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@tharealjuanye When the Pope advances a new doctrine that furthers his power or designs (like the change concerning the death penalty) is he really safeguarding the traditions handed by the Apostles? Or is he profaning his office as bishop of Rome?

@tharealjuanye I apologize for being snarky. I need to stop doing that. It is not a matter of the Apostles writing everything down. But what was written was done so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God. What is written is what binds our consciences.

The absolute state of papist slop apologetics.

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@R_CathPR @OpStCyprian Then how do I know what I must believe in order to be saved is true?

@OpStCyprian Catholics are not required to produce a second leather-bound book called "Tradition" with a table of contents and numbered paragraphs. But if Sola Scriptura is true, you bibliolaters are required to provide an infalible biblical list of which books belong in the canon.

If you don't hold fast to Sacred Tradition, then you don't hold fast to Sacred Scripture.

@tharealjuanye If you truly read the thread I left you, then you know using tradition who was literate, and who was likely bilingual at the least. I tried to keep it to what tradition has said about them. If you reject the evidence of your own tradition I don't know what to tell you.

@thekolbitar I’m not an apologist. I don’t assume fishermen in the year 30 AD can write ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I am open to evidence if you have some to share. John tells us that Jesus said and did things not recorded in the Gospels. This makes sense assuming Jesus spoke more than 30k words

@Moderatemuch This is because I don't forget what I look like when I turn away from one.

@thekolbitar buddy lives without mirrors.

@GIOnycbkli Then does history show that Rome has safeguarded the traditions taught by the Apostles? Or does it show innovation and departure from it? Your very own Doctor of the Church Cardinal Newman said that the church developed doctrine as opposed to developing doctrinal statements.

@thekolbitar Mocking doesn’t change the fact that any appeal to Scripture is an appeal to tradition & that tradition comes from the CC. There weren’t reporters feverishly taking notes as Jesus & the Apostles orally & authoritatively preached the Gospel, decades before they were written down

The problem with these takes is that--even ignoring that the prequels had far greater visual ambitions than the original films, and literally could not rely on the same methods--people will often not be aware that much of the effects work in the originals that wasn't outright replaced was still cleaned up digitally in all post-1997 official releases up to this point. Of course, even when presented with this information, they will still say the top image--transparency and all--is vastly superior to the bottom image, which is so unacceptably poor-looking that Lucas should have been wise enough to execute all these sequences using traditional methods, regardless of feasibility and cost, or else cut these sequences from the films entirely. In short, these critics simply do not want these films to have even existed in any meaningful sense.

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@PageauJonathan The Lutherans can get this.

Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines. A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us. For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos. In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on? I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.

@GIOnycbkli Okay Bart Ehrman.

@thekolbitar Probably bc Jesus in the Gospels, not one time, ever, tells anyone to write anything down Your modern sensibility doesn’t apply to antiquity. Furthermore, the Gospels themselves are “according to” not “by” they are attributed to ORAL TRADITION 20,30,40 years after Christ

@tharealjuanye @RazorFist The Gospel and epistle writers also demonstrate great familiarity with the Septuagint and surrounding second temple apocalyptic literature. If you truly believe the twelve were illiterate, you are deluding yourself to hold onto an untenable belief.

@tharealjuanye @RazorFist All the Apostles came from the affluent regions of Galilee either from Capernum or Bethsaida. Many of them have Greek names as well. But this also overlooks that they all would’ve spent hours as children memorizing the books of the Law and the Prophets.

"It's just like asking a neighbor to pray for me" I don't dedicate a Feast Day to my neighbor and assign him a Justice League superpower.

I will wear this with honor

Next Emerald-Man issue, he faces the villainous MASK OF MONTAGU!

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