tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post8517735304616712901..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Trial bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-79753277746095424222022-12-21T11:16:07.828-08:002022-12-21T11:16:07.828-08:00Anti-Gnostic, unfortunately the one unavoidable is...Anti-Gnostic, unfortunately the one unavoidable issue: without Christianity, there is no chance for moving toward liberty in this world (to say nothing of the larger truths). So while I (and many others) agree with your frustration, there is no other means for a positive change - despite the worst efforts of many so-called Christians.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-72070902434154707452022-12-16T09:30:29.474-08:002022-12-16T09:30:29.474-08:00Ted - I was a professing Christian for 5 decades a...Ted - I was a professing Christian for 5 decades and an Orthodox convert. I may still be Christian, but I don't really know any more given events of the last two years.<br /><br />In 2020, the Church declared that the State, not Jesus Christ, was head of the Church. Most Christians gladly went along with this. <br /><br />Most Christians believe that their highest and best calling is to be raped and murdered into extinction. They will gladly tolerate all levels of thuggishness and illegal invasion, and sell their own native land out so refugees from all those places that are, as usual, failing, have somewhere nice to live. (While their own children are priced out of the housing market.) <br /><br />Christians, in sum, no longer longer love themselves and no longer love Creation. And in thinking about it, it seems that that is where Christianity inevitably ends up. Once Christianity no longer has a Christendom, it just becomes one more religious ideology in the secular bazaar. Its participants then become locked in the dynamic of the purity spiral, with increasingly spectacular displays of out-group altruism. Eventually they'll end up like that pastor out in Texas, lighting themselves on fire to protest white racism.<br /><br />Anti-GnosticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-80682272749421677932022-12-11T10:43:32.356-08:002022-12-11T10:43:32.356-08:00To Anti-Gnostic: Exactly. Except for 1 little poin...To Anti-Gnostic: Exactly. Except for 1 little point: That there was a man name Jesus, who claimed to be the Christ, whose ministry lasted 3 years - until the fateful day when the religious war of THAT day had him crucified by the Romans. We believe because we believe in the testimony we read today passed down to us, and then the experience we have afterwards, faith is met by the Spirit of the Living God. These articles on the history of the church show how man tries to understand the infinite God with our finite minds. Its interesting to us who believe since it shows how hard we have struggled. Faith comes to us individually, and THEN we can find others who share our Faith - and its powerful. I hope 1 day you can have this experience. "Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"Ted From Ohionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-18789838990841454882022-12-10T08:47:52.531-08:002022-12-10T08:47:52.531-08:00From the perspective of the current, post-Christia...From the perspective of the current, post-Christian era, these ancient theological debates seem ridiculous. There you were, in the jewel of Christendom, arguing over hair-splitting speculations on the human and Divine nature of Christ, and in short order the Muslims would overthrow it all. Then would come the modern fratricidal wars, destroying Christendom utterly.<br /><br />All the Councils, the libels back and forth, the doctrinal debates, all for nought. Like the World Wars themselves.<br /><br />The Anti-GnosticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29886498126952669472022-12-10T05:57:35.867-08:002022-12-10T05:57:35.867-08:00The entire nuance of the language remains almost l...The entire nuance of the language remains almost lost on me. This was true before I started on this book, and remains true now. But if it is true for me, it must also have been true for many even in the early Church.<br /><br />In any case, what I am finding through this book - and am more focused on - is how factions and power played a part, using this nuance to gain control or to punish.<br /><br />Which brings me back to the agreed point that Jesus was both divine and human, but precisely how we are to understand that is on the one hand a mystery and on the other hand should not be used to divide the Church.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-22534383715184100912022-12-09T12:34:09.687-08:002022-12-09T12:34:09.687-08:00I can't tell from the narrative whether the tw...I can't tell from the narrative whether the two natures or the one nature viewpoint was considered orthodox by the council.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.com