Yoga was made as a bunch of poses done in service to false gods. Whether you believe they are bad or not, you are still practicing something dangerous to yourself, and weird. Yoga = YOKE-a. Don't let demonic "yokes" get put on your back!
"but muh excerises!!" Don't be lazy. Invent new and useful positions that have NO occult/pagan meaning. Try different excersises. Eat right.
Does anyone wish to elaborate? Or prove me wrong on any of my statements?
This right here!
Didn't say it was. I am saying be ware of those in robes claiming to be the keepers of tradition that is outside of scripture.
Is the fact you have 5 fingers per hand a man-made tradition you're keeping? Or did the Lord give you understanding to perceive that reality?
If someone says you have 7 fingers and another says 8, is that enough to make you doubt the understanding God gave you?
Is the Holy Spirit so inconsequential to you that He can't provide correct interpretation to a mind searching out for truth? Did Jesus waste his breath by saying "ask and you shall receive"? Do you need a Pope to understand that language?
In fact, how were you able to carry on this conversation without first consulting with a Pope or high priest? How can you conserve with family members without a priestly intermediary analyzing the meaning of every sentence?
That's sophistry and false equivalence. Do you mean to tell me that complex, multilayered contex-dependent scriptural text, that is the result of thousands of years of tradition is in the same category as looking at how many fingers are there? I know you're not that stupid to believe this but you're being dishonest instead of admitting interpretation is a thing.
So God provided you personally with the correct interpretation? What about the other millions of Christians who believe in God, search the truth and hold believes that are contradictory to yours? Did the Holy Spirit gave them a separate contradictory revelation? How many truths are there? What makes you believe you are special in your apprehension of the truth if everyone else also claims to be enlightened through the Holy Spirit?
You have no understanding of what you're criticizing. Of course I have a spiritual father who serves as an authority and who got his authority through the apostolic succession within the Church. I also read the Church fathers and the saints who provide me with the correct interpretation. Is it a bad thing that I don't put all my trust in my fallen and limited mind, that is susceptible to delusion and error and seek the teachings of the Church that is guided by the Spirit and that will keep the faith to the end of time?
??? tradition as the source of scripture?
Are you denying the power of the Holy Spirit to work in us?
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" <-- Yes I believe those words. Do you?
You would agree there are millions who follow heretics like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland? Such people don't suffer from the misfortune of having simply not ran into the right Orthodox priest. Does that make sense for a criteria of salvation? God gives them a chance to hear the truth, but they aren't willing to accept the truth of the gospel and insist on their false gospel and false Christ. It's plain as day. They don't surrender, they are rebelling.
If they were earnestly seeking truth and asking the Lord they would be led out of churches like that, simple as that.
My understanding is shared by others, it's not just me.
It's bad to deny the power of the Holy Spirit. It's possible to "have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof". So simply don't deny the transformative powers that scripture clearly lays out.
Scripture is a liturgical document. It didn't grow on a tree. It was written by many divinely inspired authors within the tradition and compiled and preserved by the Church that you deny, so that it can arrive comfortably in your hands 2000 years later. Early Christians didn't have the Bible - if understand this you can no longer be protestant because that leads to Sola Scriptura being false.
Listen to this short excerpt on the subject: https://youtu.be/LZDaB5wT40E?t=4417
Except when it's not and your believes contradict. No way to determine who's correct because everyone has equal authority and is equally inspired by the Spirit, or at least you have to assume that. You realize historically protestants brutally killed each other for centuries over such disagreements, right?
Strawman. I never denied the power of the Holy Spirit who normatively works through the Church. Christ teachus us that there is no salvation outside of His Church (the Ark of salvation, the Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ). This is completely scriptural and orthodox.
Christianity is lived, communal, sacramental and participatory. It's not an abstract intellectual idea or a book you read on your own. You only know Christ by participating in His uncreated divine energies and being part of His Church (by baptism and eating His body and drinking His blood - the eucharist).