To fear God is to stand in awe of His infinite majesty and glorious brilliance in humility. Not in terror that paralyzes but in reverence that energizes. Once you fear God, you will love Him.
@LowStudies@alqdys13839 We don’t have any catechumens starting YouTube channels in the first place to think of stopping it let alone baptized parishioners. Our spirituality is very communal and doesn’t enable the circumstances that lead to guys going online and speaking on matters they’re ignorant of.
@LowStudies@Moth3rmomo This is specifically an Ethiopian decree about specifically Ethiopian practices. We don’t have ex cathedra statements so I’m not sure what you mean by “binding”. This is as authoritative as any church father writing from that time.
@UncleVuitton@reformedroom I’m sorry but who says you can make these arbitrary rules on how and when to use words based exclusively on your sect’s later development? I use these words how the Cappadocian fathers and the Council of Ephesus used them.
@reformedroom@catvon0@ApostolicOrtho It literally is identical. This isn’t a made up narrative it’s the truth. I encourage you not to shut yourself out to the truth because it’s uncomfortable.
Have you read Nestorius and Leo for yourself?
@reformedroom@catvon0@ApostolicOrtho His position leads to that in the same way we believe your position does because the classical Chalcedonian Christological position is IDENTICAL to that of Nestorius. I would challenge you to prove me wrong and cite Nestorius himself instead of what people say about him.
@catvon0@ApostolicOrtho@reformedroom Nestorianism as espoused by Nestorius is not the belief in 2 persons but in 2 natures. Nobody ever believed in 2 persons.
@catvon0@ApostolicOrtho@reformedroom Nature is used to mean hypostasis or ousia depending on the context. The question you need to ask yourself is where does the human nature subsist. If it subsists inside the divine nature then you’ve violated immutability, if it’s outside, then you’re a Nestorian
@fistofnicaea@reformedroom Your ignorance of the metaphysics doesn’t make it not an issue. A union of two things can only result in one thing otherwise it’s not a true union. If there remains two things after the union then it’s not a union it’s a maintained division
@LatterDayCanons@ApostolicOrtho I don’t believe my genitals are God. Also your own fathers like Maximus in Ambiguum 41 teach that reproductive organs are provisions for the fall and they’ll be done away with at the resurrection and he doesn’t believe they are necessarily counted as essential to “the whole Adam”
@LatterDayCanons@ApostolicOrtho Dawg nobody is saying using nuptial bridegroom bride intimacy as allegories for Christ and the Church’s love is wrong. Song of Solomon does so. What is wrong is explicitly GAY 🏳️🌈 imagery and explicitly referencing genitals as Christ.
@LatterDayCanons@ApostolicOrtho Are you being a rainbow apologist just for pride month or is this a full time thing for you. What’s next? You gonna tell us that they didn’t have the same concept of homosexuality in the 1st century so St. Paul couldn’t have possibly condemned it?