*Ross turning to the camera breaking the 4th wall*
"And do you, dear liberal viewer, have it in your heart to forgive Donald Trump when your time comes?"
I personally would have preferred the Saint Francis of myth who opposed the crusades.
Nevertheless, Christianity must learn to stop lying about its own history. White washing it is never an acceptable response.
One of the all time great Pope Francis moments:
"If you do not love your country, I do not believe that you will be able to love Jesus and to love God."
The people cheering give me chills.
"Love for one’s country is love for a mother, we call her “Mother Land”, because we are born here, and she teaches us, as every mother does, to walk, and she is entrusted to us so that she may survive for future generations. This is why I wanted to begin with this reference to the Mother, to our motherland. If you are not patriots – not isolationist patriots – real patriots, you are not going to achieve anything in life. May you love your land, young men and women."
@MLightSunyata Jeremiah to those in Babylon:
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you… and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will have welfare.”
I don’t see how one can read Paul’s citation of Epimenides of Crete in Acts 17:28 (“in Him, we live and move and find our being) in the context of his statement about the reverence of the worshippers of the Unknown God without concluding that Epimenides was a legitimate prophet
If God had glorified her to the maximum extent He possibly
could have, God would have created her as pre existent alongside the angels themselves such that she could have even mediated grace to the prophets of the Old Testament.
@AssyrianTheo To me, it doesnt make a terribly big difference because the core origenist principle is creatures cant know the Father, except in and through the face of the Son. So even general “depictions” of Him make me extremely uncomfortable.
I’m plenty critical of Rome, but this is truly just not a good reason to leave a Church.
A much better reason to leave Rome is that it actively endorses icons of the Father, the gravest of all blasphemies to Origenists.
🚨 BREAKING: Sean Hannity announces that he is abandoning his faith because the Pope doesn’t support Trump’s Iran war:
“I no longer consider myself a Catholic.”
@thesolafeed@olokardia I agree. so why do you maintain that Athanasius’s usage of hypostasis was “what the word meant at that time” when most of Christianity used the word differently?
i’m a post-Protestant semi-Arian. I only accept Nicea as it was reinterpreted by Basil and eventually Athanasius in 362. I do not accept Nicea’s original, monohypostastic Sabellianism.
Fortunately, Anglicans have told me this is acceptable.
If Gregory of Nyssa didn’t make the cut as a doctor of Rome, you almost certainly will not. And he did not, and- from what I’m told- never will.
However, you can follow the Nyssen’s precedent to Bulgakov:
“She is created Wisdom, for she is creation glorified.”
If hypothetically, I write a treatise explaining why Mary is the immaculate incarnation of Created Wisdom (Prov 8:22 LXX; Sir 1:4–10, 24:8), what are my chances of becoming a Doctor of the Catholic Church?
@TraksuitThomist@hmkherman Honest question for both of you-
I assume you’re aware that union with the Assyrians using the Liturgy of Addai and Mari required granting that the consecration took place at the epiclesis instead of the words of institution.
Does Rome permit YOU to believe that, or only them?