Universal History: The Origins of the Nephilim (link below)
In this conversation with Deacon Seraphim Rohlin, we continue our exploration of Genesis through the Syrian tradition, looking especially at Seth (Adam and Eve’s son after Cain and Abel), the Nephilim, and the fall of the sons of God.
A few notes about The Lord of the Rings that people suddenly seem to be misrepresenting:
The One Ring is NOT "just a tool"
It was infused with the evil of the being that crafted it
The only way to deal with it is to completely destroy it
https://t.co/wFP3zapVF8
Theologian JD Hall on the corrupting lie of Christian Zionism.
0:00 What Is Christian Zionism?
2:50 What Is Dispensationalism?
20:40 What Is Jesus Christ's Role in Dispensationalism?
26:26 Who Killed Jesus?
35:45 The Scofield Bible and How Dispensationalism Was Used for Political Gain
42:42 How Zionism Took Hold in the West
45:31 How Does the Secular State of Israel Fit Into This Theology?
47:25 Israel's Persecution of Christians
53:19 What Is the Muslim View of Jesus?
58:45 Israel's Propaganda Campaign on Christians
1:10:04 Israel's Evil AI Targeting Programs
1:14:23 Is Modern Judaism the Jewish Religion of the Old Testament?
1:21:08 What Are Mike Huckabee's Motives?
1:24:22 Are Christians Waking Up?
1:39:16 Can Christians Support War in Iran?
@MethodMinistry You see salvation as a judicial process where the legal situation of the sinner is the problem; orthodoxy sees him as a sick patient who needs to be healed.
Both Ortlund and Wood just did streams where they imply or outright deny Orthodox are even Christians or “saved,” yet claim Orthodox are bad for “exclusivism.” All the mainline Prot apologists are being exposed as massive hypocrites who can’t even say what the Church is or where it is, unless it’s actually the historic Church lol.
"If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks."
St John Chrysostom's advice to husbands:
+ Never speak to your wife in a mundane way but with compliments, with respect and with much love.
+ Tell her that you love her more than your own life, because this present life is nothing, and that your only hope is that the two of you pass through this life in such a way that in the world to come, you will be united in perfect love.
+ Say to her, 'Our time here is brief and fleeting, but if we are pleasing to God, we can exchange this life for the Kingdom to come. Then we will be perfectly one both with Christ and with each other, and our pleasure will know no bounds. I value your love above all things, and nothing would be so bitter or painful to me as our being at odds with each other. Even if I lose everything, any affliction is tolerable if you will be true to me.'
+ Show her that you value her company, and prefer being at home to being out at the marketplace
+ Esteem her in the presence of your friends and children
+ Praise and show admiration for her good acts; and if she ever does anything foolish, advise her patiently.
+ Pray together at home and go to Church; when you come back home, let each ask the other the meaning of the readings and the prayers.
If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.
Without theosis, Christianity is arbitrary.
Another great interview with Ali Tabrizi. We talk about a variety of issues like the end of civilizations, differences between Christian denominations, theosis, problems with modernity and materialism, including evolution, and more. Check it out. Link below.