My Emails to Dr. Hany Mina - 1

This a series of Emails exchanged between me and Dr. Hany Mina of 

 http://copticorthodox-divinejustice.com/, primarily discussing Christian concepts related to the possibility of Salvation after Death.

I have recently decided that I'd like to share those emails with a wider audience, so I am posting them here with slight editing (mainly removing parts irrelevant to the discussion and names for anonymity)

Here goes nothing:

Email: 1
From: me
To: Dr. Hany

Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:38 AM

Hello Sir,

first of all I'd like to introduce myself, my name is ..................

I apologize for the late email, .......

I had thought of sending you this email a long time ago, but I waited for an introduction from ..... for 2 reasons, the first is that I wasn't sure if you'll trust me, what with the sad general state of our coptic church, & I don't just mean the points of authority, but those who oppose them as well. The whole thing is quite ugly & bears more resemblance to a theocracy than to a church, quite frankly! & this has driven people to watch their words too closely, which is sad for a family in Christ, but has become a must in a way. 

How I heard of you is through 4 hours of your recorded voice, passed on by a friend that I assume he got from a friend. by the way I have them on the internet at my personal online storage space: .........................................
I hope you do not mind. Please tell me if you do & I will remove them, I just wanted to put them in a place where a couple of friends can download them.

Now why I wanted to email you, well I did have some questions, but it's primarily because of something that was hinted at in one of those hours & later hinted at by Fr. Antonious Amin. a few months before he passed away a friend was at his appartment, & I don't know what were they talking about but he asked Fr. Antonious if there is hope after death, & Fr. Antonious's reply was: Yes there is.

Now I see there must be, but at that time I was surprised he said so, after some discussion with my friends we reached a point where we agreed there must be hope after death, we just didn't know how. Then we remembered you hinted at that in one of those recordings when you said something about people dying in the old testament (& indeed, the new testament as well) not as punishment but -as you put it- God wanted to "get the naughty boy out of the room".

Since that time when I wanted to ask you I have searched for answers for quite some time, on websites & in online encyclopedias & I even ventured into Schaff's compilation of the writings of the Alexandrine fathers, but I have to admit I didn't get so far there.

Now my thoughts on the subject have developed, and I still need you to please get in touch with me & tell me what you had meant by that hint, what is the rest of the thought?

.....................................

Thank you.

God Bless