@amt5133@AbrandNewMac One huge advantage of using this with stage 2 pokemon means that you have to evolve fewer of them throughout the game, allowing a deck to keep tempo with faster decks
@needGod_net@Acts17David Whoa this is HUGE!! I know Inspiring Philosophy mocks the idea that the Catholic and Orthodox churches teach a false gospel, so I never thought someone would have the chance to teach the truth to someone in that area of apologetics!!
@MDnightMarawder@needGod_net Mostly true. I've had Catholics in seminary use it against me to claim we can't privately interpret the Bible outside the Catholic Church's teaching. So sometimes that's genuinely how Catholics use it, but someone like Trent Horn probably wouldn't use it that way.
Paul: “Even if an angel from heaven gives you another gospel…”
Joseph Smith: “An angel appeared to me and gave me this gospel…”
Mormons: totally legit 🫡
@BennettBernard7@needGod_net That's not a strawman. A Catholic today can (from their perspective) rightly say: "The bodily assumption of Mary is true because the Catholic Church declared it." You personally may not use that argument, but you COULD, which is why it's not a strawman.
@MikeWingerii@megbasham I lived in the UK for a bit and EVERYONE said "two" or "one" when referring to those books. I've even caught myself saying it that way sometimes
@needGod_net And yet, somehow it's different when they do it. People will believe anything to justify their traditions. If only Jesus gave us a way to test them... 🤔
@C2Antiquity@needGod_net It's really telling he has to redefine faith. Paul defines faith as being "fully convinced God was able to do what he had promised" Rom 4:21. The EO and RC position is that you can't fully trust God to do what he promised because you have to maintain your salvation through works.
@needGod_net In the same way, the Judaizers claimed to be Christian, yet the only error Paul says they are "severed from Christ" for is trusting in their works in addition to Christ. If your theology calls the Judaizers Christians, you need to reflect and correct it.
@solamediaorg@DrJordanBCooper "subjection to the Roman pontiff is necessary for salvation for all Christ’s faithful, as we are taught by the testimony of both sacred scripture and the holy fathers ..." -Fifth Lateran Council
Simply a lie and false gospel from the Catholic Church. Nowhere in Scripture.
Homeschooling Reformation Day party. I’m dressed as Junker Jörg (meaning "Squire George" or "Knight George"). This was Martin Luther’s alter ego after the Diet of Worms in 1521 during the time he was in hiding while translating the Bible into German.
Here you can see me with my German Bible, and son Hans Luther (also known as Johannes, he was Luther’s eldest son), standing next to the door at All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (of which the kids played “pin the Theses on the door with).
"I genuinely think there are born again believers within the Catholic Church & Orthodox Church, but it's not because of but in spite of what those churches are teaching. The gospel is not earned, it's received. At some point they will have to leave those institutions."
—Wes Huff
Before you ask the obvious question, "But, the Apostles never did this, never dreamed about doing this" remember, for Rome, that is irrelevant. They just made John Henry Cardinal Newman a Doctor of the Church. "Development" is now the essence of Roman theology. There does not have to be the slightest historical or even conceptual connection to anything the Apostles ever taught or wrote. Though Newman himself, I think, would be startled at what has happened post Vatican II with his theories, he lit the match that burned down the last vestiges of historical connection to the Apostles. Though Rome denies it directly, she is truly capable of new revelation, only she has to call it "development of apostolic tradition." How else can you get such astonishingly unapostolic things as the Bodily Assumpion or Mary as Mediatrix of all grace (or even "Spouse of the Holy Spirit")?
I walked the halls of the Vatican. I saw the artwork, the marble, the gold. It was not beautiful to me. Why? Because I knew what it represented, and I knew how it got there. Beauty in God's world is a whole cloth. You can place the most gorgeous tapestry around a monstrously hideous statue and that doesn't make it beautiful. In this picture the finished work of Jesus, upon a hard, wooden cross, surrounded by dirty, smelly Roman soldiers, bringing those united to Him true and perfect peace with God, is replaced with gold and satin and velvet and empty promises.