you want to admit it or not. SCIENCE and HISTORY support that.\n\nAgain, I answered your question rather well... Let me try one more time in FIVE SIMPLE SENTENCES that will be very easy for you to comprehend this time:\n\n1.  It wouldn't be so bad if Jesus was married.\n\n2.  Christians are NOT offended or threatened by the possibility that Jesus could have been married.\n\n3.  It's simply not historically true or believable, from the bible and from the writings of two Roman historians Tacitus and Josephus.\n\n4.  However, Some Christians ARE offended by the notion that Christ was not Divine; and the "The DaVinci Code" claims his having a child is proof that Jesus was NOT divine.\n\n5.  Such a claim can be damaging to the mission field because people like you believe anything and everything you read in a novel or see on TV and are therefore hostile toward Christianity.\n\nSo, that's why some Christians are offended by the DaVinci Code and by the notion that Christ might have been married to and had a child with Mary Magdalene.  Because of the hostility towards Christianity that such false belief creates.  People like you work directly against anyone trying to bring people to Christ.  \n\nPS.. the whole "MM was a whore" lost in translation thing.. do your history research man, you don't know what you are talking about at all.  You speak fiction and pass it off as truth. \n\nAnd you wonder why people would be offended?  maybe some people just like the truth?\n\nLet me ask you a question.  Why are you so offended by Christianity?  What are YOU afraid of?  The Truth?
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I was on my way to bed and stumbled across this question.\nHere's the answer but you must look it up yourself, because I'm tired of typing tonight, eastern time 12:27 a.m.\nNumbers 12 read the whole chpt. about Moses and his ethiopian wife. What God did to those who opposed. Good night! SOT-\n\nEdit: Oh, I am a christian and married to a german man (white) I'm black!
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I love Christians.I really love non-Christians,because I can tell them about my friend,JESUS CHRIST!My job as a CHRISTIAN is to spread the gospel about Jesus,how he is the son of God,died on the cross for me,and you,and rose on the third day to defeat Satan.I'm telling you it's gospel,and that's the gospel truth!God bless you REAL good!
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Here is a good link about Russian Orthodox beliefs and history. They are not Catholics.\n\nhttp://countrystudies.us/russia/38.htm
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I attend a Christian Church. I am a student of theology and I sit with the elders of our church and we study for hours every week. There is no member of the church I attend that believes that you have to believe in the deity of Jesus Christ in order to have eternal life. We believe that cultures are diverse and there is one god of this earth. The God of Abraham is the God of Mohammed. \nI believe in transcendence, I believe in the probability of reincarnation. All Christian churches are not alike. It is the same with Moslem sects. \nI think there is greater intolerance among the Moslem sects than there is between a Moslem and a member of the church I attend.\nPeace be with you. I shall take a look at your site and YES, God will bless me for keeping an open mind and searching always for truth.
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Islam is a Intolorant religion.Most non Muslims move out of Muslim countries.Ask a Coptic who lives in Egypt what it is like living there.
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your best bet is to look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
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ordinary christians are well informed of their bible.ordinary muslims are not fully aware of Quran's contents.their mullahs have misled them into riots.
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I live in the United States and the Eastern Orthodox churches are few and far between. Besides, I did a little research on their beliefs and I'm not to impressed. They are very big into icons and I know that that can lead to other things. Other then that i respect all Eastern orthodox Christians. In fact, I hope to one day actually go to one of their services and see what it's like.
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I certainly believe they exist, and have read several books on them, and did some extensive research on the Gospel of Thomas.  Do I believe they should be in the Bible?  No.  Many of the people who talk about them here have not read them, and there are several that we don't even have a complete copy of; the Gospel of Mary is an example of this.  There is some theology, especially concering creation, that are contrary to the rest of scripture.  Gnostics also have what is known as a docetic view of Jesus.  That is, that Jesus wasn't human, he only appeared to be human.  Gnostics believe that the physical world is evil, and so God would never have taken on human form.\n\nAlso, there are plenty of other writings that were not included in the Bible.  Letters from other church fathers such as Clement, and other books such as The Shepherd of Hermas and the Didache were considered for the canon, but not included.  So, it wasn't just the Gnostic gospels that were not included.\n\nThe Gnostic gospels are valuable however, because they show us some of how Christianity developed early in its history.\n\nFinally, it is important to know that for many of the Gnostic Gospels, we had no copies or only fragments of many of them before a discovery at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in the 1950's.  So, there hasn't been a long running conspiracy to keep these books from the public.
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As many members of the diocese who can. If you've never been before, make this year a first.\n\nUnless of course, you happen to be a member of the Coptic Church.  That's a whooooooooole different ball game....