@LutheranPrince Who is your bishop? If you can’t provide an answer, you’re in no better place than an evangelical in reference to the early church. Whatever your church is, it’s not the church of the 318 bishops at Nicea. The canons of Nicea bear no resemblance to the Lutheran project.
@Emilijan8@WesleyLHuff@InspiringPhilos The cognitive dissonance required to know the depths of the Church’s history and remain a Reformed Baptist is hard to comprehend.
@KySquirrel_90@Alex_Ortodoxie Despite the 1689 LBCF mirroring the “spiritual presence” view of the 1647 WCF, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a Baptist church on the ground that affirms anything other than strict memorialism. It’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
@SOLIS_LUMINA@Alex_Ortodoxie@Good_God_Father On the ground, this is what you’ll get from 95%+ of Baptists, regardless of the “spiritual presence” view that Ortlund claims is the correct “historical Baptist view”.
@Alypius_Loft@Alex_Ortodoxie The language of the 1689 LBCF on the Lord’s Supper largely mirrors the 1647 WCF, but 19 out of 20 Baptists (even amongst the Calvinistic-types) are strict memoralists.
@josef_miner@haymes_joshua If it’s all just “aesthetics”, Wes Huff should have no problem refuting Orthodoxy.
Given that Wes won’t debate, perhaps @haymes_joshua would be willing to have a formal, moderated debate with @jaydyer on a neutral platform?
@haymes_joshua Even if this were true (which it isn’t), it doesn’t address the merits of either Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy. It’s not an argument for or against anything.
@ProtPhilosopher@Alex_Ortodoxie@Alex_Ortodoxie You see, you're just not pious enough to engage with @Protphilosopher. He's a very pious, sophisticated thinker who doesn't engage in the ancient art of "rhetoric" like you. In other words, he won't debate you because you're too mean.