Joshua Pearsall

Did you know #RomanCatholics & #EasternOrthodox are not only losing more people then they gain (despite the constant narrative they run online), and are on average less pious then many other Christian groups? See below

@marcxgajeton You should find Tim Mackies recent talk about biblical and systematic theology. He's def a biblical theologian, but his study of the fathers made him really appreciate the value of systematic theology.

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@OpinionatorCB I'm not saying support it, but recognize it's not just as simple as, nanny = bad.

@PracticalCL Ok but what exactly is the position then? If it’s been a thing in the past I don’t get why I have to support it.

Nannies shouldn’t even exists. Parents should be raising their own kids & not outsourcing that.

@TheGourdKing @AL_J82 His initial message even says orthobros in the first sentance.

@TheGourdKing @AL_J82 You did bring it up, with the very example you mentioned. That example is the thing I am talking about. It's not a false equivocation, you are the one who brought up the example of her, he was talking about the Orthobros. Unless you were just unaware of the context he had.

Orthodoxy is on the ropes right now thanks to the OrthoBros, anons, inquirers, catechumens and recent converts. Say what you want about protestants, but we know better than to let babes in the faith become the faces of our church. Once these guys have finished consuming your churches like locusts, they'll just move on to something else.

@OpinionatorCB You're just ignoring the historical discussion I just had. Take Victorian England, even peasants often had nannies. Nanny as many use it, is not the only way people use a nanny even today or historically. The Wesley family employed many nannies over the years for instance.

@PracticalCL The intro. of a nanny replaces mothers as the primary caretaker. I get it takes a village to raise children, but the purpose of a nanny is to take care of children for long durations due to lack of time of the parents. Moms should never not have the time. Baby sitters are ok.

@philpuckett @matt_everhard This man needs a meddle 😂😂😂

@matt_everhard The Message, 1689 edition?

I love this vintage Bible and translation! Without using Grok, what translation is this and why is it slightly unusual? Hints in the passage shown.

@OpinionatorCB I agree people can and do misuse the role of a nanny, but a nanny isn't just objectively bad.

@OpinionatorCB Nannies existed for thousands of years, in the past they simply used to be family. But we no longer live in that world. Societies have never functioned, until recently, as households of just the parents and just the kids.

The only reason I’m opposed to framing it this way is because it’s mostly come about by a certain bullying from Catholics who pretend to know Protestantism better than Protestants, when in reality, “only infallible rule of faith” is perfectly in line with what Protestants have always believed, is exactly what they’ve always believed. youtu.be/HEScn2hT7e4?si…

@TheGourdKing @AL_J82 That's not goal post shifting on my end. I am pointing in the image you brought up, it is a false equivocation.

@PracticalCL @AL_J82 Goalpost moving again. Stay on topic or don't interject.

@OpinionatorCB @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics The point is, you claimed X doesn't constitute apostasy because it's "not formal." Jeremiah and the prophets show otherwise. You are not engaging that argument properly and simply trying to avoid it and redefine apostasy of an institution. You are not providing adequate answers.

@PracticalCL @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics Sure, but the point is idolatry by itself currently isn’t equivalent to apostasy if one hasn’t renounced their faith in Christ.

Enjoyed the discussion @AngAesthetics & @AnglicanARM. I'm very much looking forward the future of ARM! Lord willing you'll be able to make waves in the GMC ;)

@TheGourdKing @AL_J82 People talking about her conversion and interviewing about that, is a far cry from the orthobro apologist acting as if they have any authority to speak on the Church's teaching INCLUDING calling an ordained EO priest "paid opposition_ when he calls them out.

@AL_J82 You're either lying or woefully ignorant. I was a Protestant mere months ago and heard of her within days of her "conversion." You said your side "doesn't let" such people become the faces of your church, yet that's precisely what she was for the better part of a year.

@OpinionatorCB @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics And no, show me in Scripture, where the rules for apostasy changed. Show me in the fathers where the rules changed. That just isn't true.

@PracticalCL @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics The heart is an idolatry factory. By this standard we’d ALL be apostates. We all turn our backs but not our faces on God everyday. The key here is WHAT actually COUNTS as apostasy CURRENTLY. The criteria for apostasy has changed over time considering the coming of Jesus.

@OpinionatorCB @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics The Church was overwhelming, from a physical institution, Arian. And Athanasius told people, those physical institutions aren't churches. And Rome is apostate, but that's not the point of debate here.

@PracticalCL @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics Almost correct. But I never said Rome was apostate, nor IS Rome apostate. The individual Arian bishops were apostates, the early church at that time was not. Arian churches WERE apostate. In fact, the Arians were formally condemned later which you can easily consider as reform.

@IchimokuSatoshi @Acts17David @Michael__Garten The presence of images does not equal the veneration of images. The presence of images isn't the disputed part most of scholarship rejects, its the veneration. I did an interview with a scholar tracing images through the ages I'm not denying that part youtu.be/tjDx4Ih0ggI?si…

False Many view the possibility of early image generation as an open needed topic for discussion, one requiring further investigation Jas elsner: ‘on the level of material culture, we have no images from the early period that we can definitively proved to have been devotional by icons, but equally, we cannot prove any of our survivor. Images were not usable as icons for veneration by someone’.

One of the main sticking points for Protestants who start examining Eastern Orthodoxy is that icon veneration seems eerily similar to the idolatry that's condemned throughout the Bible. I think I've gotten the gist of the EO perspective on this issue from my recent discussions, so it's time to dive a little deeper. Who wants to join me for a friendly discussion/debate on whether EO icon veneration is a problem according to the Bible?

@IchimokuSatoshi @Acts17David @Michael__Garten And those responding to himz especially as his view is a massive minority in the scholarship. youtu.be/gNEw8PxXky8?si…

@Acts17David @Michael__Garten is someone you should engage with. You could start by reading his book

@OpinionatorCB @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics The people of Israel had not formerly rejected God when they turned to idols. As Jeremiah himself said, they turned their backs but not their faces.

@PracticalCL @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics If a church hasn’t formally rejected the aspects of Christianity which would render them apostate, then quite simply they aren’t apostate. This would include rejecting the divinity of Christ &/or rejecting Him as Savior e.g.

@OpinionatorCB @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics By that Standard Rome wasn't apostate until the council of Trent. Or the Arian bishops were apostate contra the words of figures like Athanasius. Or the words of Paul in Galatians, Jude's epistle. Etc.

@PracticalCL @AnglicanARM @AngAesthetics Individual bishops rejecting such things is not the same thing as doctrinally defining apostasy. TEC never doctrinally rejects the resurrection or anything for that matter which would make them apostate. This logic would entail no church is even capable of reform.

@AnglicanARM @OpinionatorCB @AngAesthetics A potentially relevant debate I haven't got to watch yet by our own @AngAesthetics youtu.be/Ob0nS_hkl9A?si…

@OpinionatorCB @PracticalCL @AngAesthetics We came together and agreed on what we were against and what we could bring us back together. It wasn't on one sec of Anglicanism but rather our beliefs and orthodoxy. anglicanrenaissancemovement.weebly.com/beliefs.html youtu.be/bi38PYWCQ6Y?si… With this, Anglicans came together and forged a union.