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[Econ @Econotheist]

"Is God willing to prevent Reddit, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then from whence comes Reddit?" - Econotheist

[Econ @Econotheist]

@logos_asarkos I like that you had to use AI to not make him look like a nightmare

[Dogma 🦢 @Dogmaticist]

"APHORISM V.
God is our debtor, not from an obligation incurred, but from a promise made.

SCHOLIUM.
1. Although eternal life is called a reward in many places of Scripture, and indeed with the Greek word misthos, yet it is a charisma tou theou (gift of God) (Romans 6:23). Various reasons are brought forward by theologians: first, because it is so called by reason of the superabundant compensation of those things which we have done in this life, or have suffered. I say superabundant, so that all proportion is excluded; for example, if anyone for a paper gift, the price of which extends to some few groschen, should receive ten or a hundred thalers, he is said to have carried away a sufficiently ample reward. Second, because it is given at the end of life, just as the penny which those laboring in the vineyard received is called a reward (Matthew 20:8). Third, because God has promised eternal life to us, and thus it is sought from God as if a debt. Thus God becomes our highest debtor not from an obligation incurred, as if we could bind God to give something either by our works or by our passions—for who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? (Romans 11:35)—but because he has promised it freely, and every promise falls into the category of a debt.

2. The use of this aphorism in didactics is that we might discern the liberal promise of God from a debt.

3. In polemics against the self-justifying Pontiffs, the use of the same can be applied."
- Hieronymus Kromayer, Theologiæ Positivo-Polemicæ, Vol. 2, L. 13.

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

The later recons obscure this, but Halo’s Human-Covenant war is absolutely a mythologization (not 1:1 allegory) of the ascendant Church and its contention with the Pharisees.

John, who is both savior and apostle, is the exceptional seed of the creator race which the Covenant worships. He comes to fulfill what the Forerunners built while thwarting the misguided zeal of the (old) Covenant to make way for the new reign.

The arbiter being chief persecutor of “heretics” only to then join them after a conversion is, as the quoted post suggests, a strong parallel with St. Paul.

[Matt Hedges @mattjhedges11]

There is a big difference between these two ways of reading the fathers:

1) “Here is what Augustine is saying”
2) “Here are some scholastic distinctions I can use to show you how I can affirm what Augustine says.”

Second is not completely invalid, but the first method is more sure

[Econ @Econotheist]

@Just_apologist @DoorDashThomist Hot take right here

[Econ @Econotheist]

@Dogmaticist That or Aquinas is the end all be all in every way

[Econ @Econotheist]

@DTPhenom https://t.co/0WMEOszPFH

[Econ @Econotheist]

@JkrGuidoSSO27 Henning Arnisaeus
Valentin Alberti
Christoph Scheibler
Johann Adam Scherzer
Abraham Calov
Constantin Ziegra

Just off the top of my head

[Econ @Econotheist]

I've been translating and reading more Lutheran philosophers recently. Some of them are insanely cracked.

Oh how far we've fallen!

[Econ @Econotheist]

@PhilosophyIdaho Lol based

[Econ @Econotheist]

@JkrGuidoSSO27 Henning Arnisaeus
Valentin Alberti
Christoph Scheibler
Johann Adam Scherzer
Abraham Calov
Constantin Ziegra

Just off the top of my head

[Econ @Econotheist]

@JamesDaleWilso6 @PastorDeberny First time I've ever seen Hunnius's Diaskepsis referenced online!

[Econ @Econotheist]

@KnoxiteTheocrat Also there's a vast difference between the gift of celibacy and generally being single but that's another issue

[Megan | @megievalist @megievalist]

Girl we had two seminars together — one of which had us reading classics from Plato to Erasmus. I remember you because I made an effort to get to know people.

You're going around talking smack about people with whom you went to school, but it seems you didn't even try to get to know them.

[Econ @Econotheist]

@HansFiene Just gotta run a blood test to determine if you can use the force.

I guess the mystery of the Force from Empire is gone now

[Kjetil Kringlebotten ☦️🦬 @kkringlebotten]

@OocTobeyM We didn’t see Sarah Connor eat breakfast in Terminator. A major plot hole, as she didn’t appear to be malnourished.

[Econ @Econotheist]

@TheONEngland @CFBwSam - Focus on football, not affairs
- Hire a QB coach
- Bench Semaj Morgan

That's 3 off the top of my head focused on offense alone

[Econ @Econotheist]

@_matthewpearson Unc

[factionalism advocate 🇵🇸 @gamergate2077]

The real lesson of the Star Wars sequel trilogy is that the best creative decision Tolkien ever made was to stop writing The New Shadow

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

It's kind of typical of Boomers to realize they have a market problem (high property taxes), and rather than try to solve the market problem, their immediate reaction is to instead give themselves a special legal carveout while making the problem worse for everyone else.

[Steam 🟢🟢🟢🟢🛰️🟢 @Steamlazer]

It's considered normal now but no amount of Disney fanservice will ever be as insanely convoluted as "the dad of the Bounty hunter guy from ESB had millions of clones and they're the ones that wiped out the Jedi order after betraying them"