Michael Lofton asks Jay about essence and energies, created and uncreated grace, authority in Orthodoxy, Gregory Palamas, Maximus the Confessor, among many other related topics! “1. Sanctifying Grace is...

 The timing is perfect to cover this classic debate between St. Gregory Palamas and a Barlaamite, who represents the normative, and later dogmatic, view of the Roman Catholic Church...

 An impromptu debate over the question of the Neo-pagan revival. Our debate revolves the question of whether paganism and in his case, Asatru, are objectively true and can be...

   Today we will continue to cover divine simplicity in the Roman view, the Orthodox view, the meanings of our terms, the revealed doctrines, the patristic usages, the essence...

My undergraduate and graduate work focused on a large degree of philosophy of science and analytics. Russell is an example of reductionistic, naturalistic determinism and the “evolutionary” process of societies...

 This “debate” was a doozy, but the crux of the issue centered on whether logic and meta-ethics are related. It took two hours to get AskYourself to finally admit...

By: Jay Dyer “1 In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 3...

By: Jay Dyer Recently reviewing some old Roman Catholic dogmatic manuals and catechisms, a strange position stood out to me which I had not previously seen.  I have long been...

“The Cosmos moves within the very life of eternity, and is contained in that very eternity whence all life issues. And for this reason it is impossible that it should...

By: Jay Dyer [Note: This is an old historical position paper I wrote, arguing that the Olivet Discourse and Apocalypse are not about present day events, but the destruction of...

By: Jay A couple of years ago, when I first began to look at race studies and “national socialism,” someone (I don’t recall who) argued to me that national socialism was...

By: Jay I am sick and tired of the Law and the Prophets being a joke. This past year I’ve seen several Orthodox priests/prelates openly say they do not accept the “God”...

(Back by popular demand. -Jay  😉   By M. B. One thing that amazes me when I read Reformed people’s arguments against Rome is not so much what they say...

Part 7 from our old interaction By: Jay Turretinfan responded to the accusation that the strict legal imputation view must necessitate a damning, forsaking, cutting-off, or separation (choose whichever term you...

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...

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...

[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...

  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...

And Why I Wouldn’t Go Back Many practical and observational reasons could also be given, but this will focus on the central doctrinal errors I see. By: Jay Dyer I...

By: Jay Dyer No one should be afraid to read someone even the West believes to be a Doctor of the Church. Some Latins, however, actually discourage people from reading...