The Layman's Seminary

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If you are Free Grace OSAs join here https://t.co/JUgkQkk6TT

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@Brosephos they talking about Greek.
https://t.co/gitkRbdhzC

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@PatAbendroth Well one argues for already not yet (?Saucy) Ryrie, Pentecost, McClain, and Showers do not

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I will become an Eastern Orthodox today if someone can prove to me Jesus didn't have blood related Brothers and Sisters!
If you can prove they are step brothers and sisters or cousins,

I will become an EO Mary Heretic worshipper myself!

Tonight on Twitter space @ 8 pm eastern

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Three Keys to Living the Christian Life, Part 3  - Grace Evangelical Society https://t.co/fSqFvJgcWJ

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@Rach4Patriarchy I see you've posted a couple of screenshots of what I said about Mary,

How about we have a discussion on Mary doctrines and see if they stand.

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I have a challenge for all EO'S and Catholics

I believe John The Baptist is Jesus' Brother!

You believe Jesus didn't have literal blood brothers, you say that his "brothers" were his cousins or step brothers.

I go Live on Twitter space at 8 pm eastern

Let's see who is wrong or correct.

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@byzantinemarine Are you willing to formally debate whether free grace is biblical?

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@findveritasx Formally debate free grace and it will be catastrophic

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@valorthodoxia What about free grace?

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@DPGBehler Chisholm was writing about the divine council possibly before Heiser. See Bibsac articles etc

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@truth32935 @paleochristcon @GeoffKlein3 I debated Seraphim Hamilton. I think Geoff would defer to him, so it’s not like I haven’t been academically challenged by EO

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@truth32935 @paleochristcon @GeoffKlein3 Got to debste Siig before him and a few others. lol.

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@BrysonGray What’s your point?

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@farmingandJesus As much as I disliked my debate with Kelly, this was worse

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@The_Catechumen Let the reader understand that you won’t formally debate whether free grace is biblical

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@Apostologia A gateway drug

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@Acolyte83349490 @rickbrennanjr Is this the main resource you recommend on this issue?

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What Is the Orthodoxy Inconsistency? (A Super Layman / GPT5 response).

The image is showing a pressure point in some Orthodox apologetics.

Against Protestants, Orthodoxy says: “You have too little authority. Sola Scriptura creates fragmentation, private interpretation, weak moral consensus, and instability.”

Against Catholics, Orthodoxy says: “You have too much authority. The pope over-centralizes the Church, creates artificial unity, and becomes a single point of failure.”

So Orthodoxy presents itself as the “middle balance”: not Protestant fragmentation, not Catholic centralization.

The inconsistency is not that Orthodoxy wants balance. That could be reasonable. The inconsistency appears when the Orthodox apologist uses opposite standards depending on the opponent:

Against Protestants: more visible authority is needed.

Against Catholics: less visible authority is needed.

That means the real question is not simply, “Do we need authority?” Everyone agrees some authority is needed. The real question is: where does authority come from, how is it tested, and how does it remain accountable to truth?

The Protestant counter is: unity without textual accountability can preserve error. Fragmentation is a danger, but centralized unity is not automatically truth.

So the image’s bottom line is: Orthodoxy cannot merely say “Protestants need more authority” and “Catholics have too much authority” unless it can prove that its own conciliar model actually solves both problems without collapsing into either fragmentation or unaccountable tradition.

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@tgtengage @paleochristcon I’ll debate him if you want me to Marlon.