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Hey, guys, what's up.
This is Call and I'm here with the

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Orthodox Squad and we're back for another
episode. Today. We've got a very

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special guest is Jay Diet. We're
going to be disting the key the key

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points of thought vigence between our theology
and Catholic theology, seeing as we do

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live in a Weston world and that
is a pretty major way of how our

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society is kind of function. Jay, could you stop by introducing yourself for

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those of us that don't know who
you are. Yeah, my name is

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Jay Dyer. I do a website
called Jason Elysis dot com. I've been

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doing that for about ten eleven years. I cover a lot of geopolitics.

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I cover a lot of philosophy,
film reviews. I do a lot of

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media work with people like Alex Jones. I've done a Tucker special recently.

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So I cover a lot of areas. But we also do a lot of

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religious debates, apologetics, and particularly
focusing on things like atheism, Islam and

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m Catholicisms, difference between us and
the difference with us an orthdoxy that between

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us between Roman orthoxy as one franc
Yeah, so I'm sure like lots of

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our fan base would know who you
are, but you can't be I'm sure

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lots of new viewers hopefully come see
this and they find out go down the

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rabbit hole. And I've seen so
many converts that are converted because they've watched

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your content, So it's always a
LUs And I think I'm going to just

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start by yeah, and also to
add that not only converts, even like

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create the Orthodox people from Serbiany,
We're like, yeah, what's shay And

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they got back in the church things. That's good. That's good. So

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I'm going to start by just going
for the elephant in the room. The

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main issue of divergence is people,
primacy and authority. Jay, could you

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start by elaborating than that? And
yeah, So I do agree with that,

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but I think that the reason that
papal premisee came to be has theological

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predecessors. So it's actually a more
fundamental theological difference that's the result even of

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the papal stuff. So certainly Philioqua
and all that matters, and certainly the

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position of the Bishop of Rome matters, but I think that prior to the

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ecclesiological differences in ten fifty four or
whatever, there's already beginning to be a

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divergence between how the two groups would
see the Triad. So when we begin

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to have more of an Augustinian approach
to the triad in the West after successive

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centuries after you know, after Toledo, after the Carolinian period, the Franks

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go in an explicitly Philioquist direction.
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Augustinian theology dominating the West, the
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of the Father. Now that doesn't
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monarchy of the Father, but it
certainly gets It becomes a difficult thing in

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this position, and there's definitely a
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that's accepted at the Second Ecumenical Council
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So actually root the ecclesiological divergence in
the triad in the theological differences,

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because that will really condition what we
call the ordo theology, the order of

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theology, and that means the way
that we go about in terms of first

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principles, doing our theological dogmatics.
So you'll notice the Church historically did dogmatics

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from the place of Trinitarian theology,
first with nice and constant Noble one,

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and then Christology for the next success
of councils, all the way up until

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eight and nine. And you could
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and eight, and you could argue
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are really just the outworkings of correct
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verging triads. In my view,
I agree with the argumentation of doctor Philip

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Scharrard in his book Church Papacy Schism, where he notes that this imbalance in

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the notion of the triad is partly
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So you had an older model the
first thousand years of the Church that

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I think is the Orthodox model which
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There's canonical privileges for certain bishops.
But what we get with the rise

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of the Philioque, and I don't
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also the rise of the place of
the Bishop of Rome, and Scharrard I

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think convincingly argues that there's a metaphysical
imbalance in the theology of Rome. That

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law also leads to this sort of
wonky wacky ecclesiology that plays itself out in

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the rise of the papacy being an
autocrat, and this is admitted. Now,

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this amazing part is that multiple Roman
Catholic historians and theologians like looks like

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Kongar first after nine hundred years Phosian
schism by Dvornik. I mean, these

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have really led the Roman Catholic Church
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the first thousand years. And admit, if you saw the recent Alexandrian document

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that we did a live stream on, this is a papally approved commission basically

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admitting about ninety nine five percent of
the Orthodox points on ecclesiology in the first

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millennium. So I would take that
to be pretty significant. I mean,

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the fact that Rome is admitting these
things in these theological admissions is pretty pretty

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damaging, especially how that contradicts what
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that's of course the Roman Catholic Council
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So we have really these admissions.
And I don't mean I want to

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be clear because people must understood.
I guess when I was saying this on

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a livestream with Sneck and Day or
the other day. I'm not saying that

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the Alexandria document from Rome means that
it's now time to unite with Rome.

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I am saying that the Alexandria Document
admits our positions and therefore means that the

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Roman Catholic Church was incorrect, incorrect, primarily in a Vatican one. And

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the way that system works is that
if Vatican one is correct, the system

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is incorrect. You see, it's
not a piecemeal thing because it's premised on

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the auction of the papacy. The
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the true Church, and the Roman
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that point is false, then their
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And again the eighty Document and the
Alexandria Document are essentially admitting our points,

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and so therefore Roman Catholicism cannot be
true even on its own document, in

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its own formulations. So what do
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again rival systems within systems. So
my view of the Latin Church is,

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if you read the Michael Welton book, is a great chapter on the Gregorian

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Reforms, which is what Konggar admits
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the church in the West. The
Gregorian Reforms are really where we get the

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Franco papal medieval notions of the papacy
and the pope as this autocrat and geopolitical

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figure. Right, we have documents
like dictatas Pope, which is a famous

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document outlining all of these kind of
outlandish things and claims that are necessary for

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you to believe to be saved about
the temporal power of the papacy. Likewise,

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sanctum makes temporal supremacy a doctrine that
is necessary for salvation as well.

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If you do not submit to the
temple supremacy of the Bishop of Rome,

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you cannot be saved. When I'm
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that. So I think that we
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on the temporal powers has just exploded
right after the eleventh century due precisely to

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these factors spiritual, theological and geopolitical. All of those play into how we

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got the modern papacy as we know
it, that evolves and develops even according

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to their own system, all the
way up until the time about it can

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one that Newman idea of development that's
just fundamentally different from what we have in

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the Orthodox view, which is synodality, collegiality, the equality of bishops.

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But there might be canonical privileges that
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see this at Nicea when it ranks
Rome, and then you know what,

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Alexander or Rome, Alexandria Antioch right, And then we get the question later

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on of New Rome a constant the
number one, and the cannons has given

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the place next to Old Rome.
That's not accepted at Chalcedon by Leo because

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Leo says that it's unfair to Alexandria
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it has nothing to do with papal
supremacies. So papal apologies have taken Cannon

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twenty eight of Chalcedon as an example
of Oh look, Leo is rejecting cannons

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because he has the ultimate theory as
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church that's not at all what happens. He's appealing to the fact that Nicia

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gave Alexandria the second place, and
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Later on, however, the Roman
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Old Rome, namely the papacy.
So what this shows us is that nothing

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about this canonical structure is inherently magically
from God, I mean, in divine

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providence. There's no divine law that
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canons or first in the chemical councils, that it is infallible or any of

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the other Vatican One claims. And
again, you know, the recent documents

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bear out the bear out this fact. So obviously we could go a lot

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more into that, but I think
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you know, the Philioquay doctrine is
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and parcel with the rise of the
medieval papacy because the medieval era, what

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we actually see is like theologically speaking, it's almost as if the church the

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pope sends the spirit to the Church. And that's because there's this imbalance in

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the triad to where the Holy Spirit
ends up being subject, being subordinated excusing,

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because he supposedly now lacks the power
of causing a person, which is

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in Roman callity theology somehow the defining
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the father. So the son is
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Holy Spirit. So if equality of
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basis of being a cause, then
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doesn't cause anybody. He doesn't cause
a person, so he lacks an essential

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power or property that the father and
the son share together. And again that

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whole model, whether it's Saint Photius
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Palamos in the Appodictic treatise, that
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removing the notion of hypostatic property and
what is proper to the father in terms

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of what picks out his person.
Cause picks out the person of the father.

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Therefore there cannot be a co cause
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So the son cannot participate in the
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father. And that was said by
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said by Saint Gregor Palamas, and
the Appeticular treatise basically rewording and restating a

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lot of the argumentation of Saint Photius, and that's where we are. So

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what happens, Well, if the
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Spirit is something that is not fully
present unless Rome grants it to you,

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you see, and that's exactly what
happens in the medieval period when the Roman

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bishop now has to appoint every bishop
in the world. There's no way that

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didn't. Everybody knows this didn't exist
in the first thousand years. In fact,

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the recent Alexandria document admits this.
The Roman bishop didn't confirm all bishops

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in the world. But if you
think that the Roman bishop is really the

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conduit of the Holy Spirit, right
then it actually kind of makes sense and

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so that's why he would want that
power and that authority. But really this

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is just a deformation and an aberration
that has led to Vatican One into now

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a lot of the embarrassment. I
mean, if people are really honest about

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it, Chad and Alexandria are really
embarrassments because they're really just admitting most of

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our positions. So I've seen the
charity document before, I can't. I

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mean it's pretty I think it's a
bit pretty incriminating. And the other one

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is I wanted to point out that
the Varnick is actually a Catholic story and

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theology an authodox one, and that
book the Photinskis in delves into the topic

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and basically says, you know,
you guys are right about Photius. So

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I think that's very interesting. And
to some up for you guys watching what

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Jay said about the video, quay, what's happening there is it spits the

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singular source in the Godhead into by
the double possession, and it thus fits

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the adoration to two adorations of two
divinities. So the essence is one because

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it's one source and one Father.
So to confess two principal sources is to

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confess two essences in a diad,
and absolutely argumentation of fogus correct. So

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by adoration, I mean the worship
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worshiping his son in spirit and truth. So worship is solely a creaturely act.

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God is both a monad and the
triana, so he's a monad in

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essence, but tried in how his
persons relate to creation. The Trinity is

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a monad in essence, but not
in persons. So we have to make

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this distinction, which I feel like
people say, you know, that's why

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we're not wholly fear is stick because
we do believe that in essence God is

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one. So a short bit of
is that apologetics there when they say that

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you you're a polytheist because there's three
gods. No, there's three persons in

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the one God. That's a distinction
that has to be made. So basically

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what's happened is that what Jay is
saying that because of the filioc where we

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now have this notion that developed over
time of people primacy and authority, and

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these two issues have caused a plethora
of other theological difference that I've continued to

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diverge over the years in there's completely
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I think, well, we all
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you explain when you think that,
because okay, just a quick point.

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I find that with some of these
doctrines, like the Immaculate Conception, they're

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very very recent. Why do you
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them up. Jay, that's a
good point and a good question. Sometimes

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I think that Roman Catholicism historically will
define a doctrine because they see it expedient

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at that time to do so.
So, for example, even though this

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is not a dogma, certain devotions, for example, will rise at a

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time when they see it useful for
combating a Protestant error. So, for

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example, and the counter Reformation,
Roman Catolic Church and the Jesuits were very

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much into promoting the notion of eucharistic
adoration. So adoration arose as a kind

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of a full piety way to counteract
the argumentation of the reformers. I think

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likewise, when it comes to doctrines
like the Immaculate conception, that might be

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a that might have had a political
expedient component at that time that the Roman

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Church wanted to sort of beef up. It's a it stances against certain things.

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I think vat It Canto is an
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Vada Can two is a politically geopolitically
obedient council as well. It happens because

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they think that it'll be this way
to lure Protestants back, to lure Orthodox

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back. So that's a big part
of the motivations I think at times why

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they do it. But I think
that another reason is that some of these

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doctrines are novelties and their aberrations,
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the nature of the Roman Catholic system, if the papacy can define it,

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then it's supposedly no longer up for
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a controversial doctrine, by the nature
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or cause embarrassment or damage to the
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for the Roman Catholic Pius it would
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they do it, is that,
uh, all right, people are questioning

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this thing. That's kind of absurd, so let's let's dogmatically define it.

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I mean, those would be my
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Another reason it's late is that it
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we shouldn't overlook the obvious, which
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up with a very rigorous Augustinian view
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also bound up with Augustine's confusion of
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the triad as well, and so
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of you. That then affects his
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know, infant baptism, infant damnation, which is admitted in the Papal documents.

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statement on infant baptism and limbo the
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really the dominant view after Augustine.
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I can pull it up if we
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of limbo of infants. So that's
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that, well, there's just not
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these things, and so they feel
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the system as we propped up at
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an unfalsifiable system, I mean,
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they bring it up, sometimes what
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the consensus. Patron clearly the Immaculate
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your own scholars. Like if you
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conception. Aquinas specifically wrote apologetics against
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we diverge. We have a notion
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can say that Augustine was wrong about
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was wrong about one specific thing is
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from the consensus patron. We believe, however, that the consensus of the

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Church fathers is not a doctrine that
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into something else. Absolutely another thing
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to say regarding the Immaculate conception,
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a different view than us on original
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have the idea of original guilt Pine
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they will say nowadays they don't believe
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and again that's why that limbo doctrine
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it does admit that from the time
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up until the like maybe nine hundreds
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and mass down Nada. That means
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including infants. That was the normative
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they begin to temper it in the
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which is eventually, by the way, dogmatized. So it's odd to

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me that the Holy Office would say
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clearly dogmatic. But and I don't
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I was just going to say that
we have to be careful because if

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you say that, oh, you
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pull out the modern Catechism, which
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I was going to say. It
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what I find with catholicis that you
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in a doctrine of original sin.
It's almost identical to us. You speak

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to another one, it's like,
no, they don't, So that's not

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I don't know. It's not as
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unity, but it still allows people
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know where united. Well, just
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a Uniate or a Melkite and say
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say that I don't care about the
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which clearly in the Roman Catolic system
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Trent. On the melk Kite official
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in Australia or America, it actually
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website right the other another thing that
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another issue that I want to bring
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called Hades, but it's significantly different
from purgatory. So they believe that you

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saw on the ghost purification for entering
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in the same way. It's nuanced, Jake, could you elaborate on that.

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is the notion of indulgences. You
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Roman Catholic system, which of course
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So in the Roman Catholic system they
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a temporal debt, and an eternal
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it's a mortal series sin, a
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So the basis of the doctrine indulgence
is that the debt that you owe

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in confession, it can be forgiven
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that's only the eternal debt. The
temporal debt is still outstanding. And they'll

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cite text like where David prays to
God that you know he repents for having

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your Riah killed, and then God
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child will still die, and so
they'll see see you still have these payments.

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The weird part is that it becomes
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Because in the early in the early
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it would say, you know,
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the bishop might impose a penance of
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Euchrist something like this. Right,
So the idea is that, oh,

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let's tabulate how days is that.
Let's say it's one year. Okay,

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so you have a three hundred and
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And because in the canons of the
ancient Church, a bishop if he

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saw you as repentant because he could
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certain devotions and actions can forgive the
temporal debt. So purgatory exists to pay

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off the temporal debt that you owe. So maybe you committed a bunch of

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sins, you went to confession,
you die the next day, but you

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haven't paid off the four thousand,
three hundred and thirty two days of temporal

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payment in purgatory that you owe.
I'm not joking. That's how ridiculous it

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is, like this weird being counter
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of this, and that in part
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know, railed against Johan tats Old, a monk who is saying, every

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time a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs. So

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if you pay money for the indulgences, you're getting your loved ones out of

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purgatory. And that was an abuse, and it was clearly, you know,

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a silly money making racket. So
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and he's absolutely correct as well that
that doesn't exist in the first thousand

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years of the Church. There's none
of this. There's no payments indulgence system

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of a bunch of being counting.
It's crazy, but it is what it

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developed in the Roman Caolic system,
and it is an integral to their theology

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because it's bound up with the notion
of the temporal debts, as we said,

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that are due after and that's what
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you can't divorce it from that.
We have to keep that in mind.

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And if you read Saint Mark of
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Council of Florence, he points out, you know, the absurdity of the

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Orthodox not being able to the Orthodox
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notion of a temporal fire. So
that's another important thing we have to keep

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in mind, is that there's also
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Paul says that our God is an
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is an uncreated energy of fire.
When the burning bush is burning, it's

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not a creative fire, it's the
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has not I created fire, so
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all of those things are connected.
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the key thing that we have to
remember remember with infant limbo, and it

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is dogmatized. I think somewhere in
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thing on this, but if you're
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on this, critiquing Taylor Marshall because
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mistakes on this, and I went
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particularly as we get up past limbo
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it's in the thirteen hundreds being dogmatized
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the recent Pontypical Commission statement on infant
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I just want to bring up is
why does this matter for those watching in

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matters? Because we have a doctrine
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Basically, what that means is that
there's only one true church. We have

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this idea of one true church.
We don't why do we have to spend

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our time attacking other Christians dominations when
we can just be Orthodox and that then

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be Catholic because we actually care about
these people. We're telling them so that

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they can know that Unfortunately we don't
think they're in the Church of Christ.

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What the implications of that are in
God's hands. But ultimately God established one

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true Church for our salvation, and
we believe it's found within the One Holy

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Catholic and Apostolic Church, which is
the Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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And it's a shame because in general, lots of Catholics are very charitable.

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People can talk to a Catholic and
you know you'd get along fine.

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You find that they do lots of
charity work. They do lots of good

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works. But um, you can
say that about anyone. Really, you

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can say that about anyone. Mary, did your family come from a Catholic

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background? Originally not to put you
on the spot or anything, but just

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yeah, my um, my mother
did. She grew up down in Honduras,

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which is where um a lot of
half like you know, influence was.

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But fortunately her, um, her
cousin became an Orthodox priest and because

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I think he's like half Arabic and
somehow Orthodoxy came down to their any and

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he has a Antiochian parish or something
like that. I don't quite remember,

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but yeah, she said that from
what I recalled, my mom has told

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me that, Yeah, like the
Catholics were very generous, very sweet.

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She she had like a lot of
the experiences, is like like very faithful

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people, you know, but it
wasn't like to her, it wasn't complete.

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And when she joined the church she
felt the wholeness there, you know,

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and it's great, like a big
thanks to her her cousin, Padre

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Jorge forum bringing her into the church. Something I like to think of with

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the church, um that you're talking
about, it's like there's only one church,

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right, And I think of it
as like Christ has one bride,

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one one bride, the one church. It's silly to say that he would

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have multiple brides, you know,
exactly one bride that he died for.

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Yeah, I would say that.
Another way to understand this is that it's

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already been refuted this notion in the
condemnations of Nestorianism, because Nestorianism doesn't just

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apply to the person of Christ himself. That's essentially what the dispute was about.

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Nestorius was proposing a dual subject Christology, namely that sometimes the Bible is

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telling us about the second person that
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life of Christ, and at other
times the scriptures are telling us about this

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other separate human subject, Jesus of
Nazareth, who exemplifies the human traits crying,

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walking, getting hungry, etc.
So there's a dual subject Christology in

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Nestorius, and the condemnation is based
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and in the Fifth and Six Councils, which effectively refute all ideas, all

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traces of Nestorianism. So you can't
have a dual subject Christology, hypostatic union

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means that the two natures come together
in the single divine person who has those

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natures because it's the second person of
the God who becomes a carnate. Hence,

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the term the atokos is a refutation
of any notion of a dual subject

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stology. So what this means then, is that the body of Christ,

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the physical body that he took on, which is Paul's consistent model for the

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church, is just as localized and
just as visible as his body. You

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see, So Christ doesn't You can't
not. You cannot divide his unique presence

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in his body from the incarnation.
Thus, you cannot divide his unique presence

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in the Church from the single,
true, one, Holy Catholic Apostle Orthodox

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Church. It's that simple. And
so if you divide Christ ecclesiologically, that's

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an ecclesiological version of Nestorianism. Oh, Christ is in the Orthodox Church,

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but he's also in all these other
churches and sects. French theory, it's

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branch theory. It's a very toxic
branch theories. Like what he said,

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very similar to you know, teaching
that. I don't know if it's a

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bit off a Caveat, it's not
exactly the same bit teaches that church has

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part of the faith and then when
you bring it all together, then you

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have the wholeness of the faith,
which is just absurd because then that means

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that the early Christians didn't have the
wholeness of the faith because they were one

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church at that time exactly. And
it also arises out of Anglicanism, which

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was a novelty of Anglicans trying to
figure out how they could be a new

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state run church as well as being
and having some connection to the Church of

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the first thousand years. But nobody
in the first thousand years proposed anything like

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the branch theory. They all teach
the Orthodox conception of a single, visible

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true church. My question. My
question being because I've heard Catholics say preach

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the idea of a that they are
the one true church, there's no salvation

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outside of their church. And also
like I guess to go on, like

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what are our what are our differences
in salvation? Like what's the different ideas

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between us in the Catholic idea of
salvation? Catholic system is a lot more

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precise in terms of these phases and
stages and types of grace. There's you

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know, operative grace, cooperative grace, there's sanctifying grace. There's all these

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different terminology termological distinctions that they have. And in the Roman Catholic system,

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it's really kind of a mechanical structure
of whether you've paid these debts or not.

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And that's why, you know,
going back to the system of confession

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and whatnot, that's really the structure
of how you're legally in good standing or

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you're in a debt standing. A
lot of that has its origins in terms

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of where it departs from us in
and some because an some proposes the debt

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payment model for redemption. So in
his structure and Courtiers Homo, I think

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it's been many years since I've read
it. I have read it, but

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he says, somebody the effect of
the Father. You're if God is infinitely

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offended, the Father's infinitely offended by
sin, which produces an infinite debt,

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then it needs to be paid by
an infinite person, so the son pays

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off the father. That is anti
trinitarian. You can't have any actions in

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the Godhead which are between two persons
and not the third. But once again

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you begin to see because of philioque
and absolutely simplicity the subordination of Holy Spirit

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in that payment method. There's actually
a Byzantine Synod that dealt with us in

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the eleventh century, not directly because
of Anselm, but because of a dispute

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within Byzantium where there was a priest
who was as a priest are deacon,

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but he was basically positing this idea
that the offering in the Eucharist is either

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from the son to the Father or
it's the son offering his humanity to the

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entire triad. The Orthodox position was
stated to be on the basis of the

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liturgy thine own of thine own we
offering to thee that it's the second person

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that God had offering his humanity to
the entire try it. So it is

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not the son offering only his humanity
to the Father, and so that even

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though it's not directly about Augustine or
about Reformed theology or classical Protestanism, it

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kind of automatically cuts off all of
those options. So after Anselm, the

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Roman Calolic view develops into again this
merit and payment model even further in terms

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of all these post Tridentine doctrines and
statements in Denzinger. So after Council of

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00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:35,599
Trent it really becomes codified that it's
a matter of when you die, do

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you have the accident of supernatural created
grace in your soul? And if you

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die in that state of grace,
then you will go to purgatory pay off

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00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,000
your temporal debts, and then you
would go to the beatific vision, which

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is to see the essence of God
with your intellect. So that's the Roman

435
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:58,639
Caltholic view of salvation prior to the
resurrection. The Orthodox view is different because

436
00:34:58,639 --> 00:35:04,000
we don't have an sell mean doctrine
of one person paying off the infinite dad

437
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,880
that you participate in gaining these merits
from. We have the notion of participation

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in the uncreated energies of Christ.
Through participating in his human nature that he

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assumed. The human nature that he
assumed, he granted to it, he

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deified it with his immortal and uncreated
deifying energies. John Damascus says, citing

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Saint Cyril, or by the way, says the exact same thing in the

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00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,840
Letters Six Senses. Cyril says that
the humanity that Christ assumed, he communicates

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00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:39,800
to it and deifies it with his
immortal, uncreated energy. When you partake

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00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:44,480
of the Eucharist, you are partaking
of that deified flesh, Cyril says.

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00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:51,079
You see, So notice that Cyril
does not disconnect the deifying grace that makes

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us, you know, one with
Christ from the sacraments, meaning the sacraments

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00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:59,960
of the Orthodox Church, not the
sacraments of any church. The Orthodox Church,

448
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,159
so they possess it alone, possesses
the deifying, cleansing mysteries. So

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for us, that's how we participate
into the uncreated life, uncreated glory of

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Christ. And that's the process of
theosis. So there's a for us.

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00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:20,199
There is that purification, illumination,
and deification process that we all go through

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00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,159
as we progress towards the escaton.
So so it's a very different model in

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00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:30,960
the Roman Catholic system. As I
said, it's specifically stated in Aught and

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00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,039
in the Trent that the grace that
you get in justification and in baptism and

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00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:40,079
the Roman Catholic Church and the sacraments
is not the uncreated grace of God himself

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or the uncreated life of God himself. It is a quote supernatural creation,

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00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:51,440
a supernatural accident in the soul.
So very very different and this idea of

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created grace, which is dogmentizing in
their system. No matter how many times

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00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:55,840
they try to deny it, talk
around it, it's there. It's dogma.

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00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,440
It's in Denzinger, it's in Trent. No, that's very different,

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00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,320
and we don't believe in the Beati
vision because of that. For us,

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the resurrection is the final salvation that
we're all destined for, and so we

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00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:13,519
seek a good resurrection based on whether
we lived according to the virtues in this

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00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:17,320
life and loved God and participated in
the sacraments, versus this idea of an

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00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,519
intellectual vision of the divine essence.
We don't. Creatures do not see the

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00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:29,119
divine essence. The Orthodox hurt essences. That's an important topic. Also,

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00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:34,800
I follow off about going more into
essence. Like with God's essence, it

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00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,840
refers to God's innermost nature that makes
God who is. So it presents like

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00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:51,280
the unknowable and other aspects of God
being beyond our human comprehension. Thank you

470
00:37:51,000 --> 00:38:01,280
ran right. So we believe in
Orthodoxy the God essence it's not comprehensible and

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cannot be directly experienced by human beings. Right, Hence the Beatific vision isn't

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really possible. For the Orthodox what
is possible is the direct perception of the

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divine energies. And so Maximus says
that citing the Cappadocians, that in the

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escoton we will have a direct vision
of God, but it's the personal energies

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00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,000
that we see and perceive of the
logos, the logi, etc. It

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00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:30,400
is not the inner, unknowable essence
of God. So the Ennery distinction is

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very fundamental to Orthodoxy, and I
argue that is pretty clear that the Roman

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00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:39,840
Catholic Church dogmatically does not accept the
essenceynergy distinction. And you can see this

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from many points. The Fourth Laddering
Council affirms, for example, the strict

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00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:51,079
divine simplicity doctrine of Peter Lombard,
known as identity thesis. So if we

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00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:57,519
accept Lombard's identity thesis, and if
Trent and other condemned propositions make the point

482
00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:01,039
that in the Roman Catholic system you'd
do not participate in uncreated grace, and

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if they always stress that the light
of table is a created light, we

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00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,639
pretty clearly know their position on this
right. It is dogmatic that the grace

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00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:15,760
Trent says that the grace of justification
is not the righteousness by which God himself

486
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:22,519
is righteousness right, so that it
is therefore, as uh as odd says,

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00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:28,559
a supernatural created substance, I mean
accent and soul. So uh,

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00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:36,079
again, very very different theologies because
of again different triads. So I was

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I was going to say regarding like
energies, wasn't that one of the biggest

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00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:45,000
I think it was energies and essences? Wasn't that one of the biggest?

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00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:51,000
Yeah, energy sence distinction. And
also how like the I think it's the

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Catholics believe you can know God,
um use him in on that page.

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There we go, so you can
see hopefully that I'm holding up the right

494
00:40:02,639 --> 00:40:09,159
one. But that's a little we
got fundamentals of Catholic dogma noting that supernatural

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00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,599
grace is a created accident and the
soul is that what it says, Yes,

496
00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:20,199
it says, uh yeah, well
says sanctifying grace is a created,

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00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,199
supernatural gift really distinct from God.
So it's a creature. It is not

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00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:32,639
gone. Well, uh it was. It was Saint Gregory Palamas when he

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00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:40,159
had the massive debate between him and
wasn't on right synergies. Yes, there

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we go also important for the essence
ynergy. I mean that book really just

501
00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:49,559
nails it in a hundred pages.
But the Tryads is also important too,

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if you want to get the Tryads
too, because he goes really deep into

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00:40:52,119 --> 00:40:57,840
the whole, the totality of the
Energy's doctrine and the Tryads. And also

504
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,360
to make it clear too that this
is not some some fringe doctrine that's over

505
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:07,880
here in the peripheral thing. It's
fundamental, because if you read the appidicted

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00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,039
Treatise on the Procession of the Holy
Spirit by Saint Gray Palamus, you'll notice

507
00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:17,159
that the doctrine of the monarchia of
the Father and the reason we don't accept

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00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:22,559
the philioque is the exact same reason
that we don't believe in absolute divine simplicity.

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00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:24,679
And when we have the energies doctrine. In other words, these doctrines

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00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:30,119
go together, you see. So
you can't separate the monarchia of the Father

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00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,920
from the uncreated energies. They go
together. It's the point. And I

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think when people see that, and
not just that in terms of the triad,

513
00:41:39,159 --> 00:41:45,000
but if you notice when you read
John Damascus and Saint Maximus and John

514
00:41:45,079 --> 00:41:49,480
Damascus is on the Orthodox Faith.
He talks about the energies in book one

515
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,800
in terms of God's relationship to the
world and the triad. But in Book

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00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,440
three is where it gets really clear
because he applies the two Wills and the

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00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,960
two energies doctrine to Christology, you
see. And that's why it's so fundamental

518
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:07,679
to the Six Council's doctrine affirming Saint
Maximus against them Inophysites that two Wills and

519
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:13,920
two energies the energy's doctrine is principally
seen in the incarnation. I mean,

520
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,119
we can talk about in terms of
triad, but where the rubber hits the

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00:42:16,199 --> 00:42:21,239
road is really in Christology, and
that's where we really have to see o

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00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,519
way. Actually, like Saint Cyril
said in the Two Letters to sixth Census,

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00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,559
it is not the divine essence that
is communicated to the human nature of

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00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:37,599
Christ to deify it. It is
the uncreated energy that's transferred and communicated to

525
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:40,880
the human nature of Christ. Thus, in the Eucharist, it is the

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00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,679
uncreated energy that you're participating in in
that deified flesh, you see. So

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00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:51,159
the easiest way to really nail down
the distinction here is again to go from

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00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:57,719
Christology to sacramentology, and to point
out to Roman Catholic you're not eating the

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00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,199
essence of God in the Eucharist,
right because they believe the Uchas's body,

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00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,960
blood, soul, and divinity.
Because what's the divinity there? Is it

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another created grace. Jesus said that
we would participate an uncreated life, immortal

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00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,239
life, glory, the same glory
that you have with the Father before the

533
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:19,880
foundation of the world John seventeen.
Because it's not a creature. As Palamas

534
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,519
says to Barlean, if all we
needed was another creature to be saved,

535
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:30,039
then the Arians are right, because
the Arians said salvation is just another another

536
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:37,000
created state. The logos who's your
moral example is just a creature. Jesus

537
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:40,800
is a creature. So Arianism is
you can be saved by a truly created

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00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:45,719
thing. No, the teaching of
Ephesus, the teaching of our sacramentology,

539
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:52,679
is that we need God to save
us through uncreated life, not another creature,

540
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:58,159
uncreated immortal life and glory. Dude, why can't I just be a

541
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:04,000
Scottist. Why can't just Scotus and
say I do believe in This is a

542
00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:12,719
great question. Um. So a
lot of Uniates will have this out,

543
00:44:13,039 --> 00:44:15,400
and they said, well, I
don't really care about all this Palamas stuff,

544
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:21,159
because I can just choose not to
be Atomist, and I can choose

545
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:27,519
Scotism. And Scotism posits what they
call a formal distinction between the divine attributes,

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00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,519
and isn't that close enough to Palamas. The first thing I would say

547
00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:39,920
is that it is true that Scotus
is closer to Palamoss just on the notion

548
00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:46,360
of the distinction between the attributes and
the essence. But it's not a question

549
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:51,480
of is that good enough. That's
not what orthodox is. You see,

550
00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:58,280
Orthodox is much more than just admitting
a formal or quasi real distinction between divine

551
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,199
attributes and divine essence. In other
words, the Scotus system still operates within

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all of the other parameters of Roman
Catholic theology. For example, if you

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00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:14,400
get a basic text like done Scotus's
philosophical writings, you will notice that he

554
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:20,599
teaches a lot of the same principles
that we would reject, like the filioque

555
00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:29,400
created grace, like all of the
things that we criticize in the Augustinian system.

556
00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:32,400
So, in other words, just
finding one area that is similar to

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00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,039
Palamas It would be like of a
Protestant said, hey, and I've met

558
00:45:37,039 --> 00:45:39,679
Protestants like this, Hey, what
if I believe in the uncreated energies,

559
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,119
We're on the same page. The
uncreated energies don't exist in a vacuum,

560
00:45:45,519 --> 00:45:50,159
you see. They're part of the
rest of the Orthodox triadological conception. You

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00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:54,079
see. The other thing I would
say is that it really doesn't matter that

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00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:59,000
there's people within different schools in the
Roman Calolic system, because the Roman Catholic

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00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:04,039
system is actually aramatized a very strict
doctrine of divine simplicity that we could never

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accept. So while it might be
true that certain people, for example,

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00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,400
Bonaventure, if I recall, I
think Bonaventure says in his day he thought

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that grace was uncreated. So if
that's the case, could we just say

567
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,639
Bonaventure is an Orthodox saint, then
we agree with Bonaventure and the Franciscans.

568
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,719
Well, it doesn't work like that
because it's not a piecemeal thing. Orthodoxy

569
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,920
is a holistic thing. So you've
got to have the uncreated grace in the

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00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,239
sacraments, you gotta have Orthodox ecclesiology, you've got to be in communie with

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00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,960
Orthodox people, it's not good enough
just to have a single doctrine, a

572
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,920
single theological point in agreement with us, because conceivably a Protestant could say,

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00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,440
hey, I agree with you guys, I believe in the essence energy sinction.

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00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:49,920
And some of them will say this, But does that make them orthodox?

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00:46:50,039 --> 00:46:52,480
No, So it's much more than
just that. And again, I

576
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:59,719
really just don't buy that the Roman
Catholic system. Actually, it's like Hadi

577
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,000
said, it seems to be a
lot of different types of Roman Catholicism.

578
00:47:04,039 --> 00:47:07,559
So it's like some of the Thomas
traads, I mean, in their conception

579
00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:14,880
when Pope Leo made thomasm the official
philosophy of the church. You it doesn't

580
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:20,920
make sense to have these Scotish positions. And again that the fourth ladder in

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00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:27,599
Council identifies through identity thesis the Peter
Lombard doctrine of the attributes being all the

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00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:31,920
same with one another and with the
essence. Then shouldn't Scotus be wrong for

583
00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:37,840
positing a formal distinction because it was
already defined that there's not a real distinction.

584
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,159
So I just see this as kind
of a clever I mean, I'm

585
00:47:42,159 --> 00:47:45,519
not saying Scotis was trying to destroy
I just I think he was working with

586
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:50,880
probably what he knew, and he
probably saw some of the problems in Thomas

587
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,800
m. But that's not enough to
be Orthodox. You can hold orthodox theology

588
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,360
and still not be orthox like you
could hold one hundred percent will thus not

589
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,840
be part of the canonical body of
the Orthodox Church. Great point, great

590
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,840
point, how it is. But
what I would really like, honestly,

591
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:13,199
and this is not taking a job, I'd like a proper definition of what

592
00:48:13,559 --> 00:48:19,480
makes something the pope says infallible because
like if they say, you know,

593
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,719
he ratifies a document, whatever it
is he speaking, so infallibility is the

594
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,320
fine is when he's speaking in his
authority, official capacity in the sea of

595
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,280
Peter. But there's a million ways
I can interpret that on faith and morals.

596
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:35,079
There's the other quale on faith and
morals, thank you, But he's

597
00:48:35,119 --> 00:48:37,920
done that before, like dumb diverse
as is a people will if a people

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00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,159
will ratified by multiple popes, because
they'll say it's not infallible. Now,

599
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,679
if that's not infallible, then what
exactly is how does the pope speak infallible

600
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:54,159
if his own like a document that
he's written signed propagated and got multiple popes

601
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:59,719
after him to sign and propagate as
something that's blinding to the church relating to

602
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:04,920
faith and morals. It's not infallible, and that definition is ultimately bumped absolutely,

603
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:09,119
and well, I just I just
want a proper definition, really,

604
00:49:09,159 --> 00:49:14,960
because oftentimes I'm just talking with a
Catholic or they might be a friend or

605
00:49:15,199 --> 00:49:17,719
someone that I know, and I'm
you know, bouncing ideas back and forth

606
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,360
and I can't really get any a
leewave because I'm like, Okay, do

607
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,920
you believe this, And they're like, oh, that's not infallible. Another

608
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:31,400
documentar that one. It's not really
like some of it's infallible. So if

609
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:36,360
it's not, or if you have
an actual pope that is condemned by a

610
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,199
council, or he wasn't actually condemned
even though it's in the acts of the

611
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:45,800
Council. Yeah, it's also in
the next two councils. They also restate

612
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,480
the condemnation of Honorius. To make
it very clear, I have yet to

613
00:49:49,599 --> 00:49:52,920
meet Catholic who genuinely believes in people
infallibility. And I live in the West

614
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:58,159
and have lived here for a while
already, so a lot of their theology

615
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:04,239
seems to be like just like a
placeholder for like tradition and traditional values,

616
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,559
is usually saying on the podcast.
Really, so I mean, I don't

617
00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:12,360
know, I feel like this is
maybe like a segue into a different topic.

618
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,519
But right now, most of the
people in the Catholic Church that I

619
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:17,400
can you know, meet and see
in the parish that's in the town I

620
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:22,440
live, they're more focused on being
like, you know, progressive and liberal

621
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,840
than anything else. And so that
all of these medieval tens and that medieval

622
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,320
theology, which points to a more
structured church, is kind of getting worse

623
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,920
down now for you know, a
new kind of conception of the church.

624
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,360
It will be more liberal and more
lenient now with Pattick and too especially,

625
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:43,039
so then theology is getting adjusted and
the debating style is getting adjusted. So

626
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:45,920
like they flee from this series of
like pipal infallibility or something that's going to

627
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:50,599
you know, point for a medieval
time or a medieval church that was really

628
00:50:50,639 --> 00:50:52,599
rigid and strong. And so now
that the church is weak, their theology

629
00:50:52,639 --> 00:50:58,199
is kind of fading and starting to
be this kind of Protestant influenced hippie thing

630
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:04,039
that you know, absolutely, I
mean that's that's a great uh summation of

631
00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:07,639
what the practical effects post Vatican Too
were and the result of that, I

632
00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:15,119
mean that results from tying the church
to geopolitics a thousand years ago. Right,

633
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:16,400
I mean this is really just the
end result, because if the if

634
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,760
the papacy can innovate and you can
have revolutions, then it can innovate and

635
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:27,519
revolve, evolve into the liberal way
exactly. I think Justin Popov said this,

636
00:51:27,599 --> 00:51:30,920
right, I mean the papacy,
he said, is just European humanism,

637
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,920
which is what you find if you
read Vatican Too. It's already kind

638
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,920
of revied in that liberal direction.
Like he says Muslims worship the same God,

639
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:45,480
the Jews worship the same God.
Sure this is a hindus um,

640
00:51:45,679 --> 00:51:49,719
but it says, by the way
that we have valid sacraments and orders,

641
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,760
which I don't understand because if you
go back to I don't know if Florence,

642
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,280
Um, you read what the pope
says. It is the schismatic,

643
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,719
the Jew, the heretic cannot be
saved and it's in this life he joins

644
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,119
himself to the body of the Catholic
Church. Right, these are both communical

645
00:52:04,199 --> 00:52:06,960
councils, and these are both like
one of them, he said, directly

646
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,159
from the wood mouth of a pope. So how can they be in contradiction

647
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:16,280
if they're mutually exclusive statements. They
will say that, um, the conception

648
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,599
of the church is not limited to
the visible structure of Rome. So this

649
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:25,599
is why Vatican. Yeah, this
is why Vatican too. And now you

650
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:30,719
notice and m signed them and a
contadi domino that you're siting there. It

651
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:35,480
is limited to the to the visible
structure of Rome. So they'll say,

652
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:40,079
we look, Vatican two says the
church subsists in the Roman Catholic Church,

653
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:45,280
meaning that it also is outside the
visible balance the Roman Callic Church, and

654
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:46,960
a lot of the trag cats,
you know, have a big problem with

655
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,320
that phrase in Vatican two subsists in
the Roman Callic Church, because it's obviously

656
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:58,119
contradicted. Well, here's their here's
their ex coping for that. The cope

657
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:02,960
is well, um, because we
believe in valid sacraments outside the visible structure

658
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,039
of the Roman Catholic Church. This
then allows and opens the door for,

659
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:13,559
via the Augustinian notion of x Opera
apperato, the possibility of people being united

660
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:17,199
to the Church in heterodox communions.
And so what they've done at that point

661
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:22,199
to depart from the Orthodox conception of
the sacraments is that they've separated the faith

662
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,199
from the celebration of the sacrament.
Right, So, in other words,

663
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,480
you can have the sacraments now even
without the faith. And that's why the

664
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:36,079
Roman Catholic Church dogmatized that an atheist
or a Muslim can baptize, right.

665
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:42,679
That's foreign to the Orthodox Church because
of the difference, a different sacramentology that

666
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,480
didn't go the full route of Augustinianism. So this gets really precise and really

667
00:53:45,599 --> 00:53:50,679
nuanced, and people get really confused
over this. But the doctrine of x

668
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:54,000
opera apperato was Augustine's attempt to answer
the Donatis, and a lot of what

669
00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:59,840
he said was good and was a
correct answer to the absurd rigorism of the

670
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,559
Donatists. They were kind of crazy. But not everything that Augustine argued and

671
00:54:04,679 --> 00:54:09,000
said is what the Orthodox Church accepted. Because again it's from Augustine's doctrine of

672
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:14,360
ex opera alvarado that we get the
idea that you can have atheists and Muslims

673
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:19,400
baptizing people. And why do they
think that, Well, so they come

674
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,960
up with the definition in the Roman
Caloic Church that a sacrament is matter form

675
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:29,000
and intention. So as long as
the atheist has the intention to do what

676
00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:32,519
the Roman Caloic Church does, he
can baptize is absurd. I don't know

677
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:37,360
how how does an atheist have the
intention to do a thing that he doesn't

678
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:38,960
believe in. I mean, it's
just absurd. But this is the Scholastic

679
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:45,599
just absurdity that their sacramentology involved into. And the reason that's relevant to Vatican

680
00:54:45,679 --> 00:54:50,639
too, and salvation outside the church
is that it's that notion of the possibility

681
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:54,320
of the severance of the ritual from
the doctrines and from the faith. Right

682
00:54:54,800 --> 00:55:01,280
because the Orthodox view my understanding,
you can't have great scious sacraments apart from

683
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:07,280
the faith. But that's precisely what
this system does, is it severs those

684
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:12,639
two things so that you can now
have the gracious celebration of the sacrament outside

685
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:15,880
the church. Now, the irony
is that Augustine himself, even though he

686
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,719
admits that it might be a gracious
celebration of the sacrament outside the church,

687
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:25,840
the fact that your inheresy is a
preventative, it's a block to the grace.

688
00:55:27,519 --> 00:55:30,320
So the grace is president, it's
there when you're baptized in the Protestant

689
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,360
Church in the Augustinian view, as
long as it's in the name of the

690
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:38,119
Trinity. But because you're in a
Protestant heterodox confession, that grace which has

691
00:55:38,119 --> 00:55:43,840
been applied to you is you're prevented
from benefiting from it, so you're still

692
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,599
you're still heterodox. And that's why
Augustine can have that position and still strongly

693
00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:54,480
believe in extra ecclasion cellos. So
that develops though over time because the Roman

694
00:55:54,480 --> 00:56:00,119
Calolic Church, through various disputes and
papal pronouncements, says well, look,

695
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:06,760
there's also baptism of desire, baptism
of blood, baptism of fire right that

696
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,880
we experience, and so there's there's
eventually there's statements that will could a person

697
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:15,119
in another religion or in another country
have the desire for what they know to

698
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:21,039
be the truth and therefore that count
as God sending them the grace of the

699
00:56:21,119 --> 00:56:23,719
church. So this is where they
start going into that direction, and then

700
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:28,079
they come to the idea basically if
you was it for Telly Tuti, the

701
00:56:28,159 --> 00:56:35,920
recent encyclical of Francis it basically places
the Roman Catholic Church as the center of

702
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:42,760
a concentric rings of world religions that
are all in varying degrees in communion with

703
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,400
Rome. So basically Romans in the
mental in the middle. And so now

704
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:50,000
the Pope isn't just the head of
the Christian world, he's actually kind of

705
00:56:50,039 --> 00:56:53,079
the head of all of the world
religions secretly, you see. So outside

706
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:58,199
of the Roman Catholic circle, you
have the Orthodox circle because they're closest to

707
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,800
Rome, but they're not fully with
Rome, but they have seventy of Rome.

708
00:57:02,119 --> 00:57:07,480
Then we have Anglicans and Protestants,
right, they're the next circle out.

709
00:57:07,519 --> 00:57:10,199
They have maybe sixty fifty percent of
Rome. Then we get the Muslims.

710
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:17,639
And that's why for Telly Tuti included
prayers that Unitarians could pray unbelievable.

711
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,119
That's why the Roman Collity Church has
created the Abu Dhabi Multi Faith Center with

712
00:57:23,199 --> 00:57:28,719
Jews, Muslims, and Christians together
worshiping the one True Monotheist, a God

713
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,159
that's not the one true Monotheist of
God. The one true Monotheist of God

714
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:36,360
is the Father that the Lord Jesus
called upon, that you only access through

715
00:57:36,679 --> 00:57:40,119
Jesus in the spirit. It's the
triad that there is no one true,

716
00:57:40,199 --> 00:57:47,039
monotheistic, generic God. Another thing
is people think that for some reason we

717
00:57:47,079 --> 00:57:52,440
hate Augustine. We don't hate Augustine, just isn't in Foy. He's one

718
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,559
of five greatest Saints. We don't
reject all of his theology either, we

719
00:57:55,679 --> 00:58:00,159
accept the post majority of it.
And it would that it gets thrown awn.

720
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,119
This kind of debate a lot,
which in essence you should do it.

721
00:58:04,119 --> 00:58:08,239
It's be charitable, but be charitable
and nowadays are synonymous that just stop

722
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,880
talking. I don't like it.
I don't you what you have to say.

723
00:58:14,599 --> 00:58:16,480
What's the last thing I was going
to go to is? I find

724
00:58:16,519 --> 00:58:21,039
that there's the last topic before we
just have some short questions that we about

725
00:58:21,159 --> 00:58:28,199
up is so questions that audience members
asked just go through the real quick.

726
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,760
But before that I find they have
a very scholastic approach to everything. That's

727
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:37,440
the last distinction I want to make. Everything is kind of a legal system,

728
00:58:37,559 --> 00:58:40,760
which you don't find with orthodoxy in
the same way. We don't reject

729
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:45,800
reason, of course not, but
we don't have to break everything down into

730
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:50,679
meaningless logic. Because there is an
aspect of God that's not it's beyond our

731
00:58:50,719 --> 00:58:53,519
comprehension, is beyond logic. Could
you elaborate on that bit for us?

732
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:58,320
Another good example of this is the
sacraments as the mysteries. Right, So

733
00:58:58,719 --> 00:59:04,679
certainly we can talk about boundaries for
the sacraments, but there's no Orthodox notion

734
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:09,199
of the definite. The scientific definition
of a sacrament matter form and intention.

735
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:14,280
That's the Roman Catholic scientific definition that
comes out of the Scholastic period, like

736
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,559
you're saying. And for the Orthodox
view, it's not that we can't talk

737
00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:22,719
about these things, but think about
the way the Roman Catholics view the euchris.

738
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,639
For them, the us the matter, form and attention of the euchris

739
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,239
is the words of consecration of the
priests. So they leave out the epiclesis

740
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:34,039
they don't think the applicasis has anything
to do with the validity and the graciousness

741
00:59:34,079 --> 00:59:37,559
of the euchris. Again, which
is again kind of stilly. How could

742
00:59:37,559 --> 00:59:44,079
the calling down the Holy Spirit not
be essential to the sacraments and their grace?

743
00:59:44,119 --> 00:59:47,280
It's silly, But they were searching
for a scientific definition to make it

744
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:54,320
clear when and where there is a
actual sacrament being performed, including by atheists,

745
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:59,159
and Muslims. And this is where
we get into the absurdities, which

746
00:59:59,199 --> 01:00:02,880
again this is this is their view. I'm not being I'm telling you faithfully

747
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,159
what the Roman Catholic position is.
If you were a Roman Catholic priest and

748
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:13,039
the day that you were ordained you
became a Satanist, Let's say you apostatize

749
01:00:13,039 --> 01:00:15,199
the day you were ordained as Roman
Callic priest, they believe that you can

750
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:21,360
forever confect actually and really and truly
the Euchrist. You could sit there all

751
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,599
day long confecting the Euchrist. It
is really the body, blood, and

752
01:00:23,599 --> 01:00:29,000
soul, divinity of Christ. To
defame it, to blasphemy, that's absurd.

753
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:35,719
Again, there's no celebration of the
sacrament outside of the faith, you

754
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:39,360
see, and the Roman Catholic system
is premised on that, and that is

755
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:45,840
what leads to that's the priest subposition
behind a lot of the Vatican Two notions

756
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:50,679
about you know, these other religions
having salvific graces and whatnot. Anyway,

757
01:00:51,599 --> 01:00:52,559
that was way i'll topic. I'm
sorry I got back into that, but

758
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:55,960
I did want to make that point
about you know, the confecting the Eucharist,

759
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,639
because it's another way to illustrate the
difference between our view and there being

760
01:00:59,639 --> 01:01:04,719
the sack Um, what was the
question I got lost august oh Augustine,

761
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,239
Yeah, so yeah, I think
I mean Augustine has stated to be a

762
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,440
father in the Fifth Council. Um, and then they don't list all of

763
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:15,239
his works. I think they list
the anti Manichean works as exemplary Orthodox works.

764
01:01:15,559 --> 01:01:20,199
You notice they don't mention all of
his works. Right, um,

765
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,960
Donatism is condemned. I think that. I think Donatis has mentioned specifically as

766
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,559
a heretic of the Fifth Council as
well, But that doesn't mean that everything

767
01:01:25,639 --> 01:01:30,800
Augustine taught about the sacraments is there
for Orthodox dogmatics. So you know,

768
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,719
it's just like you said. If
anything, I think, go ahead the

769
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,840
same with anyone in Saint. We
don't absolutely Saint to be infallible. It's

770
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:44,400
census, patron, the good census
of the fathers. Absolutely invisals can be

771
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,760
wrong, correct. Budias says,
uh, you know, if you read

772
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:52,679
the mystagogy, he doesn't say that
the Saint, the Church fathers, and

773
01:01:52,719 --> 01:01:57,079
the saints never made errors. He
says that we should overlooked the errors and

774
01:01:57,159 --> 01:02:01,400
be charitable. But overlook kingdom doesn't
mean we don't we lie about it and

775
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:05,360
we don't admit that they made mistakes. Right. For example, in the

776
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:13,360
Ambigua, Saint Maximus is correcting certain
opinions that Originism had seeped into the church

777
01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:16,599
to create right, so originism,
I'm not saying that all the church fathers

778
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:20,760
the cabinations were Originists, but they
were influenced by origin and so some of

779
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:24,719
the conclusions, for example, Saint
Gregornis's statements about a puckettstasis could be read

780
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:30,760
in a heterodox way. And so
Sat Maximus writes the Ambigua and he says,

781
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:36,000
look, here are ways to clear
up these ambiguities and even at times

782
01:02:36,039 --> 01:02:38,920
mistakes and the church fathers. So
there's nothing wrong with or it's it's not

783
01:02:39,079 --> 01:02:45,639
impious to be honest about admitting that
certain church fathers made mistakes. And like

784
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,760
hat he said, it's about the
consensus of the fathers, not the Roman

785
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,920
Catholic or Protestant model of picking one
guy. You'll notice the tendency of the

786
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:58,639
Roman Catholic model is let's pick Augustine
in all of our theology builds on him.

787
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,960
Let's pick a quintas all of our
theology then builds on him, and

788
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,440
then also by the way, the
pope. You see, so it's always

789
01:03:04,519 --> 01:03:07,840
kind of picking this guy. That's
the guy right there. Right. That's

790
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:13,440
the opposite of the sonodal ecumenical council
model, where if you go to say

791
01:03:13,519 --> 01:03:19,000
Constantinople one, yes it's sonodal,
and yes there are figures that stand out

792
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:23,920
as important theologians like the Cappadocians,
but it's still sonodal. And Augustine said,

793
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:28,800
I submit my book on the Trinity
to the Church to decide. By

794
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:30,639
the way. He didn't say,
I'm going to send it to the pope

795
01:03:30,679 --> 01:03:31,800
and he can tell everybody what's right
and wrong. Right, he said,

796
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I submit it to the decision of
the universal Church in book three and so

797
01:03:37,239 --> 01:03:39,960
what happened, Well, they did
the church accept in Toto everything that the

798
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:44,599
Augustins said about the twiney. No, it went with the Cappadocian model of

799
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the Trinity at Constantinople one. Well, I think we're gonna wrap that up

800
01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:55,440
there before we complete the end.
I'm just gonna ask for like one or

801
01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:00,840
two sentenced answers to some of the
questions that people ask us to ask you.

802
01:04:06,159 --> 01:04:12,320
So the first question is, Um, I didn't know. I didn't

803
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:15,960
completely understand this one, but I'll
ask it anyways. Do you think that

804
01:04:15,079 --> 01:04:20,199
psychosymatic prayer is odd or superfluous?
I think that may be referring to hissy

805
01:04:20,239 --> 01:04:26,039
cousin. I'm more certain. Do
you understand well, if it's if it's

806
01:04:26,039 --> 01:04:29,920
referring to the tradition of Saint gregor
poalum Us, No, that's Orthodox.

807
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:34,599
Um. Do you find just elaborating
on that question, do you find it

808
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:41,119
repetitive or is that a good It
is repetitive, but that's a good thing.

809
01:04:41,239 --> 01:04:45,119
What are your thoughts on it?
Um? I think that if people

810
01:04:45,119 --> 01:04:48,039
are moving into doing that, they
should consult their spiritual father. Um.

811
01:04:48,639 --> 01:04:54,639
So you know that's a practice that
people don't typically dive into right away,

812
01:04:54,719 --> 01:04:56,840
or if they're new to Orthodox or
something like that. So I would say

813
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,920
consult your spiritual father on that topic. I'm not going to tell people what

814
01:05:00,039 --> 01:05:04,440
to do, but I think there's
a place for repetitions in prayer because Jesus

815
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:10,800
doesn't say all repetitions bad, He
just says vain repetition true. And next

816
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:15,559
question is what translations of scripture would
you recommend? That people just stay clear

817
01:05:15,639 --> 01:05:19,119
of because there's people, many people
translate the Bible into English. What are

818
01:05:19,119 --> 01:05:25,280
there any that you think are just
completely Yeah, I would just stay away

819
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:30,320
from all of the Protestant translations and
anything that's new U. I typically just

820
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,840
use the Orthodox Study Bible, and
I know there's the Eastern Orthodox Bible,

821
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,920
so those are probably be the best. I would stay away from everything else.

822
01:05:36,239 --> 01:05:39,880
I mean, if you're if you're
a scholar academic, you might could

823
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:43,800
utilize, you know, some of
the Roman Calaric translations, like the New

824
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:46,360
Jerusalem Bible or something like that,
but that wouldn't I would just use that

825
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:50,159
maybe as a cross reference. I
wouldn't make that like my primary Bible.

826
01:05:54,039 --> 01:05:58,119
And could you just give me a
word on Oregon? What are your thoughts

827
01:05:58,119 --> 01:06:01,840
on you know, bringing up with
you on what we think about it.

828
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:09,039
Yeah, Origin was actually condemned by
it's either Saint Optatus or Saint h I

829
01:06:09,039 --> 01:06:12,719
think the Saint Optatus in his day
wrote against him. So some people will

830
01:06:12,719 --> 01:06:15,440
say, oh, he was never
condemned in his day, Yes he was.

831
01:06:15,679 --> 01:06:17,199
He was condemned by the way,
not just at the Fifth Council,

832
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:21,639
but also at the sixth and seventh
and he's condemned in the readings from the

833
01:06:21,639 --> 01:06:27,480
Triumph of Orthodoxy the Sonauticon. So
this idea that originism isn't really condemned or

834
01:06:27,559 --> 01:06:32,360
universalism isn't really condemned, it is
completely false. And you can also charity

835
01:06:33,719 --> 01:06:39,920
and you can also read the book
The Confession of Saint Semphronius of Jerusalem,

836
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:44,719
which is accepted of the Sixth Council, which has a four page condemnation of

837
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:54,519
the entire system of originism. Next
question is what's the difference between absolute devine

838
01:06:54,519 --> 01:07:00,880
cypicity and the divine cypicity which we
do actually believe. What's the difference or

839
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,599
the Orthodox view of divine simplicity is
that God does not have parts. God

840
01:07:04,719 --> 01:07:12,320
is not acted upon, God is
not created. God does not have undergo

841
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,239
change his essence, his nature,
his attributes, his being does not change.

842
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:21,280
But we do believe that God can
do different things. And that's the

843
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:25,239
notion in which a lot of Roman
Calx and Thomas would disagree with. And

844
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:29,000
if you read doctor David Bradshaw's excellent
book Arsaul, East and West, he'll

845
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:34,840
point out that when the Kappadocians explain
divine simplicity, they explain that in that

846
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:40,159
day, in that time, the
focus wasn't or all of the attributes synonymous

847
01:07:40,199 --> 01:07:44,519
with the essence. It was about
whether God is, whether God acts or

848
01:07:44,599 --> 01:07:47,079
is acted upon, and so the
idea that God has acted upon, as

849
01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:51,440
if he can be changed or influenced
is false. However, there is a

850
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:55,599
notion of God being able to do
different things, and so Saint Gregory Palamas

851
01:07:55,679 --> 01:08:03,960
says in the Dialogue with barleym the
Barley might when God wrested from his works,

852
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:09,000
that showed us that he ceased the
work of creation. So God does

853
01:08:09,079 --> 01:08:13,199
different works. So the very text
that says God ceased from his works on

854
01:08:13,239 --> 01:08:15,479
the seventh Day, Saint Gary Palmers
says, that proves the US and synergy

855
01:08:15,479 --> 01:08:23,239
distection. I think the last question
is do you think that hope on Arius

856
01:08:23,319 --> 01:08:27,359
was an error when he condemned the
council. That was just the question.

857
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,000
Yes, I think that the Council
would not make a mistake by excommunicating him

858
01:08:31,039 --> 01:08:35,760
for his theological error. He's not
excommunicated because he had a private opinion.

859
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:45,319
He's excommunicated for a public statement of
error. And the Seventh Council and the

860
01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:48,960
Sonaticon restate the condemnation. So again, it's it's not a people that try

861
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:53,439
to play these games of Oh but
he wasn't really condemned. Oh, it

862
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,479
was just his private opinion. Now
that's not true. He's condemned to the

863
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,399
Seventh Council, and he's condemned again
the sonaticon. I think I know he's

864
01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:04,720
condemned again to the Seven Council.
I think that the Sonoticon repeats him.

865
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:09,000
Yeah. Um, well, I
think that's it. That's all the persons.

866
01:09:09,039 --> 01:09:15,680
Thank you so much for joining.
I'm sorry if I rambled. I

867
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:18,000
thought we were probably going for a
really long time, and I didn't mean

868
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:25,039
to like talk up the whole time, so as nice to learn more.

869
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:29,840
It's fine, it wasn't half the
time. I'm too stupid to talk.

870
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,680
So I'm glad that you saw it, honestly. Like, my only concern

871
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:38,359
going into this video is, like
I watched I was showing a bunch of

872
01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:45,800
Catholic videos of either Abbots being way
too radical in their belief Like there's some

873
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:50,119
guy in Paris who just trying to
sermon how Orthodox people are sent by the

874
01:09:50,199 --> 01:09:55,479
devil, and you know, like
encouraging people to fight Orthodox see with any

875
01:09:55,479 --> 01:10:00,039
means possible, and just like some
some crazy dude from Paris, and I

876
01:10:00,039 --> 01:10:02,319
I don't want to. I don't
because so many people are converting, so

877
01:10:02,319 --> 01:10:05,319
they're getting upset. Yeah I think
so, I think so. And then

878
01:10:05,359 --> 01:10:10,479
also there's like the very politically inspired, very liberal kind of you know,

879
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:14,720
Catholic abbots that are just like I
watched a guy on YouTube. He was

880
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,880
on like a big YouTube channel,
and he was asked questions about like basic

881
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:23,760
Christian principles like vengeance and like you
know, personal vengeance and stuff, and

882
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,800
he was explaining to the guy like, oh, yeah, you can.

883
01:10:27,119 --> 01:10:29,920
You can vengeance a little bit,
you know, if you if the enemy

884
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:33,239
did enough wrong, then you can
you know, like compromise your Christian morals

885
01:10:33,239 --> 01:10:36,479
it's fine and still be Catholic just
to you know, like recruit human stuff.

886
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:40,880
So I don't want I don't want
like this channel to become too rigid

887
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,319
to the point where we inspire people
to do un Christian things, nor too

888
01:10:44,399 --> 01:10:46,920
liberal at the point where we again
inspire people to do un Christian things.

889
01:10:47,279 --> 01:10:51,560
I just don't want people to to
use this as fuel against their neighbors,

890
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:56,279
against their alloted minds, or it's
just theology. It's important. I'm not

891
01:10:56,319 --> 01:11:00,000
saying it's not important. I just
don't want it to cause like bad feelings

892
01:11:00,039 --> 01:11:03,520
hate and from God, because you
know, hate, it's never He's never

893
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:09,279
from Gods. I certainly don't hate
Roman Catholics, even the ones that are

894
01:11:09,279 --> 01:11:12,199
really upset and come after us.
I mean I don't hate them. And

895
01:11:12,239 --> 01:11:15,800
I mean I've cultivated, you know, a pretty good relationship with Tim Gordon,

896
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,039
and we've been doing some great podcasts
and uh, you know we're going

897
01:11:18,119 --> 01:11:24,760
to have a future civil debate on
Palamism and Tomism in person. So yeah,

898
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,600
I have a lot of Catholic friends
still, and uh, I don't

899
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,720
want to be in those people's enemies. Um, but you know, we

900
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,439
just we just want the best for
them and to come out of the delusion

901
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:40,760
and into the Orthodox Churches. And
another thing is, oh sorry, oh

902
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:46,199
it's just another thing is that some
like lots of Catholics don't really know about

903
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,520
the Orthodox Church. A lot of
them don't know much about their own faith

904
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:56,920
and don't question it, so they
kind of are ignorance, you know,

905
01:11:57,199 --> 01:12:00,520
they don't they don't really know.
And what we can do is we'll always

906
01:12:01,359 --> 01:12:06,119
benefit of the death. Yeah,
I think we should always be charitable,

907
01:12:06,239 --> 01:12:10,479
so charitable. Like I said earlier, it does not and this is something

908
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:15,119
to before we can like sign off
to those watching. We want to be

909
01:12:15,199 --> 01:12:20,279
charitable with everyone and we don't want
hatred. Just like strangers said. So,

910
01:12:20,319 --> 01:12:25,159
I've made a point of trying to
just steer clear of being like you

911
01:12:25,159 --> 01:12:30,760
guys are completely absurd as individuals.
You're we hate you, We don't like

912
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:35,199
you. Know, we love Catholic
people. We don't believe in Catholicism,

913
01:12:35,199 --> 01:12:40,199
but as people think the only reason
we're wasting our time doing these videos or

914
01:12:40,399 --> 01:12:46,359
trying to say we think our theology
is correct because we'd like you to have

915
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:50,279
what we believe to be the formans
of the trust and to give you that

916
01:12:50,319 --> 01:12:57,199
opportunity. Otherwise, we would love
to sit down and hang out with you

917
01:12:57,239 --> 01:13:00,800
guys as individuals, but as at
bottom line is, there is one true

918
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:04,079
church. It was established by Jesus
Christ, and for that reason we have

919
01:13:04,159 --> 01:13:13,079
to emphasize differences between the communions exactly. Yeah, we'll put otherwise. I

920
01:13:13,199 --> 01:13:16,439
think that's Kyle and the Orthodox squad
signing off, and that's je guy right

921
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:18,880
there. Thank you guys, We'll
see you next time.
