Since no one seemed hip to debate of late in discord, I will be doing a live chill and chat stream on responses to common and high brow objections. We will be replying to both common claims and attacks, questions and supposed contradictions and more. Superchats are definite read – while normal chat questions may or may not be read. Live at 430 PM EST
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This took me a while to get through both videos but you should certainly listen to the apologetics class 2 and here’s why.
In the first Jay Dyer made a couple statements that made me roll my eyes on revelation. I asked myself, does this guy really understand what he is reading or is it just a bunch of syllogisms. In the second, he dives deeper into waters taking us to the pillars of Christianity and rectifies what I thought were to heavy of stones for an intellectual lightweight to carry to the surface. jk.
In these videos Jay reviews Orthodox answers to a couple fundamental questions to what I think is foundational to build all theology. One of the most fundamental questions we should be asking ourselves is why believe the Scripture. This is about getting past all the self-centered and self-important thoughts, feelings, and self-delusion and into the catholicity of the Christian faith and revelation. God established a Church to last, one in which the gates of Hell cannot prevail. God established the Church through the Apostles who would pass their authority down in Apostolic Succession, the foundation of the Church. God established a community memory known as the Apostolic Faith or Holy Tradition, that would be passed down through writings and public worship (liturgy) of the Church, and would later be used as the Canon to accept Scripture. God established the practice of the synods, discussed in Acts, through which the community would come together as one and establish how to practice The Faith. If you remove these, then you cannot establish the authenticity of which you practice your faith. If you remove these, then you cannot establish the canonicity of the Scripture. If you remove these, then you cannot establish community memory with the early Church. If you remove these, then you cannot establish the Apostolic Authority necessary to govern the Church. If you remove these the gates of Hell will prevail.