Joseph of Nova Caesarea

Almighty God the Father, let thy will be done in us and all the world! Lord Jesus Christ, Son and Logos of the Living God, have mercy on us! O All Good and Life Creating Spirit, illumine us and guide all souls unto truth! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy!

@REALSGTPIPER @tenbuchira the diaspora throughout the world which is now leading to the harvest of Christians beyond Eastern Europe and the Holy Land. It was God's will. Those Christians who were martyred are now in Paradise.

@REALSGTPIPER @tenbuchira The Nazi regime also mistreated Orthodoxy under it's yoke and wanted to reform Christianity. You can just dislike both of them lol. St. Matrona of Moscow says God allowed Russia to be taken by communism because there were very few true Christians anymore. This also led to-

Niggas will argue nazis bad because they killed people while they literally venerate St. Emperor Justinian who massacred over 30 thousand of his own people in a day, and instigated wars that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

@Josiaicae_ Bro it's funny what about it is miserable?

Why are you people so miserable?

@kuntryu2 @hickman0000 Orthodoxy is anything but a faith of scholars.

@hickman0000 Quit listening to so called religious scholars read the Bible.

Why are so many Americans converting to Orthodoxy, with thousands upon thousands around the country scheduled to be baptized this Holy Week? Whether he intended to or not, Tucker Carlson gave a commentary on it in the last 10 minutes or so of his latest episode. “Huge parts of Protestant Christianity in the United States, the leadership — are totally corrupt… Corrupt on the level which matters most, which is spiritually corrupt. They’re not preaching Christianity… there are many Protestant American church leaders who are preaching a religion that bears no resemblance to Christianity… Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday. To pray over the president so he’ll have wisdom and restraint? No! To endorse the murder of civilians, which is a war crime, but more important, it’s a moral crime… The point isn’t to beat up on poor Franklin Graham. The point is that it’s the end of something. Whatever that religion is is not gonna continue. It just won’t, because it’s a lie. And so it will end, as all lies do — it will be revealed as a lie, as all lies are. And so you’re watching the end of the global American empire, the unipolar world… and you’re watching the end of whatever American Protestant Christianity… whatever it became… It’s also a prerequisite, it is a necessary step — and this is something that all Christians are thinking about in Holy Week — to rebirth. The seed doesn’t produce the tree until it dies. And so the death of the unipolar moment and of the institutions within the evangelical movement — American Protestant Christianity — are going away. But they will be replaced, by something better, and purer, more true to itself. Constructive, unifying, healing. Institutions that build and don’t just destroy. That’s going to happen, and, God willing, we will live to see it. So rejoice in that, as sad as this is, and Happy Easter.” “I tell you, one day, America will be holy.” - St. Paisios the Athonite

@RexxDauzat @hickman0000 Constantinople Alexandria Antioch Jerusalem Russia Serbia Romania Bulgaria Cyprus Greece Poland Albania Czech America All have autocephalous Churches. Russia's holiness is not relevant.

@hickman0000 Sure Russia is real holy. Highest level of abortions in the world.

@thaddeusthought I also have tons of obvious red flags though and if I see myself and genuinely fundamentally worse than them it's hard to think I ought to have better. My current girlfriend is amazing I am so blessed to have her but I still feel like the same storm in others lives as always

> "all women are like this" > "show me some women you dated" > tons of obvious red flags Maybe... maybe consider you are picking wrong

@KalebAtlanta You seen this Kaleb? Always made me think of you haha

Jesus Christ Conquers

@THEORTHOCHAT Who? We ought to love Greece 🥲

There’s plenty of Orthodox accounts who would love this guy

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian Yeah, that's what I was reaffirming lol. Symbolon points towards a real presence view, and "as the flesh and blood of the Lord" literally does not make sense in a memorialist view.

@CaesariteJoseph @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian Right, but the key here is that it's not an either or which he assumes without demonstration.

The same arrogant protestants who make claims like this deny the Church Fathers taught Baptismal Regeneration and the real presence of the Eucharist which was universally agreed upon from the Church Fathers from day 1.

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian to the institution of the eucharist at the Last Supper, so I am not 100% on what that would ultimately say definitively about the eucharist from my theology. Allegoron is similar to symbolon in that it can be "employing a likeness in communication," so it's not really conclusive.

@eek4436 @AL_J82 @AngloVarangian The citation I already used was in Chapter 6, but I am using the Greek. It's actually not even saying metaphor really. ἀλληγορῶν allegoron is "speaking allegorically" Now that I read it a bit deeper though it's really talking about Christ's words in John 6, which is prior-

@AL_J82 @eek4436 @AngloVarangian I already explained symbol in Greek does not mean what it does to us in the 21st century. I was trying to find the citation where metaphor was found and believe it or not I can't. Do you have a precise chapter reference for that?

@CaesariteJoseph @eek4436 @AngloVarangian He literally uses the words "symbols" and "metaphors". What were those things in reference to?

@AL_J82 @eek4436 @AngloVarangian I verified it is in fact σύμβολον So at very least it would he inconclusive, although I think it is just obviously not a purely symbolic view. You can check these to verify if you would like. scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts… el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF… en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF…

@AL_J82 @eek4436 @AngloVarangian "As also the Lord of flesh and blood" refutes you man. Was the Lord a real flesh and blood human? Yes. So if the eucharist is as the Lord of flesh and blood... That's a real presence view. Also, symbol in Greek does not mean the same thing as we say in English. σύμβολον is the-

@AL_J82 @eek4436 @AngloVarangian is again, a real presence view. Your idea is instead that there is one reality mere metaphor or rhetoric on top of that reality.

@AL_J82 @eek4436 @AngloVarangian Greek word there I am pretty sure, I don't have the Greek text of that particular document handy I will admit I am not so familiar with him but that is used elsewhere in the Fathers, and it literally means "to put together," so it always implies their is two realities. Which-

Monarchical trinitarianism totally obliterated my brain into hating the title monotheist not gonna lie.

@KatelynTweeter Absolutely. My girlfriend and I want at least one adopted child for this reason.

If you are pro-life would you ever be willing to adopt an unwanted baby? Trying to prove a point.

@ShawnOnMission @OrthodoxGabriel @McBrideLawNYC So the Eternal Son and Logos (God) took on flesh but she is not the Mother of God (within time, obviously she is not eternally such)? Your argument contradicts your conclusion.

@OrthodoxGabriel @McBrideLawNYC She gave birth to His human form on earth, not the eternal God. No Mother of God. One God, one Mediator: Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).

You cannot have God for your Father who has not the Church for his Mother. Outside the Church there is no salvation. St. Cyprian of Carthage (251 AD)

@ScalarStorm @BrotherCliffS @MrSausageGet Yes. Because He is the fulfillment of passover! He is the true passover lamb. Glory to Him in His foresight! It has to be Friday and not Wednesday as this individual seems to assert because it was on the day of preparation for the Sabbath, which is not Wednesday

@BrotherCliffS @CaesariteJoseph @MrSausageGet I suppose I could have looked it up first: —the Sabbath following Jesus' crucifixion was "special" or "great" because it coincided with the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread—

Everyone realizes that Trump just blasphemed Christianity during Easter week, right?