Thank you for this reply!
I think something you may be alluding to can be found in a recent post I made. It’s super short, so I will just copy and paste the contents here. The name of a demon (please be patient if that is not something you believe exists), is translated as “night bird” because the translators felt uncomfortable to put a pagan goddess / demon in the Bible. Is this the sort of thing you are talking about?
I found it on a podcast (linked below) but was able to verify it using the BLB app which has access to the original language.
I think you’re questioning the methods by which the reliability of a source can be verified. I asked something similar once myself, trying to explore what a university actually would be. I don’t remember the entirety of that explored conversation but it may be a post in my history. The idea was to question at what point an organization (a group of people united under one common belief) is no longer valid; another example would be to recognize the corruption of the medical field, but also to recognize it would be stupid to say we should completely restart the medical field.
Contents of that post referenced below
Isaiah 34:14 (ESV) And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there lîlîṯ (the night bird) settles and finds for herself a resting place.
לִילִית lîlîṯ
Monster Manual introduces some ancient cultural understandings of the demonic, demonstrates numerous examples within Holy Scripture and then discuss how our modern culture makes “monsters” cute & morally neutral.
you should drive the opposite direction of traffic to prove your point
yeah that seems similar to what I was saying
laziness, fear, self preservation etc.
yes, you’re correct
intelligence =/= ethics
the color blindness is an interesting analogy. I think it’s accurate because it doesn’t eliminate the possibility for them to learn to overcome that colorblindness (highly unlikely) or to receive some treatment or intervention which might help
they can’t do any of that if they don’t think it’s a problem to begin with, and if their faced with the reality of their situation that doesn’t mean they will always choose to address the change
EDIT: and this understanding does not give excuse for their “cutting the wrong wire”, the things they do and say are still despicable
The NPC state of human consciousness is virtually never studied scientifically. That indicates this is one of "Their" biggest secrets.
Really good point which I had never considered! Plus finishing off with this part too
It's not that it's denied and you are forbidden from discussing it, you're just never supposed to realize it exists.
It’s unfortunate that someone has made you think it’s a about picking a “holy book”
Imagine thinking sometbing like
Dualkalibur always comes to this dumb scored / communities . win, he’s only interested in “theories” when clearly there has been so much propaganda that it’s obvious that website is edited, altered etc
The problem with this mindset is twofold:
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If someone thinks everything else is altered, but conspiracy theory sub is pure, their a fool
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If someone thinks investigating conspiracies is limited to the internet, especially to this particular community, again they are a fool
If you really get into it, the culture and mindset on how to view the world becomes the drawing factor. I’ll leave it for you to discern whether I’m referring to the conspiracies community or to the Christian community
Yes it helped because I’ve already encountered that terminology since you last told me about it. It was related to other research I was working on
Hegesippus (born c. 110 & died c.180 AD), also known as "Hegesippus the Nazarene", was a Christian writer of the early Church who may, in spite of his Greek name, have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion. According to Hegesippus, Mary the wife of Clopas is Christ's aunt, he actually refers to her as the sister-in-law to Theotokos (Christ's mother).
- And the same writer says that his accusers also, when search was made for the descendants of David, were arrested as belonging to that family. And it might be reasonably assumed that Symeon was one of those that saw and heard the Lord, judging from the length of his life, and from the fact that the Gospel makes mention of Mary, the wife of Clopas, who was the father of Symeon, as has been already shown. -- source
I second that recommendation for Ft Josiah Trenham if youtube is more your thing.
Also the youtube channel Theoria
A lightweight yet beneficial “catechism” can be found in the podcast “Our Life in Christ”. Ancient Faith is an excellent resource. I’ve also found good resources via individual parish websites such as this one
https://www.saintjohnchurch.org/
And the Orthodox Church in America has great introductory resources, assistance in locating a local English parish (vs Greek or Antiochian or Russian etc).
https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith
I’m going to be working on posts in the future which will introduce some facts that relate to why EO had excommunicated the Roman Catholic Church and after that I will be uploading segments from the book “The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century.” Right now I’ve been working through a series about Christology which of course is riling up some people based on particular segments.
It’s going to be a journey, expect stumbling blocks!
God bless you as well
Nestorianism, which made of the one Christ two separate persons united only in a moral, cooperative way, is the effective teaching of most Protestants today. They regard Jesus Christ as having been deified in that He was adopted as the son of God at His baptism.
I’ve never encountered this in Protestantism
In Ukraine it is nearly 1 am on July 6 as I write this…
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I need to look into Marcion
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I am working through the Eastern Orthodox Study Bible which contains Maccabees, I have never read it
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this was not a long post, thank you for the info!
Im pretty sure this was the video I saw which discussed this concept
It’s been a little while and I watched a lot of his stuff
What do you make of a few of the most popular "jesus is fake" vidoes. Some are pretty well made, have lots of souces and make good points.
I had not heard of these videos however I’m confident that the historical man was not fake. What your background as a Christian?
Sorry about that! I’ve heard Christology is a good place to start actually, and perpetual virginity is a component of that but it’s also not touched upon until further on within the topic.
Maybe a better place to start would be in understanding what a “gospel” (Greek “evangelion”) actually is. “Arise O God” by Ft Andrew Damick is short but did a good job at introducing that
literally yes, in reality no. People do not enter a fasting period yet they do fast from a meal while sleeping
see the difference?
Augustine was originally apart of the Natsarim?
all interesting information, the only part I knew about was the idea of concrete vs gnostic extremes
I think you’re confusing two things here: ancient Judaism (aka the Hebrews that worshipped YHWH) and modern Judaism which rejects YHWH.
Are you familiar with the “70 nations”?
This verse could be said to be a culmination of that topic (lol spoiler alert)
Matthew 12:21 (ESV) and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”
gentiles is ἔθνη ethnos
Yes! Saying the Green “evangelion” means “good news” is like saying “breakfast” means “to break the fast” lol
I had not investigated that word yet. I’ve picked this verse at random for discussion:
John 4:9 (KJV) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
from strongs:
ioudaios Ἰουδαῖος
- Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation
- Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religion
ESV also translates it as “jews”
It was good to separate point 3 & 4.
I think we are entering the death of the Western power, similar to when Rome died. I don’t know enough about Eastern powers to know how to comment on any similarities there.
I have found a video which connected the totalitarian culture of communism to the totalitarian culture of the neo-marxist woke companies. Basically there’s no real difference between a government taking over the means of production and the corporations taking over the goverment, other than the origin of the take over
I think Q stuff is gnosticism