Taint Nuffim

Josiah Trenham gets his facts WRONG here, yet speaks with so much confidence that people assume he must be right. Acts 17 doesn't say Paul was in Thessalonica for 18 months, he was there for 3 Sabbath days before being forced out of the city. It was Corinth where Paul stayed for 18 months, not Thessalonica. And since there wasn’t even a church building in Thessalonica during Paul’s brief stay, there’s no “seat” from Paul’s day that he supposedly sat on while teaching. We don't have any words from Paul in our possession today that isn't in the Bible. So let's go to the Bible. Are we going to follow what Paul said (which is found in the Bible), or also follow man-made traditions that people and institutions made up after the Apostles day?

Scripture and Tradition are not in competition. They flow together from the same apostolic source.

We should criminalize makeup

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow uttered a heresy condemned by the Ecumenical Council In his sermon on May 21, Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) of Moscow declared that at the Second Coming, Jesus Christ will appear "outside of all flesh." "The Church of God is that through which the Lord is present in people's lives from the very times when He came in the flesh to minister to the salvation of the human race, until the time when He will appear outside of all flesh, in glory," the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said. Deacon Andrei Kuraev drew attention to this, recalling that the Council of Chalcedon of 451 decreed that the union of the Divine and human natures in Christ is "inseparable." Thus, he emphasized, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church "uttered a heresy condemned by the Ecumenical Council."

It's weird how they think the Bible is so hopelessly unclear and so thoroughly confusing that it can't be understood without a church telling you what it means. Why is the church so clear but the Bible so unclear?