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A Detailed Analysis of the Implications of Reformation Theology By: Jay Dyer St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote of the reason for the Incarnation:  “Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to...

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By: Jay Dyer I was, for several years in my early 20s a supporter of Paul Washer.  To me he seemed a godly leader: A real missionary, and a true “reformer.” I played his sermons...

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“He, the Eternal King, recapitulates everything in himself” (Adversus haereses, III, 21,9) By: Jay Dyer For a long time I assumed that the Eastern notions of the eschaton sounded universalist and heretical. This was based on...

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By: Jay This one goes out to all those skeptics who, for some reason, always trust the “mainstream” historians. This fact is odd, since often times what is “mainstream” is actually a prepackaged ideology created...

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By: Jay I recently graduated, and my rocky, extended college career has given me many insights into the nature of the system, or more properly what might be called the academic control grid. I’ve seen...

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By: Jay Dyer If you’ve read much in terms of Catholic theology and Church History, it’s not too long before you come into contact with various theories about what has happened in the last several decades....

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By: Jay Dyer Protestants are generally clueless when it comes to the canon of Scripture. Even the best of them act as if the Bible dropped out of heaven into their academic circles, as God,...

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By: Jay Dyer A Calvinist has asked: how can Christ assume a fallen nature and not be sinful?   In Calvinism, the tendency is to say that sin is actually in our nature, almost as a...

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“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” –St. John’s Gospel, 1:14 “Why do you incessantly call Mary ‘Theotokos’?” –Julian the Apostate, (Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, Vol. I, pg. 241) “With all reverence let...

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By: Peter Parker Although the idea that Weird Science is rife with occult underpinnings might, at first, seem a ludicrous contention to some, on closer examination of the text numerous esoteric currents begin to emerge....

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[So stop trying to get the hypostases to split and damn one another, Protestants! -Jay] Four Discourses Against The Arians, Discourse III: 54. Therefore as, when the flesh advanced, He is said to have advanced, because...

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The Metropolitan, George of Lebanon, openly rejects the God of the Old Testament. In the last few weeks, I have seen 4 Orthodox prelates make similar statements.  But I’m sure I’ll be told I’m bad...

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By: Jay Dyer I loved the 90s. It was a fun time in my life and one film that sticks out as a kind of goofy, tongue-in-cheek indulgence is The Saint, starring Val Kilmer and...

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By: Jay Dyer A common thread in non-Christian religions and worldviews is that of dualism. In fact, nature itself does exhibit all forms of dualities, such as night and day, masculine and feminine, black and...

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By: Jay Dyer Granted, this is vintage Alpha Omega Ministries, and maybe James White has changed his position since then, and if so, I will gladly retract this post. However, as it stands, it’s pretty...

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By: Jay Dyer Yes, I admit it, I went to see Transformers 2. It was so bad I was hoping it would transform into a different movie. But what can you expect from Michael Bay....

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  St. Athanasius Uses theosis, the Theotokos, the Real Presence and the Single Subject Argument to Refute the Same Errors the Calvinists Preach: [Prior to the battle of St. Cyril of Alexandria with Nestorius at the...

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By: Jay Dyer “…The Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and…we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness.” -St. Gregory the Theologian St. Gregory of Nazianzus is one of only two Doctors/theologians...

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  By: Jay Dyer A Reformed Protestant apologist recently sent me several objections to the Deuterocanonical Books. These are the books which are included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons, but were removed from Protestant...

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By: Peter Parker   Poised on the cusp of the summer season, as Hollywood begins to release it’s usual torrent of mind numbing crud, the “paranoid” observer would do well not to overlook, one of...

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