Eleventh Doctor Q&A

[Miss Friendship]

But only God is omniscient and omnipresent. So it would seem, that God would have to tell the Saints what was prayed. Meaning, you have a better connection if you go straight to God instead.

So you only fast on Wednesdays and Fridays?

When you say your service is 75% the same, are those the same words being quoted again and again? Cause that is different than always reading the Bible which is way larger content than off repeated phrases.

[Eleventh Doctor]

As I said I think they are experiencing time differently than us. I never said they were omniscient and omnipresent just that they are more like that than us since they are more like God than us. I still pray to God, I just also ask the Saints to pray for me. Just like you ask others to pray for you, why do you do that if you'd just have a better connection going straight to God?

Wednesdays and Fridays are our normal fasting times during the week, we also have periods of fasting too: http://oca.org/liturgics/outlines/fasti ... the-church

They are the same words yes. I never said don't read the Bible but why would you read the same passage again once you've read it already? How could you get anything new out of reading something again?

[Miss Friendship]

If I need emergency help, I phone God, not a friend who phones when he/she has time. And the Saints have died, if they were still alive, yes, ask them to pray. I just don't see in scripture where it says they can hear us when we pray.

The reason you fast on those days is because long ago the Pharisees or was it pagans? fasted on Monday and Thursday, so in opposition the early Church did Wednesday and Friday. I think anyway, if I am getting my facts straight here. So really, nothing makes those days special except that's just how its been done. ? Why not just fast whenever now, since the people the Church was reacting towards are long gone?

Are those words scripture or written prayers? And why not switch it out with something else new that's also good instead of being destined to hear the same thing again and again? Sure, I am not saying you cant learn from it again and again. But sometimes hearing the same thing dulls our mind to new meaning...unless we heard it like every other month or something.

Yes, I can learn from the same chapter. But usually I read many many other chapters before I return to that particular one.

[Eleventh Doctor]

I would say that they are more alive than us, after all God is not the God of the dead but of the living. And the Saints are in the very presence of God, how could they be dead?

I don't know the reason for Wednesday & Friday but I do know that we do it together and that's something we wouldn't get if we just did it whenever we wanted. It's about more than just our individual whims then, its about discipline and obedience.

Some of it is written prayers other parts are Scripture, a lot of the Liturgy is quoting Scripture. But as I said, some parts are switched out every time. But I in no way feel like I've learned everything in the Liturgy perfectly so it's still useful to me to hear it again and again.

[Miss Friendship]

I read that about fasting on those days in the link you gave me yesterday on Early Christians.

So is it true that the word "Apocrypha" comes from the Greek word "hidden" and means "false" or "of doubtful authorship?"

[Eleventh Doctor]

Ah, well then no reason to change now. As I said we all fast on the same day rather than it being up to our own individual whims.

That is true, which is why when referring to the books in the Orthodox Bible that are not in the Protestant Bible we just say you know the books of the Bible and then Protestants call the ones they took out later the Apocrypha and then when we have to react to changes that took place 1,20o years after things were settled we ask that you say Deuterocanonical books not Apocrypha.

[Miss Friendship]

Why not fast in secret as Jesus said too? When you fast on the same day, everyone knows it, and suppose the Holy Spirit leads you to fast on Tuesday?

Interesting. I wonder why the book didn't add that extra information.

[Eleventh Doctor]

I don't announce my fasting unless people ask, I'm not trying to make a big deal about it and if the Spirit led me to fast on Tuesday I'd do that too.

[Miss Friendship]

OK, I just didn't know if your Church allowed you to fast other days.

Favorite season?

Do you like hot choclate?

Is it still warm where you live, or are the days cooling down?

[Eleventh Doctor]

Yeah you can fast on other days, Wed & Fri though should still be different in attitude.

Favorite season, the Fall

Hot chocolate can be good when its cold

it is still warm, there have been some cooler days where there isn't as much humidity but today was still in the 90s

[Tarol]

Could I become apart of your church, even though I don't ever change my Protestant ways? Even if I insist on being baptized as a believer, I don't think the current leaders are the Disciples incarnate, and I don't confess privately to the Priest? o_o

[Eleventh Doctor]

I don't see why you'd want to become Orthodox if you don't believe like we do. If you hadn't been baptized before you would be baptized as an adult but we don't rebaptize people. I don't think my bishops are the Disciples incarnate. Confession is a key sacrament in the Church, so again I don't understand why you'd want to be Orthodox if you don't believe like we do.

[Miss Friendship]

You don't rebaptize people if they had been baptized before? 0_o I didn't know that.

[Eleventh Doctor]

As long as you were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

[Miss Friendship]

Hmm, so a baptism performed in the name of Jesus only would be considered invalid?

Also, do you sprinkle water, or do full underwater? *forgets the right term of this*

[Eleventh Doctor]

That would be invalid, correct.

The term is immersion and we do that, three times.

[Miss Friendship]

Your church has something in common with our church then. O_o We do immersion as well, and some have requested three times. Suppose you were baptized in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit but only immersed once? Is that baptism valid?

[Eleventh Doctor]

Yes, I was only immersed once.

[Tarol]

What happened to "let's unite churches!!!"??? You expect us all to agree on everything too?

[SirWhit]

Does Stoa got swag?