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nomy 6 5 in two pre islamic arabic inscriptions ahmad al jallad echoes of deuteronomy 6 5 in two pre islamic arabic inscriptions paleo arabic from northwest arabia this contribution proposes that two paleo arabic inscriptions from northwest arabia contain a rough rendering of deuteronomy 6 5 via matthew 22 37 luke 10 27 providing evidence for contact with christianity in arabia deserta in the first century bh before the hiǧrah awareness of the bible and indeed an effort to translate it idiomatically into the vernacular read the entire article in pre print here this arabic rendering of the greatest commandment seems to give some small hint of how arabs were being evangelized in their own language immediately before islam posted by samn at 4 14 am no comments labels history sunday february 1 2026 fr touma bitar even if you don t know how you are bound for salvation arabic original here even if you don t know how you are bound for salvation there are people who surprise you they have not known or rather had never practiced orthodoxy until recently but despite that you find that they have remarkable awareness seriousness and composure while many others who were considered to be inside the church you find to have shocking flippancy disdain and indifference to the faith do you think it s an issue of knowledge and information it doesn t seem to be there are those who profoundly feel god s presence and there are those who do not feel it this has no connection to whether you have been orthodox for generations but rather to whether you have an upright conscience even if you grew up outside the orthodox church your lord works in ways you do not know whether in what you value inside the church or outside of it your lord does not treat titles like people do everyone without knowing it is from him in him and to him his categories are not your categories his calculations are not your calculations in your own eyes perhaps it is as though you are coming from the unknown and setting off into the unknown even if you are accustomed to shielding yourself with the name of your lord in reality you might be acting according to your natural disposition as though you have no power with god in a world where your lord is sidelined as though he had no connection to the details of your life and you just grew up like that you find yourself as though you were free to take account of him or disregard him without a care it all depends on your temperament but for your lord your situation is different there is an inevitability that you revolve around him even without knowing it every hair on your head is counted every thought every impulse every movement every heartbeat every endeavor would not have been possible without you being at the center of your lord s plan for your salvation how do you explain what happens to you this does not mean that you are right in what you are doing no but your lord is truth he is the path to truth there is nothing easier than following a path when you don t know what it is you think it is one thing and it turns out to be something else you think you have reached a certain place and you strive for it diligently then it becomes clear to you that you are in another sphere in any case do not forget that you are in your lord s care everything that has happened and is happening is in the service of salvation i am not saying your own salvation alone but the salvation of all humankind however this does not mean each of us individually because so long as we do not work for each other we gain no benefit in other words each is charged with his brothers with all people the dynamism of the salvation of each of us is activated through zeal for others salvation the issue does not stop at the limits of each being for himself for you to fast to pray and to remain in inner contact with your lord is of course important but you are not on fire in the spirit unless it is through love the warmth of a loving heart depends on compassion for your brothers the more you genuinely embrace what belongs to others the more you grow and the spirit of god intensifies within you in this context the return of the enemy the stranger the poor the distant the oppressor the one immersed in his sin will be even greater for you if you embrace him with visceral zeal my brother is my life in the words of st silouan the athonite love is poured out all the more upon the sinner the stranger the sick the straying and this benefits all the more the one who pours it out without keeping count before you is one astray do not judge or condemn him you do not know what hell he is coming from there is the heart who knows what is in it apart from its creator most people are sons of pain i seek mercy and not sacrifice unless your righteousness surpasses that of the wicked and unjust you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven the man of sin is characterized by lying and deception man in this context is the great prosecutor he invents images of himself to protect himself to defend himself for him truthfulness and dishonesty are both equally permitted he chooses what suits him there is nothing easier for him than to be truthful in the service of dishonesty exaggeration is something natural for him there is nothing to prevent him from lying when passing on truthful statements that suit him his motto easily is fabrication as for deception in the words of fr elias morcos may god have mercy on him man is a deceptive animal deception is related to desire to trickery to ambiguity to one s self image and of course to imagination to fantasy to dreams thus in general fantasy comes from darkness in the soul the world of fantasy is the world of sin par excellence if adam had not gone wild with his fantasy it would not have occurred to him that he was a god and so he would not have strayed from obedience to his god the impulse to fantasy that the snake breathed cast him into the pit of falsehood accepting an image of himself other than what god told him in the commandment made him into a liar there are nevertheless people who have acquired qualities not devoid of goodness and integrity even though they are not of the church who has passed through whose life and what has he left behind this remains a mystery with many there are things in the soul found dormant amidst events that influence their owners direction on this level along people s path they are swallowed up by noise that they can only escape though a shock at that point they wake up to secrets that they never imagined existed here and there in the corridors of their conscience what is revealed might result not only in something surprising but something that might radically alter their direction a sinner is not generally at ease with his situation and is not pleased with staying in place if we were to describe his internal existential state in one word we would say that he is someone mired in anxiety of course he tries to normalize a certain peace within himself but he does this especially at times of crisis with fabrications that only lead to more anxiety and confusion no matter how much he relies on things that calm his nerves in the final analysis a sinner suffers from loss and time and again his reaction cannot overcome the limits of escapism that always ends in tragedy in general he is inclined to go from failure to failure in the long run a sinner will inevitably awaken to a great emptiness after a frivolous life a frivolous death looms before him on the horizon every vessel overflows with what it contains the secret remains in pain and at its center is an existential emptiness in the end a person cannot bear meaninglessness what stirs within him after everything that he has gone through in his life pushes him to wonder existentially where to there is something that is not within anyone s capability and there is no power whatever it may be apart from the spirit of your lord that can provide someone with an answer at an existential level about the meaning of a son of adam s life they come from east and west and sit with abraham isaac and jacob but the children of the kingdom are cast outside how and when can a soul change your lord alone is the knower of hearts what remains constant however is that the most high wishes for all to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth as st silouan the athonite says keep your mind in hell and despair not the important thing is to not despair archimandrite touma bitar abbot of the monastery of st silouan the athonite douma lebanon february 1 2026 posted by samn at 9 06 am no comments labels fr touma bitar monday january 19 2026 the patriarchs of jerusalem against christian zionism source a statement from the patriarchs and heads of the churches in jerusalem on unity and representation of the christian communities in the holy land january 17 2026 the patriarchs and heads of churches in the holy land affirm before the faithful and before the world that the flock of christ in this land is entrusted to the apostolic churches which have borne their sacred ministry across centuries with steadfast devotion recent activities undertaken by local individuals who advance damaging ideologies such as christian zionism mislead the public sow confusion and harm the unity of our flock these undertakings have found favor among certain political actors in israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the christian presence in the holy land and the wider middle east holy scripture teaches us that we though many are one body in christ and individually members one of another romans 12 5 to claim authority outside the communion of the church is to wound the unity of the faithful and burden the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic churches in the very land where our lord lived taught suffered and rose from the dead the patriarchs and heads of churches further note with concern that these individuals have been welcomed at official levels both locally and internationally such actions constitute interference in the internal life of the churches and disregard the pastoral responsibility vested in the patriarchs and heads of churches in jerusalem the patriarchs and heads of churches in jerusalem reiterate that they alone represent the churches and their flock in matters pertaining to christian religious communal and pastoral life in the holy land may the lord who is the shepherd and guardian of souls grant wisdom for the protection of his people and the safeguarding of his witness in this sacred land the patriarchs and heads of the churches in jerusalem posted by samn at 7 36 am no comments labels the plight of middle eastern christianity thursday january 1 2026 paul ulishney new evidence for conversion to islam in anastasius of sinai s hodegos paul ulishney new evidence for conversion to islam in anastasius of sinai s hodegos dumbarton oaks papers 78 2024 29 48 abstract contrary to the judgment of earlier scholars who suggested that all that could be found concerning early islam in the writings of anastasius of sinai had already been discovered this article unearths new evidence for conversion to islam in anastasius s hodegos a list of aporiai raised by those who now apostatize from christianity i argue that these apostates should be understood as christian converts to islam and that the aporiai themselves shed new light on the nature and content of the earliest christian muslim disputations in the context of other evidence for early islamic belief in other seventh century christian authors anastasius s aporiai distinguish themselves by offering evidence for the actual intellectual content of christian muslim disputation rather than words put into the mouths of fictional muslim interlocutors the unique nature of this evidence also parochializes traditional conceptions of christian muslim disputation in the middle ages i e that of the monk in the emir s majlis instead they offer us a likelier portrait of what christian muslim disputations may have looked like in the earliest days greek speaking converts to islam engaging in aporetic questioning on the subject of the greek christian scriptures with members of their old faith read the full article here posted by samn at 7 10 am no comments labels history islam older posts home subscribe to posts atom arabic type books printed in wallachia istanbul and beyond arabic christianity between the ottoman levant and eastern europe orthodoxy and islam in the middle east arab orthodox christians under the ottomans 1516 1831 the orthodox church in the arab world 700 1700 subscribe posts atom posts all comments atom all comments useful links patriarchate of antioch patriarchate of antioch department of development archdiocese of mount lebanon archdiocese of aleppo archiocese of beirut archdiocese of tripoli archdiocese of akkar archdiocese of hama archdiocese of baghdad and kuwait orthodox youth movement met georges khodr met paul yazigi in english holy trinity 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