Arild Doerge

Catholic, Husband, Father, Attorney.

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

With Bitcoin in the news again, you might be interested in my law review article on tax policy related to crypto-assets. It’s still fairly up to date, though I would note that France implemented a tax policy similar to what I argue for since I wrote it.

https://t.co/YI4xW4yQiA

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@DiscussingFilm We are reading and discussing the actual Odyssey, if anyone wants to join!

[No Dice @Yes_Dice]

🧵 Part 2

Luke 1:28
“Hail, full of grace”
Kecharitōmenē is the perfect passive participle of the verb charitoō, derived from the noun charis, meaning grace or favor.
It is a Hapax Legomenon.

Perfect Tense:
• Completed action with abiding result
• Mary was graced in the past and remains in that state
• This is not momentary, but permanent and enduring

Passive Voice:
• Mary did not acquire grace by merit
• She received it entirely from God
• The action is fully divine in origin

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• Gabriel does not address her by name
• He calls her Kecharitōmenē, using a verb-derived participle as a proper title (functions as a noun)
• The participle replaces her name and declares her identity

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Charitoō is only used twice in the NT:

1. Luke 1:28
Kecharitōmenē (perfect passive participle)

2. Ephesians 1:6
Echaritōsen (aorist active indicative)

Ephesians 1:6
“He graced us in the Beloved”
• Aorist = completed action at a moment in time
• Refers to grace given to believers collectively in Christ
• Not a title, not a state, not enduring
• It expresses a gift given, not an identity conferred

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• Echaritōsen = collective, temporal, descriptive
• Kecharitōmenē = singular, enduring, identity-defining

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Charis – Noun Usage

• Occurs 156 times in the New Testament
• Forms include: charis, charin, chariti, etc.
• Meanings range: grace, favor, goodwill, thanks, gratitude
• Use is broad and determined by context

Luke 1:30
Uses Charis, Not Charitoō
Greek: εὗρες γὰρ χάριν παρὰ τῷ θεῷ
• “You have found favor with God”
• Charin is the accusative singular form of charis
• A standard idiom for receiving divine favor or approval

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• Verse 30 uses charin (noun), describing a momentary favor
• Verse 28 uses kecharitōmenē (verb participle), expressing an already completed and still-active state of grace
• Charis would have been used again if only favor were intended
• Instead, the text intensifies meaning through a rare verb form to express transformation

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The force of –oō verbs:

• Many Koine Greek verbs ending in –oō (όω) express causation, fullness, or intensification
• These are called causative or resultative verbs
• The structure of charitoō indicates “to cause someone to be endowed with grace” or “to fill with grace”

Here are NT examples of –oō verbs with this force:

1. Dikaioō – to justify, to cause someone to be righteous (Rom 5:1)

2. Teleioō – to perfect, to bring to completion or full maturity (Heb 10:14)

3. Hagiazoō – to sanctify, to make holy (John 17:17)

4. Plēroō – to fill up, to fulfill, to make complete (Matt 5:17)

5. Skotoō – to darken, to cause darkness (Rom 1:21)

• Each implies a completed transformation or state of fullness
• Charitoō belongs to this class: being fully endowed with grace through favor

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Why Kecharitōmenē = sinlessness:

Romans 6:14
“Sin will have no dominion over you, for you are under grace”
• Grace and sin are mutually exclusive in dominion
• Mary is called Kecharitōmenē—she lives under grace entirely and perpetually
• Therefore, sin cannot have ruled in her

Romans 6:1–2
“How can we who died to sin still live in it?”
• One cannot live in grace and simultaneously live in sin
• Kecharitōmenē reflects a continuous state of grace
• Sin is excluded not only by behavior, but by identity

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Plērēs Charitos is critical to understand Mary's title:

Acts 6:8 – Stephen
• Plērēs charitos – “full of grace”
• Adjective describing temporary spiritual condition
• Refers to his sanctified state in martyrdom
• Not a title or enduring identity

John 1:14 – Christ
• Plērēs charitos kai alētheias – “full of grace and truth”
• Christ is the eternal source of grace
• His fullness is divine and uncreated

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• Plērēs charitos = circumstantial and descriptive
• Kecharitōmenē = participial and ontological

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@HwsEleutheroi @BishopJaxi So you want us to read a whole bunch of interpretation from Protestants so we can properly understand the Bible.....

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

@realbriankemple Yes, Sam Harris tier sophistry. Materialism is not philosophically defensible, yet so many self-appointed intellectuals insistly pretend that it is.

Much needed sanity from @FeserEdward :

https://t.co/LAtKIVveBj

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

This is why protestantism is “Christian agnosticism.” It literally justifies separating into separate streams based on specious claims about changes, or differences, or “reassessments” of the past.

“There’s not unanimity on hardly anything.” False. As is much of the rest of this.

I’ve been in the Fathers virtually everyday for close to 9 years now. Organizing and archiving all the receipts by topic. Millions of words of quotes so far. Millions more words read. Been doing precisely what was suggested here, I suspect to a FAR greater degree than any of these gentlemen.

None of the Fathers spoke about the Church this way. They unanimously affirmed the Church is governed by the successors of the Apostles, the bishops (and yes, most were quite clear about the preeminence of the Pope as well), in one worldwide communion that would endure until Christ’s return. These men have the authority to “bind and loose.” THAT is a framework for dealing with changes over time.

But where are these guys’ bishops in such a worldwide communion? At least two of them reject the notion of bishops and apostolic succession outright. Their entire framework is missing COMPLETELY from the Fathers, in which we see quite clearly the Catholic framework, the “school of Christ” as some Fathers called the Church, in which the authority exists to resolve questions, disputes, and other issues.

The Church the Fathers knew, loved, and said would endure until Christ’s return, went through MANY periods of change and clarification of doctrine, but did not thereby see ANY discontinuity with what came before, or use the fact that more “check boxes” came later to justify splitting into separate and mutually contradictory streams, as these guys are doing. That entire way of thinking would have been absurd and antichristic to them.

That is why it is specious to claim something like “no one today can claim to check all the boxes for the ancient Church,” because that was true even in the ancient Church. It was true even in the biblical Church, where the Apostles and presbyters imposed “burdens” on Christians by appealing to their own and God’s authority (Acts 15). Different Church? Discontinuity? No—for obvious reasons.

St. Augustine was baptized in 387, when it was necessary to affirm the Son was “consubstantial” with the Father. If you did not, you weren’t in the Church. That was not the case before 325 (Council of Nicaea). So was St. Augustine not part of the “ancient Church” (pre-Nicaea)? Of course not, despite the fact that the Church of his day had more “check boxes,” because various disputes and heresies had been resolved/refuted. Nonetheless, it was the same Church, governed by the same successors of the Apostles, with one having sifted through numerous other issues than the other because of more time and experience, like an individual having more time to ponder various issues. St. Augustine saw zero discontinuity, as did all the other Fathers. And again, it would have been unthinkable to them all to use the addition of later dogmatic “checkmarks” to affirm the permanent split of various “streams” into contradictory dogmas. Utterly foreign to their thinking. This way of thinking, some of them observed, rather resembled the ancient schools of paganism that constantly split apart because there was no authority to resolve their disputes. This was not so with the divine “school” established by Christ, which was one and permanent.

Much more could be said. But there is a reason these and other videos move the needle so little on many becoming Catholic. I’ve watched many of them in a genuine attempt to be as fair and charitable as possible; as have other protestant friends attempting to AVOID conversion to the Catholic Faith, and oftentimes point me to these and other videos and say how unsatisfying they are. On so many points, they are simply not true. And those who dig into the Fathers themselves often discover this at some point. The more, the better.

Deo gratias!

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

@JoshuaTCharles @gavinortlund I appreciate you so thoroughly responding to him, but you’re really casting pearls before swine at this point.

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

@Catholicizm1 They *shot them, not kill.

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BREAKING | Federal prosecutors have filed charges against one of two people shot by Border Patrol agents in East Portland -> https://t.co/40mZjETlZD 

(AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

@JacobMorley I was at this game. It was amazing; the best live sporting event I’ve ever attended.

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

@WalmartThomist Finally something accurate & not smarmy reductive nonsense from him.

[Christian B. Wagner 🔫🐒 @WalmartThomist]

If you’re trying to explain the causes behind the radicalization of these shooters and extreme porn addiction is not one of them, then you haven’t even begun to understand the problem…

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

Where millions and millions of people are today.

[Arild Doerge @ArildDoerge]

Excellent work as usual from @FeserEdward . The extent to which modern society is organized around appealing to all 3 of the Devil’s temptations in the desert is terrifying.

https://t.co/PqyZoiFyxu