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@_BrettRyanMusic @JayDyer "The common man's reading" implying the common modern man isn't swimming in a post enlightenment nominalist milieu. You didn't understand my point or criticism. What speeds like the "comman man's reading" is completely different from individual to individual

The simplicity of Jesus Christ stands unmatched. You’re layering medieval philosophy—nominalism, Ockham, divine command theory, Reformation-era connections—onto the Gospel as if it disproves the common man’s reading of Scripture. But this approach mostly creates self-confusing academic tangles that bury the actual point. Jesus didn’t call people to philosophy seminars, nominalism debates, or patristic score-keeping. He spoke with radical clarity: • “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) • “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) • “Let the little children come to me… for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Mark 10:14) • “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) Paul kept it straightforward: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2) And “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.” (1 Corinthians 1:27) The core message is breathtakingly simple: We are fallen and sinful. Christ—fully God and fully man—lived the perfect life we never could, died as the once-for-all sacrifice for our sins, rose victorious, and now freely offers forgiveness and new life by grace through faith in Him. Not earned by rituals, accumulated traditions, or intellectual systems. Repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and follow Him. A child can grasp the heart of it. The Bible is clear enough for the ordinary person reading it in faith. Turning the faith into a contest of who has the “purer” historical philosophy, or whose “traditions” win the medieval genealogy game, makes Christianity an insiders’ club of scholars and historians. It becomes the very kind of stumbling block Jesus warned against—human wisdom elevating itself while missing the childlike trust He invites. The common man’s reading of Scripture simply takes God at His Word: test everything against what is written, hold fast to what is good. The reformers (and countless everyday believers before and after) called people back to that plain teaching when extras had obscured the Gospel. Whether every historical detail holds or not, the heart remains: Jesus is enough. Don’t let the dizzying layers of philosophy and church-history gotchas cloud that. Step back. Open the Gospels again as if hearing it fresh—like a child. The truth doesn’t need to out-scholar the other side. The cross is powerful because it is so straightforward.

Still amazed at how different the apologetics world is now as opposed to a decade or two ago: Back then, Protestant apologists were jumping at the opportunity to debate Orthodox or Catholics, and now they flee in terror at a mere offer LOL

@JesseGo95461680 @LizzieMarbach @Acts17David Am I gonna have a debate about a debate? A debate that Dwood conceded like 20 minutes in

@OrthodoxTheoria @LizzieMarbach @Acts17David Are you scared to engage in a debate with a woman?

The debate between @Acts17David and Andrew Wilson just proves yet again that Andrew has NO understanding of the gospel & redemption. NONE. Zero.

@Isaacthesword @JayDyer You speak like Protestants are monolithic group. Schism alone separates you from the church. But if you want a specific council, most reject the usage of icons meaning they reject the 7th council and fall under its anathema.

@OrthodoxTheoria @JayDyer Specifically what schisms and what heresies declared at any of the ecumenical councils are Protestants doing that is cutting them off from the body of Christ

@MrsMagdaBeard @EasternMilk You might be saying it's about the spirit or attitude it was delivered, but imo the OP is making it seem like the usage of the word in of itself is wrong

@MrsMagdaBeard @EasternMilk I don't think any of the words used in the meme are uncalled for, and even in a debate, it could be used. There is a time and place for all things including crass language

Do you go to confession with that mouth?

@EasternMilk @DohMkay When i say words are neutral i mean by themselves. Or do you think words are like magic spells where some are inherently evil? I can agree there use determines wether they are Good or Bad

@OrthodoxTheoria @DohMkay Words are not neutral. Words have real meaning that they aim for that is either a good or an evil. If Words were nuteal they wouldn't be Words at all they would just be noises

@EasternMilk I think my priest and mother are mature enough to know that guys speak to each other in a rough way. But I would like if you stopped deflecting and responded to my point.

@OrthodoxTheoria If you talked with your friends like that in the presence of your priest or mother, would you not be corrected by them?

@DohMkay @EasternMilk Words are neutral, neither good or bad. Or do you think words can inherently be "Evil"?

@OrthodoxTheoria @EasternMilk There is a huge difference between "I sometimes curse because Im evil and retarded" vs "cursing is good".

@EasternMilk I said even if he wasn't directly insulting her, he still used a derogatory word. For example if i call my friend a derogatory word even if im not actually insulting him I still used a word that is offensive, or foul.

@EasternMilk In a technical sense, the term is accurate as the Samaritans were in error. Christ being God loved her anyway, but it doesn't change that it's a derogatory term, and the dispute is about the use of Words

@OrthodoxTheoria Tell me, did Christ actually think of her as a dog? Or was His language meant to test her faith and show how He was not like those who actually had prejudice?

@EasternMilk When Christ calls St. Photini a Dog how is this not foul? In context its extremely derogatory

We have a word for cussing that we all recognize the meaning of. We wouldn't say these words to our mothers or in church, so we all follow this rule because we know there is something fundamentally wrong about using certain words so freely. I would disagree that Christ used foul language but rather used offensive language with a direct and precise meaning and purpose.

@EasternMilk We are back to my first point you say "foul" words as if they are inherently evil. The fathers, and Christ himself used words in that historical context would be seen as "foul"

@OrthodoxTheoria The meme isn't about "mean words", whatever that even means. It's about people who use foul, accusatory, and prideful language, all of which is not virtuous in Orthodoxy.

@bizarrecantor @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos Lol, im sorry to hear that

@OrthodoxTheoria @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos I am a "monophysite"

@AlexLeight @JesseGo95461680 @LizzieMarbach @Acts17David Using a cultural expression to try and undercut my argument is cute, but if we are being technical, you could say I give my priest a holy kiss when I kiss his hand after kissing the gospel. What about you?

@OrthodoxTheoria @JesseGo95461680 @LizzieMarbach @Acts17David How many holy kisses have you given to the bros this week? Or do you not believe in the scripture?

@EasternMilk That's disingenuous, and you know it. Obviously, I was referencing the criticism of using "mean" words.

@OrthodoxTheoria I guess repentance is effeminate

@bizarrecantor @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos If you are RC I dont understand your argument against my "imperial" Church as if the vatican, and papal states weren't an imperial church. And if you are RC, you are not allowed to call us heretics.

@OrthodoxTheoria @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos I'm not Protestant mate

@bizarrecantor @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos Protestants calling others heretics will never not be funny. As if their position isn't completely relatavistic and that the only measuring stick they have for if something is or isn't true is themselves and their "right to private interpretation." A complete ahistorical joke

@OrthodoxTheoria @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos mate your imperial church is not the true church. y'all are heretics

@bizarrecantor @profson316 @JayDyer @Acts17David @GodLogic_GL @InspiringPhilos Christ promised the Gates of hell would not prevail against the church and that he will be with us till the end of the world. Therefore there must be an visible body of Christians. Furthermore if the Church is his Body then it MUST be visible. Otherwise youreject the incarnation