Several channels and commenters have offered opposition of late and I will be responding in a lengthy stream to all of them at once, since all heresies are rooted in confusion over nature, person, will, essence and action in man and in God. “The root of all heresies is the failure to distinguish nature and Person.” -St. John of Damascus. Arianism is refuted firstly from Scripture, but we must stress to the new Arian who also want sola scriptura to be true, that it’s nonsense. We also want to understand against the Latin scholastics, Thomists, and advocates of RCism the terms and usages of the council fathers aren’t optional and they aren’t based on pagan philosophical usage, but were transformed and given a biblical meaning.
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Yo, have you done anything regarding the historicity of Jesus? If not, I would like to see this done one day, I feel like you’d be able to make a good argument in favor of his existence.
https://youtu.be/7589jm65JBs
This was a very insightful. I cannot help but wonder why people who self-proclaim to be biblical scholars and theologians do not perform the same literature review of the topic. I did and it took me some time, but I am not a scholar.
I think poor biblical scholarship happens by taking a stance based on a couple bad assumptions. One is that the early Church Fathers were wrong and lacked the information and scholarship to understand what they were saying. Second, is an incomplete understanding of who God is. Thirdly I would say that they do not fully comprehend what is being stated by the theological words, such as trinity. Lastly, I think some are stuck on their current stance out of defiance for several reasons.
One reason for defiance is that they made public claims and their pride would be hurt. Second, they have money on the table and do not want to lose it. Lastly, they bad information and think that what they know is correct.
One last thing I will comment on is the misunderstanding of paganism and philosophy. I think bad scholarship undermines the influence and use of philosophical concepts and paganism in the Bible. When I read the new testament much of what I see is the use of philosophy and pagan phrases. The influence of this is paramount to performing exegesis.
Id love to see this available in podcast format, so i can listen as i work.
Please upload this in audio format Jay.
It is