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+ Fr. Seraphim Rose

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2024-09-09 11:52:00

Western Christians in disbelief.
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2024-09-08 22:49:24

Wangs 🤝 Vortex https://image.nostr.build/c434da9d5f096931578b1fbfe741d98a083a3547b72d7308d007fe58eba3527a.jpg

2024-08-31 17:05:33

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The Whole Counsel of God is great too.

2024-08-31 13:11:11

Y'all got me on Fountain. 🤝

2024-08-31 12:17:30

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GM ☕

2024-08-25 20:38:27

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Related, but different worldview: Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Seraphim Rose https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87669.Orthodoxy_and_the_Religion_of_the_Future

2024-08-23 16:56:55

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I have always regarded evolution, in all its ramifications, as an important part of the “American modern” intellectual baggage which I left behind when I became Orthodox, and it never before occurred to me that any aware Orthodox Christian would regard it as an unimportant, especially now when may scientists have abandoned it (purely on scientific grounds), when the pseudo-religious presuppositions of its supporters are so evident, and when it is so much bound up with masonry-ecumenism and the whole pseudo-religious modern outlook.
-Fr. Seraphim Rose, letter April 5/18, 1973

2024-08-21 18:22:20

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Dang...sorry, didn't see this 🫣

2024-08-21 17:52:36

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Highly recommend.

2024-08-14 21:26:26

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You're welcome!

2024-08-14 17:23:53

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Great read on that topic. https://image.nostr.build/43133e609ad12ac2e1c8114c2eef3a79071f71155780f6170e879df427dd2620.jpg

2024-08-14 12:11:43

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Good time to shill this. https://image.nostr.build/5f49172394a9f3249953c889964d9a1287fc79ae479ffb826104bab00ed04b3c.jpg

2024-08-12 20:34:45

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Fr. Rose does not miss. Blown away by how well his words resonate with modern times. Glory to God.
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2024-08-12 17:59:32

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2024-08-11 17:31:01

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Took the same steps a few years ago. I cant recommend Graphene enough.
I picked up a laptop from System76 which comes stock with their own Linux distro (pop!_os), very user friendly for folks new to Linux.
https://pop.system76.com/

2024-08-09 22:33:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g59QqubyQU

2024-08-07 17:29:02

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agreed

2024-07-27 23:50:21

Got a new lad 🥹
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2024-07-19 23:12:11

"One cannot help looking upon the whole modern aberration as a kind of last "fall" of man, an imitation on a worldwide scale of the sin of the first man—the desire to be as God, to know fully. And who can say why God allows this— unless it be simply that in the end, as in the beginning, we confront Him.
There was no "reason" for the fall of the prodigal son— and yet how much joy there was on his return. Perhaps after all God "allowed" the modern age for the joy over the reception of repentant sinners at the end of it."
+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina
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2024-07-19 20:44:21

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https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/the-duality-of-art-with-dc-schindler-climbing-mt-sophia
This too 👍

2024-07-17 15:48:17

Probably nothing 👍
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2024-07-16 23:33:39

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😆

2024-07-16 09:32:37

The palace of Herod lies in ruins, but the cave of the Child of Bethlehem remains. The crowns of the caesars have been lost, but the bones of the martyrs have been preserved. The palaces of the pagan kings have been transformed into piles of stone and dust, but the caves of the ascetics have grown into most beautiful churches. The golden idols have been scattered into nothing, but the chains of the Apostle Peter are preserved as a holy relic. The powerful Roman Empire is now only a tale of the dead, while the hut of Christianity, the Holy Church, is today the most powerful realm in the world. Where are the Jews, the murderers of God? They are dispersed throughout the world. Where are the powerful Romans? In the grave. Where is the power of bloody Nero? Where is the power of the evil Diocletian and the depraved Maximian? Where is the success of Julian the Apostate? Where are those high towers? They are where the tower of Babel is--beneath dust and ashes, beneath shame and damnation.
+ Saint Nikolai Velimirovic

2024-07-15 20:21:31

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2024-07-15 18:11:07

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2024-07-15 18:10:40

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clear browsing date and enable/re-enable cookies

2024-07-14 17:08:00

"There is nothing as characteristic of the Christian as making peace."
+St Basil the Great
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2024-07-12 14:45:09

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https://thesymbolicworld.com/
Jonathan Pageau is re writing some of the most well known fairytales, Jack and the Beanstalk is his next project. He covers symbolism in depth.

2024-07-11 18:43:03

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Truth incarnate
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2024-07-09 16:29:30

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much based

2024-07-09 13:04:46

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2024-07-09 11:39:50

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2024-07-07 23:58:25

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1HBRRcFFTs

2024-07-07 21:46:32

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St. John's first epistle is worth a read.

2024-07-05 12:10:32

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Been using it for a day. Great so far!

2024-07-04 13:20:05

"No one has ever spread as much shameful slander about Christ the Lord as the Jews. Their Talmud seethes with evil and malice toward the Lord. But all of those worthless calumnies are refuted by the most prominent historian of the Jews, Josephus Flavius, a rabbi and scholar who lived near the end of the first century after Christ. Josephus writes: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to Himself both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the denunciation of the most eminent men among us, had Him condemned to the cross, those that loved Him from the first did not forsake Him. He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold, and they foretold many other things concerning Him. And the sect of Christians, so named after Him, remains to the present day." Thus wrote a man who did not believe in Christ but was a scholar free of prejudice and malice".
The Prologues from Ohrid
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2024-07-01 22:36:40

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yes

2024-06-29 23:59:53

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🫂🤝

2024-06-29 23:22:57

IYKYK
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2024-06-28 11:56:16

"If you want to change the world, go be a saint".
Jonathan Pageau
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2024-06-26 23:30:45

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https://rumble.com/v503djq-trump-is-all-jewed-up.html
👀

2024-06-26 13:23:41

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😍☦️🫶

2024-06-24 12:17:11

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You're welcome.

2024-06-24 00:25:05

The whole lifestyle of modern man is arranged in such a way that there is no place for genuine spiritual life. Those who seek the spiritual life are thrown into despair, driven further and further into the mire of worldliness. The very pulse of modern life is nervous, refusing to allow a person any solitude for self-examination, creating an atmosphere hostile to leading a spiritual life. Modern man is like a screw or cogwheel in the gigantic machine of materialistic culture. He loses his individuality and personality and, as they say, runs in circles like a hamster in his cage. “Time is money” is the catchword for modern man’s lifestyle, therefore allowing no time for self-reflection, introspection, attention to the movements of one’s spirit and to the voice of one’s conscience. This nervous, rabid lifestyle wears one out entirely, drains a person’s energy and, thus, leaves him no time to work on himself, which is a necessary demand of the spiritual life. The only desire that remains is to be entertained, to relax, and to get away for a time from the oppressive mechanism of life. As a result, now all kinds of cheap, light-minded entertainment abound—movies, discotheques, etc., and places to spend free time from work and study. Without a doubt, this is the curse of modern life, corrupting all that is healthy in a person. It is the inevitable offspring of modern culture, of a person who has renounced God and made the foundation of his life the spirit of self-satisfying human pride.
All of modern entertainment acts like cocaine and alcohol on our contemporaries. Contemporary entertainment puts spiritual life to sleep in man, paralyzes spiritual impulses, and suppresses the voice of the conscience and of moral norms. Little by little, a person descends from the natural to gross carnality, becoming like a body without a soul according to the words of the Psalmist, I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you (Ps 73:22). The terrible sentence of God, once directed to the contemporaries of righteous Noah who perished in the flood, is pronounced on such people: And the Lord said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man forever, for that he also is indeed flesh …” (Gen 6:3).
- Archbishop Averky Taushev

2024-06-23 03:37:29

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The Symbolic World: 347 - Stephen Meyer - Where Darwinism Breaks Down
https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/where-darwinism-breaks-down-stephen-meyer

2024-06-22 11:12:03

"I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said: 'I will not hear'" (Jeremiah 22:21).
The Lord of Hosts raised this complaint against Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and against the people of Judea. Are not these words valid even today when they are spoken to our people and to almost every one of us individually? When we feel ourselves prosperous, we leave God in the shadows and relegate His words to oblivion. However, as soon as misfortune encompasses us with its dark wings, we turn to God and cry out to Him for help. In misfortune, the commandments of God seem to us as sweet as honey, but in prosperity they seem as bitter as medicine. Is not, therefore, misfortune better than prosperity? Is not misfortune in which we seek God more salvific than prosperity in which we forget God?
+ Saint Nikolai Velimirovic
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2024-06-19 23:02:57

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Of course!

2024-06-19 22:19:44

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St. Maximus The Confessor (6th-7th century) writes in depth on this sort of thing. You may enjoy diving into some of his writings 🙏

2024-06-16 22:22:15

The liturgical calendar changea lives.

2024-06-16 16:00:20

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🫶
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2024-06-16 15:53:26

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"A division within the Church has never occurred, nor indeed can one take place, while apostasy from the Church has and will continue to occur after the manner of those voluntarily fruitless branches which, having withered, fall away from the eternally living theanthropic Vine—the Lord Christ (John 15:1-6). From time to time, heretics and schismatics have cut themselves off and have fallen away from the one and indivisible Church of Christ, whereby they ceased to be members of the Church and parts of her theanthropic body. The first to fall away thus were the gnostics, then the Arians, then the Macedonians, then the Monophysites, then the Iconoclasts, then the Roman Catholics, then the Protestants, then the Uniates, and so on—all the other members of the legion of heretics and schismatics.”
+ St Justin Popovich

2024-06-16 12:41:40

GM. Go to divine liturgy ☦️
If, as St. Paul says, Christ dwells in our hearts through faith (cf Eph. 3:17), and all the treasures of wisdom and spiritual knowledge are hidden in Him (cf. Col. 2:3), then all the treasures of wisdom and spiritual knowledge are hidden in our hearts. They are revealed to the heart in proportion to our purification by means of the commandments.
This is the treasure hidden in the field of your heart (of. Matt. 13:44), which you have not yet found because of your laziness. Had you found it, you would have sold everything and bought that field. But now you have abandoned that field and give all your attention to the land nearby, where there is nothing but thorns and thistles.
It is for this reason that the Savior says, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8) for He is hidden in the hearts of those who believe in Him. They shall see Him and the riches that are in Him when they have purified themselves through love and self-control; and the greater their purity, the more they will see.
+St. Maximos the Confessor

2024-06-15 12:27:34

2024-06-14 11:07:35

The distracted man has a very simplistic and superficial understanding of all things, including the most important. He is not capable of deeply penetrating into the essence of things, of rationally and circumspectly considering what takes place around him. Therefore, his personal life is quite disorganized and fraught with blunders, and he often—at times involuntarily, due to his lack of sensitivity and thoughtfulness—causes much harm and suffering to others.
“He who is distracted,” says St Ignatius, “is often inconsistent: his emotions lack depth and strength and, therefore, are unstable and short-lived.” It follows that a distracted person cannot in any way be depended upon: he is an unreliable, unfaithful, light-minded person. He is inclined to let down, be unfaithful to or betray even those people by whom he is considered a close friend.
St Ignatius further says, “Love for one’s neighbor is foreign to the distracted man who indifferently looks upon the distress of others and easily lays upon them burdens grievous to be borne.” One who is inattentive to himself, of course, cannot enter into the soul, into the emotional states, of others. Therefore, his soul remains closed to others: he cannot have sympathy or understanding for the others’ woes. He is not in a state to understand what someone else is able or unable to bear, and, therefore, is faultfinding and exacting in relation to others, and often demands from them that which is impossible or beyond their strength.
Finally, according to St Ignatius (Brianchaninov), “sorrows affect a distracted man intensely, precisely because he does not expect them. He expects only joys. If the sorrow is great but quickly passes, he soon forgets about it in the bustle of distraction. Long-lasting sorrow crushes him.” And this is understandable, for the distracted man’s mission in life is to search out only that which is pleasant; thus, all that is unpleasant is very difficult for him to endure.
–Archbishop Averky Taushev

2024-06-14 02:09:23

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Mark 10:45 — For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

2024-06-13 17:01:27

Ascension of Our Lord
Lay Sermon by Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose, June 1964
“God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of a trumpet."
[Psalm 46:5]
On the feast of the Ascension of our Lord we celebrate the fulfillment of this prophecy of King David, which is used as the prokimenon of the day. What does it mean for Orthodox Christians? It is not only Jesus Christ Who has ascended; for He has raised human nature itself to the heavens. We too shall rise from the dead and, if we are judged worthy, will rise with our regenerated, spiritual body to heaven, where, as the Blessed Augustine says, "all the people of God shall be made equal to the angels."
But the thought of this promise reminds us also of our responsibility. The risen Lord is no longer with us in the flesh, but only through His invisible Holy Spirit. The interim between the First and Second Coming of Christ is for us a time of witness and testimony of Him Whom we worship without seeing. The Lord, just before His Ascension, commanded His disciples: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature" [St. Mark 16:15]; and He told them, "ye shall be my witnesses...unto the uttermost part of the earth" [Act 1:8].
Christ has been with us for forty days, and we have rightly feasted; we must now, being filled with the Holy Spirit of God, strive to spread His Gospel and be His witnesses before the world. For everything that we do, or fail to do, we shall be judged by Him Who shall return to earth in the same way He ascended to Heaven. With such a sobering thought in mind, how can we not be zealous to make His truth known, so that all may join in the joyous cry of this feast, "Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Thy glory over all the earth" [Psalm 107:5].

2024-06-12 00:55:55

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2024-06-12 00:21:22

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2024-06-11 16:15:03

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Fr. Rose speaks so well to the age we are in.

2024-06-10 21:30:03

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnlmuNRJAg
90 seconds of 🔥

2024-06-10 18:37:42

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnlmuNRJAg
Also

2024-06-10 14:19:19

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Neutrality is a cope. Disagree.

2024-06-10 14:16:44

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2024-06-08 20:43:48

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🥹

2024-06-07 23:00:00

☦️
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2024-06-04 14:43:46

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The Father has always had a spirit (Holy Spirit) and has always had wisdom. The wisdom of God is Christ (the Word, Logos).

2024-06-03 19:49:13

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Build a family

2024-06-02 12:47:48

"The real reason for depressive disorders usually lies in the sins a man has committed. The holy Fathers believed that the basis of all mental suffering is pride. Therefore, in order to get rid of neurotic depression we should strive to acquire humility. An overstated level of human aspirations not carried out in life, a conflict between what is desired and what is real, always leave a feeling of sorrow, frustration, bitterness, and disappointment in the soul"
- not sure on the source 😌

2024-06-02 01:01:36

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You can talk to Him.
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2024-06-01 17:32:57

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2024-06-01 14:55:09

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Jot
Scribble
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Peep

2024-05-30 23:28:54

The bottom of the rabbit hole is Christ and His Church.
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2024-05-28 14:04:53

Christ is not only great but He is the Creator and Source and Inspirer of everything truly great in the history of mankind. While in exile and misery on the island of St. Helena, Napoleon, a man of transient greatness, uttered these words: "Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Louis XIV, with all their genius, are nothing. They have conquered the world and were unable to gain one friend. And behold, Christ calls and instantly entire generations are united in a bond closer and stronger than the bond of blood. Christ ignites the fire of love which consumes all egoism and surpasses any kind of love whatever."
-The Prologue of Ohrid

2024-05-27 12:15:15

Ideologies eventually run out of steam, the goal is always to convince you that the incarnation and resurrection of the God-Man, Jesus Christ did not happen.
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2024-05-24 22:42:55

"Temptations bring humility. God knows how much each one of us can withstand in terms of temptations. Thus, He allows temptations to the extent of our strength. But at the same time we need to be alert and watchful, so we do not tempt ourselves. We should also remember that after trials and temptations, spiritual joy will follow. The Lord watches over those who endure trials and tribulations for His love."
+St Nektarios of Aegina
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2024-05-24 13:24:14

In an age of complete distrust, few things are more ironic than the trust most people put into the Nasa/SpaceX hoopla.

2024-05-23 23:20:43

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Not quite, but he did play an enormous role in paving the way for the Divine Logos.

2024-05-23 18:15:21

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtmLCK1keFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5R939cIWg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6HJhKZHg8
These are worth a go if you find interest in the Apocrypha

2024-05-23 11:20:15

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Inflation is theft, taxation is extortion.

2024-05-21 00:37:48

"When an earthly king visits a place in his country, the benefit of his visit is felt long after. The Lord, the King, visited mankind on the earth and the benefit of that visit will be felt to the end of time. That visit means life instead of death for us, glory instead of shame, closeness to God instead of estrangement, and blessing instead of a curse. In other words, that visit means our resurrection from the dead, and our eternal reign in the heavens with Christ."
+ St Nikolai Velimirovic

2024-05-19 22:37:30

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I dont think any reasonable person would deny the reality of species adaptation (foxes having particular ear sizes, birds having different beaks, humans having diffetent colored skin, etc) but species moving from one form to another is absurd.

2024-05-19 21:20:55

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Evolution is absurd at face but, like most everything we have been fed, has been accepted and has led to the deep atheism the world holds to in this post modern age.
Everything the world teaches has, at its root, the goal of denying both the incarnation and resurrection of the God-Man. That is why, 2000 years into the church, we have SO many absurdities around us. Denying Logos creates chaos.

2024-05-19 20:45:24

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The full revelation of the God of the universe is realized in the 2nd person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. The Holy Scriptures point to and help unravel this revelation, but Christianity is not a "religion" of the book (like rabbinic judaism and Islam both are) rather is fully realized and experienced in the body of Christ, the continuation of the incarnation, the Church.
Saint Matthew covers the ways in which humanity can experience the God of the universe starting in chapter 5 of his gospel (the beatitudes).
These conversations are tough via the internet and I am not blessed to apologize for Christianity, but objective truth does exist and truth is a person-truth is God incarnate, truth is Jesus Christ.

2024-05-19 18:29:17

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Petersonian take. The God of the OT is the God of the NT.

2024-05-18 18:49:46

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No chance

2024-05-15 19:17:51

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John 1:14 — And God became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

2024-05-12 00:11:52

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https://uncutmountainpress.com/

2024-05-11 23:55:21

This was an excellent read.
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2024-05-10 17:09:36

Wow
The difference between our contemporary understanding of the symbol and the original one consists in the fact that while today we understand the symbol as the representation or sign of an absent reality, something that is not really in the sign itself (just as there is no real, actual water in the chemical symbol H2O), in the original understanding it is the manifestation and presence of the other reality-but precisely as other, which, under given circumstances, cannot be manifested and made present in any other way than as symbol....
For the essence of the symbol lies in the fact that in the dichotomy between reality and symbolism (as unreality) is overcome: reality is experienced above all as fulfilnent of the symbol, and the symbol is comprehended as the fulfilment of reality.
Alexander Schmemann- The Eucharist

2024-05-10 16:14:51

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The problem is (and always will be) spiritual and Libertarianism is atheistic at its root. And since it is atheistic its moral pre supposistions are doomed to fail.
Neutrality in ones worldview is a cope, neutrality doesnt exist.

2024-05-10 13:42:58

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Relevant
https://youtu.be/b5MdvMEMLEw?si=QVMgGNmsM_nojWiR