Benjamin W. Earman

@NathanBozeman2 @IFFFMEISTER He's always been a low-tier slop factory from what I've seen

@IFFFMEISTER At this point you could almost make an argument against Roman Catholicism purely off of how downhill his content has gone since converting 💀 "Look at his channel before and after. The fruit speaks for itself" haha.

@Nicholai_Korea @Alex_Ortodoxie I don't know what gave Alex such a positive impression of him during the debate tbh, I had no idea who he was and my initial impression which has persisted until now was just kinda "ughhh"

Good lord this guy is insufferable

@philotheis49253 @InspiringPhilos @KhalilAndani Yes, and this whole "Moses wrote every single letter of the Torah" thing is absurd and the product of people with modernist presuppositions in the West (misreading the text as a result) trying to counter other modernists who were criticizing the Bible.

@DRBWEPhD @InspiringPhilos @KhalilAndani Logic 101 is that when a document includes a note in third person about the death of the purported author and saying that no one knows to this day where he is buried, it can’t all have been written by said purported author.

You may have the same Torah from now back until when it was composed by four refactors by 500 BC but your Torah is not written by Moses.

@InspiringPhilos @KhalilAndani I remember when I was getting interested in the field of (broadly) Biblical scholarship from my background in philosophy, never had I seen people treat so many ideas like unassailable dogma which would never pass a logic 101 course lol

@KhalilAndani The documentary hypothesis is riddled with so many problems. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@Balatros1 @btbsoco okay lol whatever you say, boss man

@DRBWEPhD @btbsoco I like Bob, but orthobros still bring there Catholic hatred with them from protestantism when they decide to LARP as eastern orthodox.

It is to my knowledge factually false! Sorry Catholics your catechism is just wrong - much like the Quran when it says you take Mary as a god besides Allah.

@Balatros1 @btbsoco Yeah what a bad take that is definitely remotely reflects his being Orthodox in any way

@DRBWEPhD @btbsoco My bad, thought he was CofE. His bad take is not surprising in that case.

@PopeDefendersX @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco I didn’t claim anything to the contrary, you’re asserting that I’m making errors in understanding and reasoning that aren’t there so you can insert nuance I haven’t denied. Obviously if I’m saying it can be fallible and revisable, assent to the proposition isn’t “irrevocable.”

@DRBWEPhD @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco I was already very clear, but to make it simpler we do not owe immediate or irrevocable assent of will and intellect to non-definitive teachings. There are distinctions in Ordinary magisterium but ultimately, we should accept NA

@PopeDefendersX @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco Extraordinary and universal ordinary are protected by the charism of infallibility within the Catholic paradigm, teaching beyond that isn’t, and regardless of whether this can be wrong in the Catholic paradigm, it must be accepted by Catholics. So where is the specific error?

@DRBWEPhD @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco You clearly don't understand the nature of submission or the distinctions in ordinary magisterium. In regard to Nostra Aetate we do need to accept it, but your reasoning is heavily flawed

@PopeDefendersX @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco Powerful, nothing quite like an unjustified assertion to completely refute me

@DRBWEPhD @joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco You have no idea what you're talking about

@Balatros1 @btbsoco He’s Orthodox, not Protestant

@btbsoco expected better from Bob. Always thought he was too smart to be a protestant, maybe i overestimated him.

@joshikxcmf1 @btbsoco Even if we grant your assertion that it’s neither Extraordinary nor Ordinary Universal magisterium (that one is way harder to justify than extraordinary) and merely ordinary, you still have to submit your intellect and will to it in docility, even if it’s false/revisable.

@btbsoco That is not catechism. This is not a dogma. Nostra Aetate is not an article of faith.

@ApostateProphet Orthodox not Catholic, but as I've done deep dives on this the most charitable possible explanation is that some Muslims might do that a some point as folk practice, but that still horribly fails to do the lifting they need to cash out the position being articulated.

Catholics, help me out here. The Catholic Church teaches that Muslims "at times call on Mary with devotion." In my decades of living and studying Islam, I have never heard of this. I have asked academics who are equally confused by it. This is just factually wrong, isn't it?

@beckevangelista It never ceases to amaze me how many Anglicans/Anglican Ordinariate Catholics seem to care deeply the rehabilitation of Origen for some reason lol

You literally lied and called Origen a Saint. That’s called consequences my guy. Lord have mercy☦️

@KalebAtlanta Neo-pagan movements are reconstructed Protestant-esque larps. Buffet-style theology and lifestyle framed within modernist/post-structuralist presuppositions lol

Genuine reaction of people when I ask them an honest question about their faith

@OzarkRequiem @jew_jacob2005 @John_markos_ bro would be like "the ouija board gave me an argument I don't know how to refute! How do I resolve this question?" when the proper answer is "Why are you talking to spirits on a ouija board or taking them seriously in the first place?"

@jew_jacob2005 @John_markos_ lol school marming instead of addressing the arguments or quotes

The Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin is dogma, and denying it will jeopardize your soul. It is affirmed not just by two ecumenical councils and Trullo, but also by the signatures of the bishops of all the world even prior to Ephesus.

@Ghost19896 @VainFrigguss @Trent_Horn @timotheeology @JayDyer He always (correctly) says that you don’t make any claims to know someone’s destiny who hasn’t had that revealed like Arius/Judas, meaning God can save Catholics, but if he does they won’t be saved by virtue of being Catholic

@VainFrigguss @Trent_Horn @timotheeology @JayDyer mmmmm yes He does? Catholics aré damned for being scismatics in Jay view....or Is that wrong?

Hands down, @JayDyer, who I've debated twice: both times Jay reached across the gap the moment the debate ended and apologized for any heat-of-the-moment overaggressions, then bought my entire large family a meal (both times we hung out and had fun for multi-hours); at those meals, Jay and his wife @JamieLHanshaw (who watched movies in the green room with a Gordon child during one of the debates) were each exceedingly kind to my kids and wife; also, Jay regularly expresses a generosity of time (first time we ever met, Jay and Jamie drove hours to meet me out at @ElliottHulse's house); also, generosity of resources via unsolicited sharing of his connections, rather than just asking for my connections. I have every confidence that @Trent_Horn is a good-hearted family man who loves Jesus, but tbh he needs to learn the sort of magnanimity which makes friends out of foes: at our debates, he never expressed any species of any of Jay's generosities. In fact, I brought him a signed copy of my book (the exchange of which is standard) and he left it there at the studio lmao! I've invited Trent and his wife to meals and onto my show, for couples discussion with my wife, and he responded that his wife didn't trust strangers or something (this was only shortly before she made skits mocking said "strangers": myself, my brother, my wife). To be fair, last time in Dallas, we had plans to get a friendly coffee, but his family got the flu. I'm 100% down to make this happen eventually, hopefully with Steph and Laura present. Burying the hatchet is what Christian men do. But I'm never sure that's what he wants: communion with "mean" men with myself or Jay, which presents a striking irony. Perhaps Trent ought to begin looking at Jay as an exemplar of generosity, instead of pettily exaggerating a single flaw as if it means more than it does

@TFG_Football @MathBomb But is it heresy, too? 🤔

The fact that people are totally fine with Runningbacks, Linebackers, and Safeties going in the Top 10, but the second you suggest a Guard in the Top 10, it's heracy. Guard is more valuable than all 3 of those positions by a good margin.

@SaccharineDawn @MKnowlesShow Bro just invalidated all Planned Parenthood stats

@MKnowlesShow Yes, because statistics coming from an organization that was founded by a eugenicist and white nationalist are super reliable. Sure.

@dtop1percentmen This is definitely up there for the cringiest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Never ever put me in a position

@DocStrangelove2 Five-Seven “retard” 😔