Emerson Rivera ☦️

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Spencer Pratt: "If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait.

We have some recordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame."

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@VideosVuvu It would probably take longer in California

[WWG1WGA 🇺🇸♥️ @WWG1WGA301]

🚨 BREAKING: A CIA WHISTLEBLOWER JUST TESTIFIED THAT THE LAB LEAK WAS “COVERED UP” — FAUCI’S ROLE WAS “INTENTIONAL” 💣

FAUCI’S COVID STORY IS COLLAPSING! 😳

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

Masters of the Universe was awesome!

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@GlobalBoxOffice Can we make sure Odyssey bombs harder?

[John Worthington @Iron12cross]

Another eastern orthodox quote of the day :

[Spill The Memes @SpillTheMemes]

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[Hard Pass @HardPass4]

Good morning.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Greek City Times published an open letter to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey this week. It reads in part:

"We did not vanish. Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble. We are still here. For more than 3,000 continuous years, Greek identity has persisted."

The addendum: "Given Hollywood's insistence for minority representation, authenticity and diversity — where are the Greeks, or the Greek Americans in this Greek story?"

The film shot in Greece, with Greek funding, across Greek locations. Not one cast member is Greek.

Hollywood required diversity for every production except this one.

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@LayOrthodemia @C2Antiquity I remember my first divine liturgy. It was spent on my knees since it was pentecost. Upon entering the narthex the sweet smell of incense kissed my nose and I was awestruck by the beauty of the nave, the calm of the voices of the choir and the radiance of the vestments. Im home.

[McCullough Foundation @McCulloughFund]

Tylenol Is Out. The Data Is Clear. The Bundle of Vaccines Is the Trigger for Autism.

Babies are born normal. They receive a large battery of vaccines. That night or the next, they get sick. Some have febrile seizures — the CDC itself has published that vaccines cause them. A Swedish study shows a 40% conversion rate from febrile seizure to a neuropsychiatric disorder including autism, ADHD, tics, and seizures. Some don't wake up at all. The McCullough Foundation's autism determinants report — the most extensive in the history of medicine — has set the record straight. Tylenol is not the trigger. The growing vaccine bundle is.

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[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@illustriousone5 She's surrounded by Scholars of antiquity 😁☦️ by this sign you shall conquer

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@Acts17David @OrthodoxEthos @Acts17David you should speak to Fr Josiah Trentham instead

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@LayOrthodemia @HosannaHosannaa @RuslanKD ...Slow....Clap...

[Or☦︎hodemia @LayOrthodemia]

@RuslanKD I want to engage your argument honestly because it’s a serious one. You’re saying Orthodox dogmas like intercession of the Saints, icon veneration, and confession to a priest aren’t in “the primary sources,” and that this breaks the Orthodox claim of unchanging continuity. I think your argument has real problems at every step 🧵

Start with “primary sources.” You’re limiting them to Scripture plus the ante-Nicene Fathers which I guess Protestants affirm APPARENTLY lol but it's already smuggling in a sola scriptura assumption Orthodoxy never accepted. St. Paul tells the Thessalonians to “hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle” 2 Thess 2:15. Word and epistle. Oral and written. The Apostle himself says the deposit comes through both. The liturgical life of the Church, the practices preserved in the Eucharistic assembly, what the bishops received and handed down these are also primary sources of the apostolic faith. You can decide to exclude them but the Apostle who wrote your New Testament didn’t.

Second problem. You’re treating doctrinal articulation as if it were doctrinal innovation. The word “Trinity” isn’t in Scripture. Homoousios isn’t in Scripture. The full Trinitarian dogma was articulated at Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381 which funny enough comes from Orthodoxy in response to Arius and the Pneumatomachi. Are you willing to say the Trinity is a “later development that invalidates unchanging continuity”? If not, your standard isn’t actually your standard. The dogma was articulated later. The faith was always the same. The Spirit guided the Church to define what had always been believed, when error forced the clarification and make no mistake the Church is self identified. Apply your test consistently and Nicaea fails it. The Orthodox claim is that the faith was delivered once for all Jude 1:3 and that the Spirit guides the Church to define it precisely when needed Jn 16:13. Not that every doctrine was conciliarly articulated from day one.

Third and this one actually destroys your own argument. You grant that “some Christians prior to the ante-Nicene fathers may have had these practices” but deny that this makes them normative. By what authority? If the practice is there in the earliest communities, attested in Scripture, in the first and second and third century writings and in the archaeology of Christian worship and it continues unbroken into the conciliar period the one who has to justify himself is the man departing from it, not the one preserving it. The Reformation, by your own historical reasoning, is the innovation 💯. Orthodoxy is the continuity.

Now the substance because the practices you named are there you just have not read.

Take icons and relics first. God Himself commanded sacred images. Two cherubim of gold on the mercy seat Ex 25:18. Cherubim woven into the curtains of the Tabernacle Ex 26:1. Carved cherubim throughout Solomon’s Temple 1 Kings 6:23-35. The bronze serpent Moses made at God’s command for healing Num 21:8 And when Israel later worshipped that serpent as a god, Hezekiah destroyed it 2 Kings 18:4. The distinction is right there in the text sacred image vs. idol. God commands the one and forbids the other.

Relics work the same way. A dead man thrown onto the bones of the prophet Elisha is raised from the dead 2 Kings 13:21. The mantle of Elijah parts the Jordan in Elisha’s hands 2 Kings 2:14. Then the New Testament continues it directly. A woman is healed by touching the hem of Christ’s garment and Christ confirms her faith Mt 9:20-22. Sick people are laid in the streets so that the shadow of St. Peter passing by might fall on them and heal Acts 5:15. Handkerchiefs and aprons from St. Paul’s body are brought to the sick and diseases depart Acts 19:11-12. Relics, under apostolic sanction in your primary sources. There is no image less, relic less Christianity in the New Testament to “restore.” There is only the Reformation invention.

[Orthodox Christian @orthodox_33ad]

Mateja Kežman, a man who never hid his Eastern Orthodox Christian faith.

Throughout his career, he openly confessed Christ, spoke proudly about the importance of God in his life, and carried himself as a witness to the Orthodox faith both on and off the pitch.

He wore the Orthodox Cross proudly, defended Christian values publicly, and remained deeply connected to the traditions and spirituality of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

For many Orthodox Christians, he became an example of how a man can live in the public eye yet still boldly glorify God without shame.

[Emerson Rivera ☦️ @EMERstufferson]

@YahIsGood777 @HosannaHosannaa And for the rest of your life. Welcome home! ☦️