mark nathaniel

By your profession of faith, O all-praised Mark The Church has found you to be a zealot for truth. You fought for the teaching of the Fathers; You cast down the darkness of boastful pride. Intercede with Christ God to grant forgiveness to those who honor you.

@MedWhiteAcolyte Actual Charles Manson theology

So someone who believes in Jesus but thinks He is Satan is saved very nice and logical doctrine (!)

@Good_Guy_Palp @autoxrator @Basedtzarist Lmao found it x.com/i/status/19285…

@IkosFriendly @autoxrator @Basedtzarist I still don't know what a foid is though...

May this type of foid find me inshallah

@Good_Guy_Palp @Basedtzarist Back in the day, I asked grok what it was under his post and it called @autoxrator racist lol

@Basedtzarist It's now been many months since I first heard the term. Please tell me what a foid is

Unless a foreigner looks like they’d be top 5-10 in their field in the US, not one foreigner in a US medical school should get a residency spot until every American med student has a residency spot.

I present to you the creature the CIA literally installed in Virginia to destroy the state. She takes fakeness to the level of perfection. She is the female version of Gavin Newsom and she wants to take everything you have….

@RealBenLuigi The Northern Virginia area haa been particularly bad for decades. Part of the reason that I prefer West Virginia. It's 95% homogeneous and almost everyone is conservative.

This is a mall in Virginia. Every day I am more radicalized, I’m a foreigner in my own country.

Do you have an issue with any missionary efforts that arent integrated with the OCA (GOARCH, Antiochian, ect.) or specifically only with ROCOR? Personally, I think that the present status quo of overlapping missionary jurisdictions in the US is advantageous, at least until a much larger percentage of Americans are Orthodox. It gives Americans a connection to how Orthodoxy is lived in other countries, in cultural expressions that have been steeped in the phronema for centuries. Overlapping jurisdictions here also acts as a barrier against state/NGO influence. When the majority in these organizations are made of Orthodox Christian Americans, I think it'll be a much different story. Again, just my lowly opinion.

@IkosFriendly @JimJatras @rontonianzoomer @OrthodoxReflec1 @RustyGremlin @donaldbrad18781 @OrthodoxHistory @ryanburge Post-1991, ROCOR expansion should've reversed? Otherwise, normatizing exile misses why 'ROCOR' in the first place. Are you appreciating the present political climate regarding the OCA's autocephaly? ROC 'O' R, though needed in the past, cannot linger in overextension forever.

We've all heard about the convert surge, but as @ryanburge shows in these two tweets, Orthodox Christians in America (a) are younger than almost every religious group, and (b) have more children per family. This combination means that, APART FROM the convert surge, we can expect Orthodoxy in America to grow as younger populations replace older ones.

I was reading St Athanasius' On the Incarnation yesterday, and the foreword is written by CS Lewis. He commented on his peers who only read modern books from his time and the necessity of reading old books. He argues that during any time period, there are blind spots in the zeitgeist, errors and such, that are unnoticed and seep into the people of that age. When we read old books, we have the luxury of history to sort through the great works from the mundane and to see how this work had influenced the people before you. Anyways, he suggested that every reader ought to AT LEAST read 1 old book for every 5 new books that they read. Personally, I think the ratio should be inverted when it comes to Orthodoxy.

I think a lot of problems in American Orthodoxy stems from the fact that many Americans are functionally illiterate and are afraid of reading anything written before 1970

@Independent Gross, racist attack on white people

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“Far-right nationalism” is just code for White. When they say they’d like to stomp it out or “make things more inclusive” they mean not White. These types understand that a nation IS its people. You’d better start.

@Jordanbellofort @ThePolemikOne @KingMic92357513 Now you can whine about my language. Have fun

@Jordanbellofort @ThePolemikOne @KingMic92357513 He's black in the movie, you fuckin tard.

Latinizers:

@seaexplorer561 @Mikiashvili_M You

@Mikiashvili_M How disappointing. The Georgian church should disinvite both the Greek and Russian church and return to full communion with the Armenian and Syriac Churches, their true and historical sister churches.

Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople will attend the funeral of Ilia II of Georgia, but he was not offered to lead the liturgy. Due to the Russia-Constantinople schism of 2018, Bartholomew's leading of the liturgy would result in virtual impossibility of the Russian delegation to attend it. Thus, it was apparently opted in favour of Russian presence. Some also suggest that Bartholomew naturally including the Ukrainian Church in the prayers would pose further problems.

@Basedtzarist They're the Temu Christians

Zionists should really keep their mouths shut about our God and savior Jesus Christ

Cooking 🔥 The root of this problem is that this small PSA pushing segment are getting doped by a word-concept fallacy. Legalistic terms are sometimes used to describe the atonement, but this doesn't necessarily entail that the atonement is legalistic transaction. One could make the same mistake when he reads about God's wrath, jealously, etc. which seem to describe God having emotions. Thinking like Ensign or Niko, this should be direct proof that God has passions. Yet, we know that this isn't the case and that the language of emotions is simply a creaturely analogy. In fact, it doesn't matter how many quotes one finds of God "having emotions," a faithful Orthodox person will never accept the idea that God is anything but impassible because he understands why the language of emotions was used.

So, in terms of God and His wrath, his wrath is a matter of dispassion, not an emotional passionate anger. So, Wrath is not an emotional reaction or a need in God to punish. At it's core, Wrath is the experience of God’s presence by those who are not healed. How God's love is experienced is dependent upon ones state. If saved, man's experience of God's Love is the most incredible thing more than man can imagine. If not saved, one experiences the Love of God as the most terrible thing. Like fire as its explained and described. I'm being simple because speaking natural language is better when describing these concepts at the 101 level. It is not something in God that changes, but something in us. God doesn't turn into Anger from Love and back to Love from Anger. God is unchanging. Which means, the experience that we face whether it be wrath or love and salvation, is based upon our accepting of Him. Put simply, God’s love experienced as torment by those opposed to it. So, wrath is ontological and experiential and tied to human condition (corruption, death, disordered will, and concupiscence, etc.,) Christ came to heal our nature, destroy death by his death, to bestow life upon those in the tombs, and to restore communion with God. So the Satisfaction of the Wrath of God has different presuppositions. For the PSA standard, its a Judicial thing. His anger would than be's a legal satisfaction and based upon retribution against His creation. The nature of Wrath is different: Experiential in Orthodoxy and Judicial (Legal) for PSA. The core issue is different: in humanity its corruption, death, and a restoration of communion, a loving act, vs a Judicial Punishment from God to his creation out of retribution for the sloght against him. The Anger is a kin to passion in the latter, and ks dispassionate in the Former. The wrath of God is therefore a manner of experience. So the punishment, the wrath, the righteous anger, is all real, but is premised and experienced differently. What this entails is that what Christ did was Heals, deifies, defeats death and allows us to be in communion and capable of becoming god's by Grace through our participation in his Life, Death, and Resurrection. Rather than Christ just taking the punishment in a legal sense, where there's purely a judicial satisfaction. While there was a satisfaction made, there was a punishment had, the what and how is different in its premise and it's entailment. For the Orthodox, it's as such: The problem is, death, corruption, alienation The Wrath is how fallen beings experience divine life. Like fire, eternal punishment, or love. The solution is the incarnation, the death upon yhe cross, trampling down death by death, His resurrection, therefore fulfilling the wrath on our behalf, and allowing for the communion with Him, and allowing for us to attain deification (theosis). This ties into the Harrowing of Hades. For PSA the Problem is guilt and a legal condemnation of humans. We are guilty of the Sin of Adam, so we need that to be legally satisfied. Wrath is simply God’s retributive justice. His taking his anger out on us, but in the context of the Atonement, on Christ. The solution is then therefore a substitutionary punishment. Where he died in our place, replacing us. Basically saying that Christ went to Prison for us and suffered an eternal fate for us, where the period of time where Christ was in Hades, it was just torment, a rejection of the Harrowing of Hades. Salvation is then a healing and union for Orthodox where for PSA it's a legal acquittal. In Orthodoxy we are freed through transformation. In PSA, its a shielding of Gods wrath through Substitution. The Patristic quotes when looking through the lens of Dispassionate Anger and our purpose being Theosis and Communion with God wrather than a legal punishment and saving from, changes the entire paradigm.

"We don't know if this is his actual priest" Literally OP:

@dsaorthocaucus Funny enough, I met my wife when I was a Catholic on catholicmatch before we both converted

i see a lot of parish guys worried about finding orthodox wives but i think you should find a regular wife who is broadly aligned with your morals and not be so anxious and dire about her converting. it'll happen naturally overtime as long as you not a dick about it

🇱🇧 The Beirut Annunciation Orthodox College mourns the loss of Jad Kobeissi, a Grade 9 student, who tragically passed away following an Israeli airstrike that struck his building. (…) He was “a kind and vibrant soul whose warmth, humility, and smile touched all who knew him.”🕯️

@TheodoreR_Daug Stunning. I've been to the nearby Russian Cathedral but excited to make a trip out to DC to see this one

Saint Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Orthodox Cathedral, Washington DC.