@Catholic_bro@LizzieMarbach The women serving at the tabernacle were not virgins, but the wives and daughters of the Levite priests. The temple virgin practice didn’t come about until at least the first temple period
@NateBornAgain And if we come to a disagreement on the interpretation of said infallible scripture, who should we appeal to, in order to determine the correct view?
Many years ago, Fr. Isaac Atallah, a disciple of St. Paisios, was asked whether video players were a blessing or a curse. His answer was simple: "The device has an on/off switch. When it harms you, turn it off."
The same principle applies today.
@bigjonsteel@high_in_seattle He gave you the correct view, Jesus isn’t the person, God. He possess the nature of God, which belongs to the father. Just read the capadocians.
@AL_J82 The temple literally was not commanded by god to have religious imagery or to be super fancy, that was the ark. This directly refuted your point that something has to be directly commanded by god to be valid
Because they didn’t answer or gave incorrect inserts doesn’t make them disobedient. If I asked the mentally handicapped person at my parish to explain the pastoral actions of the church, they’d be incapable of doing so, they’re not disobedient because they can’t.
Obedience is absolutely necessary in church and in marriage. You can’t cheat on either as an example
@InheritedThorns@OrthodoxGabriel They do give definitive answers.
That correct, you could be a complete retard in the church, we have one in our parish, actually. He’s a fun guy. Lay people are obedient to clergy like wives are obedient to husbands
@DuvdevFirst@RealBenMichael@michaeljknowles So to be clear, he can’t simultaneously hold the views that dropping bombs on Hiroshima was bad and the bombing of Palestine is bad, because he happens to be a citizens of the state that dropped the bombs in Japan, though he doesn’t support that?
@InheritedThorns@OrthodoxGabriel Did she ask clergy, the only people really qualified to give definitive answers, lay people are obedient to the church and their clergy