I’m very thankful for the people your attacking . I converted to orthodoxy after seeing their videos.
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I'm a convert to Christianity from atheism. For months I attended Divine Liturgy, but I couldn't compromise with the Orthodox Church because the question of roman Catholicism vs Orthodoxy was always lingering in the back of my mind: "what if I'm getting the historical facts wrong? Which side should I believe?". And the fact that Saints from both sides declared "no salvation outside the True Church" wasn't helping (or maybe it was, that made me proactive in the search for answers). Thanks God, I asked a question about it to a young man at my parish, and he send me a Jay Dyer video related to the transcendental argument. It was Godsend, I have studied some philosophy before, and the reasoning for Orthodoxy vs roman Catholicism was just beautiful. I just read the article once. But I don't think the TAG propose a "close system" all encompassing, on the contrary, it depends on the incompleteness of all philosophical systems and declare the revelation of the Divine Trinity as that elusive answers at the top of any coherent worldview.
1 year ago | 0
A critique I have heard from the Church in the East against the Church in the West is that the latter's theology is unbalanced with too much emphasis on the intellectual theoretical scholastic approach to God and not enough emphasis on the contemplative experiential mystical approach to God. To put it simply, there is a difference between head knowledge of the deposit of the Faith vs heart understanding in faith. My experience with upstart online orthodox apologists is that they are unbalanced, emphasizing their presumed intellectually superior head knowledge of the deposit of the Faith which they think will somehow magically save them without the healing of their ill souls. They lack the heart understanding of faith which comes from the contemplative experience of God, thus their hearts don't get the transformative healing they need by faith. They build brain muscle which leads to intellectual arrogance or spiritual pride, instead of building heart muscle and soul vitality or spiritual virtue. A simple minded saint has the latter, not the former. They fail to realize that you can't truely understand Scripture anyway without the practice of contemplation/contemplative meditation or theoria/hesychastic prayer. What is beautiful about fundamental faith or trust in Christ is that even an intellectually inferior child can possess it in his heart and be taken under Jesus' care to heal his heart, and sanctify and save his soul.
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Please stop pretending to speak for faithful Orthodox Christians. It’s blasphemy to say there’s another means of salvation outside the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church.
1 year ago | 0
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Excellent article by Noah about how modern, online Orthodox content misses the point: theopenark.substack.com/p/presuppositionalist-pseu…
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