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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

16 days

You like Jesus and you have a fascination with Christianity, but you can’t get over certain intellectual hurdles. What to do about it? Maybe liberal Protestantism is right for you.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

2 months

Both church experiences would be equally unintelligible to the apostles.

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@drantbradley

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Eastern Orthodox churches are filling up former evangelical youth group teens, now young men, all over America. They’ve had it with the “Jesus is my boyfriend” CCM scene & emotionalism in worship like a Taylor Swift concert. This is how they’re successfully drawing guys.👇🏾

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Will @CapturingChrist ever have interesting content again? The world may never know.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

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I’m a contributor to a forthcoming “five views” book about different Christian traditions. Here’s the first paragraph of the current draft of my chapter, which defends liberal Protestantism:

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I see a burnt-out ostrich.

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫

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Apparently, if you can see a tree, you're left-brained, and if you can see two people holding hands, you're right-brained 🤔

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Christians are good at coming up with arguments to convince you that black is white and fire is cold.

Nicholas Stumphauzer

@NStumphauzer

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The atheist points to Hell as counter-evidence to God's existence; or that if He exists, that he is not benevolent. I propose that the existence of Hell and that it has denizens is a permanent testament to the unfathomable love of God:

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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No. Origen argues in De Principiis 4 that Christ’s presence in the OT can only be discerned retrospectively, after his advent, in a non-literal sense of the text. I think that’s the best one can do if one insists that Christ (Jesus) can be found in the OT.

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Is Christ literally in the Old Testament?

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@morallawwithin Even Christians can’t explain it.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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I’m gonna be the change I want to see in the world. I want to host casual conversations over coffee—not debates, not detailed presentations—between disagreeing scholars on my YouTube channel, with a focus on topics in philosophy, theology, and biblical studies. Where to start?

Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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Will @CapturingChrist ever have interesting content again? The world may never know.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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The difference between catholic Christianity and liberal Protestantism, as I conceive of it.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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I know quite a few people (on here and in real life) who are not orthodox Christians and yet still go to church, feel an attraction to Christianity, etc. In a sense, I consider my theological project to be developing a vision of Christianity that works for this sort of people.

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Coming soon.

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Back in the days when Capturing Christianity wasn’t just interviews with exorcists and live call-ins with hacks.

The Reluctant Theologian Podcast

@theRTMullins

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I'm really pleased with the dialogue that Steven Nemes and I had over at Capturing Christianity. We wanted to show that theologians can graciously disagree over rival models of God, and I think we pulled that off pretty well.

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@nostosaphthitos

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I’m sorry, but if this gets you all worked up and agitated, you’re ngmi.

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Wtf is going on at the Olympics opening ceremony?

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Incidentally, I see they changed the subtitle for Keith Ward’s book. I’m going to buy this one soon. Spirituality and Christian Belief: Life-Affirming Christianity for Inquiring People

Spirituality and Christian Belief: Life-Affirming Christianity for Inquiring People

Christianity is not the only true faith. The Bible is not inerrant. Jesus is not God walking on the earth. Hell is not eternal. What’s left? Everything important. The ultimate reality is cosmic mind,...

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@nostosaphthitos

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@JoshuaLWatson @CapturingChrist We’re in the dead of summer. Cameron could just pick two philosophers or theologians who take opposite sides on some debated issue and have them talk to each other for an hour and a half. I think that would make the channel 100x more interesting and watchable.

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@nostosaphthitos

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Augustinian Christianity seems perfectly concocted for causing religious trauma. Hell is forever, God’s already decided who’s going there, and for all you know, it could be you or your family.

Lutheran Sage

@LutheranSage

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I saw an older lady break down crying at a Bible study at a Reformed Baptist church as she had the "realization" that her son was "elected to damnation" for leaving the church after the pastor taught on double predestination. He didn't offer her a single word of comfort.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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There is no logical connection between Jesus’s resurrection and things commonly called Christianity: the Trinity, the Incarnation, any doctrine of the Eucharist, any particular doctrine of salvation, the inspiration of the Bible, the authority of catholic tradition, etc.

Mike Licona

@DrMikeLicona

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Understanding this was a game-changer for me. Now, no matter what the objection is, if Jesus rose, it's game set, match—Christianity's true, period. Now, I recognize I can look at differences and questions about the Bible and Christianity with an entirely open mind, come to my

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@nostosaphthitos

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More from my chapter on a case for liberal Protestantism. I argue against the catholic doctrines of Trinity, Incarnation, Eucharist, Tradition, and Scripture. Then I propose an alternative, post-catholic foundation for Christian faith as a basis for a liberal Protestantism.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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rawdogging Christianity by simply reading the Bible without concern for the hierarchy of the church

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

2 months

I am going to make a return to the YouTube world. Later today I’ll be streaming a video about the conquest of Canaan. I think there is a critical detail in the biblical narratives that’s been ignored in the discussion so far.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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I have been reading this book by David Litwa and really quite enjoying it. Later dating for the NT is hugely theologically significant. I’m still thinking over the details. Late Revelations: Rediscovering the Gospels in the Second Century CE

Late Revelations: Rediscovering the Gospels in the Second Century CE

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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Can the doctrine of the Trinity be coherently interpreted? Here I argue: No. There’s no way to specify the relation between what is one in God (the οὐσία) and what is three in God (the ὑποστάσεις) that is both logically and theologically coherent.

The incoherence of the Trinity | A reading from Trinity and Incarna...

ABSTRACT: The doctrine of the Trinity asserts that there is in God something that is one (the ousia/οὐσία) and something that is three (the hypostaseis/ὑποστ...

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

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@HopefulTheism What Cameron looks like when he comes up with these videos

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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WLC has reappointed himself into a position that I personally find incredible, and he expresses it with a nonchalance that makes him come off as insane. It’s like he’s doing math in his head, forgetting that he’s talking about the killing of children.

William Lane Craig Defends the Canaanite Slaughter

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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Rough words in response to the criticism that he does not cite enough conservative biblical scholars.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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Anybody who relates to this sentiment almost certainly has the most embarrassingly superficial grasp of church history.

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Me: Wow, church history is interesting, I’m going to dive a little deeper! Me 2 months later:

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@nostosaphthitos

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They should post the sermon on the mount in courtrooms and government buildings so people can realize how irreconcilable Christian life and worldly life are.

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@nostosaphthitos

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@lastpositivist Read Plotinus, Enneads 1.6.9

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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A couple announcements. 1. If all goes according to plan, Joshua Sijuwade and I will be discussing the doctrine of the Incarnation on Sam Tideman’s Transfigured YT channel on July 25th. 2. I will attending the EPS/ETS annual conference in San Diego this November.

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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In a couple hours, I’ll be reading a section from my book, 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘈 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. Come check it out! Here’s the link:

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Στέφανος Εὐγενής

@nostosaphthitos

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So many Christians are convinced that God wants them to accept misery for his sake. God wants them to prove they’d rather be unhappy than break any of his rules—religion as metaphysical Stockholm syndrome.

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@nostosaphthitos

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“all other Christians” except all the other Christians before and after Nicaea who either never heard of the creed and its theology or else rejected it

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“One Baptism for the WHAT of WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?”

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@nostosaphthitos

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This is exactly what I have been doing in my own work.

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J.L. Schellenberg asks in the latest OUPblog post, "Has Christian philosophy been having it too easy?" Available to read here: #Religion

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@nostosaphthitos

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Conspiracy theory time. I’ll flesh it out later. - Women were leaders in Paul’s churches. - Paul’s churches were meddled with by other groups. - 1 Clement emphasizes women’s subordination and condemns insubordination to presbyters Corinth. What could this mean? 1/2

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Is there anyone normal on this damned website? The stuff that shows up on my timeline…

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@nostosaphthitos

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No Christian should affirm those creeds because what they teach is nonsense.

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Every Christian should affirm the Nicene, Athanasian, and Chalcedonian creeds. These are not Roman Catholic creeds, they are Christian creeds that predate the Roman Catholic Church by more than 500 years and serve to define our understanding of the scripture’s teaching on the

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@nostosaphthitos

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I am drawn to liberal Christianity because the illiberal version is full of incoherencies and falsehoods.

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@Young_Anglican

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I think liberal Christians would have a better argument if it wasn't so obvious that their version of Christianity produces no disciples and kills their churches in like two or three generations. The only people drawn to liberal Christianity are people with church hurt.

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Just in time for my YouTube video later today where I argue that the catholic idea of apostolic succession is a myth.

Fr. Timothy Matkin

@FrMatkin

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Sean Rowe was "consecrated" to the episcopate by Katherine Jefferts Schori, and thus is no bishop at all. He will not be able to consecrate future bishops. Apostolic succession is being quickly weeded out of the Episcopal Church.

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@nostosaphthitos

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According to Zwingli, it isn’t. God’s infinity means that everything is God.

Malachi 🦡

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If God is infinite how is it possible for something to come into existence that is not God?

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Obviously right.

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DBH on calvinism

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@nostosaphthitos

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This video has got people reacting angrily and commenting wildly even before they watch a second of it. Come see what all the fuss is about! Here I argue that the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine of apostolic succession is a myth.

The myth of apostolic succession in Roman Catholic doctrine

ABSTRACT: The Roman Catholic Church claims theological authority because, so it says, its bishops are the successors of the apostles. Critical to this preten...

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How my son fell to the ground after throwing the baseball in the house and my wife took it away

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“God loves himself and his own nature, being and Godhead, and in the love he has for himself he loves all creatures, not as creatures but as God. The love God bears himself contains his love for the whole world.” Meister Eckhart

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Jason BeDuhn, The First New Testament, p. 31

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Got my author copies.

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Part of the proto-catholic myth of a unified and cooperative apostolic college is the thesis of apostolic omniscience.

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Typical responses I get to my videos: • tl;dw • personal attack • non sequitur • “talk with so-and-so, he’ll sort you out” Occasionally someone interacts only superficially with the argument, so I have to respond my mentioning things I already say in the video.

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@nostosaphthitos

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Roman Catholics will talk about “anthropocentric religion” when their whole religion was made up by people who wanted to be in charge of others.

Joshua Charles

@JoshuaTCharles

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A highly recommended “red pill” book on Luther’s notion of faith, and how it ultimately led to man-centered religion. A short, punchy read, heavily reliant on original sources (one reason I loved it). I read it a few years ago based on Cardinal Ratzinger’s recommendation.

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I want this.

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Just got this 3 book box set. Decided to read Fagles translation: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid Exciting times.

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A good thread explaining one of the arguments I pursue in my Trinity and Incarnation book.

albanianmogger

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Steven Nemes' argument against the Incarnation: [thread]

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@nostosaphthitos

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An outline of an argument. I am exploring the idea of a kind of “virtue-theoretic” critique of Yhwh as presented in the OT, one that avoids metaethical questions about the source of moral obligations and focuses instead on what persons of a certain sort of character would do.

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Eastern European supremacy.

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This is a really under-utilised map whenever conversations about 'civilisation' come up

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RC apologetics is recapitulating catholic theological history. “God knows you can’t get this stuff out of the Bible. But everyone’s got to believe it, right? So it must be that all must believe because we say so! Yes, brothers, God is on our side.”

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Isaac the Syrian incorporates justification by faith alone into his universalist conception of God’s providence. From The Third Part, homily 6

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Another paragraph from my chapter in a forthcoming volume, as a part of my case for liberal Protestantism. Here I argue that the traditional doctrine of Christ as a single person in two natures is incompatible with the idea that he truly died.

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In catholic teaching, every true bishop should be able to trace his consecration by means of other duly consecrated bishops back to an apostle. In this video, I argue that the earliest sources not only do not support this idea but actually contradict it.

The myth of apostolic succession in Roman Catholic doctrine

ABSTRACT: The Roman Catholic Church claims theological authority because, so it says, its bishops are the successors of the apostles. Critical to this preten...

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Does John’s Gospel teach that Jesus is divine, or that he preexisted his human life? Here I argue that it can be read coherently without those ideas.

Does John’s Gospel teach that Christ preexisted his human birth? A...

ABSTRACT: The more common opinion is that John's Gospel teaches the deity and preexistence of Jesus very clearly. In this video, reading from my book, Trinit...

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There is no way that Joe Biden actually wrote anything in this thread.

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I’m stuck at home with COVID, so I had the distinct misfortune of watching Donald Trump’s speech to the RNC. What the hell was he talking about?

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I’ve been reading Rachel Held Evans’s “Faith Unraveled” together with my wife. The sort of American evangelicalism RHE lived in is just so much traumatizing nonsense. It’s absurd—people whose brains are turned off.

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The son of man is a deified human being, not a god or anything of the sort.

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This is a convincing presentation. The argument, in brief, is that there are dozens of features (~100) that canonical Luke has which Marcion’s gospel doesn’t. It is simply unbelievable that Marcion would have intentionally cut all that material from Luke.

Marcion's Gospel Predates Luke - Bilby : Gnostic Informant : Free...

Dr. Mark Bilby presents 100 features proving Marcion's Gospel predates canonical Luke.

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@dwcongdon I think it’s going to be big. 5 views represented: 1. Roman Catholicism 2. Classical Protestantism 3. Liberal Protestantism 4. Eastern Orthodoxy 5. (Postliberal) Anglicanism Philosophers and theologians contributing. Opening statement, responses, and rejoinders from each.

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Suan’s reasoning seems like this: 1. We must believe X. 2. The Bible by itself can’t get us to X. 3. We need something outside of the Bible to get us to X. The whole process falls apart if you deny (1). I don’t know why people don’t just give it up.

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If only there were a minimum IQ point for being allowed to comment on the internet.

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The Eucharist is about eating bread and drinking wine in celebration of Jesus’s work and person. The bread and wine do not really become him. They’re for eating. Eating Christ's Flesh: A Case for Memorialism

Eating Christ's Flesh: A Case for Memorialism

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Lukas Adolfsson

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Protestants! Give me your best argument against Benediction and Adoration (outside of the service) of the Eucharist. Romans and Anglo-Catholics, feel free to defend the practice below as well. I’m really struggling with this issue right now.

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The church from Moby Dick.

Nic ⚓

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Worshipped today at the beautiful Christ Church Anglican, a small seaside parish.

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Hell yeah brother. 👑 Finally, a pastor who tells the truth.

Protestia

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Rev. Mark Sandlin of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant (PCUSA) explains that Jesus is not God, and in fact, never thought of himself as God.

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How do you know there wasn’t a committee? No one knows anything about 4 gospels until Irenaeus. Then he presents an official story of how they came about. In the meantime, major controversies with Valentinus, Marcion, and others. For all we know, there was a committee.

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The Gospel authors did not sit on a committee designed to mislead future historians. Rather, they followed the literary conventions of their time.

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David Trobisch, On the Origin of Christian Scripture, p. 55

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Finds exclusivism ridiculous, reads DBH & becomes a universalist, visits a medium, takes mushrooms, contemplates his wife’s past life, consults with mediums, investigates metempsychosis, takes up meditation—basically becomes a gnostic.

Why I Left Christianity

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DT argues that the canonical NT was composed and put together at one time by Polycarp in response to Marcion and later popularized by Irenaeus. I have to read his other book for more details, but I am sympathetic to the general idea of a conspiratorial origin of the NT canon.

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I’m going to take this as an endorsement.

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A very good video explaining Marcion and his place in the broader world of Christianity during his time. I especially appreciated his final comments comparing Marcion with Philo vis-à-vis the distance between the material cosmos and the ultimate God.

The Real Marcion of Sinope: Origins Of A Heretic | Dr. Markus Vinzent

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Imagine, if you will, the unfathomable confusion of mind it would take for a person unironically to speak of “one Yahweh” who is a “he” that “exists as multiple persons.”

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Some interesting conclusions to draw from Papias (60–130). 🧵 1. There apparently were no officially canonical gospels in his time, since he doesn’t treat any writing as more valuable as testimony from persons who supposedly had heard from Jesus’s closest disciples themselves.

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@HopefulTheism @gavinortlund For what it’s worth, Gavin and I are both contributing to a forthcoming “5 views” book on different Christian traditions. He’s defending classical Protestantism, whereas I defend liberal Protestantism.

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On the present hot topic of Christianity and slavery, here’s Ignatius of Antioch (short recension) writing to Polycarp against slaves’ seeking their own freedom. They should rather labor and work harder, so as to be more deserving of salvation.

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GPT-5 will teach middle school Latin and go bald at an aggressive rate.

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This was a very enjoyable discussion.

Dialogue with Dr. Joshua Sijuwade: Is the doctrine of the Incarnation...

In this video, hosted by Sam Tideman @Transfigured, Dr. Joshua Sijuwade and I discuss the doctrine of the Incarnation.My book, _Trinity and Incarnation: A Po...

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Starting in 1.5 hours or so.

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3 months

Augustine vs the Christian nationalists.

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Augustine: reliably wonderful

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The evidence for the priority of Marcion’s testamentum to the canonical New Testament implies that there was an intentional effort on the part of proto-orthodox communities to form a canon against Marcion. The consistency of names is not a coincidence, but could be conspiracy.

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If the Gospels were anonymous it means that for 100 years no author mentioned then suddenly all the scribes, at the exact same time, throughout the world, with no trace of disagreement, all decided to ascribe the same author. And that this happened with each one of the 4 Gospels

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I cannot understand how the son of man is supposed to be divine by nature simply because he “comes with the clouds of heaven.” He’s being brought before God—that’s why he’s on the clouds. He’s also given dominion, glory, and kingship—which he’d already have if he were divine.

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@CapturingChrist @theRTMullins I obviously did not mean “when is Cameron gonna get a lot of people watching his videos.”

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The moral critique of the OT’s depiction of God cannot be dismissed by saying, “Where do you get your standard of goodness from?” The OT itself says that human beings have the same knowledge of good and evil as God (Gen. 3:22). Even Abraham demands justice of God (Gen. 18).

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Epistle of Barnabas is interesting. - A robust theology of Jesus that hardly cites Jesus one time - A denial of Pauline theology at 4:10? (justification as only future) - A denial of Jewish interpretation of OT in favor of allegory grounded in divinely given insight

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A very good video explaining how Marcion’s theology fits within the context of middle Platonic philosophy that was common in the first and second centuries and was shared by a great number of Christians.

Marcion's Demiurge

In this meditation, I argue against the view that Marcion "split" God (the Father) from the creator (or demiurge). In fact, Marcion was part of a Middle-Plat...

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3 months

Another devastating response to Barrett. Opitz shows well how Zwingli is hardly a pro-catholic reformer. To the contrary, as I’ve suggested in places, Zwingli represents a first step toward a thoroughgoing post-catholic Protestantism.

“Reformation as Renewal:” Recatholicizing the Reformers by Manipulating their Message? - The London...

Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available...

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@HopefulTheism And they appear on Capturing Christianity.

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2 months

I don’t think the first line of the Iliad is a celebration of Achilleus’s rage. Homer immediately mentions that Achilleus’s rage meant the death of so many of his comrades. I think you have to be dumb to read The Iliad and think Achilleus is the exemplar.

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Some of the most influential people in the world are also some of the dumbest. As Hamlet says, “Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.”

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“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.” — John MacArthur

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Seeing this in Barnes & Noble would have been an inconceivable fantasy to me 15 years ago.

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In time for the summer.

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In my experience, when I post things like this, no one ever addresses the argument. It’s mostly just shit-talk or incredulous posturing. Everybody thinks he already knows. Nobody has anything to learn. The conclusion is obviously false a priori. Nothing left to do but commentate.

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@nostosaphthitos

3 months

More from my chapter on a case for liberal Protestantism. I argue against the catholic doctrines of Trinity, Incarnation, Eucharist, Tradition, and Scripture. Then I propose an alternative, post-catholic foundation for Christian faith as a basis for a liberal Protestantism.

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Let’s do it. 💪

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Dr. Steven Nemes @nostosaphthitos will join me next weekend to discuss his book Eating Christ's Flesh: A Case for Memorialism!

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Sam makes the trinitarian apologists look silly. Tertullian was obviously not a trinitarian in anything like the orthodox sense.

Tertullian's Christology - Jesus as a demigod in training

This video helps explain Tertullian's Christology on its own terms in its historical context and in response to polemical arguments with Gnostics and Modalis...

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The NT authors say things about Jesus one normally would only ever say about God. Does this mean that they thought he was God? Or is something else going on? This line of reasoning is flawed. Here I read a section from my book, Trinity & Incarnation.

The basic argument for the deity of Christ: a response

ABSTRACT: The basic argument for the deity of Christ is as follows. The New Testament says things about Jesus which normally only can be said about God. Ther...

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