Matthew Rusthoven

[Matthew Rusthoven @rustystove93]

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[Matthew Rusthoven @rustystove93]

@TheStaad Not only that, but Gen 2:15 gives Adam a priestly task: ‘abad (serve/minister) + shamar (guard/protect): the same verbs used for Levitical priests (Num 3:7–8). Eden is the first temple. Adam is the first priest and he fails to guard it from the serpent.

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@MrCasey62 He isn’t rebuking Mary, he’s teaching the crowd by reframing the blessing: Mary is most blessed for keeping the Word (her yes at the Annunciation), and therefore her womb is blessed too. Her maternity is real and glorious, but its deepest meaning is rooted in faith and obedience

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@tolkienzone Pipe-weed, ale, gardens, feasts, songs—Tolkien loves ordinary goodness. Salvation is not escape from creation but the restoration of creation. That’s Catholic sacramental humanism

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@tolkienzone Frodo is wounded in body and soul, and needs a healing he cannot find in Middle-earth. The Grey Havens are not “heaven,” but a purgative convalescence before true home

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@WesleyLHuff Long story short: The rule of faith isn’t “collect every patristic sentence and average them.” It’s: honor the Fathers as privileged witnesses, then receive what the Church definitively teaches from Scripture read within that apostolic Tradition.

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@WesleyLHuff Irenaeus (c. 180) grounds doctrinal certainty in apostolic succession with special reference to Rome (AH 3.3.2–3)

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@WesleyLHuff Clement of Rome to the Corinthians (c. 96): Rome intervenes authoritatively to settle a local presbyteral dispute in Corinth while the Apostle John is still alive

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@WesleyLHuff 2) Rome’s Primacy and the chair of Peter

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@WesleyLHuff Irenaeus (c. 180): our flesh, nourished by Christ’s Body and Blood, is capable of resurrection (AH 5.2; 4.18).

Cyril of Jerusalem (4th c.): “Since He has declared and said of the bread, ‘This is My Body,’ who shall dare to doubt?” (Mystagogical Catecheses 4).

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@WesleyLHuff Justin Martyr (c. 155): the Eucharistic food is not common bread and drink but becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus (First Apology 66).

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@WesleyLHuff Ignatius of Antioch (c. 107): those who “abstain from the Eucharist… because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ” (Smyrnaeans 6–7).

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@WesleyLHuff Now on the big topics:

1) The real presence

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@WesleyLHuff Which is: the Tradition preserved through apostolic succession in the churches, with Rome’s succession singled out and listed as paradigmatic. He says that because of her “preeminent authority,” it is necessary that every Church agree with the Church of Rome

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@WesleyLHuff Irenaeus speculates (Against Heresies 2.22) about Jesus’ age in a way the Church did not receive. But Irenaeus’s actual appeal to Tradition is in Against Heresies 3.3–3.4

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@WesleyLHuff Aquinas and Calvin: St. Thomas Aquinas (13th c.) is not a Father; he’s a Doctor of the Church. John Calvin (16th c.) is neither Father nor Doctor; he is a Reformation-era theologian outside Catholic communion.