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@YariLogos @awmanspider We’d definitely agree with that

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@awmanspider There is a big distinction between an Orthodox view of substitution and the way Anselm and Calvin understood it.

His Grace explains the distinction well. Unfortunately, “the straw man” is basically the Lutheran and Calvinist view.

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@awmanspider @ICXCNIKA42 There is a big distinction between an Orthodox view of substitution and the way Anselm and Calvin understood it.

His Grace explains the distinction well. Unfortunately, “the straw man” is basically the Lutheran and Calvinist view.

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@ApostolicOrtho @AsmeromAdonai So why use a theological term that has all these connotations of distorted views of soteriology? Seems imprudent.

[Mor Aphrem II @MorAphremII]

May Their Memory Be Eternal.
Offering prayers at St Elias Church in Damascus earlier this evening.
#SyriacOrthodoxChurch #Syria

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@JosephKedus @tewahedo_media They are both Oriental Orthodox, but one of them is under the Syriac Patriarch, and one is independent.

Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church (Under Patriarch of Antioch)

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Self-governing).

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@cycnow @CCyrillian The Council of Trent was a Roman Catholic council that took place in the 16th century. You mentioned it here in your post. That's why we are confused, since we are Orthodox and don't follow this council.

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@ThatGuy77811414 @EasternMilk No, I'm not saying that. There is only one divine essence

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@ThatGuy77811414 @EasternMilk The three hypostases of the Trinity share one essence. They have all things in common, as one God. Yet, divinity in general did not incarnate, God the Word did.

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@ThatGuy77811414 @EasternMilk Humanity subsists in particular human beings. Each particular human is an individuation of humanity.

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@EasternMilk Again, if nature means a universal essence, then when God the Word takes on a human nature, He is not assuming a particular human subsistence, but all of humanity in general. 'Nature' must refer to an particular subsistence in the context of the incarnation.

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@EasternMilk This video is the most stupid thing. If nature is not a subsistence or a particular, then what is it? A universal essence? Then when the divine nature unites with Christ's flesh, it would be the essence of divinity in general, and not God the Word in particular. Diaphysis fails.

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@he_negash Persecutor of the Oriental Orthodox Church, who used his guards to beat, imprison, and kill our people. He tried to kill St. Severus too. His relationship to St. Theodora doesn't vindicate him of his attempts to wipe out our church.

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@KnightsTempOrg What was the martyr’s name?

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@ArchangeloRom @jblackpost @CBDHitler88 @redeemed_zoomer We are misphysite. We are not monophysite

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Catholics in Gaza send their best wishes to Pope Francis in hospital

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@poperespecter1 @NWFreeZone @zypldot In the Oriental Orthodox Tradition, we do not follow the teaching of Gregory Palamas. But there is still a patristic basis for essence-energies distinction in the cappadocian fathers and St. Cyril.

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@iyov4746 @Tsae1447 @mjmhawthorne @trad_west_ The feast of conception of the Theotokos, which we celebrate is not the same as the Catholic dogma of immaculate conception. The way we view Original Sin is not the same as the Catholic. She had the effects of Adam's fall, but she was faultless and all-holy and without blemish.

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@Jasonew6 @BryanKemper Already

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@JENBROOK8 @miaphysenjoyer The Bishop is Egyptian. He just knows how to speak German