Iconoclasm and the banning of idolatry are a unique Jewish invention. First and foremost, for the Jews, "re-presenting" God is tantamount to restraining and reducing him. The sin of the worshippers of the Golden Calf was their desire to render the invisible visible.
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Interesting comments from Pope Francis on the filioque controversy this morning:
"Since in Latin the expression “and from the Son” is called ‘Filioque’, this gave rise to the dispute known by this name, which has been the reason for so many disputes and divisions between the
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@VivekGRamaswamy
The condescending tone and assumption of freeloading is exactly the point. You stand on the shoulders of giants and should be grateful to even be in the country
@YosefIsrael14
Christ Pantocrator of Saint Catherine's Monastery is one of the oldest Christian icons, dating from the 6th century AD. Christ would have looked like the Samaritans or Lebanese, who would be classified as Eurasian
The Filioque is Thomas Aquinas greatest mistake. It is a “rationalization of the mystery of the Trinity and it’s a rationalization that has led inexorably to secularism.” Vladimir Lossky
JAKARTA: Meeting with young of many faiths in the Scholas Occurrentes movement,
#PopeFrancis
gave a closing prayer which he said was acceptable to all present:
“We are from different religions but we have only 1 god.”
He didn't make sign of the cross. Indonesia is 87% Muslim
“When God was conversing with Moses, He did not say, 'I am the essence,' but 'I am the One Who is.' Thus it is not the One Who is who derives from the essence, but essence which derives from Him, for it is He who contains all being in Himself" St. Gregory Palamas Triads
The Holy Spirit is not from the Son but of the Son. What is the difference between begetting and processing according to St Augustine? Why is it abhorrent to say the Spirit is begotten, Son of the Son? Why do Roman Latins deny the authority of Sts Maximos and John Damascene?
The idea that the Latin West (Aquinas) separated by both time distance and language would understand Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy, the Cappadocians, and Corpus Dionysiacum better than the Greek East (St Gregory Palamas & Patriarch Gennadius Scholarius) is laughable
If the Spirit proceeds from the Father & the Son, why do not the Father & the Spirit beget the Son for the very same reasons… combining the other two hypostases into one, in the same manner? Thus Sabellius would again sprout up among us. - St. Photius, Mystagogy, paragraph 9
“For you do not sin because you were born that way. We come into the world unblemished, and, being here, sin of our own choice. There is not one order of souls which by nature sin.” St Cyril Patriarch of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures IV 18-20
St Maximus makes clear in his letter that the Father is the sole cause while the Trinity are one in essence. Blachernae is the patristic and Orthodox position.
The stunning new investigation into air traffic control: the
@NYTimes
found reports of some air traffic controllers falling asleep or under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
@GMA
He took upon Himself our cursed NATURE from the most pure Virgin and united it, NEW and UNMIXED with the old seed, to His DIVINE person… For He did not receive from us a human PERSON, but assumed our human NATURE and renewed it by uniting it with His own (DIVINE) person.
3. Palamism: One of the craziest Ortho teachings is that God doesn’t posit wholistic form, but rather exists as multiple uncreated energies. Many Orthos claim the water Our Lord walked on posited uncreated energies.
@prima_scriptura
Monarchia of the Father is the Orthodox biblical and Patristic position. It is the Fathers essence that he imbues as cause of the Logos/Son of God and Spirit of God. The Father is the supreme cause of all.
“Hence a person who seeks God with true devotion should not be dominated by the literal text, lest he unwittingly receives not God but things appertaining to God; that is, lest he feel a dangerous affection for the words of Scripture instead of for the Logos.” Saint Maximus
Father John Romanides was not a “Neo-Pelagian”. In the Ancestral Sin, he quotes patristic sources to discuss the Orthodox understanding of the ancestral curse and fallen human nature.
🧵 Eastern "Orthodoxy" refuted by St. Augustine
Craig Truglia being dishonest once again. I am not surprised at all, since the guy is obviously a fraud who shamelessly corrupts the meaning of the text. Let's examine St. Augustine's thought.
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@YariLogos
Imagine arguing against the saints & ecumenical councils. Why was Severus idea of divine-human hypostatic union wrong? Dogmatically Christ is the divine person hypostasis of the Logos who assumed flesh human nature without change & fully deified the human nature energy and will.
According to the Sixth Ecumenical Council and St. John of Damascus on the Orthodox Faith, Christ is the divine person of the Logos Son of God and the flesh or human nature was deified when assumed in his person.
Thomas Aquinas directly contradicts the Orthodox apophatic essence energy distinction of St John Damascene and St Dionysus in is theological commitment to St Augustine’s platonic cataphatic view of divine simplicity that God’s energy and names are identical with his essence.
The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.
These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.
Flight rate will
When Moses uttered, ‘The Lord our God is one Lord’, he said three times the One - because he said Lord twice and God once - to reveal the Three in One and the One in Three… Moses desired to reveal that God and the Logos have the Spirit and between Them and with Them is One God.
A question for the latinizers who say the Orthodox Church follows Saint Augustine and his ideas regarding original sin. He theorized Traducianism or the genetic theory of the soul passed at birth. Parents pass the soul to their children. This genetic idea comes from Tertullian.
Where
@ReasonTheology
& Roman Catholic Priest Christiaan Kappes discuss the Orthodox essence & energies distinction, and admit the Papal Magisterium confirmed St. Gregory Palamas as a Saint. Romans would have been better off Franciscan Soctists rather than Dominican Thomists.
@amillaaaa
Unlike Aquinas, St Gregory Palamas was an expert in Aristotle and the Cappadocian fathers and had the primary sources. The divine energy manifests from the divine essence. Theophanies are not created effects.
Thomas Aquinas appears to inadvertently promote Nestorianism. Here’s an example which seems to ignore the fifth ecumenical council and St. Gregory the Theologian. Correct me if I’m wrong here.
@TheophanV
Following her baptism, St. Olga of Kiev took the name Elenа for St. Helena, the mother of Emperor St. Constantine but she’s known by her personal name. Now many are baptized or named after her.
Absolute Divine Simplicity is the root of Roman heresy. It stems from the paganism of Aristotle not patristics. Thomism teaches the Sabellian heresy, that the divine persons are relations or modes within the divine essence. Thomists use essentialist view to defend the Filioque.
Acknowledging the correct praxis of the Orthodox Church Anaphora, the Second Vatican Council felt it necessary to add the epiclesis to the Eucharist prayers in the Novus Ordo - meaning the Roman Rite had always been invalid.
God is not “pure act”. The Barlaamitico-Akindynists and the Latins fall into the same error. There is a πραγματικιη διακρισις between the divine essence and energies.
How would we come to know Christ in two energies & two natures, if the natural energies of God are not uncreated? How would we know Him in the two wills, if He did not possess as God a natural & a divine will? And what is the will of God, if not an energy of the divine nature?
@Immaculata_City
1) The Roman Emperor called ecumenical councils not the Papacy, one had no papal legates.
2) Orthodoxy is growing everywhere in the West while Catholicism is dying out.
3) Return to patristics, even Rome is moving toward Eastern tradition.
4) lol Papists have had many schisms.
Pope Francis signature Vatican Council is the Synod on Synodality which cites the same Dicastery for Unity’s published recommendations of synodal exercise of primacy, negating Vatican I. The Papacy will officially recognize the full validity of the Orthodox Church in October.
A while back I had written an article entitled "Ravenna (2007) and Chieti (2016): Their Meaning and Status in the Catholic Church" wherein I provided a quotation from the Vatican's 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑
@memeticsisyphus
For most of human history punishment was severe. Frankish Salic law: petty crimes cost heavy fines or slavery, serious = capital punishment. Byzantine law: lashings mutilation blindings & execution. Basis for western law. Extremely Christian societies too
Where
@ReasonTheology
& Roman Catholic Priest Christiaan Kappes discuss the Orthodox essence & energies distinction, and admit the Papal Magisterium confirmed St. Gregory Palamas as a Saint. Romans would have been better off Franciscan Soctists rather than Dominican Thomists.
When a man turns his face away from God, all of his paths lead to perdition. When a man finally rejects God by word and in his heart, he is no longer fit to do anything that does not serve for his complete destruction, both of his soul and of his body.
- St. Nicholas of Serbia
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@AaronM4lloy
Of all the missteps and faults of the Royal family to choose from this is not it. False on both accounts. Communism failed read a book
Here’s a question for you Church History buffs:
Why do the Orthodox reject the Council of Florence in 1439 simply because one Orthodox Bishop contested the council?
It seems as though the majority of the Council was in agreement and ready to reunify, until St. Mark of Ephesus
“If the substance (nature) does not possess an energy (act)
distinct from itself, it will be completely without actual subsistence (being) and will be only a concept in
the mind.” Saint Gregory Palamas 150 Chapters 136
Pope Francis to children in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is
Pope Francis to children in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They are—to make a comparison—like different languages, different dialects, to get there. But God is God for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is
@langluigi_
Saint Sava was modeled after Hague Sophia. The Patriarch of Serbia Irinej considers it to be the New Hagia Sophia symbolically. It’s not as large but the dome is just as impressive and a bit larger
Thomas Aquinas held a fundamentally flawed view of theophanies and miracles, influenced by novel ideas of St Augustine, which disagrees with the patristic christological exegesis of the Old Testament, leading to erroneous theology. Ironically this view opposes RC Catechism too.
@imperiumpress1
Modern culture and science is nominalist and materialist at its core. Neopaganism, especially one based on materialism, is manufactured. We in the West must return to embrace the immanent realism of Aristotle and Church Fathers.
“He is Christ on account of his divinity: for this is the anointing of the humanity which the divinity sanctifies not by energy, as with the other christs, but by the presence, whole and entire, of the one who bestows the anointing.” Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 30.21
The orthodox theory allows these words, I mean “Ungenerate,” “Endless,” to be indicative of God's eternity, but not of His being. - Against Eunomius by St Gregory of Nyssa
Dogmatically Christ is not a human person but the divine person of the Logos. Christ’s flesh and humanity is deified in the divine hypostasis of the Logos. Here Sts John and Maximus state clearly Christ is “perfect God, the same Being” and “not a man” but “beyond human beings”.
The Logos miraculously incarnated, assumed flesh - putting on of human nature - in His eternal hypostasis - preserved, without change, unaltered. Change is according to the human nature and energy. Christ is the divine person of the Logos with deified human nature and energy.
He created all things, since he is the only God, the only Lord, the only Creator, the only Father, alone containing all things, and himself commanding all things into existence. - Against Heresies, Saint Irenaeus
@RFupdates
Will is a form of energy. Energy is of the essence. Christ is both God & Man. Ergo Christ has two essences & two energies thus two wills. If Christ were to only have one will then he would be neither fully human or fully divine, which would contradict scripture. John 10:30-36
@ZZZELCH84
America fought for independence over no taxation without representation after a series of rebuffs by Parliament at attempts to redress. Some patriots wanted General Washington or even a Prussian prince to become King. Hamilton was right about the presidency and the constitution.
He who thinks that God is something to be known does not have life, because he has turned from true Being to what he considers by sense perception to have being. - St Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses
🧵 Eastern "Orthodoxy" is the modern-day Pelagianism heresy!
The Eastern "Orthodox Church" officially anathematized the Gospel of Jesus Christ and taught Pelagian heresy in 1672 Council of Jerusalem under Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem.
St Augustine arguing against Pelagians stated free will is only for sinning, humans are born guilty deserving evil, and for the unbaptized child the wrath of God is repaid to the “lump”. Dositheus condemned these ideas under Calvin. Was Dositheus a Pelagian or did Augustine err?
“All over again we find and confess the same Father, knowing him as a unity, as a bond, as both the Father and the ‘projector’ as well as the gatherer of the begotten and of the proceeded one: and thus as the center and arche of these we consider him.” St Gregory Palamas
Christ is theanthropos the God-man in virtue of his distinct natures but is a divine person in virtue of his eternal hypostatic relation to God the Father. Personality and hypostasis are distinct to energy & energy is distinct to essence. Collapsing distinctions leads to heresy.
According to the Sixth Ecumenical Council and St. John of Damascus on the Orthodox Faith, Christ is the divine person of the Logos Son of God and the flesh or human nature was deified when assumed in his person.
@gallaeciancath
@Thomisticae
No. The Bible and Church Fathers did not teach the Florentine Filioque and taught the essence and energies distinction. Even the Roman Catholic Church has moved away from Thomism.
Pope Francis signature Vatican Council is the Synod on Synodality which cites the same Dicastery for Unity’s published recommendations of synodal exercise of primacy, negating Vatican I. The Papacy will officially recognize the full validity of the Orthodox Church in October.
People ask me why I dunk on the Ortho bros more than the Protestants. Honestly, because I feel like Protestantism is so defeated on the internet it is sort of uninteresting.
Am I wrong? Should I dunk on Protestants more?