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people don't don't do then the the
the the the the the don the Alright,

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what's up. We're doing a daytime
stream. We don't usually do daytime

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streams, but today it just felt
right, and it just felt like,

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you know, I just felt some
type of way. So I felt like

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we got I had to do this
some some type of way. I got

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my uh triadic shot of espresso over
here. I got a triple shot,

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a triadic shot of espresso expresso.
As some might say, we got already

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some generous super chatters. Thank you, guys. We'll get to you guys

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in a minute. As you guys
know, the way this works in open

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forum, you can bring up whatever
questions topics that you want. I'm always

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coughing in here still because the allergy
is still nuts. Man. It's like

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I'm over the sickness, but pall
and boy is on the attack. So

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pollen Boy's got he's got spruce Boy, he's got Juniper Boy, and some

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other damn holly or some other kind
of tree bitch coming after me. So

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that's why I'm still coughing. It's
like a Level nine def Con five today

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for for pollen. So I'm gonna
try my best. As you know,

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the way it works is you request
to speak on Twitter. The link is

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in the chat, it's in the
show description. How do I call in?

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How do I call in? How
do I call? In? Twitter?

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When you request to speak, you
will be automatically muted. That's how

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Twitter works. When you come on. However, when I say you,

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that means you, and then you
have to unmute yourself. So even though

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I'm gonna have to say unmute dude
five hundred times, if you already know

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to unmute, then we could avoid
that, but we all know it's never

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going to be avoided. So it's
just gonna be like like you know cats

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phrase. You know, comedians have
those cringey catchphrases. Here's your sign,

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Pater's alid, Pater's alid, here's
your sign. You might be right mate,

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If you can't hit the unmute button, you might be a prior.

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Right. Well, my catchphrase is
just gonna be U mute dude, mute

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dude, just unmute man. Make
it easy. But look, nobody's gonna

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make it easy, and nobody except
one is actually going to present an argument.

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Remember, arguments are not assertions and
claims. That might be your position,

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your position, and then you give
evidences, or you give propositions,

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or you give arguments that support the
assertion or the claim. Just machine gunning

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a bunch of your positions out isn't
an argument. For example, in the

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Jake debate, Jake machine guns spat
out his position of what talhed was,

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but never give an argument for why
we should accept that. In his opening

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statement that that's what God's unity is, I argue that we have two competing

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systems giving competing accounts of unity and
diversity within God. And I ain't talking

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about a diversity quota. Okay,
we ain't talking about diversit. We talking

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about affirmative action inside the deity.
Okay, that's not what we're talking about.

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Just multiplicity, distinctions, unity and
difference in God. But what we

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heard was a lot of almost raping
this my position. This is my position,

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This is my position, No,
not arguments. I want to hit

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on a couple of things before we
open it up, because usually I find

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that a little bit of opening rant
kind of helps set the tone the stage

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for today's show. And of course
you can call in not just on Islam,

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but you can call in on the
topics listed in the show description or

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in the Twitter space description, and
without fail, people will join and say

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and be mad that it's a debate. What are you trying to beat me?

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Because it's title as a debate.
If you hop on a stream called

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debate, don't be upset that you're
engaging in a debate. It's titled that

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you hopped in the very string and
then played the victim. Who he's mean?

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No, you just didn't read the
topic star existence of God, metaphysics,

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trinity, Arianism, Nestorianism, church
history, councils, papacy, Vatican

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one, Vatican two, Medieval Church, metaphysics in the Middle Ages, Trinity,

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Tallheed, the debates, the Muslim
debates. Some Muslims said, you're

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you chose Jake because he's not a
good Muslim. It's like the fifth Muslim,

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how many muslim This is what they
always do, like it doesn't matter.

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You can you can debate infinite Muslims
and they will always say you would

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not debate the real Muslim. No
real Muslim, said infinity Muslims until there's

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like the the the the godfoot I
gotta just debate the godfoot itself before I

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actually have debated an actual, true
Islamic scholar. You can talk about logos,

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logik, it's about tag pre sup
transcendent arguments. We can talk about

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epistemology, atheism, materialism. All
of those are on the table. If

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you have questions, yes, you
can also ask your questions. However,

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we like to get people who disagree
the front of the line. So if

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you just have fifteen Orthodox questions about
fasting and FAQ's, go ask your priest

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about that. Don't ask me your
FAQs about whether you can listen to songibopolygy

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ds. Okay, don't ask me
if you can do whatever moral thing you

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don't know about. Today's stream is
not about that. And I'm not your

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advisor. I'm a kind of a
fool character, an Internet fool character who

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can demonstrate that even as a full
character, the fool archetype, even the

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fool can make bad arguments look as
bad as are you see what I'm trying

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to say. So I'm not your
guru. I'm not your guru. I'm

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not your spiritual daddy. I'm just
your philosophical daddy. Anyway, let's get

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into a little bit of what Redeem
Zumer, who seems to have spiraled out

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of control since our debate. For
whatever reason, he posted that he was

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freaking out that people in his discord
were converting to Orthodoxy and he was gonna

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ban talking about Orthodox stuff because so
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look into Orthodoxy. It doesn't seem
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attempts to better understand our positions.
It seems like he in damage control mode

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and flipping out constantly. And he
does the thing where he'll say a bunch

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of stuff about you personally and then
apologize and then we'll go. So just

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keep it to the issues. Okay, I never said anything about him personally,

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So if you respond to this,
just keep it to the issues,

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because I'm not I never said anything
about you as an individual. Jay is

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a guru name. It does sound
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a Hinduish name or something. Right, Let's see what is where does Redeem

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Zoomer mastering reform theology? Well,
does Redeem Zuomer actually have a master's in

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theology. Why would we think that
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theology as what is he like twenty
one? As you But despite the differences

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between Catholics and Protestants, they're a
lot closer to each other than they are

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to Eastern Orthodoxy. The biggest split
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it was the Great Schism between Protestants
and romancalies are closer to each other.

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I'm not sure about that. I
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which doctrine we pick. So I'm
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mean, Western and Eastern Christianity.
Here's why we reformed Protestants side with the

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West. What the heck kind of
music is this? I feel like I'm

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at Santa's Village and I'm supposed to
what do we picking up? Freaking It's

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a year round Santa's Village where I'm
picking up ornaments? What kind of weird

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keyboard like boomer keyboard Cassio's songs is
he playing? Eastern Orthodoxy is a beautiful

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tradition that we can all be in
fired by, But the reason we don't

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agree with them is because Eastern theology
denies a lot of things that the Bible

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teaches. So we're going to have
the old word concept fallacy that even though

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we all agree that the texts have
to be interpreted, I'm just going to

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say that the words mean what they
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So this is a common mistake that
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Protestants, and even some Orthodox engage
in, which is just the basic idea

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that there's a plain, simple meaning
of all texts and that other traditions get

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quote too philosophical and they don't stick
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But our texts perspicuous, do they
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viscosity? Breakdown? No, really, I mean you could say within a

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book that it's possible that certain texts
are clearer than other texts. Certainly within

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the Bible, certain texts are clearer
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to depend on who's reading it and
what their education level is, what their

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background is, what they do,
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the rest of the book. So
say, even admitting that certain areas of

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the Bible might be clearer than other
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individual which area will be clearer.
In other words, something that an educated

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person thinks is pretty obvious might not
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Maybe they're reading about, you know, through the eye of a needle or

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something like that, right, and
you don't know this rhetorical idiom or whatever.

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You don't know this hyperbole. Okay, Well, if you're an uneducated

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person, that might be totally ambiguous
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well, this is obviously hyperbole.
So you see that even when we

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say, or even if we admit
that there are quote clearer passages, it

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doesn't itself tell us which passages are
themselves universally clear or unclear. So a

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lot of times Protestants and we notice
the same thing with Muslims. It's exact

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move that Jake did. Have a
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or semiotic view that the text just
mean what they say, and they say

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what they mean, and that typically
goes along with word concept fallacy. People

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who have that one dimensional view of
language and texts typically fall into the mistake,

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as I'm sure we're going to see
with redeemed Zoomer of thinking that the

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word that's used always has the same
meaning in the same context and the same

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reference. So, for example,
logos as it's used by the this is

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a common Roman Catholic word concept fallacy. Well, Marcus Aurelius says logos,

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John One says logo. So they
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Maybe they do, maybe they don't
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We need to know the intentional context, and the lexical context, and the

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entire books context, and perhaps even
the entire religion's context. So you see

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that individual words are situated within broader
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the chapter, the book, the
book as a whole is in the case

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of the Bible, because it's books
within books, and then the tradition as

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a whole. Perhaps, so,
for example, I can't take a word

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that is exterior to the Orthodox tradition
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word in say Greek philosophy or Platonism, and then interpret that word within the

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Christian context as having a one to
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happens a lot, for example with
news. Well, the Greek philosophers use

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the word news when you Orthodox use
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So it's just purely the intellect or
some higher faculty of the intellect. According

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to say Greek philosophers, it's not
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the Hebrew idea of the heart,
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see that with whether it's news or
whether it's logos. These are just examples,

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but the same type of mistake can
happen when we're looking at even English

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texts or English words like person,
Does person mean just an individual? Nature?

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Does it mean something distinct from nature? How we understand person and nature,

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for example, will have tremendous implications
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our view of Christology. So a
big part of this mistake, and a

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big part of this really rookie sophomore
understanding, and a lot of Internet people

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engage in very common amongst Protestants and
Muslims, somewhat common amongst Roman Catholics as

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well, but maybe less Roman Catholics. The Roman Catholics tend to be,

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if they're into these topics, a
little more educated than the average Muslim or

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the average Protestant, so they can
sometimes avoid some of this issue. But

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as Saint Basil says, pretty much
every heretic is making some kind of linguistic

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mistake, usually right, and he's
speaking in that case of Eunomius and the

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Eunomian heresy kind of giving the idea
of ingeneracy or ungenerate in generate, basically

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identifying that with the divine essence.
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or ungenerated is therefore not God or
less than God. Hence the son,

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since he is not ingenerate, and
he is generate or has an origin,

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or he is not unoriginate, then
he must not be God. That's the

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Eunomian premise, or that's the version
of the Eunomian argument. And so Basil

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argues against this as the arrest of
capitations. Do that not every word is

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referring to or picking out the same
thing, right. Think about how many

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times we've made this argument with the
phrase like doctor Branson does God g odcause

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God can pick out different things.
And many, many Muslims since the Jake

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debate have already been saying, oh, you lost the debate when you said

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you believed in little g three little
g gods. And the argument there is

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just missing the whole point that this
is a linguistic distinction between what God can

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pick out as in distinct persons,
divine nature, and so the one True

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God, the one God capital G
typically is picking out the person of the

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Father, at least in the Patristic
period. That's always what it is,

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and that's why the Nicene Creed is
monarchical trinitarian doctrine. It says, I

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believe in one God, the Father. All the capititions speak this way.

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So little g God then refers to
God from God. Did you notice the

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Nicing Creed says God from God,
light from light. Okay. So that's

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a distinction within unity. That's the
way that we account for distinction within unity.

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Of course, Muslims, for example, whatever their position, whether they're

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a Shari or Salafi, or whether
they're whatever Athari, the different Muslim positions,

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neo Platonist, Shia, they're all
going to have different ways and attempts

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of accounting for unity and distinction in
God. So that's why I typically frame

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the debate what the Muslims as it's
not a debate between multiple who's got the

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unity position and who's the polytheist.
Different positions give me an account for unity

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and multiplicity. And that's why the
counting issue is so important there, because

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both Muslims and Christians, when they're
accounting for unity and distinction in God,

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are going to count by division and
by identity. And if you didn't notice,

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when the Creed, for example,
says undivided God is undivided, that's

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counting by division. When al Gazali
in his tenth proposition in the Moderation of

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Belief book talks about being God being
undivided, he's counting by division. Aristotle

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in category six metaphysics, I think
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by division. Now, I didn't
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counted by division. That was a
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they counted by division. I said
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I said first order, second order, and position two different types of things,

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even in the medieval philosophers that were
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would have actually behooved Jake to be
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argument that we only count by identity, because he just assumed that I was

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saying, no, we only count
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I said we count in both ways. And then he set up a false

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either or, which he didn't realize
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going to count the attributes by identity, then he's got multiple necessary attributes,

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which is a makes his position polytheist. So there you go. Thousand years

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ago, Christianity split in half when
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of the church by the Pope.
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but it was also theological, meaning
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about God. Even though Catholics and
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the exact same view of God.
The Eastern view is slightly different. There's

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really six main issues they disagree on, which can be abbreviated with the acronym

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Frost, Frost and Well. This
is an interesting, unique approach to this

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question. Let's see what is What
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maybe original sin, probably simplicity.
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Roman Catholic and the Protestant view of
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don't know where he's gonna I don't
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with Roman Catholics on quote sacrifice.
All these issues are connected to each other.

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For each of these issues, there's
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and the Western view of all these
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Okay, yeah, good, one
good argument there. Just assert that

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the quote West is right on all
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I'm sure he's going to give some
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I'm not sure that you. I'm
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Roman Catholics on the Phillyoque, I
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a nuanced position. But this is
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have a unified position. Where does
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a unified position on any of these
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Maybe you could say there's unity on
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like we follow the Bible over tradition. Okay, maybe that's one of the

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quote unifying things of Protestants. Roman
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of sacrifice. I don't know what
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that's different from I mean, Protestants
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this is again I'm predicting that this
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word concept felt disagreement is the filioque. As we said in the first video,

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all Christians believe in the Trinity,
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the Father, Son, and Holy
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all have everything that makes God God. So he doesn't even know what monarchical

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trinitarianism is. He doesn't even know
that that's the view that's established at the

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Second Ecumenical Council, which is the
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even know that. But if they
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all this up in our debate by
loook in properties, Then what makes them

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different from each other? The free
person? Hey, Jamie, could you

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make me a coffee? Could you
put a little Manuka honey in it?

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Thank you? I got a cupany
here? Those are only different from each

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other in their relations to each other. So what are these Yeah? And

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so if they're only different by relation, then the thing that makes them distinct,

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isn't anything unique. And so this
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has of Western trinitarianism so called,
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relation. But Eastern theology is premised
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is false. Person cannot be identified
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agent. And and I brought this
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completely lost, by the way,
so none of what I said apparently stuck

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sunk in from our debate. And
he's just sort of look at what does

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all this? It looks like a
freaking football team's you know, is he

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like Rudy over here? He's drawing
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the Rudy is the only one I
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Right, So he's over here like
Rudy, trying to trying to rally

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his team, drawing, drawing the
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football play. According to the West, the Son is eternally generated from the

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Father, and the Holy Spirit eternally
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in Latin. Notice we haven't had
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no arguments yet. But according to
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from the Father and not the Son. The first question should be what does

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the Bible say. The Bible very
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of the Father is also the spirit
of the Sun. So level one mistakes.

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He doesn't understand the difference between economia
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life versus the economia. So doesn't
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one understanding of what the phillioquy issue
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many times it says the Holy Spirit
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even part of the debate that should
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I mean literally doesn't even know the
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the philioqua to the Nicene Creed when
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accuse the West of doing it.
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pote leio iid forbade it from being
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even know basic history. This is
technically true, but it kind of doesn't

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matter because neither of them use the
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but the argument isn't that we only
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Nicea. The argument is that Constantinapolitan
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is forbidden at Ephesus from being added
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then Chalcidon, right, So Ephysis
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you can't alter the creed. It's
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be changed. So this is misunderstanding. This is an old, a stupid

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old argument. Abara made that he
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forbids the change. The change is
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didn't have the paragraph about the Holy
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literally level one oh one mistakes.
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It's just that the Western version is
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the original creed didn't have the philiokwa
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back then. Actually it does because
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the issue is. It's about the
hyposthetic properties and whether the father is the

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sole cause hence monarchical trinitarianism as taught
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the hypoesechic property the father can be
shared, given to or in any way

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participated in by the son. That's
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the most important people that we talked
about in the previous videos did believe in

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it. Some of the greatest defenders
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Anthonasia doesn't believe in the Philioquay.
This is easily debunked in Sishensky's book.

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Really the only there's one quote in
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then Saint Augustine. So for the
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whole livestream with doctor Branson who did
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one phrase in Nissa's against you Oomias
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as doctor Brentson points out, that
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rest of the thrust of the text, and because it's an ambiguous passage,

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it makes more sense to interpret the
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the rest of the text that are
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there's there's only one sole cause and
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It's not the divine nature. So
you can refer back to the three hour

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livestream that we did going through the
entire Skyshensky book on the phillyoquay, which

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is the most up to date academic
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rom Macalol became Orthodox. And you
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stream that we did where we dove
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essentially no argumentation for the Philly equality
other than Augustine. That's it. The

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spirit is from the Sun. Oh
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So for perfectly a Protestant mindset that
I get my canon, I'll pick

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Jerome one guy. Where do I
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One guy? Yeah, it's the
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That trumps any single dude the way
the son is from the Father or Saint

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Cyril of Alexandria explicitly saying the Holy
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rest of Cyril, and if you
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is not what he's talking about.
The procession is what he's talking about.

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it's not always in the English translation
identical to hypostatic origin. So we agree

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that the manifestation of the spirit and
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and that's taught by Gregor Cyprus.
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You could read Crisis and Byzantium by
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see the word proceeds, you notice
that he did the same thing with biblical

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texts. Right, comes from the
son, Yeah, but in what sense

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comes from the son in terms of
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forth as hyposthetic origin. You see, those are two different things. Aids

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from the Father and the son.
Or Pope Leo also saying the spirit proceeds

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from the Father, and he's saying
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if you notice that text right there, the Holy Spirit when he is in

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us right comes from father and son. That's economia. So even the text

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that he's got right there is an
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Relation proceeds from the Father and the
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the spirit proceeds from the Father and
the son. Yeah, this is also

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dealt with in the Sashensky books.
So this is why it doesn't work to

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do quote minds to prove this kind
of stuff. It's basically just ignoring all

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of the scholarship that explains to you
the difference between hyposthetic origin and manifestation,

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which is necessary to have a coherent
doctrine of eternity. By the way,

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Romeancholics typically don't even know this or
understand this unless they happen to be kind

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of brainiac uniates. Really, braini
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even kind of aware of this.
But it's actually brought up by the way

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in the Vatican clarification opilioqui. Both
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the early Church. Now the East
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and the Church fathers are only talking
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No. Actually, you already confused
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we don't just say that it's that. So you misunderstood that partly because they

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think there's a difference between God's essence
and God's energies. But that creates a

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whole Yeah, that actually comes from
the Bible. Right, So Paul makes

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this distinction when he talks about the
energies of the spirit. Right, we

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have this when we talk when we
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Okay, do you think God's knowledge, God wisdom, et cetera. Are

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they creatures or are they really distinct
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different from the divine essence. I'm
pretty sure the act of creating is different

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from the act of destroying the world. New set of problems that we're going

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to talk about later. Also,
in the Eastern view, you can't really

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tell what the difference between the son
and the spirit is because they're both just

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from the Father. Yeah, maybe
you should read the Cappadocians, who actually

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address that Youuno me an argument directly
because Unumius again he was talking about reducing

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hypocided properties to essence. And Basil's
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between procession and generation. We know
what the distinction is, we do not

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know. That's a Cappadocian quote.
Those are the guys who gave us the

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doction of the Trinity at the second
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of any of this. They'll say, the difference is because the sun is

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from them, not even aware of
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spirit by procession. And if you
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are, they'll say, we know
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mistery. That's Basil's quote. There
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the Trinity, next Sathanasius and the
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He's like. What he's arguing against
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thing they disagree on is reason the
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of God. Both sides agree on
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Christians have the Holy Spirit. But
because the West believes the Holy Spirit proceeds

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from Christ, therefore proceeds from the
wisdom of God. That implies that Christians

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have access to the wisdom of God
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This is why Western Christianity is more
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he thinks that because Christ is the
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huge He doesn't even know what faculties
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can be spoken of as a faculty
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nature, and that the Divine mind
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argue he's equivocating on reason, as
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Philly Oquey literally no idea. What
this is a ridiculous Sorry, I've never

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heard. This makes no sense.
It's just equivocating on terms that implies that

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Christians have access to the wisdom of
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This is why Western Christianity is more
intellectual and Eastern Christianity is more No.

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But it's not though, And if
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of intellect and concepts is fine as
far as it goes. But God is

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not in your intellect, and God
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all intellect and concepts, and so
the direct experience of God transcends the creaturely

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things. That doesn't mean the creature
early things are bad. It just means

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that they're limited. In the West, you get this idealization and idolatry of

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intellect and ideas because they actually identify
the soul with the intellect. So again

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I don't even think I don't think
he really understands what he doesn't know the

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difference between reasoning as a faculty,
reasoning as an action or a function,

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and what it even means to call
reason a property or a faculty of nature

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mystical because they have different views of
reason. This is not an insult.

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Prominent Orthodox priests will agree with this
right after the fact. That reasoning can

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lead us away from God does not
mean that reasoning is bad or that we're

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anti intellectual. So this is another
straw man, as if because Father Josiah

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Trendum is talking about rationalism, that
he doesn't redeem him or not know the

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difference between reason as a faculty or
a function and rationalism as an intellectual movement

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of the Enlightenment. No, he
doesn't even know that the split, the

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West started doing scholasticism, which is
where they study theology academically and try to

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learn the mysteries about God. Saint
Anselm was one of the most important Western

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saints right after the split, and
he started medieval scholasticism. He said that

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theology he's not actually started by Anselm, it's actually Augustine and boetheis. But

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the problem is, so there's another
word, concept fallacy. The problem is

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not being scholastic. The problem is
scholasticism, which is built on a bunch

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of faulty presuppositions. So another word
concept fallacy. That he doesn't know the

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difference, doesn't know the difference between
reason and rationalism. He doesn't know the

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difference between being scholastic and scholasticism,
because if he were to read the medieval

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Byzantine theologians, they were super scholastic. His faith seeking understanding, and he

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started to find out new ways to
prove that God exists. The medieval scholastics

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spent centuries trying to figure out everything
like how do we define what God is?

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And some says God is the thing. You can't think of anything greater

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than Thomas Aquinas says God is pure
being. Dun Scotis says God is the

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infinite. And these ideas don't necessarily
contradict each other, and Reform theology was

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greatly. I don't understand why he's
apt to point out people that he thinks

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are actually heretics. I mean,
these are people that number one and reject

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him until I think he's heretical.
He thinks these people are heretical, but

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leave it to the Reform to be
inconsistent and roll these people out when they

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think they're useful for optics reasons.
Influenced by these theologians, All these people

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thought the philioque is necessary for understanding
God. So what we also don't think

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that those people are saints in our
church. So what would this have to

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do with disproving the Orthodox position unless
you're just trying to score points on the

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ideas that there's a generic Western theology
of God that's correct. Do you think

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that John Calvin's theology is anywhere close
to Thomas Aquinas? Do you think that

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Anselm's theology is anywhere close to I
don't know. Zwingli. I mean,

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give me a break, right,
So this is all optics and like ignoring

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the big issues that these people killed
each other. They're not in agreement.

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Literally, Protestants killed themselves amongst other
Protestants over baptism. Roman Catholics killed Protestants

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obviously, So this idea that there's
a generic commonality between them that he could

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somehow utilize against Orthodoxiology is just like
super low deer in studying God led to

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studying God's creation by doing science.
That's why it was the Western Church that

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created modern science, modern universities,
classical music, and actually university has come

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out of Byzantium. Okay, it's
not a creation of the West, so

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ignorant of Byzantium modern science, I
don't mean modern scientism. I mean that

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seems like a double edged sword there, so I'm not sure. But to

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attribute this to I mean, is
this admitting then that Roman Catholicism is the

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real source. I mean, if
he's gonna argue that Western that all this

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Western stuff comes out of the Middle
Ages, then this is actually undercutting his

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dumb reform position. So oh,
it looks like modern science, universities come

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out of Rome and not the Protestant
world. So that's actually an own against

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himself. And by the way,
University has come out of Byzantium, not

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whatever he thinks to come out of
Western civilization itself, the most successful civilization

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to ever exist. Well, how
do you measure success, right? I

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mean the success of Western civilization quote
unquote measured by bodily comforts? Is it

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measured by nuclear weapons? Is it
measured by how apostate and atheist it is?

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Now, so you see how arbitrary
and ridiculous this kind of argumentation is.

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And we're back. So this video
is not very long, and we'll

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be done with this in a second, and then I'll have one little clip

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and then we'll open it up to
you guys. Now again, today's topics

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are whatever you want to talk about
in terms of the things listed, So

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don't start talking about Middle Eastern politics. But that's not the topic today.

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If you start talking about tiny mustache
man, I'm immediately going to boot you.

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So I'm talking about weird conspiracy crap, You're gonna get booted immediately because

467
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none of those things are the topic. Also, today we're talking to people

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who disagree, so those go to
the head of the line, if you

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got twenty questions for me about what
you're supposed to do in your fasting rules,

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that's not for me. I'm not
going to answer your fasting question.

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This is a it's a debate,
okay, that means actual debate. So

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if you hop on here and whine
and cry because you hopped on a debate

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stream, it's not gonna work.
Nobody's going to buy into that, and

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they're not going to believe you're a
victim and you're oppressed because you came on

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a stream that you didn't actually read. The title for Western theology is whether

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they like Augustin, who was one
of the most important church fathers, and

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it shouldn't surprise you that he very
strongly believed in the philioque. Also,

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yeah, but nobody, not even
you as a Protestant, follows one dude,

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right, I mean, nobody consistently
follows one dude. Now, the

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Romancaloic Church supposedly follows one dude aka
Francis, but they don't consistently do that.

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As we'll see here in a second. You don't follow one dude.

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So when you try to find evidence
for your positions in the church fathers,

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it's completely arbitrary. Oh, I
want the canon that Jerome has. Oh

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I want the theology of Jesus that
Athanasius has. And then you think the

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rest of his beliefs are heretical.
By the way, no Roman Catholic person

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would ever accept your belief that Augustine
is a Protestant. Have you read Augustine.

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I don't just mean your quote minds. I mean I've read thousands of

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pages of Augustine. He was a
Catholic bishop. Now, for us,

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we think that individual theologians can make
mistakes. Gregor Nissa made mistakes, Saint

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Maximus made mistakes, Augustine made mistakes. Tertullian made mistakes. Some mistakes can

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be so severe that eventually the church
determines that you're outside the church. Like

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in the case of Turtullian, he
left the church. Right. You could

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argue that Justin Marty made a mistas
take in the way he phrased things here

494
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and there. Sure, but he
could also be read in an Orthodox way.

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Now I want to remind everybody too
that IP is inspiring, philosophy is

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doing a stream. Later, addressing
one of Jake's claims about Tertullian being not

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a trinitarian. Sam Schmun also addressed
this. It's a dumb argument, it's

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actually missing the whole point. But
anyway, let's get back to this believed

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in original sin, which says that
because of the fall, all of us

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are dead in sin from the moment
of conception O, our default state is

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guilty before God. That mean,
now, I guess redeem Zuomer is not

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even aware of the Roman Catholic position, is not the Augustinian position? Does

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he not know this? And you
could go read the for example, well,

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you'd read the Catholic Catechism where it
makes a distinction between original guilt and

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actual guilt. Roman Catholics no longer
affirm original guilt. Infants are not guilty

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because of adam sin. So that's
actually something that we agree with in terms

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of Rome in the Orthodox. Now, at the time of Augustine, up

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until Gregory the Great, the West
did believe that infants were guilty and that

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all men were guilty in Adam as
in an archetype. And that's the argumentation

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that Augustin uses in the City of
God, for example, in one place

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where he makes this argument. And
so he has a neoplatonic idea that everyone

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is guilty because we're all in potentia
in Adam as in an archetype, and

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so we are all already guilty because
we exist in potentia in Him. Eventually,

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when the Roman Catholic Church defines and
explains the doctrine of infant limbo,

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this is precisely to get around the
fact that infants are not guilty of Adam's

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sin itself. So actually Rome eventually
softens their position and moves away from original

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guilt. Now you could argue that
Romancalolic Church is inconsistent, which I do

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argue that in my essay against Taylor
Marshall on this position. But the modern

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day Roman Catholic Church does not agree
with the reformed Calvinist position that infants are

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automatically damned merely by being children about
him. So the only people today that

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still hold to the Augustinian position are
Calvinists. So if he wants to claim

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Augustine, he could claim him just
in that specific area and maybe on absolute

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predestination. But he doesn't even know
that the Roman Catholic position is not his

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position on inherited guilt. It's from
the moment we were conceived we deserve to

525
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go to hell. It's not a
pretty truth, but it's what the Bible

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teaches. He doesn't teach that.
That's your misinterpretation and Meandorff has a good

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essay pointing out where because Augustine didn't
know the Greek, he misunderstood Romans five.

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It's very important to recognize how serious
sick. By the way, if

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you want to go deeper into that, I have an entire three hour discussion

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from Augustine proving all these points.
Okay, so I'm sure a lot of

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people are gonna be like, ooh, ooh, look, I will walk

532
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you through Augustine's errors and his texts
in great detail in this open Q and

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A that we did right here.
It's called Augustine Calvin Original Sin Orthodox Theology.

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So you can go watch this stream. I'll put it in the chat

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right here. And this addresses in
detail the basic mistakes and fundamental errors that

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reform Zoomer is not even aware of, and that he's engaging in. And

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it is so we recognize how much
we depend on God. We must get

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past this part to the next point. Well Eastern Orthodox, he tends to

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lean a bit more in the direction
of Pelagius, which is why the West

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has not even Plagianism. It's like, so if he understood the Roman Calolky

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position, he would call it Pelagian
or semi pelagius. That he doesn't.

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He doesn't even know what he thinks. That. The only position that's not

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semi Palagian is if you believe in
inherited guilt the sinner. But the East

544
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doesn't really believe that. Here's another
word. The East and West disagree on

545
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God. The West has a more
strict monotheism because it believes that what God

546
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is is one thing. Yes,
God is three persons, but here we're

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talking about God's essence absolute divine.
Simplicity means God's essence or what God is

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is the same as God's attributes or
the things about God, and simplicity just

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means that God is not made of
parts. So God's power, in God's

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mind and God's love are not parts
of God. They are the same as

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God. So when the Bible says
God is love, we take that literally,

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meaning that God is the same as
infinite love. The Eastern view is

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completely different. The East believes that
the things about God, like love and

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power and justice are just energies that
come from God, and God could refer

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to of course, I'm not going
to rehearse that. We probably respond to

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this five hundred times. So I've
been making videos about the energies for over

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ten years. And here is the
doctor bo Branson's lectures right here. If

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you want to learn what monarchical trinitarianism
is from doctor Branson, who we just

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00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:20.079
had on discussing this not too long
ago. Here's a great link right there

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for his lectures. So doctor Branson
gives you one, two, three,

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four, five, five lectures on
what monarchical trinitarianism is, and then it's

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the only real consistent way to rebut
the Islamic argument of monotheism, especially when

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we look at the text where Jesus
is referring to the Father is greater than

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I. Of course it doesn't mean
ontologically greater, it means greater in role.

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So there is doctor avail yourself of
doctor Branson's lectures. I highly recommend

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it. And again he should have
he should have looked at some of this

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stuff before making this video, because
it really just comes out looking like a

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shoddy, corny like level one attempt
to explain the differences without even understanding really

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what the other positions are. So
there's brand doctor Branson's talks. Did I

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put my talk on Augustine in there? I can't remember if I did.

571
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Here it is if I didn't.
So, because we've refuted and because we've

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answered the energies stuff probably literally five
hundred times, I'm not gonna repeat all

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of that. Let's see what he
says about theosis of God's energies. And

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because God's energies are also called God, in some sense, we become God

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in the end. Now, the
West also believes in theosis. The West

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also believes that we receive love and
immortality from God when we have eternal life.

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The difference is the West knows that
these are gifts that God created for

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us, but the Yeah, so
as Paloma says, if we just get

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another creature, then we are no
different than the Arians. So here he's

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admitting that his position of created grace
is where it is created grace, and

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so therefore the arguments of Athenasius.
He claims to really like Athenasius. But

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Athenasius said that if we're getting in
salvation just another creature, then the Arians

583
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are correct. So he doesn't even
understand that he should go read a dialogue

584
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between Orthodox and a barling mine to
to understand from God. Whereas the East

585
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thinks of salvation is a gift of
God's grace, he thinks that's Augustinianism.

586
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Actually, Augustine teaches a cooperative grace. So even Augustine believes that the will

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is still present in the human being, and the will is still cooperating.

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Augusta believes in merits. Right,
if you read his books, he actually

589
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:57.559
writes about merit. Okay, he
has works on grace and merit, and

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00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.559
he doesn't deny merit. He wouldn't
be a Roman Caolic saint if he completely

591
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.440
denied all merit. And he says, well, the merits are still gifts

592
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of God's grace. Okay, Well
I can agree with that. My mouse

593
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just died. So again it's word
concept fallacies because it depends on what you

594
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mean, right, I mean,
I can I can believe that my own,

595
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my own human energy and will that
I have by nature, that i'd

596
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cooperate with grace in is also a
gift. Sure, So again it's a

597
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.920
lot of equivocating that he's in God. So according to the West, all

598
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you have to do to be saved
is accept God's grace even though different Westnes

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So he just refuted his own position
here. By the way, he didn't

600
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:42.880
even understand that this would be a
creator. This would be a crystallogical heresy

601
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:47.760
too, because of Christ in assuming
human nature didn't do anything but make another

602
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.599
created human nature, or that the
grace that He gave to his human nature

603
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:55.840
and the incarnation a lah the Sixth
Council. If it's just another creature,

604
00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:00.960
then again he's back at Arianism.
So he doesn't even understands might disagree on

605
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.480
how to receive God's grace, but
in the East, there's no way to

606
00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:07.760
know if you're united enough to God
have assurance of salvation. We can know

607
00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:12.599
that we are in Christ. Okay, so you can pause it that there

608
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:17.960
is theoretically an assurance of salvation like
once Saved always said or whatever. But

609
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:22.320
the funny thing about all that is
that none of that actually because even in

610
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:27.039
his position as a Calvinist, right, if there's self deception and Calvinists believe

611
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:30.719
that you're self deceiving yourself all the
time because the no edic effects of sin

612
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:34.159
are affecting you at all times,
then there's no way for him as an

613
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:37.280
individual to know that he's not being
self deceived into thinking that he's wanted the

614
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:43.599
elect. This alone refutes the notion
of assurance of salvation amongst Calvinists. But

615
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:47.119
the East prefers to say things,
our iniquities, the punishment that brought us

616
00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:52.480
peace was on him. Yeah,
this is all again word concept fallacy,

617
00:53:52.559 --> 00:54:04.400
assuming that post Enlightenment ideas about nominalism
and legal standing and divorcing ontology from legality

618
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:08.440
and from propositions, which is a
post Enlightenment development, that that's all read

619
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:14.400
back into Isaiah and ancient text.
Now, the ancient world and the medieval

620
00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:21.280
world never separated ontology from nominalism from
naming. Okay, so there's no such

621
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.559
thing as a purely legal status that
doesn't affect your ontology. But that if

622
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:28.920
that goes away, then all Reformation
theology goes away, because that's what PSA

623
00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:32.039
is built on. Penal substitution or
tone is built on the post Enlightenment nomalist

624
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:39.119
idea that you can divorce metaphysics from
naming and legal status. So he's just

625
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:45.400
reading in post Enlightenment presubpositions, post
Reformation and presubsisitions back into Isaiah and by

626
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:49.639
his wounds, we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone

627
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:54.639
astray. Jesus's sacrifice takes away our
legal penalty. So again, what does

628
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:59.480
that mean? Okay, it's not
a question of can you find a quote,

629
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:04.559
because this is the same goofy debate
that every reform person, for example,

630
00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:07.159
engages when engaged them when they say, for example, oh, well,

631
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:10.400
the church fathers talk about the importance
of scripture, therefore solo scriptura.

632
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:16.559
Oh Athanasia is talking about sacrifice,
so therefore he means the post Enlightenment ideas

633
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:22.119
of nominalism and pure legal status.
No, he doesn't, and if you

634
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:23.400
were to read Athenasius, you would
actually know that. By the way,

635
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:29.840
Protestant scholar has already written books on
this Ustecia Day by Alisterroir McGrath points out

636
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:34.079
that nobody prior to Luthor had Luther's
ideal of justification by faith alone. So

637
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:38.280
even your own Protestant scholars admit this. But he's what twenty one twenty two,

638
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.159
He doesn't even know the East Reject's
original guilt. The Reform tradition is

639
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:45.480
very intellectual, so we're not.
I guess what. Let's just cut this

640
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.079
out right away. We could just
really emphasize, let's use philosophy to make

641
00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:53.079
this really simple. If total depravity
is true, and if the noetic effects

642
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:57.960
of sin are affecting you at all
times, and that includes in your rational

643
00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:01.920
theological discourse and your urn portation of
scripture, then you're also in every case

644
00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:07.599
denying the possibility of having the certitude
that you claim to have. So every

645
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:08.920
time you're reading the Bible, every
time you're reading the text, reading the

646
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:13.960
Church Fathers, the noedic effects of
sin are distorting what you're doing. And

647
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:16.360
every act you're actually engaging in some
degree of sin. On your own view,

648
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:22.159
right, every act is in some
way affected by noetically in total depravity,

649
00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:27.920
the effects of sin. So that
would actually undercut and cancel out the

650
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.320
possibility for him to have the certitude
that he has, not just on his

651
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:37.119
supposed doctrine of assurance of salvation,
but also on every text that he reads.

652
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:42.400
Every time he tries to go to
the Bible, the noetic effects of

653
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:46.639
sin are messing with his interpretation,
and so he could never get to the

654
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:50.679
true meaning of the text itself,
which is what his whole religion is based

655
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:53.639
on. Solar scripture, that alone
is enough to cut out all of this

656
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:59.239
word concept felsy give you position so
as we expect that I had not seen

657
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:02.239
this video before were playing it with
you guys, it was actually worse than

658
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:07.039
I expected. Super low tier multiple
word concept fallacies. Lack of familiarity with

659
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:14.280
basic distinctions between the intratrinitarian life and
economia when it came to Phillyoquay. Lack

660
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:19.119
of basic understanding of the actual debate
of the history of Philioquay. Lack of

661
00:57:19.159 --> 00:57:23.079
familiarity with the basic academic sources on
the Philly Oquay A La Sashchensky and others.

662
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:30.880
Lack of basic understanding of what the
disputes were between Roman Catholics and Protestants,

663
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:37.519
assuming that Augustine is somehow a useful
person for Protestants, which is preposterous,

664
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:44.000
assuming that Roman Catholics and Protestants have
the same doctrine of original guilt.

665
00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:50.239
They don't. So again, multiple
fundamental mistakes. And you know, Redeemed

666
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:54.280
Zuomer got really upset over our debate
for whatever reason, and so looks like

667
00:57:54.360 --> 00:58:00.960
he's just spiraling and doing damage control. Now I wanted to play this video,

668
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:02.079
not because I have, And then
we're going to go to open for

669
00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:07.840
him any disputes or dislike of Kennedy
Hall. We've chatted kind of briefly on

670
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:19.360
Twitter in cordial ways, so I'm
not putting this up here to be sassy

671
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.119
in any way to him. I
don't have any disagreement with him on a

672
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:28.119
personal level. Obviously we disagree because
he's I think he attends the SSPX.

673
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:31.360
But I thought there was some interesting
admissions that we have here from Kennedy here

674
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:36.119
in this clip, in this video
just a few minutes here just to kind

675
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:40.039
of catch up with some of the
Roman Catholics see what they're saying, and

676
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.719
Kennedy admits that things are getting pretty
wild. I just have the language that

677
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:49.880
he uses, not just I'm not
trying to start smoke. I mean again,

678
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.840
I don't have anything. We've had
cordial interaction. I think he's a

679
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:57.960
nice guy, but the language that
he uses here I thought was pretty wild

680
00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:02.719
standing. We have people defending that
as if it's going to be okay,

681
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:08.480
and then those same people will condemn
traditionalists as being against the truth of the

682
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:13.800
faith. We had a men's conference
over the weekend. It was amazing.

683
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:15.360
You can check out my talk that's
on my channel. It's called Lived not

684
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.760
by lies. I'm working on getting
the other talks uploaded. It takes a

685
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:21.480
lot of work to get them medaed
and the audio video alls kind of things.

686
00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:22.760
I'm an amateur of those things,
so I just sort of do it.

687
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:29.199
We can't point being It was an
amazing weekend and my talk was about

688
00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:34.320
we just have to stop living by
lies, and we can't just we can't

689
00:59:34.519 --> 00:59:37.960
just say, well, I don't
accept the lies and I won't say them.

690
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.760
We have to say I will always
tell the truth. And it's so

691
00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:45.119
refreshing. There was over two hundred
men there, the only traditional cat of

692
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:46.320
men's conference in North America. We're
going to have to figure out maybe a

693
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:52.159
bigger venue or something. You get
who were hooting and hollering and cheering on

694
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:54.400
the idea that we should just simply
tell the truth. And that's why we're

695
00:59:54.480 --> 01:00:00.039
in the mess that we're in is
because people have swallowed these lies and I

696
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:05.159
have truths for so many decades and
they're afraid to speak the truth. We're

697
01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:08.480
now at the point where we are
so riddled with insanity in the church on

698
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:13.920
behalf of those who run the church, that these absolute crazy people are having

699
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.320
these ceremonies which are a mockery to
God and calling the people who preside over

700
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:22.119
them as heroes. And we have
the pope defending egregious, sacrilegious blasphemis or

701
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:28.920
ratical notions of blessing things that God
cannot bless and if you stand up to

702
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:34.039
that, you're canceled. I'm blacklisted
in my diocese. I can't speak in

703
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:37.440
my diocese. I can't get a
letter of pastoral approval or whatever because I

704
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:39.599
don't go to a parish run by
the diocese. Because I can't go to

705
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:43.519
a parish run by the diocese.
I go to an SSBX chapel, and

706
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:45.719
I can't go to a perish from
by the diocese. Because there's not a

707
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:49.239
single parish in my entire diocese where
I will not have to submit myself or

708
01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:52.320
my children to some of this liberal
insanity that has imbibed every single aspect of

709
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:55.920
the Catholic faith. Well, now, wait a minute. If liberalism and

710
01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:01.440
apostacy have imbibed every single as inpect
an avenue of the Roman Catholic Faith,

711
01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:09.639
then how is Vatican One still true
that the See of Rome is the unfailing

712
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:17.960
source of unity, preservation and truth
when it comes to morals and theology.

713
01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:23.559
That is the Vatican one dogmatic position. And you notice that apart from all

714
01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:28.360
of the nuances of the specifics of
canon law, because anytime you talk to

715
01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:30.280
an SSPX person, they're going to
go all, we got to go look

716
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.679
at this canon law, and there's
an extreme mess in the in emergency cases

717
01:01:34.679 --> 01:01:40.480
and blah blah blah. Setting aside
the pursu stry of canon law. The

718
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:46.719
very terminology that all the trads and
the SSPX use it self betrays that they

719
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:52.639
don't believe Vatican One. They will
speak of the Novasorto Church as a false

720
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:59.239
church, an anti church, an
apostate church. But that's Rome you see.

721
01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:05.679
And he admits in the video that
Vatican two does teach actual heresy.

722
01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:08.840
Now I think it teaches heresy in
multiple places. But one of those places

723
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:14.480
which I agree with Kennedy, is
the doctrine of religious liberty, which is

724
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:20.679
an absolute, clear contradiction from all
the previous papal dogmatic statements against religious liberty,

725
01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:24.840
condemned as a Protestant Masonic doctrine.
So Kennedy admits that in the position.

726
01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:30.239
And again, remember it's not that
we're trying to highlight the differences amongst

727
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:34.960
the trad Cats just to be arbitrary. Yeah, you could find differences amongst

728
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:39.039
Orthodox, but the difference is that
for the trad Cats, remember, and

729
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:44.320
for the regular Novisordo and all the
Roman Catholics, the office of the papacy

730
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:49.679
itself is the solution and the answer
to all the things that they criticize Orthodox

731
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:57.559
and Protestants about. And yet when
they explain the papacy the last seventy years,

732
01:02:58.639 --> 01:03:05.360
it is a pasta evil, demonic, source of evil, source of

733
01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:07.920
division, source of confusion. Wait
a minute, so the thing that is

734
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.960
the source of unity and certitude and
preservation is also the source of division,

735
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:17.239
confusion, and apostasy. Okay,
that's a contradiction. So notice the way

736
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:23.360
he speaks. Just a fact,
and this is the totalitarianism. This is

737
01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:30.599
a totalitarianism. They must reject those
who stand for the truth, and they

738
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:34.239
must castigate them to the exterior darkness, whereas there's the weeping and gnashing of

739
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:40.440
teeth, and they must submit them
to humiliation and castigation and ridicule because they

740
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:45.159
have no way of combating the arguments
of those individuals. Because the individuals who

741
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:50.480
are ridiculed unfairly by the church officials
are simply telling the truth. They did

742
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:53.079
it with Archbishop Lefev and they do
with every person who even stands in a

743
01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:59.639
way like he did. Look,
they did the Bishop Sneider, Bishop Schneider,

744
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:00.679
and I mean, and he would
say this. He's not even a

745
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:04.840
traditionalist. He just had the audacity
to say, you know, some of

746
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:08.800
this stuff coming out of Rome,
this is insane. And he's gone.

747
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.079
A bunch of other bishops in Latin
America this has happened to them as well.

748
01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:15.719
The church is run by crazy people, my friends, So what are

749
01:04:15.719 --> 01:04:17.679
you gonna do? Wait a minute. The church is run, according to

750
01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:25.960
Vatican One, by the infallible successor
to Peter, who has the keys,

751
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:32.360
universal jurisdiction and quote never failing faith. So how do we have then seventy

752
01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:36.800
years of the church is quote run
by crazy people. If you go read

753
01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:40.880
the fifteen pages of Vatican One,
if you were to print it out.

754
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.159
And then Kennedy Hall goes on to
talk about very and I would agree with

755
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:48.480
him. Obviously, the things going
on in the Romancolic Church are driving the

756
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:55.280
Tracats and Romancholics insane, and it
is run by crazy people. Because that's

757
01:04:55.360 --> 01:05:00.280
the self evident. I'm joking that
it's self evident. They believe in self

758
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.000
evidence, right, So isn't it
self evident that Francis is insane? Let's

759
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.920
just go look at the evidence.
Let's just go look. The evidence is

760
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:10.440
self evident. The evidence means what
it says, and it says what it

761
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:14.400
means. And Francis is an absolute
louone. The rest of the goon cardinals

762
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:21.000
in Rome the goblins. So Kennedy's
absolutely one percent right. However, Vatican

763
01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:32.559
one say that about the papacy,
and I'm going to remind the Roman Catholics,

764
01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:40.159
who ninety eight percent of them have
not read Vatican One. We're just

765
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:45.039
gonna remind them again to go print
out the decrees of Vatican One from papal

766
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:48.519
and cyclicals not net comes out to
about ten fifteen pages. It's not that

767
01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:51.880
hard, it's not that long.
If you're serious about your religion, you

768
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:57.679
should at least be familiar with what
Vatican one actually says. And for people

769
01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:02.440
that are considering Roman Catholicism, maybe
you need to know what the dogmas of

770
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:12.480
Vatican one are because it's supposed to
be clear, right, I mean,

771
01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:15.960
at least The argumentation of Vatican One
is that, look, it's obvious the

772
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:27.480
papacy has a magisterial role. It
is the essence of the magisterium. It's

773
01:06:27.559 --> 01:06:32.159
infallible not just in its extraordinary pronouncements, but also in its universal ordinary pronouncements.

774
01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:38.960
So therefore it cannot err and it
cannot air to the extent that it

775
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:45.880
would lose any of its essential fundamental
constituents. Right, So, for example,

776
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.360
it can never fail to be the
case that the c of Peter has

777
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.480
successors until the end of the world. Vatican One says, so that counsels

778
01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:58.199
out seventy years of vacant sea,
all set of a concious quacks and loans.

779
01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:02.239
It says that can never use that
lose that visible unity. That visible

780
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:06.239
unity is summed up in its head
in Rome. So there can never be

781
01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:11.000
a loss of unity in the Roman
Calolic Church. Uh oh uh oh.

782
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:16.880
There can never be a loss of
the magisterial office in jurisdiction, which is

783
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:23.840
only had in communion with the Pope
of Rome. So if there's been no

784
01:07:23.960 --> 01:07:27.400
Pope of Rome, for example,
or if the papacy has been thwarted or

785
01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:30.679
whatever, then now that would throw
into question jurisdiction for the rest of the

786
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:33.719
bishops of the world, Well,
the rest of the bishops in the world

787
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:40.639
have a questionable jurisdiction. Then we've
now lost the public witness of the unity

788
01:07:41.079 --> 01:07:44.440
and continuity of the Roman Calolic Church
throughout history. You see, you see

789
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:49.239
how the constituent elements of the papacy
are undermined. The more a person becomes

790
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:55.320
tradcat because the more you become tradcat, the more that you're admitting Roman i

791
01:07:55.360 --> 01:08:05.280
mean, Orthodox positions. And that's
why the Alexandria Document is so excellent because

792
01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:11.960
it essentially it admits all of this
for us, and we did a whole

793
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:15.599
livestream on it. Romancolics haven't even
addressed it. They've been super quiet about

794
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:19.000
it. Oh I just don't even
care. I'm sure you don't care because

795
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:23.920
it admits all of ours. Oh
well, it's not infallible. So where

796
01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:28.279
is the idea that something has to
be quote infallible for the pope to be

797
01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:31.600
in error or heresy? See,
this is just another thing they make up.

798
01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:40.720
They make up these new criteria that
oh well, Francis didn't infallibly define

799
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:45.039
the Alexandria Document, so it doesn't
count even though it emits ninety percent of

800
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:53.000
the Orthodox arguments. Yeah, but
in your own position, can I be

801
01:08:53.079 --> 01:09:01.399
a Roman Catholic and reject multiple dogmas? No, you can't. You cease

802
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:05.079
being a Roman Catholic when you deny
at least even one dogma. That's what

803
01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:08.840
Pius the twelfth in lee of the
thirteenth State, and they're encyclicals. You

804
01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:12.439
can't deny one dogma and remain a
Roman Catholic. You can call yourself a

805
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.279
Roman Catholic, but you're not in
fact a Roman Catholic, because by denying

806
01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:23.039
the dogmas you now become something else, Protestant, Orthodox, heretic, sectarian,

807
01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:31.840
whatever, Old Catholic, Anglican.
And if if making something quote infallible

808
01:09:32.520 --> 01:09:36.600
was a prerequisite to being a heretic, then no one could be a heretic

809
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:41.960
but the Pope. That's how stupid
this argument is when they say, yeah,

810
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:45.760
it doesn't count though, because Francis
didn't make it infallible. Infallibility has

811
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:50.760
nothing to do with whether what he
says is heretical or not. For example,

812
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:55.760
when the six Secumentical Council condemned Pope
Honorius, did they all sit around

813
01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:59.199
and say, well, but did
he say it infallibly. No, they

814
01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:02.680
don't even care, literally nothing to
do with no concern at all. First

815
01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:05.119
of all, because they didn't think
that the bishop room was infallible anyway,

816
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:13.600
because they condemned Pope Honoria's right.
So this is a total red hearing when

817
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:17.319
they start talking about it doesn't matter. By the way, Vatican two is

818
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:21.439
infallible. So you're in an even
worse position if you try to go that

819
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:28.119
route. If you guys would hit
like and share, we're going to open

820
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.600
it up. Now we covered two
of the areas. I'd have one last

821
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:39.920
little gem here which was going around, which is the Chicken Novasorto. The

822
01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:45.359
chicken novas Orto. And I don't
even know what this is, but it

823
01:10:45.479 --> 01:11:05.920
is a thing. I mean,
just look at the church. It doesn't

824
01:11:05.920 --> 01:11:10.319
even look like I mean, it's
not even recognizable as anything other than a

825
01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:14.359
ridiculous Protestant church, right, I
mean the Novsorto churches, like ninety percent

826
01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:17.079
of them that are built look like
Protestant lecture halls. So I mean that

827
01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:20.399
alone tells you that this is not
the same religion of the first thousand years

828
01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:25.800
of Christianity. And to act like
this is the same as Orthodox or something

829
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.000
that's ridiculous. I mean, and
this is this is this is the the

830
01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:33.000
Novsorto is the normative Roman Catholic world. Okay, all of these Roman Catholic

831
01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:39.479
pap apologists that are all Uniates,
they don't even go to the normal Novasorto

832
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:43.479
Roman Catholic churches because they know it's
a joke. And Kennedy Hall is at

833
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.960
least on us enough to say this
is preposterous, it's apostasy. Yeah,

834
01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:51.399
but the posteses coming from the infallible
head himself. So therefore Romantholicism is not

835
01:11:51.439 --> 01:12:02.600
true about a hint, one's false. Now you'll notice in Kennedy Hall's video,

836
01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:05.439
by the way, and I'll give
you the I've already exit it out.

837
01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:13.279
He says that the Roman Catholic has
the advantage of conforming his intellect to

838
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:17.479
reality, and by conforming to reality, you have a basis to reject the

839
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:21.720
woke mob because reality can't be redefined
by your system. Well guess what,

840
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:27.920
Kennedy, that same critique applies to
your track Catholicism, because your track Catholicism

841
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:31.720
has to combat the reality of Vatican
One, which says that you can't have

842
01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:36.560
seventy plus years of apostate papacy.
So conform your reality, your intellect to

843
01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:43.239
the reality of the facts. That
this is what the nova sorto and normal

844
01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:47.239
Roman Catholicism actually is. You understand
this, This is what Francis has absolutely

845
01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:51.800
no problem with. But Francis wants
to ban the Latin Mass, which shows

846
01:12:51.840 --> 01:13:00.800
that Francis doesn't even care about even
loosely maintaining the Roman Catholic tradition. So

847
01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:05.279
why do you even have a problem
with the chicken Mass. What's the problem

848
01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:15.039
with the chicken novasorto? When the
Chiady document admits the Orthodox positions, and

849
01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:19.119
the Alexandria document, built on the
Chiady document mits ten times more Orthodox positions,

850
01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:24.640
So this just means that Vatican one
is not true, and the Vatican

851
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:27.880
one is not true, then the
Roman Catholic system falls because it's a system

852
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:32.640
wherein you can't have dogmas canceled out
and being wrong. Well, actually,

853
01:13:32.680 --> 01:13:35.760
in the Roman Catholic system you can
because it evolves, and so the dogmas

854
01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:44.199
can be revised and restated to be
whatever you want. But you get my

855
01:13:44.319 --> 01:13:46.000
point, though, is that if
you've adopted that, then you've adopted a

856
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:51.079
evolving, absolutely contradictory position, and
now everything evolves, including the laws of

857
01:13:51.119 --> 01:13:54.840
logic, and you can never even
say anything's false. So if you want

858
01:13:54.880 --> 01:14:00.640
to go this route of ever evolving, never fixed, static propositions and truths,

859
01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:04.760
then Rome is where you want to
be, because it'll evolve tomorrow to

860
01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:11.279
be not just blessings for skittles,
but blessings for everything you can think of.

861
01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:14.000
That's the next phase. All right, We're gonna open it up to

862
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:21.199
the forum. When I give you
the microphone. That means you unmute yourself

863
01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:30.319
and you can bring your arguments,
bring your challenges. What are my comments

864
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.239
on the debate with Jake? I
already talked about the debate with Jake beginning

865
01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:46.560
of this. Let's see who's up
first. Demetrios, Hello, yes,

866
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:54.159
sir, all right, speaking of
static instagnation, one of the common arguments

867
01:14:54.199 --> 01:15:00.760
you'll get recently, within the past, let's say thirty years, from Catholic

868
01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:05.159
and Calvinist types is the Orthodox Church
is in stagnation. We're trapped in the

869
01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:10.279
ninth century. Even our art work
is trapped in the ninth century. Like

870
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.079
Pep'll say, like, yeah,
you're true to the faith. But speaking

871
01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:19.960
of and I'm touching base on the
evolving static kind of topic you're addressing just

872
01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:25.479
now recently, what would your answer
to be if I was a you know,

873
01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:30.399
reform Calvinist type and or Catholic and
came up, Yeah, you guys

874
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:34.039
are true of the faith. You
know your your trinitarianism is hardcore more than

875
01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:36.159
most. But you know, you
guys are static, You're stuck in the

876
01:15:36.239 --> 01:15:42.359
ninth century. What's the what's the
answer to someone like that? Absolutely,

877
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:45.560
and we're proud of it. And
I would say that if the faith was

878
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:47.640
once for all delivered to the saints, as the New Testament says, the

879
01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:51.199
Book of Jude says, then why
do we want to evolve and have some

880
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:58.439
other thing? So explication of doctrine
is different from the development or evolution of

881
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:03.840
doctrine. So Roman believe in the
evolution of doctrine to some degree to explain

882
01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:11.600
new doctrines or things that evolve over
time. Like they think that icons are

883
01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:15.479
something that is some sort of weird
evolution that occurs. Can you mute when

884
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:19.439
you're not talking? It's a loud
background. I have a lot background,

885
01:16:20.319 --> 01:16:26.319
right, okay, right? Yeah, So we don't want to evolve,

886
01:16:26.439 --> 01:16:29.680
right, And if you read the
councils. For example, when the canons

887
01:16:29.760 --> 01:16:33.960
begin of the councils, they they
always stress holding the same faith as our

888
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:41.399
forebearers and our forefathers, holding the
same ideas and canons that came before.

889
01:16:42.479 --> 01:16:48.239
Okay, that's maintaining the same truths, right, that's presupposing and maintaining the

890
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:57.680
same truth without the idea that they
evolve. Go ahead, gotcha, gotcha,

891
01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:00.439
gotcha. I was just interested in
your respond to. The second thing

892
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:06.520
is more of like an observation.
You know, Calvinists at their best probably

893
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:12.479
represent five percent of Christianity at the
most. You know, they're a small

894
01:17:12.520 --> 01:17:17.920
portion even of Protestants. Do you
think I don't think it's a coincidence when

895
01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:23.760
you know, mainstream media, whether
it's in the nineties, Larry King having

896
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:30.039
John MacArthur on for interviews or Christopher
Hitching deciding he's going to do a book

897
01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:34.239
tour in a movie with Doug Wilson, do you think these you know,

898
01:17:34.439 --> 01:17:43.439
atheistic types onbelievers specifically pick Calvinists on
purpose just to make Christians look crazy.

899
01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:46.880
That could be a motivation there.
That's a good a good idea. I

900
01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:49.960
never thought about that, Like,
why wouldn't they choose you know, really

901
01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:59.000
educated people from other traditions. But
also because around that time and even up

902
01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:02.680
till now, you'll find that what
people that are really active on the Internet

903
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:09.079
are people like Calvinists, right,
So reform Zoomer for example, even though

904
01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:15.560
his sect is a tiny fraction of
American you know, religious believers, you

905
01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:18.359
know, he's getting massive amounts of
views, and so you know he needs

906
01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:23.640
to be addressed. But in actual
fact, you know, Calvinists are like

907
01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:27.439
minuscule, right when it comes to
the religious beliefs of the West and of

908
01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:30.920
America. So yeah, I wouldn't
be surprised that there wasn't some ulterior motivation

909
01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:36.119
to pick some kook or some quack
or some you know loon to be the

910
01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:41.039
representative. Makes perfect sense. I
mean that, for example, atheists loved

911
01:18:41.039 --> 01:18:45.960
to do this with remember Fed Phelps, right, I mean they love that

912
01:18:46.079 --> 01:18:51.560
guy, right, He's like a
wet dream to the left. Yeah.

913
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:58.560
Yeah, And the last observation we
had touched about touched on this a bit

914
01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:02.720
angelic. Sin. Now I want
to come back to this as it pertains

915
01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:11.680
to Calvinism, because you know,
these you know, deterministic types are always

916
01:19:11.720 --> 01:19:14.359
saying that you know, we have
free will, but we only can choose

917
01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:21.159
evil. We're guilty from birth.
And if you think about it, if

918
01:19:21.199 --> 01:19:26.720
you think about it, Calvinists they
don't even believe what they preach. I

919
01:19:26.800 --> 01:19:31.199
mean, show me the first Calvinist
mother and father that deliver their baby in

920
01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:34.760
the hospital and they hold it in
their hands and they look at the baby

921
01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:39.720
and they say, this thing is
damnable. I mean, get serious.

922
01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:43.640
I mean, like, so getting
back to angelic sin. You know,

923
01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:47.680
angels did not you know, they
didn't sit in the Garden of Eden.

924
01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:56.000
Yet they willed evil. They chose
and they were immediately you know. You

925
01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:59.279
know, even Christ said, you
know, I saw Satan fall like a

926
01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:05.039
bolt of lightning in the timeless,
in the timeless an. So I mean

927
01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:10.800
just that alone, the fact of
the judgment of the angels and their will,

928
01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:15.800
uh, free will to send and
immediately judge because they're the timeless an.

929
01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:21.399
Uh. I think in some way
we need to write an article on

930
01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:27.600
this or something, because I think
in some way this shows that this original

931
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:30.720
guilt. And you know, uh, fine, we all believe that we

932
01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:33.640
have free will, but we're not
autonomous. You know, God's in charge,

933
01:20:33.640 --> 01:20:38.640
He's sovereign, but this thing like
yeah, okay, yeah, I'm

934
01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:41.520
not I'm not trying to Yeah,
I agree with you. I agree with

935
01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:45.000
you. That's a great point.
And uh, for those that are watching

936
01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:50.039
the live stream, yeah, this
is the Mayandorf critique of Augustine, and

937
01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:58.880
he makes a really good point about
Augustine misunderstanding the passage in Romans five about

938
01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:02.319
willing, and that he misunderstood and
read everybody in Adam as in an archetype,

939
01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.319
which was his platonic presupposition there.
So actually they have a kind of

940
01:21:05.359 --> 01:21:11.600
a platonic presupposition the Calvinists do without
even knowing it. And this is a

941
01:21:11.640 --> 01:21:15.640
great article. It goes into the
mistaking confusing natural will with no mc will.

942
01:21:17.760 --> 01:21:20.880
I mean, imagine if we started
asking Calvinists like does Christ have a

943
01:21:20.960 --> 01:21:28.279
fallen will? Right? I think
that would be totally lost on that It

944
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:30.039
would be really easy to refute them
on that point. But you can read

945
01:21:30.079 --> 01:21:35.479
that Mindorf article right there which I
referenced earlier about refuting Augustina's mistake on Romans

946
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:42.720
five, and that right there would
actually clear up probably seventy percent of Redeemed

947
01:21:42.760 --> 01:22:00.319
Zoomer's mistake. Sapphire Gotta, I'm
mute, I'm mute. Hello, Hey,

948
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:02.039
what's up man? Yeah, I
didn't really come here to debate you

949
01:22:02.079 --> 01:22:05.560
because you probably destroy me. But
I just had a few questions. Okay,

950
01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:10.520
let's me get quick because we're given
disagreeers the floria go ahead. Yeah,

951
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:14.159
yeah, of course, of course, can non Orthodox people be saved?

952
01:22:14.199 --> 01:22:19.119
I'm very ignorant about Orthodox theology.
Well, God has the means by

953
01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:23.720
which he can unite people to Christ
outside of what we know, but no

954
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:28.720
non Orthodox person can be saved apart
from being united to the mystical body.

955
01:22:29.199 --> 01:22:31.199
So if Christ has I mean,
if you look at the thief on the

956
01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:33.720
cross, right, we see that
it is possible for God to do that.

957
01:22:34.119 --> 01:22:40.880
But yeah, so as long as
someone accepts the Christ as their savior,

958
01:22:41.039 --> 01:22:44.840
are they saved? No, we
don't make that judgment. So I

959
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:46.640
can't say that they are that they
aren't. We're not told that. I

960
01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:49.239
say, so, only God knows
in totality who is and isn't saved.

961
01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:54.960
Correct. But also just quote accepting
Jesus as kind of ambiguous, because even

962
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:58.239
in the New Testament, there's no
idea that you just like, you know,

963
01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:00.159
say a sinner's prayer or something like
that. That's a Protestant idea.

964
01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:03.520
No, I get that, because
like Matthew seven twenty three, there's the

965
01:23:03.880 --> 01:23:09.600
people who worked iniquity but claim to
be followers like Jesus himself. Worn't about

966
01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:11.960
that, well, I mean there's
also the command to be baptized, to

967
01:23:12.039 --> 01:23:15.439
repent, to enter the church,
to the liturgy. So you have all

968
01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:17.840
kinds of things that we're asked to
do. Yeah, I'm not trying to

969
01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:23.199
like expose myself. I'm currently a
Methodist, but I'm thinking of changing my

970
01:23:23.319 --> 01:23:27.359
faith to Catholicism or Orthodoxy. I
recently went to a Catholic church and it

971
01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:30.000
was a really nice experience. So
I'm trying to get more to the roots

972
01:23:30.039 --> 01:23:32.600
of a Christ actually teached. You
know. Yeah, well was it the

973
01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:38.359
was it at a Chick fil A? No? No, it was uh

974
01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:40.640
yeah, no, it wasn't like
that German church. Dude, Well,

975
01:23:40.680 --> 01:23:43.720
you can go to the Chicken Mass
in Germany and basically just be like going

976
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:46.720
to Chick fil A for church.
So but but look, it's not liberal.

977
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:51.279
It's the traditional Chick fil A liturgy. So it's a traditional chicken liturgy.

978
01:23:51.479 --> 01:23:56.039
Don't listen to the liberals, don't
listen to the liberals out there that

979
01:23:56.079 --> 01:23:59.520
lib tards saying that this is some
sort of new modernist Chicken liturgy. It's

980
01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:03.319
absolute the traditional Chicken rite. Before
we head off, and let you know,

981
01:24:03.760 --> 01:24:09.079
I just met a friend who's from
Germany, and although he's an atheist,

982
01:24:09.239 --> 01:24:13.760
like he straight have told me that
a Baptist church, like an American

983
01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:16.159
Baptist church in Germany, felt more
authentic to him than the Catholic Church.

984
01:24:16.239 --> 01:24:19.920
Yeah, that's where we're at.
Yeah, I mean, like even when

985
01:24:19.960 --> 01:24:23.039
I was, even when I was
a Roman Catholic, when I was a

986
01:24:23.079 --> 01:24:29.159
trad cat, even back then in
two thousand and like four, the typical

987
01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:33.760
Episcopal and Anglican churches even then were
more reverent and more quote traditional in terms

988
01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:39.039
of the out exterior than a lot
of the novasorto. It's exactly, I

989
01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:42.439
mean, because it's there's an agenda
being pushed here and it's so obvious.

990
01:24:42.760 --> 01:24:45.399
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But
here's the thing, though, is that

991
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:49.840
that agenda is not being pushed by
liberals. It's not being pushed by random

992
01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:55.239
weirdos. It's being pushed by the
people that run the church aka the Roman

993
01:24:55.319 --> 01:24:57.640
see. And if you just read
vatic in one, you don't have the

994
01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:01.640
right to disagree with the liturgical rights
promulgated upon the entire Church by Rome.

995
01:25:01.720 --> 01:25:06.199
That's in Noctorum fe Dae, which
is repeated not verbatim the Vatican One,

996
01:25:06.239 --> 01:25:12.079
but the principles of Vatican One.
Repeat the idea that's expressed in Octorum Feede

997
01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:16.319
against the Jansenists that you can call
into question the liturgical rights that the Roman

998
01:25:16.399 --> 01:25:19.840
See has promulgated for the entire Church. So if you disagree with the Novis

999
01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:24.600
Ordo, you're in the exact same
position as the Jansenists that are condemned in

1000
01:25:24.640 --> 01:25:31.319
Doctorum fide. That's fascinating talking.
Thank you so much, good questions.

1001
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:45.720
Let's see you. Next up is
a new v anov ain aov Hey,

1002
01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:54.359
all right, so when we talk
about tag right and universals proving or presupposing

1003
01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:58.000
the existence of God, I'm kind
of confused as to how you would show

1004
01:25:58.079 --> 01:26:03.560
that logic proves the exist things so
good, Well, the way I like

1005
01:26:03.720 --> 01:26:06.800
that. That's precisely why I like
to make the argument the way I do,

1006
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:12.520
which is to argue that tag is
really pre logical. Okay, So,

1007
01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.399
and yeah, I recognize that you're
still using logic, but that's a

1008
01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:20.439
category error, because that's why we
say that you can never escape the circularity

1009
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:25.880
of the metalogical question of asking how
does logic even work? How do we

1010
01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:31.479
know logic works? So the logic
element of the argument is saying that prior

1011
01:26:31.560 --> 01:26:36.479
to the actual doing of like first
order argumentation that we normally do in logic,

1012
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:42.239
we're actually saying that this is a
prelogical question about how is logic even

1013
01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:45.039
possible at all? So that's all
that's all metalogic means is how do we

1014
01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:49.279
know logic itself works? How do
we know logic is logical? And there's

1015
01:26:49.359 --> 01:26:53.880
nothing wrong with asking that question.
It's a whole branch of philosophy. It's

1016
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:57.680
called meta loogic. You could say
it's part of metaphysics even right, So

1017
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:00.960
that the idea that I make this
up is just ignorance, right, It's

1018
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:04.880
not made up. So I'm just
taking a discipline meta logic or a domain

1019
01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:09.279
of epistemology metaphysics, and I'm saying
that this is relevant for how we do

1020
01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:13.760
tag because we're saying that, prior
to the doing of any argumentation at all,

1021
01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:18.319
there are preconditions for the possibility of
logic, right, And that would

1022
01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:24.119
be in my argument, God himself, God and the specific theology that we

1023
01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:29.279
have in our tradition is the grounding
for the possibility of logic. Now,

1024
01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:32.800
I'm not arguing that it's true because
I said that. I'm arguing that it

1025
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:39.840
actually does the work of explaining how
the transcendental categories are possible. So that's

1026
01:27:40.199 --> 01:27:44.600
that's It may sound fancy and obscure
whatever, it's not actually pretty simple if

1027
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:49.039
you just understand that it's an argument
about anything prior to argumentation. So I

1028
01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:56.000
guess the argument I've come into contact
with this is why can't these universals just

1029
01:27:56.239 --> 01:27:59.880
blinket exist? Like why can't nature
just be consistent? For number one,

1030
01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:02.119
that it's arbitrary. So to say
something just is is to be arbitrary.

1031
01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:05.039
Just is what? And if you
can posit it in a debate that something

1032
01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:08.800
just is, so can I?
So? God just is? So just

1033
01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:13.479
saying something is doesn't do the grounding
work. It's arbitrary. And also where

1034
01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:15.920
are they? What are they?
Just? To say a universal is is

1035
01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:20.239
to say absolutely nothing, and it
doesn't actually do any grounding work. I

1036
01:28:20.239 --> 01:28:24.680
mean, universals can exist in a
vacuum. Okay, in my view,

1037
01:28:24.880 --> 01:28:29.319
they are grounded in the divine mind. And because I have an omniscient being

1038
01:28:30.119 --> 01:28:32.960
who is all knowing and is ever
you know, all provident, et cetera,

1039
01:28:33.720 --> 01:28:36.640
that works to do the grounding.
I mean, it's a consistent,

1040
01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:41.000
coherent position. I'm not saying it's
true because I say that, I'm saying

1041
01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:45.199
that that makes sense. That's coherent. The position where there are no there

1042
01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:49.840
is no location or grounding or explanation
of what universals are. They're just asserting

1043
01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:54.840
that it is doesn't do any grounding
work. So like, let me look

1044
01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:57.760
at I think you answer the question
already, but I wrote it down anyway,

1045
01:28:57.800 --> 01:29:00.680
I'm gonna ask. So we don't
need God to know that the sun's

1046
01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:03.239
gonna rise tomorrow. That's just a
fact about nature. Right. How would

1047
01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:05.920
you respond to an atheists where they
say why do you need God anyway?

1048
01:29:08.800 --> 01:29:12.800
Well, again, it's arguing that
you do ultimately need God to know that

1049
01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:20.960
because knowing knowing mundane facts is resting
on transcenal categories, and so what's the

1050
01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:26.800
grounding for the transcenal categories? So
the preconditions of knowledge, right, So

1051
01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:30.079
you're that's a knowledge claim. I
know the sum will rise tomorrow. Okay,

1052
01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:31.479
but how do you know knowledge is
possible at all? So that's a

1053
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:36.880
prior claim to any empirical claim or
any knowledge claim. So when we're arguing

1054
01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:44.319
about preconditions of knowledge, it's gonna
be more fundamental and prior, more prior

1055
01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:48.399
to anything that's a knowledge claim.
So, yes, you do, you

1056
01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:51.239
do need God? Let me let
me and let's be more. Let's be

1057
01:29:51.359 --> 01:29:55.560
clear what we mean by do I
need quote God to know the sum will

1058
01:29:55.640 --> 01:30:00.399
rise tomorrow? For epistemic justification,
you need the theology and the belief in

1059
01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:05.159
God. It doesn't mean that atheists
don't have propositional knowledge about you know,

1060
01:30:05.399 --> 01:30:09.560
or beliefs about the sun rising tomorrow. It means justifying the knowledge, not

1061
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.319
do they have that belief for that
knowledge. It means they can't justify the

1062
01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:17.000
knowledge. So then okay, so
I guess, and let me explain the

1063
01:30:17.039 --> 01:30:24.119
difference there, because uh, do
I do I know that my car runs

1064
01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:30.239
on computer chips? Yes? Do? I Can I explain to you how

1065
01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:32.239
they work? No? Right,
so I don't. I can't explain the

1066
01:30:32.319 --> 01:30:36.000
how or I don't know what's going
on. But I can still drive my

1067
01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:41.520
car and have a knowledge of the
car running without knowing about the computer chips

1068
01:30:41.560 --> 01:30:45.479
that run the car or the computer. Right, So, in the same

1069
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:50.239
way, can an atheist believe that
the sun will rise tomorrow? Yes,

1070
01:30:50.319 --> 01:30:54.960
but as David Hume says, as
a more consistent atheist, he cannot justify

1071
01:30:55.039 --> 01:31:00.479
that belief. So he can't justify
his own knowledge because correct, if X,

1072
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:02.239
then hy so, then why would
be the knowledge and actually be the

1073
01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:08.680
God? Right? Well, it's
even more basic than that. If you're

1074
01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:13.880
using David Hume's argument. David Hume
just simply says that the self, identity,

1075
01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:16.520
over time, induction, none of
those laws of logic, none of

1076
01:31:16.560 --> 01:31:20.359
those sayings can be justified. You
just have to You don't have a basic

1077
01:31:20.560 --> 01:31:25.159
that I thought you were going the
route was saying, because logic is objective,

1078
01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:28.640
right then for there to be any
objectivity, Well, what I would

1079
01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:30.039
think is big, you need that, you need to have God. But

1080
01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:33.159
that's like I mean, ultimately,
ultimately you can get to that. It's

1081
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:36.319
kind of a long way around,
but it's just it's even more simple than

1082
01:31:36.359 --> 01:31:41.039
that, just simply saying that an
atheist can't justify or give an account for

1083
01:31:41.199 --> 01:31:45.720
how knowledge is possible. That's David
Humes argument. M all right, so

1084
01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:47.479
I'll look into that. Do you
do this often, like to ask a

1085
01:31:47.560 --> 01:31:53.039
question next time? Yeah? Like
five years of it? Okay, Yeah,

1086
01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:56.000
good questions, man, I appreciate
it. Yeah, yeah, really

1087
01:31:56.000 --> 01:32:01.119
good questions. Let's see Hannibal hustle. Hannibal hustle. Thank you guys for

1088
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:02.840
the super chats. We'll read.
Some of those are in the second.

1089
01:32:02.840 --> 01:32:05.279
We've got a nice nine hundred.
I guess days streams are pretty good.

1090
01:32:05.279 --> 01:32:11.119
We get get more people than I'm
used to on a day stream. Yeah,

1091
01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:20.920
I'm mute, bra I'm mute,
dude. All right, he dropped

1092
01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:29.159
off. Next up is uh now
again we're giving precedents to people who disagree.

1093
01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:34.920
Yeah, so if you'll see he's
back. Yeah, sorry about that.

1094
01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:41.760
What's on your mind? Want to
ask a couple of questions about Orthodox

1095
01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:45.039
theology? That's all, okay,
let's make it quick. So, like,

1096
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:48.640
do you guys affirm that if someone
does more good deeds to get like

1097
01:32:48.840 --> 01:32:54.600
more stuff and having like more rewards, greater rewards like and more wicked people

1098
01:32:54.720 --> 01:33:00.159
get like you know, more punishment
and hell for example. Uh, I

1099
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:01.520
mean it's a little crass, like
you know, you're not We're not like

1100
01:33:01.640 --> 01:33:05.399
stacking. We're not stacking stats in
heaven, like stacking up my bigcoins in

1101
01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:10.000
heaven. I mean, but I
mean Jesus does say greater rewards greater punishment.

1102
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:12.640
So yeah, Paul says it too. One star will shine brighter than

1103
01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:17.720
another star. Yeah. Yeah.
So I have a question, Like let's

1104
01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:21.159
say we have like three people,
right, three brothers or something like that,

1105
01:33:23.319 --> 01:33:28.840
and I have one brother who's really
pious, right, and another brother

1106
01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:31.920
who dies as a baby, and
another brother who's like wicked and like goes

1107
01:33:31.960 --> 01:33:38.199
to Hell or something like that because
he's wicked, right, Okay, And

1108
01:33:38.359 --> 01:33:42.840
I mean everybody agrees that, like
baby's dying is like an evil right,

1109
01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:47.560
Like it's an evil thing. And
you know, like I guess we're like

1110
01:33:47.560 --> 01:33:53.039
the Day of Judgment or something like
God is talking to the baby and like

1111
01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:58.560
the baby says, hey God,
you know, like this was evil?

1112
01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:00.079
What occurred to me? Like if
I grew up, I would have been

1113
01:34:00.199 --> 01:34:03.479
like good, like my big brother
who grew up and he went to heaven

1114
01:34:03.520 --> 01:34:08.399
and got all these good stuff and
I did it. Yeah. I mean,

1115
01:34:08.439 --> 01:34:11.640
we don't typically like out of hand, uh you know, damn infants.

1116
01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:14.399
That's more of like a Protestant August
any of you. I'm not trying

1117
01:34:14.399 --> 01:34:15.800
to be reminant. I got to
move on though, because this is Look,

1118
01:34:16.039 --> 01:34:18.920
the answer your question is that only
crypto billionaires make it into Heaven.

1119
01:34:19.439 --> 01:34:30.600
Uh let's see Orthon Nerd. What's
up, dude? Got uh you?

1120
01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:40.319
Hey? I had a question.
I'm Orthodox cetic human and my aunt she's

1121
01:34:40.399 --> 01:34:46.640
like a big Joe MacArthur Presbyterian.
Yeah, how do I respond to like

1122
01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:51.399
predestination because that's her whole argument for
like the Bible canon, why it was

1123
01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:56.479
changed and everything. How do we
refute any of that? You don't you

1124
01:34:56.640 --> 01:34:59.159
just uh do you know how to
do you know how to do uh like

1125
01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:05.399
really hard umping like this, like
like like clicking. So you just wait

1126
01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:09.199
to wait till your mom's over there
doing the dishes, walk up behind and

1127
01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:15.520
go just just just do a big
thump. Try todd some sense into her.

1128
01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:19.920
No, just just do it,
not even for any reason. Just

1129
01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:24.720
do it. I'm just joking,
man, what's the question. I have

1130
01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.920
a bunch of videos on predestination,
so are on Calvinism and all that.

1131
01:35:29.079 --> 01:35:40.039
So uh yeah, my buddy,
Uh, what's his book called? Just

1132
01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:46.239
type in Orthodox comma Calvinist comma predestination, And one of my buddies wrote a

1133
01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:49.640
book and I can't remember the toddle
of the book now, but it should

1134
01:35:49.680 --> 01:35:57.079
come up. I think his name
is uh Jeremy, uh Kitif Kitiff Kitif.

1135
01:35:57.239 --> 01:35:59.840
That's a joke. By the way, don't thump your mom. Don't

1136
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:01.479
get into flick battles with your mom. Tell your mom to hold out her

1137
01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:09.119
fist and tell her if she can't
stand twenty of your thumps, then predestination's

1138
01:36:09.159 --> 01:36:12.920
falls. That's how you prove it. What's up doing? U? Mute?

1139
01:36:20.640 --> 01:36:26.560
So remember a request to speak?
You unmute? Kai Tiff? Do

1140
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:35.640
you want to speak? You gotta
unmute? Are you there? Hello?

1141
01:36:38.000 --> 01:36:40.880
You gotta turn your mic on.
Man, I don't know. I can't

1142
01:36:40.920 --> 01:36:43.640
hear you no sound. Try to
turn your mic on. Come back,

1143
01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:46.159
come back out and come back in. Next. Up is from a point

1144
01:36:46.199 --> 01:36:50.439
of view? What's up from a
point of view? Thank you guys for

1145
01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:54.319
the super Chat's having fun today?
Nine hundred in the middle of the day.

1146
01:36:54.439 --> 01:36:58.880
Interesting. So I guess more people
are on the internet at freaking two

1147
01:36:58.920 --> 01:37:05.000
o'clock and then they are at ten
o'clock. So Hi, can you hear

1148
01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:09.920
me? Yes? Sir, I
don't hey, what's up? Say?

1149
01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:15.319
It's nice talking to you again.
I didn't want to take up too much

1150
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:18.800
of your time because I know that
you want to get two more people who

1151
01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:25.239
actually disagree with you. But could
you have a few minutes to answer my

1152
01:37:25.359 --> 01:37:30.880
question? Okay? Well, I
don't want to be like starting this sell

1153
01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:36.039
from a down or note. But
see, my grandmother she passed away this

1154
01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:44.079
week on a few days ago,
and we just had her funeral on Wednesday,

1155
01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:50.439
and I'm sorry, just launched it, thank you, and I just

1156
01:37:50.560 --> 01:37:57.439
want to know. I don't know
if this is an important but what would

1157
01:37:57.479 --> 01:38:04.239
be the Orthodox Christian if one on
euthanasia? For example? And to give

1158
01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:14.560
context, because my grandmother, she's
self a fun severe case of dementia for

1159
01:38:14.680 --> 01:38:18.680
many years, so she was slowly
starting to forget who she was, who

1160
01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:24.560
a lot of the people around who
were and yeah, and slowly was developing

1161
01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:28.279
many of the diseases like not being
able to move, not being able to

1162
01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:33.159
eat or speak, and in her
final few weeks being alive, she was

1163
01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:39.920
I mean, you can pretty much
categorize her as the vegetables. So it

1164
01:38:40.079 --> 01:38:44.479
was yeah, I think I think
that the typical answer is that's a great

1165
01:38:44.560 --> 01:38:46.880
question, and sorry for your loss. I think typically we were pretty much

1166
01:38:46.920 --> 01:38:53.359
against euthanasia at all in all forms, except you know, there might be

1167
01:38:53.399 --> 01:38:59.159
a situation which not necessarily euthanasia,
where somebody makes the decision to you know,

1168
01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:01.439
no longer continue, I don't know, life support or something. That's

1169
01:39:01.479 --> 01:39:08.760
a decision that people who are bioethicists, and there are Orthodox bioethicists. Tristram

1170
01:39:09.239 --> 01:39:14.680
Inglehart, for example, was a
famous Orthodox bioethicist for many years. He

1171
01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:18.199
passed away. I forget what you're
not too long ago. But so there's

1172
01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:21.439
there's other people who have that role, and so that would be somebody that

1173
01:39:21.479 --> 01:39:25.359
you would ask that kind of question
to you, because it's not I don't

1174
01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:29.239
have any training in bioethics, but
I would say that generally speaking, Orthodoxy

1175
01:39:29.399 --> 01:39:35.039
definitely as opposed to euthanasia. Partique, what's up? We're gonna party like

1176
01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:47.960
it's nineteen ninety nine. You know, I'm mute, bro? Yeah?

1177
01:39:48.039 --> 01:39:53.760
Hi, Hey, what's something here? Yeah? Yeah. So first of

1178
01:39:53.800 --> 01:39:59.640
all, I'm a big fan of
Rachel and Andrew. Hey Rachel. So

1179
01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:05.039
my Christian is then, as you
guys must know that the Church in Russia

1180
01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:13.520
is still pretty pretty good, and
when we compare that to America, but

1181
01:40:13.720 --> 01:40:17.840
it's still separate from the state.
So what do you think Russia did right

1182
01:40:18.159 --> 01:40:24.920
in terms of preserving or saving the
church from feminism and things like that?

1183
01:40:28.079 --> 01:40:32.600
Good question. I guess that it's
probably just, you know, the Slavic

1184
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:39.000
peoples maybe have a more innate antipathy
towards that. I think a lot of

1185
01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:45.760
Western social engineering and toxic culture hasn't
fully penetrated Russia yet, So there's probably

1186
01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:49.199
a lot of different reasons why Russia
isn't as bad. But you know,

1187
01:40:49.279 --> 01:40:54.880
what's being unleashed is being unleashed globally, so you know, even places like

1188
01:40:55.000 --> 01:40:59.279
China are trying to figure out how
to you know, stave off the unleashing

1189
01:40:59.399 --> 01:41:10.560
of all this toxicity. Jenna,
what's up? Jenna? You gotta mute?

1190
01:41:13.439 --> 01:41:17.159
Are you there? Okay? I
thought you was a check. What's

1191
01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:24.119
up? Janna? Janna the manna. So it was recently debating one of

1192
01:41:24.199 --> 01:41:30.800
my friends, what's that I was
recently debating one of my Protestant friends really

1193
01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:35.800
reputed well, he didn't refute.
I phoned his arguments of the week,

1194
01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:42.319
but he didn't even accept that the
apostles had any oo, did he rejected

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the Stolic succession, He rejected even
the apostles themselves, And I didn't know

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how to argue against that point.
Well, yeah, I mean I would

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just look up, you know,
Orthodox arguments for apostolic succession. I mean,

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you have the apostles being told by
g says he who hears you hears

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me. And if you read the
Book of Timothy, Paul lays his hands

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01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:08.760
on Timothy and says you are the
successor to me in Ephesus. I mean

1201
01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:12.560
he doesn't say those words, but
he's saying that I appointed you in Ephesus,

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01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:15.279
right, you then lay hands on
men after you. So really,

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01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:18.680
first and second Timothy, with the
statements that Jesus says to the apostles is

1204
01:42:19.000 --> 01:42:25.680
really kind of like the most clear, in my view argument for apisode of

1205
01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:28.279
succession. But then we can get
into the church fathers of the first and

1206
01:42:28.359 --> 01:42:32.279
second century already arguing for being successors
to the apostles. The bishop says,

1207
01:42:32.319 --> 01:42:36.359
successors to the apostles ignacious, iran
as They all really argue and speak this

1208
01:42:36.439 --> 01:42:42.439
way. So that would be where
I would say you could start your argumentation.

1209
01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:47.720
If you're responding to a Protestant.
Let's see punished, what's up punished?

1210
01:42:56.600 --> 01:43:09.920
Yeah, hello, hear uh hey
Jay. Also, hey Rachel,

1211
01:43:10.279 --> 01:43:14.800
nicely actually speaking spiking with you for
the first time. So my question is

1212
01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:18.600
obviously I'm I'm a cate of Cuman, Orthodox cate of Cuman, but I

1213
01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:24.520
have had a bit of an issue
regarding people in the Orthodox faith. I'm

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01:43:24.560 --> 01:43:28.319
not sure if it's a common thing, but it's something that's giving me a

1215
01:43:28.359 --> 01:43:33.760
bit of like like crisis in terms
of like denomination, where it feels a

1216
01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:40.720
lot like a lot of the Orthodox
that I communicate with are very they're very

1217
01:43:40.840 --> 01:43:45.840
isolated in their in their churches,
and they're very isolated in their in their

1218
01:43:45.199 --> 01:43:50.079
in their faith. They don't like
like people from outside of their faith coming

1219
01:43:50.159 --> 01:43:54.520
in. Uh. You, I
know you experienced that when when you went

1220
01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:59.279
to a Greek Orthodox church in the
US. And I experienced the same thing

1221
01:43:59.279 --> 01:44:02.119
when I went to a Orthodox church
here in my country, and I wanted

1222
01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:05.279
to ask, like, why why
do you think there is this sort of

1223
01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:13.000
like almost like no no attempt to
like reach the outside from from a lot

1224
01:44:13.039 --> 01:44:17.039
of Orthodox churches compared to like a
lot of Protestants, compared to Mormons,

1225
01:44:17.119 --> 01:44:21.119
and and and Baptists and stuff like
that. What do you think that is?

1226
01:44:23.279 --> 01:44:27.479
I mean, you know, Orthodox
nations out there other than America do

1227
01:44:27.720 --> 01:44:34.159
tend to be uh by their very
nature of being kind of national churches still

1228
01:44:34.359 --> 01:44:39.800
somewhat ethnic. But I mean this
exists in Protestantism and Roman Catholicism as well,

1229
01:44:39.960 --> 01:44:42.600
So it's not I mean, I'm
not saying that it's everywhere in Rome,

1230
01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:44.960
but it's not everywhere in Orthodoxy either, So you know, I don't

1231
01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:47.159
know what country and I can't speak
to that, but you know, check

1232
01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:51.600
out. Do you have other options
you have, like other Orthodox options you

1233
01:44:51.640 --> 01:44:56.640
could check out? And if you're
you know, if you find the people

1234
01:44:56.720 --> 01:44:59.600
to be cold at first, can
just continue to go there and try to

1235
01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:02.640
warm up to the priest because if
you warm up to the priest, then

1236
01:45:02.680 --> 01:45:08.159
eventually that people will warm up to
you as well, I think, because

1237
01:45:08.239 --> 01:45:11.359
you know, maybe they think that
you're just kind of an outsider or something

1238
01:45:11.399 --> 01:45:15.279
like that. But today we're and
I'm not trying to dismiss your question,

1239
01:45:15.520 --> 01:45:19.960
it's just I don't really know what
the I mean, that's definitely one problem

1240
01:45:20.079 --> 01:45:25.600
that can arise in Orthodox churches.
It's not solely an Orthodox problem. It

1241
01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:30.720
does exist in other churches as well, but I haven't been to Orthodox churches

1242
01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:34.520
in other countries, so I don't
really know what that's like. I take

1243
01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:40.119
that back. I've been to Orthodox
churches in Italy, and you know,

1244
01:45:40.239 --> 01:45:45.239
one of the Orthodox churches we visited
in Italy, they were having to meet

1245
01:45:45.399 --> 01:45:51.199
at a Roman Catholic church because they
were doing the liturgy where the relics were

1246
01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:58.840
and there was a lot of a
lot of Russian babushka is there that were

1247
01:45:58.840 --> 01:46:03.640
acting kind of wild. So,
I mean, I can understand where you're

1248
01:46:03.640 --> 01:46:06.119
coming from, but I would say
just try to befriend and get closer to

1249
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:11.479
the priest if you can. Let's
see, we're taking topics and questions for

1250
01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:15.520
people who disagree or one of the
debate typically today not dissing you punished.

1251
01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:17.319
I'm just saying, if you go, if you disagree, go to the

1252
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:20.520
head of the line. Cartif you
want to try again, you tried earlier,

1253
01:46:20.600 --> 01:46:26.680
Let's see if we can get you
back on. Go ahead, Cartif

1254
01:46:35.000 --> 01:46:40.560
got it? Unmute? Can you
hear me? Now? Hey? Got

1255
01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:44.720
me? Yeah? All right?
Quick question for you? It was,

1256
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:48.960
how can I reason about language that
is open to such interpretation that it can

1257
01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:53.760
mean whatever you wanted to mean.
If language can mean anything, then it

1258
01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:57.720
means nothing. As a Christian apologist, I have to ask, why should

1259
01:46:57.720 --> 01:47:01.279
I listen to you if what you're
saying is indistinguish from gibberish, and how

1260
01:47:01.359 --> 01:47:06.720
are you any better than astrology or
other wu wu. Well, first of

1261
01:47:06.720 --> 01:47:11.399
all, I didn't never argue that
words and language can mean anything you wanted

1262
01:47:11.439 --> 01:47:13.319
to mean. So no idea where
you got to No, I'm sorry,

1263
01:47:13.399 --> 01:47:15.399
I'm sorry I didn't When I say
you, I just mean like the general

1264
01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:19.359
Christian, like the general religious person, as an atheist Christian apologist, I

1265
01:47:19.399 --> 01:47:26.119
don't mean to you specifically. Sorry. Well, but if that's not my

1266
01:47:26.279 --> 01:47:29.880
position, what do you want me
to address everyone else's position? I don't

1267
01:47:29.960 --> 01:47:34.079
understand. Well, I'm just curious. Like, obviously I'm not an atheist,

1268
01:47:34.279 --> 01:47:41.199
and even even as a non religious
person, I can understand that you

1269
01:47:41.319 --> 01:47:45.640
know, they, you know,
religious people have a definition for their language.

1270
01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:48.079
I don't exactly understand it. So
well, okay, So is the

1271
01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:59.920
objection that all theological and metaphysical terms
or gibberish well sub a abstract scientific definition?

1272
01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:03.319
I you know, I'm okay,
not sure Okay, so this is

1273
01:48:03.399 --> 01:48:09.520
like, are you familiar with any
critiques of like basic level scientism and like

1274
01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:14.000
empiricism, because that's what it amounts
to. I would be happy if you

1275
01:48:14.079 --> 01:48:15.960
have any authors to recommend to me
or something. Well, I mean we

1276
01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:19.800
could just make the argument right here, like how do you know or what

1277
01:48:19.880 --> 01:48:24.960
does it even mean to think that
there's a quote basic scientific definition of what

1278
01:48:25.159 --> 01:48:32.000
exists? Well, I guess i'd
start with like Descartes soulism. I can't

1279
01:48:32.079 --> 01:48:36.520
prove anything outside of my existence,
so I need to have multiple people verify

1280
01:48:36.920 --> 01:48:41.439
my results and then you have,
you know, developed some sort of consensus

1281
01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:44.680
over time. And Okay, let's
let's get more basic than that, though,

1282
01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:48.720
like how do we know? So
all knowledge comes through sense data?

1283
01:48:48.760 --> 01:48:51.239
I mean, that's essentially scientism.
Is that? Is that your view?

1284
01:48:53.840 --> 01:48:57.640
Sure? Okay. So the problem
with that, though, is that that

1285
01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:01.920
proposition itself is not in sense.
So it's a self refuting first proposition,

1286
01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:09.119
first starting point. So it's a
self destructive argument. Correct, Okay,

1287
01:49:09.520 --> 01:49:13.159
I'll have to consider that. That's
a very interesting point. Well, that's

1288
01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:16.239
where the epistemology starts, and it
can't get off the ground. Then every

1289
01:49:16.319 --> 01:49:20.840
sentence from that point on says nothing. So it's actually your position that makes

1290
01:49:21.000 --> 01:49:28.319
no coherent statement. Okay, So
I'm sorry, I could you just repeat

1291
01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:31.920
that. So if if it's if
it is the case that your if it

1292
01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:36.199
is the case that your epistemic starting
point is self refuting, then any other

1293
01:49:36.800 --> 01:49:42.239
assertion or proposition you make would also
be nonsense and self refuting. So basically

1294
01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:47.119
sentences are impossible. Okay, but
so so I I in order to have

1295
01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:54.399
in order to use language, I
have to not use it, not consider

1296
01:49:54.479 --> 01:49:58.439
sense data. If i'm I'm not
maybe I'm not literally literally not at all

1297
01:49:58.520 --> 01:50:01.479
what I said said, absolutely not. I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand.

1298
01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:06.560
So your starting point, your first, the place you want to jump

1299
01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:12.520
off, the place you want to
hinge your epistemology on. Okay, it's

1300
01:50:12.520 --> 01:50:16.800
not a language problem, it's a
pistemology problem. Is itself a self refuting

1301
01:50:17.600 --> 01:50:23.319
starting point, and so therefore any
other propositions or sentences you try to make

1302
01:50:23.760 --> 01:50:29.039
also fail because the epistemic starting point
fails. You see, So epistemology is

1303
01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:32.479
more fundamental in what we're talking about
than your theory of languages, the theory

1304
01:50:32.479 --> 01:50:38.159
of language and signs. Okay,
so the premise, my premise is false

1305
01:50:38.760 --> 01:50:46.479
because our lived experience transcends our ability
to describe it with language or something along

1306
01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:51.079
those lines. Well, I could
just simply say that the universal claim that

1307
01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:58.000
all knowledge comes through sense data is
a contradiction because knowledge that proposition isn't found

1308
01:50:58.079 --> 01:51:00.319
in sense data, and so you're
subject to all the problems with David Hume,

1309
01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:05.359
who's a more consistent atheist empiricist than
any other atheist comparacist, which means

1310
01:51:05.399 --> 01:51:11.399
that the result is Skepticisms of Hume's
arguments say basically that there's no way to

1311
01:51:11.479 --> 01:51:15.920
give an account for the self,
identity over time, laws of logic,

1312
01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:20.000
induction, predication, meaning all those
things fail. And if all those things

1313
01:51:20.039 --> 01:51:24.359
failed, and then sentences and knowledge
are impossible, and human is fine with

1314
01:51:24.399 --> 01:51:28.399
that, saying that our knowledge is
not justifiable. So if knowledge is not

1315
01:51:28.640 --> 01:51:30.560
justifiable, if you want to be
a consistent atheist, then you can't argue

1316
01:51:30.560 --> 01:51:35.319
against Christianity, and you don't know
science, Science is impossible. I think

1317
01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:40.680
that's a fantastic argument, and I
really appreciate you you sharing that with me.

1318
01:51:41.359 --> 01:51:43.760
I will read into hum. Yeah, go read David Hume, because

1319
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:46.960
yeah, he's the consistent atheist,
and he's my favorite atheist because he's the

1320
01:51:47.039 --> 01:51:51.359
one that's consistent where the rest of
the atheists aren't. Let's see Mars monkey.

1321
01:51:51.439 --> 01:51:56.520
What's up? Do you remember to
get today? It's a people who

1322
01:51:56.560 --> 01:51:59.640
disagree? Hey, what's up?
Can you hear me? Yes? Sir

1323
01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:05.840
uh. I don't know if you
caught the James White debate with Trent Horn.

1324
01:52:05.920 --> 01:52:08.920
It was pretty interesting. I did
see it. Yeah, I thought

1325
01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:15.920
it was good. My brief thoughts
are that on the topic, I think

1326
01:52:15.000 --> 01:52:19.399
Trent won on the topic. However, I do think James White brought up

1327
01:52:19.920 --> 01:52:26.119
great points about the papacy contradicting on
moral issues and issues like the death penalty,

1328
01:52:26.399 --> 01:52:29.479
but that wasn't the topic of the
debate. However, those were good

1329
01:52:29.560 --> 01:52:36.239
singers by White against Trent. Yeah. He said something interesting, and this

1330
01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:39.960
is the question I have to use. How would you like comment on this

1331
01:52:40.319 --> 01:52:45.000
or respond to this? He said
that the silent period between Malachi and the

1332
01:52:45.039 --> 01:52:49.039
New Testament. He said that that's
sort of the way you got to view

1333
01:52:49.079 --> 01:52:55.560
the paradigm of Protestantism is that there's
this silent years between the early Church and

1334
01:52:55.640 --> 01:52:59.000
then you know, the Reformation.
How would you comment on something like that.

1335
01:52:59.159 --> 01:53:02.239
Yeah, then he's already admitted that
the scriptures alone are not the sole

1336
01:53:02.359 --> 01:53:14.399
rule of faith in those silent years, and that undercuts sol scripture. Cool

1337
01:53:14.560 --> 01:53:16.720
cool, Yeah, So I mean
right there, he lost the debate and

1338
01:53:16.840 --> 01:53:21.079
that he that's an admission. I
don't have to go into disproving all of

1339
01:53:21.159 --> 01:53:26.479
the Protestant positions if James White admits
that, even even for a time period,

1340
01:53:26.800 --> 01:53:30.600
there's another, uh something else beyond
solo scripture that is a rule of

1341
01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:47.479
faith. Cool man, that's all
I God appreciate it. Let's see.

1342
01:53:47.560 --> 01:53:56.319
Nope, what's up? Nope,
Nope, Yeah, I understand Everett,

1343
01:53:56.399 --> 01:54:00.119
Like, there's there's other art ways
we could respond to to White. We

1344
01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:05.319
could point out that the way he
understands the Inner Testamental period actually isn't the

1345
01:54:05.399 --> 01:54:10.520
way he thinks it is. And
the idea that the Old Testament sole scripture

1346
01:54:10.640 --> 01:54:15.680
also isn't true. They had judges, they had you know, interpreters of

1347
01:54:15.680 --> 01:54:20.800
the law. He made a decision
with authority, the synagogue system and the

1348
01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:24.520
elders and all that. If you
look at the way that was set up,

1349
01:54:25.239 --> 01:54:27.920
it's not the way James White thinks. So yeah, we can address

1350
01:54:27.960 --> 01:54:30.399
all of that, but just in
terms of the proposition in the debate.

1351
01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:35.319
When White made those admissions, in
my view, he lost the debate that

1352
01:54:35.520 --> 01:54:41.600
specific debate. That doesn't mean that
we have to that addresses every claim of

1353
01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:45.600
Trent or James White. It means
that the specific proposition they were debating.

1354
01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:50.279
I think that's the point which James
White lost that debate. And I would

1355
01:54:50.279 --> 01:54:56.279
add if you want a fuller treatment
of how the Old Testament actually functioned in

1356
01:54:56.399 --> 01:55:00.880
terms of text and authority with the
priest and the Levites then, and the

1357
01:55:00.199 --> 01:55:12.920
debate that we did with who's that
Protestant guy Dale? Yeah, so doctor

1358
01:55:12.960 --> 01:55:27.399
Branson did a good thirty minute exposition
on how to understand the relationship of text

1359
01:55:27.520 --> 01:55:30.840
and levit and priest. Here it
is this one in this debate, So

1360
01:55:31.000 --> 01:55:38.399
watch this two hour, forty minute
debate if you want a fuller treatment of

1361
01:55:39.399 --> 01:55:44.600
more specifically, how James White wasn't
even really technically correct about James White's acting

1362
01:55:44.800 --> 01:55:47.199
like, oh, well, in
the Old Testament they were solo scripturists.

1363
01:55:47.520 --> 01:55:51.199
No, it actually says to the
law and to the testimony in Isaiah right,

1364
01:55:51.840 --> 01:56:00.159
and Israelites weren't running around quoting solo
scriptura scroll texts to one another to

1365
01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:04.840
try to prove you know, sol
the scripture of Old Testament protestantsm and that's

1366
01:56:04.960 --> 01:56:09.439
silly, but uh, if you
want a fuller treatment and watch the Bo

1367
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:13.439
Branson talk right there, all right, what's up? Nope? Hey,

1368
01:56:14.479 --> 01:56:20.279
I had heard about these saints that
have dealt with demonic possession and I was

1369
01:56:20.359 --> 01:56:27.119
interested because you know, the Orthodox
Christians. So is this related to the

1370
01:56:27.239 --> 01:56:30.119
I'm not trying to be rude.
Is the topic? The topic is debating

1371
01:56:30.520 --> 01:56:34.479
God's existence and so forth? Is
that is that part of that God's existence?

1372
01:56:34.600 --> 01:56:36.680
No? Not necessarily? Okay,
well so that's what I'm not trying

1373
01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:43.279
to be rude, but that's what
that's that's the that's the topic today.

1374
01:56:43.520 --> 01:56:45.039
So I'm not trying to be rude
too. But the topic is we're debating

1375
01:56:45.079 --> 01:56:53.640
God's existence Islam with all says of
atheism Protestantism. Uh and if you disagree,

1376
01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:55.840
go ahead a line. Let's see
he's been waiting on. Gurdell has

1377
01:56:55.880 --> 01:57:03.760
been waiting a while. What's up, Gurdell? Orthodox? You gotta I'm

1378
01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:17.479
mute, Girdell? Is this Kurt
Girdell himself? Are we channeling? So

1379
01:57:17.600 --> 01:57:20.159
it looks like he's got a bad
connection. Gardell, you want to pop

1380
01:57:20.199 --> 01:57:23.159
out, pop back in. I'll
bring you to the front of the line

1381
01:57:23.279 --> 01:57:33.079
because it's not connecting you. Let's
try. Let's see you's next, Patrick,

1382
01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:46.520
Masonic nonsense. What's up, you
gotta I'm mute, man, it's

1383
01:57:46.640 --> 01:57:50.119
me mm hmm, it is you. What's up? Yeah? Yeah,

1384
01:57:50.159 --> 01:57:55.560
okay, yeah. So I have
two questions, A couple of quick questions

1385
01:57:55.640 --> 01:58:02.159
about Protestantism and then a existence.
So my first question is just your opinion

1386
01:58:02.279 --> 01:58:11.560
on this, like Protestants who do
deliverance or not people, because I I've

1387
01:58:11.600 --> 01:58:16.399
seen a lot of people on the
internet who have their like these deliverance ministries

1388
01:58:16.479 --> 01:58:20.920
and stuff, and it seems really
like convincing. But then again, I

1389
01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:27.600
was thought that there is no grace
outside the Orthodox Church, at least regarding

1390
01:58:27.680 --> 01:58:30.119
to these things. Well I don't. I mean, you've got TV preachers

1391
01:58:30.199 --> 01:58:35.119
who you know, have being busted
being con men. You know that's possible.

1392
01:58:35.199 --> 01:58:40.720
You've got people who could genuinely be
delivered by God's mercy. You know,

1393
01:58:41.119 --> 01:58:45.039
the guy casting out demons in Mark
is outside the church, and Jesus

1394
01:58:45.039 --> 01:58:47.640
has let him alone because anyone who's
apart from us will not forever be apart

1395
01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:51.359
from us, so soon be amongst
us. So yeah, I mean anything's

1396
01:58:51.399 --> 01:58:56.359
possible, But those things don't prove
or disprove any of the religions because any

1397
01:58:56.359 --> 01:59:00.800
of those manifestations that are claimed to
be miracles could always potentially be deceptions.

1398
01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:05.359
So miracles will attest to what's the
true faith, but they can't be proofs

1399
01:59:05.359 --> 01:59:10.079
of the true faith miracles themselves miracles
alone. So what's the next question.

1400
01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:14.960
Let's move on. The next question
is if nothing is created, or if

1401
01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:19.640
nothing created is inherently evil, and
all creation comes from God, then why

1402
01:59:19.760 --> 01:59:28.279
do for example, nuclear bombs exist. Well, even an explosion is just

1403
01:59:28.479 --> 01:59:31.399
fire. It's just heat. Like
fire and heat aren't bad or wrong,

1404
01:59:31.960 --> 01:59:35.800
So why would fire and heater themselves
be wrong? But it's just like anything

1405
01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:42.119
else when it's misused, it's the
misuse that's the error or the wrong,

1406
01:59:42.239 --> 01:59:45.159
it's not the thing itself. So
just like a gun, right, the

1407
01:59:45.880 --> 01:59:48.840
atoms and the molecules in the gun
and the bullet are not inherently evil,

1408
01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:55.000
but to misuse them against another human
being is the misuse. Yeah. Well,

1409
01:59:55.159 --> 01:59:59.800
let's say that you have like straight
up like technology that was meant to

1410
02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:05.399
like harm the mankind, like,
yeah, but the intentionality doesn't make the

1411
02:00:06.479 --> 02:00:12.680
material itself evil, so that would
be gnostic or romantickan. We're gonna move

1412
02:00:12.680 --> 02:00:16.800
on. Thanks for those questions.
Let's see. Let's see who was next

1413
02:00:16.880 --> 02:00:30.800
in line logos Hello, Hey,
hey Jay. First, first thing I

1414
02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:33.960
want to say is thank you all
the stuff that you do. Let me

1415
02:00:34.039 --> 02:00:40.319
to a little church. Thank you
good. Yeah, And I wanted to

1416
02:00:40.359 --> 02:00:45.159
ask you recently. That was a
hilarious debate Twitter debate with Bryce and Great

1417
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:53.199
talking about he's not a sinner and
that because he's been baptized. Yeah,

1418
02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:57.039
because because he's big baptized, he's
a new creation. Therefore he's not a

1419
02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.279
sinner. And I find that argument
to be so that I wouldn't even know

1420
02:01:00.359 --> 02:01:02.640
how to respond to it if someone
said that to me in real life.

1421
02:01:03.479 --> 02:01:05.479
Well, I mean, John says
that we say we have no sin,

1422
02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:10.600
we deceive ourselves and the truth is
not in us. So right, some

1423
02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:15.039
some things like that like extremely no, no, no, first John said

1424
02:01:15.119 --> 02:01:16.560
right, So first John, Right, if we say we have no sin,

1425
02:01:17.399 --> 02:01:23.680
we lie and the truth is not
in us. So I'm saying that

1426
02:01:23.760 --> 02:01:28.600
refutes Bryson perfect Great, And I
think if you if you watch our debate,

1427
02:01:28.720 --> 02:01:31.359
I mean Bryson has like out to
launch, no clue what he's talking

1428
02:01:31.359 --> 02:01:35.239
about. Yeah, And another thing
I wanted to ask is like, when

1429
02:01:35.479 --> 02:01:41.560
people like this come about, is
it best to just leave it alone?

1430
02:01:41.720 --> 02:01:45.199
Sometimes? Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah, Yeah, I think you have to

1431
02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:48.000
have a case by case basis,
Right, you learn. I think over

1432
02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:53.760
time, who's worth interacting with and
who's not. Now I'm not saying that

1433
02:01:54.880 --> 02:01:58.399
it was not worth interacting with Bryson
because we never had an interaction other than

1434
02:01:58.520 --> 02:02:00.439
like a five minute exchange live debate. Right, So he came to that

1435
02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:03.399
live debate in Nashville and was in
the audience, and we had about a

1436
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:06.560
five minute exchange back and forth.
And so at that point I thought,

1437
02:02:06.560 --> 02:02:11.680
well, it's worth having a protracted, you know, long discussion with Bryson.

1438
02:02:12.119 --> 02:02:15.720
And so that's why we did that
debate. But like, would I

1439
02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:18.560
do another debate with Bryson? I
don't really think there'd be much point in

1440
02:02:18.640 --> 02:02:21.960
it. I think it's just going
to be the same types of stuff over

1441
02:02:21.960 --> 02:02:27.960
and over. So I think over
time you realize, like a lot of

1442
02:02:28.000 --> 02:02:30.199
people say, why don't you debate
so and so? Why don't debate so

1443
02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:32.119
and so, well, most of
these people, I've already kind of seen

1444
02:02:32.239 --> 02:02:36.399
them in multiple debates. I know
what they're going to be arguing. Typically,

1445
02:02:36.520 --> 02:02:41.399
when people are doing that, it's
almost always really low tier people,

1446
02:02:41.800 --> 02:02:45.039
right, like people who've never had
a philosophy class, never written a paper,

1447
02:02:45.640 --> 02:02:49.560
don't know anything about fallacies, and
it's just like their menuons saying when

1448
02:02:49.600 --> 02:02:53.239
you're going to debate so and so, it's like, well, I mean

1449
02:02:53.399 --> 02:02:56.600
he's already done like ten debates and
performed terribly. Why do I have to

1450
02:02:56.640 --> 02:03:00.439
debate this person who is just going
to be the exact same thing, and

1451
02:03:00.479 --> 02:03:01.760
a lot of the load Tier eighty
It's like I'm not going to eight T

1452
02:03:01.960 --> 02:03:06.119
jump again because it's like we already
saw you know, so there's no point.

1453
02:03:06.159 --> 02:03:12.399
So I think you just learn over
time who's worth engaging with and who's

1454
02:03:12.439 --> 02:03:20.920
not. Makes sense. Yeah,
thanks, thanks for questions, and thank

1455
02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:25.039
you. Logos appreciate that. Good
questions. So guys, it's open for

1456
02:03:25.159 --> 02:03:29.319
them. We got almost upwards up, not almost one hundred. We've got

1457
02:03:29.359 --> 02:03:31.399
eighty four listening live over on Twitter. The way it works is, if

1458
02:03:31.439 --> 02:03:35.000
you're listening on Twitter, you ask
to speak, request to speak, I

1459
02:03:35.079 --> 02:03:39.039
give the microphone and then you come
on, you can make whatever arguments you

1460
02:03:39.119 --> 02:03:43.479
want. Make sure they're arguments,
please. Arguments is not arguing. Argument

1461
02:03:43.640 --> 02:03:48.960
is a proposition with supporting evidences and
claims. So let's see Sapphire scribe.

1462
02:03:49.359 --> 02:04:00.119
What's up? Hey, yeah,
Hey, how's it going? Jay?

1463
02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:05.279
Yes, Sir, I had a
one serious question and one kind of quick

1464
02:04:05.359 --> 02:04:12.720
question after that, if I can. I was in a discord group chat

1465
02:04:12.800 --> 02:04:17.159
and there were a few Muslims in
there, and I mentioned how all things

1466
02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:21.359
proceed from the Father and they said, oh, we believe that too,

1467
02:04:23.039 --> 02:04:26.279
So can you kind of outline for
me. I'm not like super familiar with

1468
02:04:26.399 --> 02:04:30.399
like the Islamic like outlook on that. I know it's not the same as

1469
02:04:30.880 --> 02:04:34.800
this is just illustrating what we said
earlier about the word proceed being vague.

1470
02:04:34.840 --> 02:04:36.840
I mean, that can mean a
lot of different things. I mean they

1471
02:04:36.960 --> 02:04:41.840
mean that. I think they just
mean that, Yeah, creation comes from

1472
02:04:42.159 --> 02:04:45.960
Allah. Okay, we believe that
creation comes from God too, but we

1473
02:04:46.079 --> 02:04:49.920
also believe that the Son and the
Spirit come from God. So coming from

1474
02:04:50.000 --> 02:04:54.960
God does not equate to being a
creature. And they're arguing that anything coming

1475
02:04:55.039 --> 02:04:59.880
from God is a creature. Gotcha. Yeah, See that's something that I

1476
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:03.800
I knew it was distinct because it
was in and and my red flag was

1477
02:05:03.800 --> 02:05:09.960
already up because they were being inordinately
nice. Uh, and I was mentioning

1478
02:05:10.000 --> 02:05:13.880
about you know, I was talking
in a roundabout way about like the Trinity.

1479
02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:16.079
So it was kind of weird how
they were coming at me a little

1480
02:05:16.079 --> 02:05:18.319
bit, you know, like,
oh, this is what we believe,

1481
02:05:18.359 --> 02:05:21.439
this is similar to what we believe. So I just want that's just word

1482
02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:24.920
concept fallacies, Like Mormons do the
same thing. You're like, oh,

1483
02:05:24.960 --> 02:05:27.000
we believe Jesus is God. I
was like, yeah, you believe in

1484
02:05:27.119 --> 02:05:30.800
multiple gods. So uh yeah,
it's a lot of a lot of cults

1485
02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:38.319
and groups just basically hinge everything on
ambiguity in words and terminology. So that's

1486
02:05:38.359 --> 02:05:41.600
a huge part of I mean again, Basil says this. He says heretics

1487
02:05:41.640 --> 02:05:45.439
always make like grammar and word concept
mistakes. So thank you for that question.

1488
02:05:45.560 --> 02:05:50.199
There. We're going to move on
to uh open forum with Jack and

1489
02:05:50.279 --> 02:05:53.119
then he dropped off. Jack.
If you want to come back on,

1490
02:05:53.279 --> 02:06:03.880
just request to speak Philip. What's
up, Philip? Yeah, Hey,

1491
02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:09.239
what's up? Jay? Hey,
Hey, I had a question about tag.

1492
02:06:10.880 --> 02:06:13.359
I don't know if that's technically on
topic for it, and then we've

1493
02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:15.560
had like, yeah, we got
like five tag questions. Go ahead,

1494
02:06:15.479 --> 02:06:20.640
Okay, cool. So I was
watching your debate with dil on Tea recently

1495
02:06:21.399 --> 02:06:27.119
just to sort of like just because
I'm very new to the philosophical side of

1496
02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:30.239
Christianity, and so I was trying
to sort of buff up on that at

1497
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:39.039
least a little bit. But it
seems and excuse me, sorry, it

1498
02:06:39.159 --> 02:06:43.239
seems and correct me if I'm wrong, But like, it's not so much

1499
02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:48.840
that because logic exists, therefore we
can apply to God. But it's like

1500
02:06:49.800 --> 02:06:58.159
logic, identity, over time,
knowledge, like all of these things correspond

1501
02:06:58.279 --> 02:07:02.520
to one another and such a way
that it's like, sure atheists can point

1502
02:07:02.600 --> 02:07:05.760
to them and say, oh,
look there's knowledge, or there's logic,

1503
02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:12.479
or there's identity over time, but
the fact that they correspond to each other

1504
02:07:12.560 --> 02:07:15.600
as well would imply that there is
something that connect. Is that sort of

1505
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:18.399
on the right, Yeah, Yeah, I wouldn't say the word correspond.

1506
02:07:18.520 --> 02:07:23.399
I mean they interrelate. I mean
they absolutely go together. You know,

1507
02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:30.720
universals relates to laws of logic,
Laws of logic relates to can you mute

1508
02:07:30.760 --> 02:07:35.159
brow? It's loud in the background. Ye okay, universals relates to numbers

1509
02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:39.000
in mathematics. I'm not saying they're
identical, and they relate to one another

1510
02:07:39.119 --> 02:07:42.439
in an intricate way. Right.
And so the external world, right,

1511
02:07:42.600 --> 02:07:46.399
is a necessary precondition for knowledge,
the self, the eye, having the

1512
02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:50.000
knowledge right, the knowledge presupposes a
knower. Right. So all of these

1513
02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:56.439
things kind of go into and a
presupposed by the act of knowing or whatever.

1514
02:07:56.960 --> 02:08:01.439
And they all require a certain kind
of world. Basically, for example,

1515
02:08:01.479 --> 02:08:05.079
we couldn't have a world where everything
was one. Right. Let's say

1516
02:08:05.079 --> 02:08:07.560
we were monas or pantheus. Right, Oh, everything's one and we're all

1517
02:08:07.640 --> 02:08:11.560
God. Dude. Well, that
would really destroy the possibility of knowledge because

1518
02:08:11.640 --> 02:08:16.720
now we're not actually knowing facts.
We're just simply knowing ourselves or we are

1519
02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:20.119
God, or everything is all is
one. So distinctions are illusory. Right.

1520
02:08:20.119 --> 02:08:22.880
There's a lot of different traps that
something like a monus position might fall

1521
02:08:22.960 --> 02:08:26.479
into, and they're falling into those
traps because they're not recognizing that for knowledge

1522
02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:30.760
to be possible, we need a
certain kind of world. A certain kind

1523
02:08:30.800 --> 02:08:35.760
of world means certain types of metaphysical
truths and principles and structure. So that's

1524
02:08:35.840 --> 02:08:39.079
what the transfient argument is, arguing
that there's a certain type of world it's

1525
02:08:39.119 --> 02:08:43.800
necessary to make knowledge possible, certain
type of metaphysics, certain type of pismology,

1526
02:08:43.640 --> 02:08:48.880
and when we have that type of
world, we can then posit the

1527
02:08:48.119 --> 02:08:54.920
possibility of knowledge. So the argument
is not about first order reasoning. The

1528
02:08:54.159 --> 02:09:01.000
argument is about higher metalogical possibility of
reasoning at all. Every atheist when they

1529
02:09:01.000 --> 02:09:05.119
hear this argument misunderstands this and they
think that the argument is just me asserting

1530
02:09:05.159 --> 02:09:09.039
that God exists. Therefore God exists. Now it's saying that the transcendental categories

1531
02:09:09.199 --> 02:09:16.279
necessitate and relate to one another in
an interlocking, interrelated way, and that

1532
02:09:16.439 --> 02:09:20.880
any act of knowledge presupposes those transcendal
categories. And so therefore, how do

1533
02:09:20.960 --> 02:09:26.319
we make sense of the categories since
they're prior to any knowledge claim or they're

1534
02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:31.399
prior to the doing of logic.
It's a meta logical, meta knowledge question,

1535
02:09:33.039 --> 02:09:37.439
gotcha. And so so yeah,
it seems like the atheists would just

1536
02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:41.960
be able to point to like logic
and knowledge and identity over time as just

1537
02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:46.039
like disparate things. Well, but
they're not desperate things. It doesn't make

1538
02:09:46.039 --> 02:09:48.920
any sense to talk about knowledge over
time without a knower. How could they

1539
02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:52.760
be? Yeah, but that's that's
what I'm saying, is from their position,

1540
02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:58.680
like they don't have an account for
how they correlate or how they well,

1541
02:09:58.680 --> 02:10:00.880
they don't have that. Well,
they don't, they they don't.

1542
02:10:01.039 --> 02:10:03.199
It's not that they don't have an
account for how they interrelate. They also

1543
02:10:03.239 --> 02:10:07.520
don't have an account for the things
themselves individually. I mean, that's that's

1544
02:10:07.640 --> 02:10:11.800
David Hume's point is that an atheist, an empiricist cannot give an account for

1545
02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:18.359
any of the individual things identity over
time, the self, the external world,

1546
02:10:18.479 --> 02:10:24.199
you know, induction, laws of
logic. Okay, cool, Yeah,

1547
02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:28.479
that was it. Thanks, Yeah, good questions. Let's see,

1548
02:10:28.720 --> 02:10:33.640
I don't know if father Diggan,
if you want to comment on that,

1549
02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:43.439
you can while I go t T
to the little girls room. Are you

1550
02:10:43.520 --> 02:10:48.279
there? Sorry? Did you ask
a question? I said, if you

1551
02:10:48.359 --> 02:10:54.439
want to comment on the tag points
there, the the the idea of you

1552
02:10:54.520 --> 02:10:56.840
know, maybe what you're going to
argue in your paper, or if you

1553
02:10:56.880 --> 02:10:58.119
want to comment on any of that, since you requested to speak, you

1554
02:10:58.199 --> 02:11:03.760
can. I do have to go
to the little girl's room. Yeah,

1555
02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:09.319
so, I mean often one confusion
is because it's called a transcendental argument,

1556
02:11:11.000 --> 02:11:16.319
that it's solely restricted to accounting for
transcendentals. But that's not the case,

1557
02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:24.760
somebody, if we go back to
just a manual clant, transcendental deduction is

1558
02:11:24.960 --> 02:11:31.800
neither a deductive nor an inductive argument, but it is an argument kind of

1559
02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:37.399
prior to arguments that what is the
necessary condition, what would make this possible?

1560
02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:43.079
Now, of course we can ask
that about the transcendental categories because there's

1561
02:11:43.119 --> 02:11:48.640
many things that are prior to other
things. There's things that we presuppose and

1562
02:11:48.680 --> 02:11:52.279
the level goes up. Well.
One of those things, of course,

1563
02:11:52.439 --> 02:11:56.960
is logic, identity, over time, knowledge and different things that could possibly

1564
02:11:58.159 --> 02:12:05.800
put into transcendental category, all of
which must be assumed in order to make

1565
02:12:05.960 --> 02:12:18.199
legitimate inferences deductions and various epistemic or
even sensory actions, semantics, et cetera.

1566
02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:26.560
But really, the transit the transcendental
argument is is even prior to that.

1567
02:12:28.800 --> 02:12:33.119
So what is And you know,
there's many different things that you can

1568
02:12:33.279 --> 02:12:37.960
focus on within a transcendental argument.
They all, you know, In other

1569
02:12:39.000 --> 02:12:41.560
words, there's many different types of
transcendental arguments with existence of God that you

1570
02:12:41.720 --> 02:12:48.039
can give all of them have in
common. What is the ultimate necessary conditions

1571
02:12:48.119 --> 02:12:54.760
that make and plug in any of
this possible. I tend to focus on

1572
02:12:54.000 --> 02:13:00.720
the epistemic questions, so I may
not focus on transcendents. I may just

1573
02:13:00.840 --> 02:13:05.760
focus on well, we use logic. We think it's legitimate, and I

1574
02:13:05.880 --> 02:13:09.920
say that to distinguish from valid,
because somebody might get confused or their valid

1575
02:13:11.039 --> 02:13:16.920
forms. But by legitimate, we
believe that if we follow certain kind of

1576
02:13:16.079 --> 02:13:24.279
rules, logical rules, we get
what we want in terms of getting knowledge.

1577
02:13:26.359 --> 02:13:31.079
And most people never kind of ask
more kind of meta pistemological questions,

1578
02:13:31.279 --> 02:13:37.600
well why is that? What actually
makes that possible? And what would make

1579
02:13:37.680 --> 02:13:46.359
that impossible? Now, keep in
mind there's no one who's presuppositionless. When

1580
02:13:46.399 --> 02:13:52.960
we read text, when we do
various actions, we come with various presuppositions.

1581
02:13:56.520 --> 02:14:03.560
Some of those presuppositions make the things
that we want in namely knowledge that

1582
02:14:03.720 --> 02:14:11.800
there. It's not just that somebody's
paradigm might have inconsistencies, because anybody's paradigm

1583
02:14:11.840 --> 02:14:16.000
could have you know, well I
was wrong about this, this inconsistent There's

1584
02:14:16.039 --> 02:14:22.880
more kind of fundamental issues that certain
presuppositions that one could have would literally make

1585
02:14:22.039 --> 02:14:30.199
knowledge impossible, and so it ends
up being self defeating versus just maybe a

1586
02:14:30.319 --> 02:14:35.920
smaller kind of epistemic problem. Yeah, so that's something that we point out,

1587
02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:45.039
and that again, when you start
thinking through this, it boils down

1588
02:14:45.119 --> 02:14:54.880
to only two positions, presuppositions,
and those presuppositions, we all want to

1589
02:14:54.920 --> 02:14:58.359
give an account for the world.
What does that count mean? There's a

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presupposition, the story that explains stuff, and everybody has one, and some

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02:15:05.560 --> 02:15:13.960
fit better than others, and some
make storytelling and accounts and knowledge completely impossible,

1592
02:15:15.319 --> 02:15:20.680
and ultimately it's going to boil down
to you. Either you have a

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02:15:20.800 --> 02:15:30.600
story about a creator who creates all
of these things and grounds knowledge, experience,

1594
02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:37.560
identity over time, physical laws and
laws of identity, logical laws,

1595
02:15:37.800 --> 02:15:45.560
and so there's a purpose behind,
there's an intention behind, or the only

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02:15:45.640 --> 02:15:52.079
other presupposition is there isn't it's an
accident, in which case that makes there

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02:15:52.159 --> 02:15:58.079
is no meaningful story that could be
told, because why it's what's the opposite

1598
02:15:58.119 --> 02:16:03.000
of meaning accident, the opposit a
knowledge accident. Ultimately that's the story that

1599
02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:09.840
the person tells. So again,
the question is the most fundamental sort of

1600
02:16:09.960 --> 02:16:16.079
question with a transcendental argument for the
existence of God is what possibly could be

1601
02:16:16.279 --> 02:16:28.079
prior epistemically than God. And what
we'll find is in any attempt to explain

1602
02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:33.639
that is self defeating. I can't
accomplish what it does. So by impossibility

1603
02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:39.879
of the contrary, God must be. There's no arguments that strictly that are

1604
02:16:39.920 --> 02:16:46.719
behind God that you prove God by. He is the first epistemic principle by

1605
02:16:46.799 --> 02:16:50.520
which anything could be known or proven. Does that make sense? Yeah?

1606
02:16:50.799 --> 02:17:07.760
Yeah, great points. Let's see. Next up is waiting Luken's got it

1607
02:17:07.799 --> 02:17:13.479
on your bro he hear me,
yes, sir, Hey, what's up?

1608
02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:18.239
Jet uh yo? So I'm I'm
currently Presbyterian, but I've been like

1609
02:17:18.879 --> 02:17:24.239
kind of exploring Orthodoxy more very intrigued
by very intrigued by it. I have

1610
02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:31.360
a few questions related to eschatology.
If that's cool. Uh, Well,

1611
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:39.040
today's discussion is about disagreements and particularly
Islam rogus and so it's not it's not

1612
02:17:39.120 --> 02:17:41.719
the topics today. What what's your
I'll answer the basics. What's the basic

1613
02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:46.760
question? So the basic question is
like, is kind of is it within

1614
02:17:48.239 --> 02:17:52.520
a valid Orthodox interpretation? Like if
for all that discourse, like that's entirely

1615
02:17:52.559 --> 02:17:56.000
about Jerusalem and the Temple, or
is that like, does it apply to

1616
02:17:56.040 --> 02:18:01.079
both then or also to the very
end of the Yeah, I think it's

1617
02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:07.840
it's both and okay, that's yeah. It's typically typically the way like uh,

1618
02:18:09.079 --> 02:18:11.639
you know Saint John Chris System when
he interprets it, he says,

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02:18:13.200 --> 02:18:16.879
it's seventy eighty and it's the end
of the world. Let's see a good

1620
02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:28.239
question of vlad, what's up?
Lad? Y'all going to the chicken mask

1621
02:18:28.319 --> 02:18:33.159
later the chicken divesorta. Do you
hearing? What's up? Yeah? Hello

1622
02:18:33.319 --> 02:18:39.520
Jay? As an Orthodox Christian myself, I want to ask about orthodox issue,

1623
02:18:41.239 --> 02:18:46.440
what does a proper view of the
rights? Do they exist? Rights

1624
02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:52.000
like I have a right to do
something, or we have rights to I

1625
02:18:52.079 --> 02:18:54.040
don't know to do that. I
mean, it depends on what you mean

1626
02:18:54.079 --> 02:18:56.000
by rights. I mean, if
you mean like the natural law or something

1627
02:18:56.040 --> 02:19:00.159
moral law or something like that,
then then that's what it means. If

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02:19:00.159 --> 02:19:03.239
you're like an Enlightenment atheist libertarian and
no rights, rights don't exist, they

1629
02:19:03.239 --> 02:19:05.440
don't make any sense. There's no
reason to believe in them. So it

1630
02:19:05.520 --> 02:19:07.959
really just means on what we mean
by those words. But good question,

1631
02:19:09.559 --> 02:19:11.920
Daniel, what's up Daniel today?
Guys, Remember it's people that disagree debate.

1632
02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:16.200
So I understand a lot of people
have questions, and that's okay,

1633
02:19:16.319 --> 02:19:20.959
but we want to get preference to
the people who disagree. Today, Gott,

1634
02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:30.399
I'm mute, Danny, do you
want to talk? You know,

1635
02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:35.600
I'm mute, man, Jay,
I have I have a few questions.

1636
02:19:35.719 --> 02:19:41.479
I have one question. Actually,
sorry that I'm delaying the people that are

1637
02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:46.079
Okay, what's the question. We'll
do it quick. So, you know

1638
02:19:46.239 --> 02:19:56.319
the I was watching a video by
brother nothing else and he was refeuding Ben

1639
02:19:56.360 --> 02:20:03.559
Shapiro. I was just wondering.
Ben Shapiro said that anyone can be the

1640
02:20:03.520 --> 02:20:09.719
well Jewish Messiah, even though there
has already been a Messiah, And how

1641
02:20:09.840 --> 02:20:18.680
will that Messiah prove that he's there
Jewish Messiah, like the false Messiah without

1642
02:20:18.760 --> 02:20:26.239
the genealogies of David, you know, and jud In Rabbinic Judaism, there's

1643
02:20:26.239 --> 02:20:31.159
probably as many different theories on the
Messiah as there are Rabbinic Jews. So

1644
02:20:37.559 --> 02:20:43.040
so shout out to your boy there. Yeah, that's a great question.

1645
02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:46.440
I don't know. I don't know
what the Messiah would even mean if it's

1646
02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:52.479
no longer divedic dissent. But I'm
sure there's a million different rabbinic ideas.

1647
02:20:52.600 --> 02:20:56.760
I mean, there's Jews that think
that Rabbi Schneerson was the Messiah, So

1648
02:20:58.040 --> 02:21:00.799
you know, to me, that's
all just all over the place. So

1649
02:21:01.399 --> 02:21:07.040
but how would the like, how
would I fake Messiah? Well, I

1650
02:21:07.120 --> 02:21:09.399
mean, Schneerson wasn't the Messiah,
and I think people believe he was and

1651
02:21:09.479 --> 02:21:13.479
then he'll come back or something.
So I mean, I guess it depends

1652
02:21:13.520 --> 02:21:16.120
on which group he convences, like
what they think their criteria would be.

1653
02:21:16.680 --> 02:21:22.000
So if you, you know,
believe that Messiah will be a Davidic warlord,

1654
02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:26.879
it seems like you would have to
have the Davidic uh, you know,

1655
02:21:28.040 --> 02:21:33.479
genealogy. So yeah, it seems
like it's all over the place,

1656
02:21:33.600 --> 02:21:50.040
Jamie, I don't think this coffee
is right, Tamara. Hey, Jamie,

1657
02:21:58.000 --> 02:22:16.760
you guys would hit like in share
go ahead, I'm mute. All

1658
02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:24.319
right, Well you're not gonna talk, then we'll move on. Uh pissar

1659
02:22:39.319 --> 02:22:45.440
cataclysm since ten dollars and says I
loved your debate Orthodoxy wins. Could you

1660
02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:52.799
address uh joke the Maccockway magician quote
minding father Staniloy. Yeah, I think

1661
02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:58.360
he was trying to get the idea
that there's three minds because there's three centers

1662
02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:05.440
of consciousness or persons or agents.
But of course we don't reduce mind to

1663
02:23:05.680 --> 02:23:09.120
trait of nature. It's one mind
in the triad that exists in the mode

1664
02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:15.440
of the three hypostases that have it. So Jake was confusing natural property with

1665
02:23:15.799 --> 02:23:20.479
hypostatic property and confusing person with mode
or tropos. So bisarre, what's up?

1666
02:23:24.000 --> 02:23:31.079
How's it going? How do you
reconcile Catholic saints with like Orthodoxia,

1667
02:23:31.200 --> 02:23:37.520
they if the Catholic Church has fallen
from grace or what have you. We

1668
02:23:37.639 --> 02:23:39.040
don't. We don't accept Roman Catholic
saints. So what do you mean?

1669
02:23:41.920 --> 02:23:46.680
So how do you explain them in
their lives? And they're supposed a long

1670
02:23:46.799 --> 02:23:50.559
line of miracles? Well, I
mean, do you think miracles prove or

1671
02:23:50.600 --> 02:23:58.680
disprove a position? That's the problem. I mean, I can bring on

1672
02:23:58.719 --> 02:24:03.680
a bunch of Muslims that tell you
that Churanic miracles prove the Quran. So

1673
02:24:05.000 --> 02:24:09.719
miracle claims don't do anything except a
test to the true position. They don't

1674
02:24:09.760 --> 02:24:18.399
prove the true position. Okay,
So we just take them as sort of

1675
02:24:18.520 --> 02:24:24.879
regular Catholic believers as orthodox. I
don't know what that means. What do

1676
02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:33.200
you mean so we don't like there's
no reason to really look further into them,

1677
02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:37.200
like authox. I mean, I
guess you do what you want,

1678
02:24:37.280 --> 02:24:41.440
But I'm saying that that's not going
to determine which religion is true. Is

1679
02:24:41.639 --> 02:24:46.639
miracle claims because every religion the world
claims miracles. Evangelicals will claim miracles and

1680
02:24:46.719 --> 02:24:50.879
say that that disproves rom Catholicism.
I mean, miracles will attest to the

1681
02:24:50.920 --> 02:24:54.799
true faith. They literally cannot quote
prove the true faith. It's just it's

1682
02:24:54.840 --> 02:25:03.920
not going to do that work.
It's a fallacy. Okay, it's that

1683
02:25:03.079 --> 02:25:07.639
same Thanks, Yeah, good question. Yeah, we get that question a

1684
02:25:07.680 --> 02:25:24.639
lot. It's a fair question.
Uh, let's see Tamara mm hm.

1685
02:25:28.079 --> 02:25:31.079
Okay. So I gave you the
mic, but we can't hear you.

1686
02:25:33.000 --> 02:25:46.760
Tavastanag what's up to Aston? I? Hey, Jamie, you gotta unmute

1687
02:25:46.799 --> 02:26:05.920
man icono Matt ten dollars, Jay, what's up? I was wondering if

1688
02:26:05.959 --> 02:26:11.200
you plan through debunk Lofton's book.
Probably not. I can't imagine that anything

1689
02:26:11.639 --> 02:26:13.479
that's in his book isn't already in
a bunch of his boring live streams.

1690
02:26:16.520 --> 02:26:18.120
I was the one that made with
Michael Lofton joke when you were debating with

1691
02:26:18.280 --> 02:26:22.840
Jake. Well, that's funny because
I actually made the joke to Kai and

1692
02:26:22.959 --> 02:26:26.120
Lewis in our chat, So I
was I was calling. I was saying

1693
02:26:26.159 --> 02:26:33.280
that Jake was the Muslim Michael Lofton
to Kaile Lewis, So we had the

1694
02:26:33.360 --> 02:26:37.520
same vibe there. Travis five dollars. This is my first time catching a

1695
02:26:37.639 --> 02:26:39.959
live stream. I'm a longtime viewer. Thank you, Travis, appreciate that.

1696
02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:43.079
So guys, remember the way it
works is you request to speak.

1697
02:26:43.120 --> 02:26:46.280
If you request to speak, you
come on. Today's topic is not for

1698
02:26:46.360 --> 02:26:52.159
people who to agree. It's for
disagreements, and that's why it's listed as

1699
02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:56.559
a debate stream. It says the
top debate about God Islam, Catholicism,

1700
02:26:56.639 --> 02:27:01.000
Atheism, Protestantism. I don't understand
how like Sam schmun gets like a million

1701
02:27:01.159 --> 02:27:03.719
Muslims that want to debate him,
and maybe there's just not a lot of

1702
02:27:03.799 --> 02:27:07.600
Muslims on to it, Like where
are the Muslims that like that? None

1703
02:27:07.639 --> 02:27:09.760
of the Muslims I don't remember last
time we had. It's been probably eight

1704
02:27:09.840 --> 02:27:13.760
months since a Muslim came in here. But they love to debate with Uh.

1705
02:27:13.959 --> 02:27:20.239
I guess because I guess because Sam
will debate the Quurnic tax like he's

1706
02:27:20.280 --> 02:27:24.040
like a master at you know,
flipping the script on the Muslim of other

1707
02:27:24.120 --> 02:27:30.280
chronic texts. And not that Sam
can't argue the Trinity, is just that

1708
02:27:30.479 --> 02:27:31.840
Like I think the Muslims don't want
to come over here because they think,

1709
02:27:31.879 --> 02:27:33.920
oh, it's just going to be
a philosophy or something. I don't know,

1710
02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:43.520
but uh, let's see, we
got on unproletario. What's up?

1711
02:27:43.639 --> 02:27:52.799
Unproletary? Hey, Jamie, could
you make me a coffee? This one

1712
02:27:52.920 --> 02:28:03.559
was really weak. Yeah, this
one was like, t I'm you all

1713
02:28:03.680 --> 02:28:15.920
right? You dropped off? So
Kevin, what's up? Kevin? Hello?

1714
02:28:15.959 --> 02:28:20.559
Hello, sir, Yes, sir, thank you, thank you for

1715
02:28:20.639 --> 02:28:26.360
hosting the space today. I'm wanted
to come in represent the Catholic position.

1716
02:28:26.440 --> 02:28:35.479
Okay, So I guess first off, I want to hear what is the

1717
02:28:35.600 --> 02:28:41.760
defense of the Council of Florence And
how do you, from the Orthodox side

1718
02:28:41.799 --> 02:28:46.520
of things, determined if an ecumenical
council is authoritative or not. Yeah,

1719
02:28:46.559 --> 02:28:50.360
so I mean, it's pretty well
known if you read the Austro mob book

1720
02:28:50.440 --> 02:28:54.399
on Florence, that the fact that
we had, you know, a handful

1721
02:28:54.440 --> 02:28:58.440
of patriarchs and bishops there that did
accept it certainly doesn't mean that the entire

1722
02:28:58.520 --> 02:29:03.200
Orthodox Church accepts it. Sat Mark
of Ephicus famously didn't accept it, and

1723
02:29:03.280 --> 02:29:09.719
the Orthodox world unanimously rejected the bishops
that did accept Florence. So for us,

1724
02:29:11.200 --> 02:29:16.120
there's no like one size fits all
easy answer anymore than for you there's

1725
02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:18.639
a one size fits all easy answer. Because Roman Catholics, even with the

1726
02:29:18.840 --> 02:29:22.920
doctrine of the papacy, still don't
have a very clear list or idea of

1727
02:29:22.959 --> 02:29:28.559
what the ecumenical councils are and are, namely the inconsistency that you have with

1728
02:29:28.719 --> 02:29:35.280
for example, later in six forty
nine. Clue me in on later in

1729
02:29:35.319 --> 02:29:37.799
six nine, and then what nuanced
there are specifically referring to. So,

1730
02:29:39.280 --> 02:29:45.440
at the time of the dispute over
the Monothelite controversy, a Rome called a

1731
02:29:45.639 --> 02:29:52.719
council which intended to be a independent
from the emperor council. So the Pope

1732
02:29:52.760 --> 02:29:56.639
of Rome called a council. Maximus
went, I've been to the lateran a

1733
02:29:56.719 --> 02:30:03.200
few months ago where this council has
had and they condemned monothelitism, and that's

1734
02:30:03.239 --> 02:30:07.840
a great thing, and we're happy
for that. But that council meets all

1735
02:30:07.879 --> 02:30:13.120
of the Roman Catholic later criteria for
what should count as an ecumenical council.

1736
02:30:13.200 --> 02:30:18.239
However, when the sixth Secumenical Council
met, they did not simply state,

1737
02:30:18.479 --> 02:30:22.000
oh, well, we already have
the convenient definition from latter in six forty

1738
02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:24.639
nine, from the Pope and Pope
Martin, so we don't even have to

1739
02:30:24.680 --> 02:30:28.719
have an ecumenical council. If they
had the Vatican One mindset, they would

1740
02:30:28.760 --> 02:30:31.920
have simply said, latter in six
forty nine has already solved the issue.

1741
02:30:31.959 --> 02:30:37.600
But in fact, what they do
is they investigate the teachings of the Monothelites,

1742
02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:43.319
the Monothelite patriarch. They investigate the
teachings of the Pope of Rome and

1743
02:30:43.399 --> 02:30:46.360
previous theologians and Saint Maximus. And
it is not the papacy that is the

1744
02:30:46.600 --> 02:30:52.159
chief arguer of that council. It
is Saint Maximus who is the chief theologian

1745
02:30:52.200 --> 02:30:56.799
of the sixth Secumenical Council. So
the six Ecumenical Council's lack of citing latter

1746
02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:01.280
in six forty nine as a papal
decision, it's elf proves that Roman Catholics

1747
02:31:01.360 --> 02:31:05.719
don't have a clear, coherent and
rather an involving idea of what counts as

1748
02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:11.719
ecumenical councils. And plus the Fifth
Ecumenical Council, the Emperor basically made the

1749
02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:16.040
Pope submit to it. So once
again you have many examples of this kind

1750
02:31:16.120 --> 02:31:20.200
of thing, which shows that you
guys don't have it either. And by

1751
02:31:20.239 --> 02:31:24.680
the way, Vatican two is hotly
disputed and very ambiguous when it comes to

1752
02:31:26.440 --> 02:31:30.440
more and more Roman Catholics themselves now
telling me thank you that you know they

1753
02:31:30.440 --> 02:31:35.040
don't believe in in Vatican two.
So what's your epistemic criteria for a universal

1754
02:31:35.159 --> 02:31:43.200
ecumenical council? Yeah, it's a
good question. I mean, as I

1755
02:31:43.239 --> 02:31:48.000
would traditionally say, as a standard
is you know what the Pope says is

1756
02:31:48.600 --> 02:31:50.200
what goes okay? And then why
wasn't latter in six forty nine and latter

1757
02:31:50.280 --> 02:31:54.399
in six forty nine is still not
listed by your church as an ecumenical council?

1758
02:31:54.440 --> 02:31:58.719
Why not? I wouldn't know.
I'd have to look into that specifically.

1759
02:31:58.799 --> 02:32:03.079
So that's definitely a good insight I
should look into. Yeah, well,

1760
02:32:03.120 --> 02:32:05.079
there's a lot of famous examples like
this, so it's not like this

1761
02:32:05.280 --> 02:32:07.479
is the only one. I mean, there's a whole case of Pope Vigilius.

1762
02:32:07.760 --> 02:32:13.319
You could watch the debate between UBI
and uh. Is it John?

1763
02:32:13.360 --> 02:32:18.600
I can't remeber if it's John Kolarafi
Or who's the other uniate The old hiccup

1764
02:32:18.639 --> 02:32:24.440
guy that wouldn't debate me because he
has hiccups, The UNI eight Roman Catholic

1765
02:32:24.440 --> 02:32:26.799
apologist, the boomer guy forget his
name, but he and UBI have a

1766
02:32:26.840 --> 02:32:30.680
debate over the Fifth Council on Pope
Vigilius, and you can see that he

1767
02:32:30.760 --> 02:32:35.319
didn't fare very well in that debate
with UBI either, gotcha? Okay,

1768
02:32:35.360 --> 02:32:39.120
well, no it, I'll definitely
check those out. I guess. So

1769
02:32:39.120 --> 02:32:45.680
if to simplify, then we don't
on the orthodox side of things, Getting

1770
02:32:45.719 --> 02:32:50.959
back to my original question, we
don't really have like a finite point where

1771
02:32:50.000 --> 02:32:58.840
the buck stops when it comes to
authoritatively understanding You know what makes the Act

1772
02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:01.000
Medical Council authority? If I guess
I heard from you was, well,

1773
02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:09.200
so now you're equivocating because authoritatively pronouncing
a council is different from understanding the council.

1774
02:33:09.319 --> 02:33:11.760
So if you're talking about normative authority, that's a different question from an

1775
02:33:11.799 --> 02:33:16.440
individual having certitude about what's true or
false, or what councils are true or

1776
02:33:16.440 --> 02:33:18.000
false. So those are two different
They're related, but there are two different

1777
02:33:18.040 --> 02:33:22.239
questions. So, for example,
we might agree you and I as Orthodox

1778
02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:26.319
and Catholic against a Protestant, for
example, that the Church in history has

1779
02:33:26.399 --> 02:33:30.639
normative authority. That means that you
and I both agree that there is a

1780
02:33:30.840 --> 02:33:35.239
historic body of people post apostles,
who have the ability to make decisions that

1781
02:33:35.680 --> 02:33:41.120
bind the consciences of believers to some
proposition. So we agree there against Protestants,

1782
02:33:41.360 --> 02:33:45.120
right, and that would be called
normative authority. However, there's a

1783
02:33:45.200 --> 02:33:50.200
separate topic in epistemology which relates to
individual certitude, and that's where me,

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you, and Protestants all disagree because
we have different accounts of how that comes

1785
02:33:54.920 --> 02:34:01.319
about. We all agree that in
the final analysis, me, you,

1786
02:34:01.559 --> 02:34:05.799
and the Protestants, we all agree
that ultimately it's the Holy Spirit that grants

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02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:11.840
and convinces the individual of certitude,
but how that comes about we differ.

1788
02:34:11.040 --> 02:34:16.360
So for the Roman Catholic, it
comes about ultimately through papal fiat and decision.

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02:34:16.719 --> 02:34:20.040
For the Orthodox, it comes about
through a combination of means. That

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02:34:20.120 --> 02:34:22.440
would be the liturgy, the lives
of the saints, the life of the

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02:34:22.520 --> 02:34:26.879
church. It would be the church
fathers, the councils, the scriptures.

1792
02:34:26.920 --> 02:34:28.959
For us, all of those things
work together, so there's no like,

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02:34:30.600 --> 02:34:33.399
there's no one element that we say, oh, this is the thing that

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02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:35.600
is like the ultimate thing. So
we think all of those things go together

1795
02:34:35.719 --> 02:34:41.399
because divine revelation and the one true
faith has really expressed unanimously in all of

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02:34:41.479 --> 02:34:45.840
those areas, So there's not it
really makes no sense to pick one of

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02:34:45.879 --> 02:34:50.079
them out as like the thing,
right because for example, for us,

1798
02:34:50.479 --> 02:34:54.000
an ecumenical council is not some like
magical thing that just had one easy way

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02:34:54.079 --> 02:35:00.520
to identify. Ecumenical councils were part
and parcel of the Oicumenae or the So

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02:35:00.559 --> 02:35:03.200
when there's no longer an empire,
it really doesn't make sense to say that

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02:35:03.239 --> 02:35:07.040
there's an acumen a council anymore.
But there are. You could say,

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02:35:07.120 --> 02:35:09.120
pan Orthodox synods, you could say
that the Palament for us, the Palomite

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02:35:09.120 --> 02:35:13.559
synods have the same status and authority
because they've been received basically through the entire

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02:35:13.680 --> 02:35:16.879
Orthodox world by all the patriarchates,
et cetera. So a lot of those

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02:35:16.959 --> 02:35:22.200
kinds of we think there's a multiple
tiered thing that you could look at.

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02:35:22.559 --> 02:35:28.479
For example, the councils refer to
previous councils, the councils are in some

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02:35:28.600 --> 02:35:33.440
way referential to the patriarchates and all
the patriarchates accepting it, and the rest

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02:35:33.479 --> 02:35:39.120
of the church. And also you
have the idea of the theology itself actually

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02:35:39.239 --> 02:35:41.879
being true. So you know we
have the robber council mephesis. Well,

1810
02:35:43.079 --> 02:35:46.520
so do we only know what's the
true faith until when the Pope says,

1811
02:35:46.840 --> 02:35:50.479
oh, the robber Council's false?
Or could we identify the robber Council's false

1812
02:35:50.520 --> 02:35:54.120
prior to it? Well, I
can prove this to you easily, because

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02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:56.879
do you think that a Christian in
the year three hundred had access to what

1814
02:35:58.040 --> 02:36:03.479
the true faith was if he didn't
live in Rome? Okay, Well,

1815
02:36:03.680 --> 02:36:09.840
how would a Christian in three hundred
and say Ephesus know what the true faith

1816
02:36:09.000 --> 02:36:16.559
was? Well, I don't know
if I would go so far to say

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02:36:16.840 --> 02:36:22.360
he would completely understand the nuance of
his faith, but he had no just

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02:36:22.479 --> 02:36:26.760
knowing the true faith? Right.
So let's say I walk into Ephesus,

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02:36:26.840 --> 02:36:30.399
it's the year three hundred. There's
a bunch of different sects like ieron Aus

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02:36:30.520 --> 02:36:33.680
lists all the different Gnostics. Everybody's
claiming to be the one true followers of

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02:36:33.799 --> 02:36:39.159
Jesus. Uh. There is the
Orthodox Catholic Church uh. And then there's

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02:36:39.280 --> 02:36:43.200
other groups and splits and whatever's out
there. How how do I, as

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02:36:43.440 --> 02:36:46.719
a year three hundred person, come
to know what the true faith is?

1824
02:36:46.799 --> 02:36:48.719
Because I don't know what's going on
in Rome. It's the ancient world.

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02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:54.559
I can't send scroll emails to Rome
to get Pope whoever to answer me really

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02:36:54.639 --> 02:36:58.639
quick to tell me what the truth
is. There's no ecumenical council yet,

1827
02:37:00.079 --> 02:37:03.079
right, We've had what two hundred
plus years of Christianity, no ecumenical council.

1828
02:37:03.120 --> 02:37:07.239
How do I know what the true
faith is? If I'm a Vatican

1829
02:37:07.360 --> 02:37:11.440
One papist, I can't know.
I don't know. I have to literally

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02:37:11.479 --> 02:37:13.799
everybody have to go to Rome or
write letters to Rome to know what the

1831
02:37:13.879 --> 02:37:18.239
true faith was. You see how
silly this position leads, what at leadst

1832
02:37:18.239 --> 02:37:24.840
to? I mean, I get, I get what you're getting at I

1833
02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:28.200
mean back then, I think how
you would know if you were in a

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02:37:28.239 --> 02:37:30.920
true church? Are not, like
you're an answer ignacious? Imply would be

1835
02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:35.879
you know if you are if your
church is connected to a bishop that has

1836
02:37:35.920 --> 02:37:39.319
a possible succession. Okay, but
there's plenty of sex and there's plenty of

1837
02:37:39.360 --> 02:37:45.520
heretics and schismatics like the Novationists at
that time that had Avaslar succession. Right,

1838
02:37:45.559 --> 02:37:48.040
But that's exactly why we begin to
have counsels. I mean, dogmas

1839
02:37:48.120 --> 02:37:52.399
only seemed to rise when there's dispute, when there's confusion, right, Okay,

1840
02:37:52.479 --> 02:37:58.479
So but you said earlier that knowing
knowing related to ecumenical councils. But

1841
02:37:58.639 --> 02:38:01.280
now in the year three hundred,
knowing the faith doesn't relate to an ecumenical

1842
02:38:01.319 --> 02:38:07.520
council. Well, correct, because
the church is organic, right and like

1843
02:38:07.600 --> 02:38:13.639
I just said, dogmas rise with
disputation obviously, you know, so ecumenical

1844
02:38:13.680 --> 02:38:16.200
councils. So right, So knowing
the faith is not then tied to having

1845
02:38:16.200 --> 02:38:22.120
an ecumenical council. Well, it's
all about context. Is about the life

1846
02:38:22.159 --> 02:38:24.920
of the church. The church isn't
some like, how does that answer my

1847
02:38:24.159 --> 02:38:31.239
how does that answer the objection.
Uh, the objective safe the objection real

1848
02:38:31.319 --> 02:38:35.120
quick, would' mind? So this
contradicts what you said a minute ago that

1849
02:38:35.520 --> 02:38:39.520
ecumenical councils tell us and give us
knowledge of the faith. You said,

1850
02:38:39.680 --> 02:38:43.559
uh, infallibly knowing. I forget
what phrase you use something like that.

1851
02:38:46.680 --> 02:38:50.959
So which is it? Is it
that the councils give us the certitude and

1852
02:38:50.040 --> 02:38:56.440
knowledge of the faith or they don't. For sure they do, Okay,

1853
02:38:56.520 --> 02:38:58.840
So how would I know in the
year three hundred what the true faith was?

1854
02:39:00.120 --> 02:39:03.920
No council? I mean there's local
counties, we we I mean we

1855
02:39:05.000 --> 02:39:07.799
had the Council of Jerusalem. I
mean the Book of Acts. So again

1856
02:39:07.840 --> 02:39:09.040
I would say, here a yeah, but that's in scripture. I don't

1857
02:39:09.239 --> 02:39:13.879
Yeah, But but you're you're a
Roman Catholic and you're talking about so now

1858
02:39:13.959 --> 02:39:16.360
you're a Protestant in the year three
hundred, I go to scripture to figure

1859
02:39:16.360 --> 02:39:20.840
out whether true councils are well.
I think it would be a Protestant response

1860
02:39:20.959 --> 02:39:24.559
to say, we knew Florence was
rung because all the laymen disagreed. So

1861
02:39:24.920 --> 02:39:26.799
did I say that? I said, I said, the rest of the

1862
02:39:26.920 --> 02:39:31.600
Orthodox world, including the rest of
the bishops in the Orthodox world. I

1863
02:39:31.639 --> 02:39:35.920
didn't say all the laymen disagreed.
Sorry, that's why I heard. I

1864
02:39:35.000 --> 02:39:39.840
heard the Orthodox people disagree, and
that's why. And yeah, the Orthodox

1865
02:39:39.920 --> 02:39:43.959
people is made up of bishops and
laity, so you right, But but

1866
02:39:43.120 --> 02:39:48.159
the highest degrees of of the bishoprics
of the Orthodox world, we don't even

1867
02:39:48.239 --> 02:39:52.600
understand. There's not so mark of
Ephesus, right, did not go along

1868
02:39:52.680 --> 02:39:56.920
with it, And there's no like
it's not like the you're not listening,

1869
02:39:56.319 --> 02:40:00.520
so you don't understand our position.
The bishops are all equal, they have

1870
02:40:00.600 --> 02:40:07.120
canonical privileges. There's no super bishops
in the Orthodox Church there, okay,

1871
02:40:07.239 --> 02:40:13.319
So that means there's no higher authority
correct within every bishop is the same,

1872
02:40:13.399 --> 02:40:18.120
and that's correct, right, So
where does the buck stop with authority?

1873
02:40:18.200 --> 02:40:20.920
I mean, that's that seems to
be right. Understanding that that's not a

1874
02:40:20.959 --> 02:40:24.959
problem. That's a problem everybody has. That's my point. And I illustrated

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02:40:24.000 --> 02:40:26.479
this with how do I know the
true faith in the year three hundred?

1876
02:40:28.280 --> 02:40:31.879
Is that a problem everybody has?
How do I know the true faith in

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02:40:31.920 --> 02:40:35.040
the yearth three hundred? Can you
answer this or not? I feel like

1878
02:40:35.120 --> 02:40:37.680
I have What was the answer?
I didn't hear an answer. I heard

1879
02:40:37.719 --> 02:40:39.399
a bunch of talking around it.
What's the answer? All right, let

1880
02:40:39.440 --> 02:40:43.360
me let me answer. Let me
answer, and I'll tell you what I've

1881
02:40:43.360 --> 02:40:46.920
answered, and then please respond,
well, isn't this going to be the

1882
02:40:46.959 --> 02:40:50.399
answer? Why would you have to
tell me when you answered? I just

1883
02:40:50.479 --> 02:40:54.440
want to get the full, the
full thought out there. And I'm not

1884
02:40:54.639 --> 02:40:56.840
you know, I'm not as given
to debate or as gifted as debate with

1885
02:40:56.920 --> 02:41:01.639
you. So it takes me a
little longer do myation across. Okay,

1886
02:41:01.040 --> 02:41:07.000
so my so I guess my answer
to that would be is fundamentally I see

1887
02:41:07.079 --> 02:41:11.840
the church as something organic, as
something alive. Uh. I agree with

1888
02:41:11.920 --> 02:41:16.200
that. I agree with that amazing
uh. You know, as a very

1889
02:41:16.239 --> 02:41:20.959
simple example. And I'll come around
at the full point here, a very

1890
02:41:20.000 --> 02:41:24.799
simple example, you know, justin
Martyr obviously saying obviously knew the true faith?

1891
02:41:26.040 --> 02:41:31.239
Was he completely you know, as
perfectly nuanced as we would like to

1892
02:41:31.280 --> 02:41:35.799
see in the year twenty twenty four
when it comes to Christology and Trinitarian theology.

1893
02:41:37.639 --> 02:41:41.920
No, right, But as the
years went by, we had disputations

1894
02:41:41.959 --> 02:41:46.680
about the trinity. Therefore are ago
what ended up happening? As we had

1895
02:41:46.719 --> 02:41:52.360
a council begin to solve these things, and that's when you saw this pattern

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02:41:52.479 --> 02:41:56.680
happen. Yeah. I agree with
that pattern totally. Yeah, but that

1897
02:41:56.799 --> 02:41:58.520
doesn't how does that answer the question
of the year three hundred knowing what the

1898
02:41:58.559 --> 02:42:09.760
true faith is? Well, simply
because the true faith continuously extrapolates and becomes

1899
02:42:09.879 --> 02:42:16.159
clear as disputation arises. Okay,
so we don't know the trinity until people

1900
02:42:16.280 --> 02:42:20.200
disagree with it. That's a terrible
argument. I wouldn't say the average layman

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02:42:20.280 --> 02:42:24.559
would have a as nuanced and as
clear of an understanding of a theology pre

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02:42:24.680 --> 02:42:28.319
Cappadocian fathers or anything like that.
Yeah, absolutely not. But did they

1903
02:42:28.399 --> 02:42:33.399
not have a saving faith that you
know they weren't. Yeah, But none

1904
02:42:33.440 --> 02:42:37.760
of this addresses the objection that knowing
and asking what the Christian faith is in

1905
02:42:37.799 --> 02:42:41.760
the year three hundred without access to
Rome, without any ecumenical councils, disproves

1906
02:42:41.079 --> 02:42:50.639
your later argument that we need the
papacy to know the faith. Well,

1907
02:42:50.719 --> 02:42:54.000
I mean, I feel like that
would be getting into another conversation. No,

1908
02:42:54.120 --> 02:42:58.879
it's not. It's a perfect way
to illustrate the fallacy that you're relying

1909
02:42:58.879 --> 02:43:01.760
on. Let me give you another
examp up of this same position at the

1910
02:43:01.840 --> 02:43:05.639
time of constantin Noble One. You
mentioned the Cappadocians and constantin Noble One's the

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02:43:05.639 --> 02:43:09.520
Second Documenical Council, which gives the
Church the doctrine of the Trinity. At

1912
02:43:09.559 --> 02:43:13.079
the time of the council being held
and at its close, Saint Melidias of

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02:43:13.120 --> 02:43:16.680
Antioch was outside of communion with Rome, so he died in schism. The

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02:43:16.760 --> 02:43:20.879
Council of the Trinity was had outside
of communion with Rome, and yet the

1915
02:43:20.959 --> 02:43:24.959
council was still true. It correctly
taught the doctrine of the Trinity that the

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02:43:26.040 --> 02:43:30.639
Church accepted, and a couple hundred
years later Rome retroactively accepts that council.

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02:43:31.040 --> 02:43:37.399
So how does your position reconcile with
that fact? Well, simply because I

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02:43:37.479 --> 02:43:43.600
mean Rome still ended up accepting that. Obviously did the council. You don't

1919
02:43:43.600 --> 02:43:46.159
even understand the objection. Did the
council correctly teach the Trinity outside of Rome?

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02:43:46.879 --> 02:43:50.520
Yes? Okay? And your church
accepts Saint Melidios as a saint even

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02:43:50.520 --> 02:43:56.239
though he died out of community Rome, correct yep. Which is inconsistent because

1922
02:43:56.520 --> 02:43:58.840
when I'm signed them and Florence can
taught the Domino. What you just referenced.

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02:44:00.040 --> 02:44:01.879
Arrant says that anyone who dies outside
of communion with the realman bishop is

1924
02:44:01.959 --> 02:44:11.159
damned. So heretics and schismatics do
a council that correctly teaches the doctrine of

1925
02:44:11.159 --> 02:44:13.440
the Trinity, and so therefore that
alone, if you admit that it correctly,

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02:44:13.680 --> 02:44:16.840
that proves us that we prove that
we don't need the papacy to know

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02:44:16.959 --> 02:44:24.440
the true doctrin of the Attorney.
Well, the thing is is that we

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02:44:24.639 --> 02:44:28.239
that we still do. I mean, did you not hear what I just

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02:44:28.319 --> 02:44:31.120
said? You don't understand? No? No, no, Can you restate

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02:44:31.200 --> 02:44:35.239
to me what the argument is before
you move on? Sure? Okay,

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the argument is, and I'll put
it very simply. You have these counsels

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02:44:41.920 --> 02:44:46.600
that correctly define theology, such as
the Attorney such as you know same Leadios,

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02:44:48.040 --> 02:44:56.159
who in fact was in excommunications from
Rome and died. So yet despite

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02:44:56.280 --> 02:45:03.040
Rome not acknowledging said council or set
Saint during the lifetime of these events,

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02:45:03.840 --> 02:45:09.639
they accepted them retroactively. Did the
council correctly teach about the Trinity? Yes?

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And that was had outside of Rome, right, So do we need

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02:45:13.920 --> 02:45:20.280
Rome to know truth theology. Yes, okay, you just contradicted yourself because

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02:45:20.280 --> 02:45:22.840
you just admitted that they were outside
of commune with Rome, they correctly taught

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02:45:22.879 --> 02:45:26.120
and knew the Trinity, And now
you're saying that, No, so that's

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02:45:26.159 --> 02:45:31.639
a contradiction. But here here's the
difference in the perspective jet and feel free

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02:45:31.680 --> 02:45:35.719
to critique this as well as if
you find this erroneous. Yeah, did

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02:45:35.760 --> 02:45:41.239
the human who occupy the office of
the papacy and the magisterium itself not recognize

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02:45:41.280 --> 02:45:45.319
the truth as it was right under
their noses right then and there? Yes,

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02:45:45.639 --> 02:45:48.440
for sure. No, No,
that has nothing to do It's not

1945
02:45:48.520 --> 02:45:52.200
about the pope. It's about the
people at Constantinople one. Did they know

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02:45:52.399 --> 02:45:56.559
and recognize the true faith and the
true doctrine of the Trinity? Outside of

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02:45:56.600 --> 02:46:00.479
anything to do with the Bishop of
Rome. Have you read Basils letters how

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02:46:00.520 --> 02:46:05.200
he bitches about Rome being useless and
worthless at that time? So I'm serious,

1949
02:46:05.399 --> 02:46:09.680
what letter is this? I have
a whole lecture on all of Besils

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02:46:09.840 --> 02:46:11.600
letters, and I give the lecture. I give the letter in that lecture.

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02:46:11.799 --> 02:46:13.520
I can pull it out if you
really want me to. But the

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02:46:13.639 --> 02:46:18.440
point is that if you can,
I will give it to you. Yeah,

1953
02:46:18.520 --> 02:46:22.719
since you asked. But the point
is that the point is that the

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02:46:22.799 --> 02:46:30.799
people at the Council and the Cappadocians
and Militios correctly new and stated and defined

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02:46:31.280 --> 02:46:35.719
with nothing to do with Rome.
That proves that we don't need the Bishop

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02:46:35.799 --> 02:46:37.479
of Rome to know the true faith, and that disproves all of what you're

1957
02:46:37.559 --> 02:46:45.799
arguing. And Rome acknowledges that I
retroact basically what Jay's argument is. Rome

1958
02:46:46.000 --> 02:46:54.680
retrospectively acknowledges you don't need Rome by
accepting constant exactly right. I understand,

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02:46:54.719 --> 02:46:58.440
I understand the position for sure.
But I guess what I would say is

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02:46:58.520 --> 02:47:03.399
that the office itself didn't recognize that
as the truth, and it was that

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02:47:03.600 --> 02:47:09.799
often. That's irrelevant to what the
point is. You just admitted that it

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02:47:09.879 --> 02:47:13.000
doesn't matter that it recognized the two
new years later because the people at that

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02:47:13.159 --> 02:47:15.680
time didn't need Rome. That's the
point. You don't see this. This

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02:47:15.840 --> 02:47:22.879
is obvious that those people did not
need Rome, but that truth needed Rome

1965
02:47:24.000 --> 02:47:26.840
to be its preserver and it's guarantor
throughout the agency. No, I didn't,

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02:47:28.399 --> 02:47:31.840
that's in fact, in fact,
Pope, in fact, Pope Benedict

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02:47:31.879 --> 02:47:35.319
says that the Orthodox Church has maintained
the Christian faith for the last thousand years,

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02:47:37.360 --> 02:47:39.680
So yeah, thank you exactly.
Therefore, we don't need Rome to

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02:47:39.920 --> 02:47:58.680
have the faith. So this is
Basil's letter eighty starts on uh, let's

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02:47:58.680 --> 02:48:05.280
see six to Athanasius of Alexandria.
That's where he starts complaining about Rome.

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02:48:05.120 --> 02:48:13.600
And it goes all the way up
to letter sixty nine, seven to seven

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02:48:13.840 --> 02:48:18.280
the title what was the title of
that letter? Again, letter sixty six

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02:48:18.360 --> 02:48:24.280
to Athanasius of Alexandria, and it
continues all the way to letter seventy.

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02:48:24.360 --> 02:48:28.799
So look at Basil's letter letters,
and you'll notice that everything sat Basil says

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02:48:28.840 --> 02:48:35.280
about Rome is absolutely preposterous when viewed
in light of what Vatican One says about

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02:48:35.319 --> 02:48:39.559
Rome. Roger, okay, and
I have a whole lecture on all of

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02:48:39.600 --> 02:48:45.520
Basil's letters, by the way,
on your YouTube. Yes, okay,

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02:48:45.680 --> 02:48:48.040
very good. I'll look for those. So I just want to say this,

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then, I understand that you see
a contradiction because certain people had a

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02:48:56.680 --> 02:49:00.920
council, they discovered a truth room, didn't recognize it during the lifetime.

1981
02:49:01.000 --> 02:49:03.440
No, it's not just certain people. It's what the East called an ecumenical

1982
02:49:03.520 --> 02:49:07.520
council, and they didn't care if
Rome accepted it or not, and then

1983
02:49:07.639 --> 02:49:11.120
Rome retroactively accepted it. So I
guess again, I'll just ask what it's

1984
02:49:11.559 --> 02:49:13.879
It's the Cappa Docians, the very
people that you appeal to a minute ago.

1985
02:49:13.959 --> 02:49:18.000
It's not just anybody. It's Basil
Cappadocians, and particularly Gregor of Nissa,

1986
02:49:18.079 --> 02:49:22.719
who was the You realize that after
consun that won, the Emperor said

1987
02:49:22.719 --> 02:49:24.639
that if you don't just if you
don't agree with Nissa's theology, you're wrong,

1988
02:49:24.920 --> 02:49:28.559
particularly in the Trinity. You're right, I understand that. But if

1989
02:49:28.639 --> 02:49:33.159
we get back to my original question, my question was, how does the

1990
02:49:33.319 --> 02:49:39.120
Orthodox understand, you know, what
is the common common golden thread throughout ecumenical

1991
02:49:39.200 --> 02:49:45.200
councils that that give them the same
normative authority. How do we what's that?

1992
02:49:45.239 --> 02:49:48.959
What's the criteria which they're all commonly
judged by. Yeah, there's not

1993
02:49:48.120 --> 02:49:54.159
there's not. There's not a single
thing like let Western people think of and

1994
02:49:54.319 --> 02:49:58.799
want to identify quote ecumenical councils.
And that's my point that I brought up

1995
02:49:58.840 --> 02:50:01.879
early, that you don't have that
in Rome either. So this is really

1996
02:50:03.000 --> 02:50:05.600
a bugaboo that Roman Catholics like to
pull out which they don't even have.

1997
02:50:05.760 --> 02:50:09.799
That's my point. So, but
we can give you the criteria what we

1998
02:50:09.000 --> 02:50:15.239
think identifies authoritative councils. Okay,
but but yeah, so what but what

1999
02:50:15.440 --> 02:50:18.520
is the process then? Because I
would say to you it would ultimately be

2000
02:50:18.680 --> 02:50:22.120
Rome. Rome would be the ultimate. So yeah, just so starting your

2001
02:50:22.440 --> 02:50:24.680
so a contrary to all the stuff
that I say, you just assert the

2002
02:50:24.680 --> 02:50:28.360
position again. And I already gave
the examples to where just saying Rome it

2003
02:50:28.399 --> 02:50:31.760
doesn't even work. No no,
no, no, no, no,

2004
02:50:31.959 --> 02:50:33.520
okay, okay, So why is
it latter in six forty nine and ecumenical

2005
02:50:33.559 --> 02:50:39.920
council? I do I would have
to look into that one specifically, I'm

2006
02:50:39.920 --> 02:50:43.479
not I'm not equipped to answer that. Particularly all as per Vatican ones definitions,

2007
02:50:43.559 --> 02:50:46.239
it meets all the criteria to be
an ecumenical council, and yet it's

2008
02:50:46.280 --> 02:50:52.719
not. And do you understand that
Roman Catholics themselves have numbered the ecumenical councils

2009
02:50:52.799 --> 02:51:01.000
differently in history? Well, I
know the Orthodox also have disagreement particular counsel.

2010
02:51:01.079 --> 02:51:05.040
Yeah, so this exactly so,
So this is why this argument doesn't

2011
02:51:05.079 --> 02:51:07.840
get us anywhere. It's a bugaboo. Well it doesn't. But the reason

2012
02:51:07.920 --> 02:51:11.200
it does is because in the Catholic
Church we do we do have one head,

2013
02:51:11.280 --> 02:51:16.079
we do have one decider, the
magisterium. Yeah, but you're yeah,

2014
02:51:16.120 --> 02:51:18.159
but it doesn't actually do the work. That's my point. So is

2015
02:51:18.280 --> 02:51:24.840
Vatican to an authoritative counsel or not? Well, I'm not. I'm not

2016
02:51:24.879 --> 02:51:26.600
in the magisterium, so I can't
speak on that one as well. Wait

2017
02:51:26.600 --> 02:51:30.760
a minute, I thought the prone
the magisterium is to make the laity know

2018
02:51:31.000 --> 02:51:33.600
the true faith, and so you
don't know. No, I don't know

2019
02:51:33.680 --> 02:51:37.559
about that one day. I don't
know about that one. So okay,

2020
02:51:37.600 --> 02:51:41.559
So the magisterium doesn't do the work
to actually identify for you what's the true

2021
02:51:41.559 --> 02:51:46.200
faith and what's not. Well,
I would say Vatican too clearly. I

2022
02:51:46.280 --> 02:51:48.760
mean I don't a week, I
don't know. If I want to get

2023
02:51:48.799 --> 02:51:50.559
it to be the weeds of a
Vatican two, why not. I mean,

2024
02:51:50.680 --> 02:51:56.920
if the principle is that the papacy
gives epistemic certitude, then that's precisely

2025
02:51:56.920 --> 02:51:58.600
where we should go, because that's
the most controversial thing in the Roman Catholic

2026
02:51:58.639 --> 02:52:01.959
world in the hundred years. So
we've had seventy years of the papacy teaching

2027
02:52:03.040 --> 02:52:07.680
Vatican two, so obviously it's authoritative
from the papacy's perspective. So you know,

2028
02:52:07.840 --> 02:52:09.079
do you believe in do you okay? So do you believe in religious

2029
02:52:09.079 --> 02:52:11.399
liberty? Do you believe that?
Do you believe that Muslims worship God like

2030
02:52:11.520 --> 02:52:16.000
you do? Absolutely not? Absolutely
not, okay? So you don't follow

2031
02:52:16.120 --> 02:52:24.200
the magisterial teachings of Rome. I
don't know what it would be in Vatican

2032
02:52:24.239 --> 02:52:28.479
two. I facilily don't follow.
But what I would say NOWT says that

2033
02:52:28.639 --> 02:52:33.799
Muslims and Jews worship the same God
as the Christians. Muslims and Hindus approach

2034
02:52:33.920 --> 02:52:39.360
God in love and faith in love. Yeah, and love is love,

2035
02:52:39.399 --> 02:52:43.000
as we all know. So I
understand. I understand where you're getting at,

2036
02:52:43.559 --> 02:52:48.120
and I know you're not amiss.
You know, the trad traditional Catholic

2037
02:52:48.120 --> 02:52:50.719
position or anything like that. I
was a trad for many years. I

2038
02:52:50.799 --> 02:52:52.440
know all about it. I lived
that world. I went to Latin Massa

2039
02:52:52.719 --> 02:52:58.639
for eight years, right, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah. I currently attend

2040
02:52:58.239 --> 02:53:05.360
very traditional glordinary church. So yeah, that's that's awesome. I don't you

2041
02:53:05.440 --> 02:53:07.639
know, I could re litigate this
with you, but I think it'd be

2042
02:53:07.680 --> 02:53:13.719
familiar territory. You know. Again, I'm just curious with these councils from

2043
02:53:13.760 --> 02:53:18.559
the Orthodox position, what is the
way to determine, like, what is

2044
02:53:18.639 --> 02:53:22.280
that single soul criteria? I would
there's not a single soul criteria. That's

2045
02:53:22.280 --> 02:53:26.399
my whole point. That's what I
just said. There's nothing about this idea

2046
02:53:26.479 --> 02:53:31.760
that there's a there's a magical thing
that tells you what the ecumenical councils are.

2047
02:53:33.280 --> 02:53:35.959
It doesn't exist. It wouldn't be
like a magic it wouldn't be a

2048
02:53:37.079 --> 02:53:39.120
magic, no, but it's treated
that. What I'm saying is is treated

2049
02:53:39.159 --> 02:53:41.559
that way in the romancality position,
because you think that just saying the papacy

2050
02:53:41.680 --> 02:53:46.040
tells you that I just asked you
about the most controversial council the last hundred

2051
02:53:46.079 --> 02:53:48.879
years, and you say, I
can't tell you, so it doesn't even

2052
02:53:48.920 --> 02:53:50.920
do the work for you. Well, I'm I'm sure you've heard this in

2053
02:53:52.079 --> 02:53:56.360
traditional Catholic circles. But when you
take a perspective on councils and theology and

2054
02:53:56.399 --> 02:53:58.719
stuff, and I know this is
in a mis Orthodox as well. We

2055
02:53:58.799 --> 02:54:01.799
don't look at this, we don't
look at span of decades with the span

2056
02:54:01.879 --> 02:54:03.559
of centuries, it's not millennium,
right, Okay, Well, I mean

2057
02:54:03.799 --> 02:54:09.479
so Vatican two is almost a century
old, it's like seventy years from ongoing,

2058
02:54:11.399 --> 02:54:15.159
correct, and there's superior factors behind
it. So we only know Vatican

2059
02:54:15.280 --> 02:54:18.600
we'll only we'll only know Vatican.
It won't matter how many centuries go by,

2060
02:54:18.680 --> 02:54:22.799
though, because it's already confirmed by
the papacy. And according to Vatican

2061
02:54:22.879 --> 02:54:26.040
one, whatever's confirmed by the papacy
is dogma, right, Okay? But

2062
02:54:26.239 --> 02:54:33.000
was Vatican two declared infallible? Absolutely? Did it make any anathemas? I

2063
02:54:33.040 --> 02:54:35.840
mean, well, there's nothing,
there's nothing that says that something has to

2064
02:54:35.879 --> 02:54:39.639
happen anathema attached to it to be
infallible. In fact, I've listed four

2065
02:54:41.799 --> 02:54:45.600
papal statements about Vatican two being infallible, which I have a whole list.

2066
02:54:45.680 --> 02:54:48.760
Would you like that list? Sure? But those are all going to be

2067
02:54:48.840 --> 02:54:54.760
post Vatican two. Correct. What
does that? I mean the principle in

2068
02:54:54.840 --> 02:54:58.000
your church that you just identified as
the papacy, So it doesn't matter when

2069
02:54:58.079 --> 02:55:03.280
he says it your post Vatican two
if no, totally, it totally matters.

2070
02:55:03.319 --> 02:55:05.760
No, it doesn't think well,
during the Airyan controversy. You just

2071
02:55:05.920 --> 02:55:11.280
argue that, oh, you just
argue that the papacy just one second,

2072
02:55:11.319 --> 02:55:16.399
you argue that the papacy retroactively two
hundred years later could affirm Constantinople one.

2073
02:55:16.600 --> 02:55:20.840
And you said that was okay.
But if Francis and company retroact or post

2074
02:55:20.959 --> 02:55:26.479
Vatican two, say Vatican two is
dogmatic, now you don't have to listen

2075
02:55:26.520 --> 02:55:28.920
to it. No. I mean, I see on the face how that

2076
02:55:30.000 --> 02:55:33.079
seems like a contradiction. But let
me, let me explain myself. Let

2077
02:55:33.120 --> 02:55:35.840
me explain myself. So the Pope
at the time of affinacious of Alexandria,

2078
02:55:35.920 --> 02:55:41.879
during the Aery controversy, he excommunicated
him rw We we came to learn later

2079
02:55:43.520 --> 02:55:46.639
that And I'm not saying this is
exactly what's happening now, but I'm I'm

2080
02:55:46.680 --> 02:55:50.239
saying that there are nuances behind the
scenes that maybe we're not pretty to as

2081
02:55:50.280 --> 02:55:52.440
the people were living immediately in those
things. But this won't matter. This

2082
02:55:52.520 --> 02:55:56.399
won't matter, because what does Vatican
one say about what the Pope confirms for

2083
02:55:56.639 --> 02:56:00.280
all of the church and for all
times? Now? I can I could

2084
02:56:00.280 --> 02:56:01.000
see, maybe you could say,
I see where you're going. You're saying,

2085
02:56:01.079 --> 02:56:05.959
well, maybe like Vigilius, there
was a compelling that the pope didn't

2086
02:56:07.040 --> 02:56:11.639
have, you know, free exercises
as will right, maybe the pope was

2087
02:56:11.760 --> 02:56:13.600
under duress from I don't know.
Let's say the CIA went in and said,

2088
02:56:13.639 --> 02:56:16.680
hey, you're going to confirm Vatican
two because we want it all right,

2089
02:56:16.799 --> 02:56:20.719
so theoretically right, so yeah,
I could say, I could see,

2090
02:56:20.920 --> 02:56:22.520
maybe you could have some argument that
Poe, that John twyn third or

2091
02:56:22.520 --> 02:56:26.600
Paul the six did this out of
duress. However, the problem is that

2092
02:56:26.760 --> 02:56:31.639
you can't have seventy years of duress
because Vatican One says that the See of

2093
02:56:31.719 --> 02:56:35.040
Peter will never cease to have an
authoritative magisterial successor and to the end of

2094
02:56:35.120 --> 02:56:41.799
the world. And so that constituent
element of the papacy upholding not just dogma

2095
02:56:41.920 --> 02:56:46.319
but also the unity and also the
preservation can never go away. If it

2096
02:56:46.440 --> 02:56:50.639
does and it loses one of its
constituent elements, and if and if you

2097
02:56:50.719 --> 02:56:54.040
haven't read, you know, the
fifteen or so pages of Vatican One,

2098
02:56:54.040 --> 02:56:58.680
I highly recommend reading it. Yeah, I definitely need to reread it,

2099
02:56:58.760 --> 02:57:05.399
that's for sure. It's been a
while, but I mean the right so

2100
02:57:05.879 --> 02:57:11.799
just to finish my point. I
think you were aty you already understood under

2101
02:57:11.879 --> 02:57:18.159
duress. Uh. He released it
later seeing Anthonisius never blamed itfore it Yes,

2102
02:57:18.200 --> 02:57:20.959
it's been seven years. Uh.
Is there dress on the Vatican now?

2103
02:57:22.479 --> 02:57:24.319
Absolutely? And I know you you
wouldn't disagree with that either. What

2104
02:57:24.479 --> 02:57:28.799
will we know about these events in
one hundred, two hundred years? You

2105
02:57:28.879 --> 02:57:33.040
know I knows a hold on.
So let's say that theoretically in your model

2106
02:57:33.239 --> 02:57:37.440
there was duress for the last Uh. Uh I don't know seventy years of

2107
02:57:37.559 --> 02:57:41.600
papacy, and therefore we can retroactively
cancel all that out. Why does that

2108
02:57:41.719 --> 02:57:46.639
not open up the possibility of every
ecumenical Council on people teaching being subject to

2109
02:57:46.760 --> 02:57:50.600
duress and therefore pious the Ninth Vatican
One was also under duress, and therefore

2110
02:57:50.639 --> 02:57:58.559
all of it it's placed into a
doubt. Well, that's almost an impossible

2111
02:57:58.639 --> 02:58:01.639
question to answer, right, because
then we're getting into the specifics. Well,

2112
02:58:01.680 --> 02:58:03.319
but we're out the point now where
you're arguing that we will never know

2113
02:58:03.399 --> 02:58:07.360
what the true teaching Aboutican two was
until two three hundred years into the future.

2114
02:58:07.399 --> 02:58:09.520
So really, now we're at the
point where Magisterium isn't doing us any

2115
02:58:09.559 --> 02:58:16.840
good at all? Do you think
that in the Orthodox world, and this

2116
02:58:16.000 --> 02:58:18.920
is a response to what you just
said, do you think in the Orthodox

2117
02:58:20.000 --> 02:58:26.520
world your respective bishops still have questions
that need to be answered for the faithful,

2118
02:58:26.600 --> 02:58:31.840
or there's still important disagreements within Orthodoxy. Sure, but I don't place

2119
02:58:33.440 --> 02:58:39.920
the epistemic principle being a guy in
Rome. Well where, But that's exactly

2120
02:58:39.959 --> 02:58:43.399
my question. Where is that principle? Right? So the normative authority question

2121
02:58:43.559 --> 02:58:46.680
is different from the epistemic question.
That's what you seem to be confusing.

2122
02:58:46.840 --> 02:58:52.680
Right, So we both agree that
there is a body of people within history.

2123
02:58:52.959 --> 02:58:56.680
For us, it's the local Orthodox
bishop or Orthodox synods. You understand

2124
02:58:56.719 --> 02:58:58.879
the church is normally governed by local
synods, right, it's not That's why

2125
02:59:00.000 --> 02:59:03.159
for three hundred years there is no
ecumenical council. You know, at the

2126
02:59:03.239 --> 02:59:07.000
time of three hundred we don't know
what Nicia will teach because Nicia hasn't happened

2127
02:59:07.040 --> 02:59:09.760
yet. And yet can we still
know the faith? We still know what

2128
02:59:09.840 --> 02:59:13.360
the doctrines and dogmas are because it's
not hinging on what's going on in Rome.

2129
02:59:13.440 --> 02:59:24.200
But listen are But so what Alexandria
Alexandra document. Alexandria document admits that

2130
02:59:24.280 --> 02:59:26.799
the appleist structure of the Sartican you
know, canons or whatever, it's not

2131
02:59:26.920 --> 02:59:31.719
Vatican one. So what you got
to demonstrate is that Vatican one is taught

2132
02:59:31.840 --> 02:59:33.879
in the first thousand years. And
that's what no Roman Catholic can do,

2133
02:59:33.920 --> 02:59:37.239
because even the Vatican now admits that
the Vatican one view is not taught in

2134
02:59:37.239 --> 02:59:41.399
the first thousan years. Have you
read Alexandria document. No, I am

2135
02:59:41.479 --> 02:59:46.159
not, okay. So now Rome
is admitting about ninety percent of our arguments

2136
02:59:46.280 --> 02:59:54.360
allat the Alexandria document. So what
does that mean? Sounds like he sounds

2137
02:59:54.399 --> 02:59:58.360
like he's bounding. Okay, So
now it's Francis and I can we handwave

2138
02:59:58.360 --> 03:00:00.799
it because I don't believe. I
don't care what francis. Yeah, but

2139
03:00:00.920 --> 03:00:03.200
see, that's the thing is that
if you, uh, if you look

2140
03:00:03.200 --> 03:00:07.120
at Vatican one, like you don't
have the the the ability as a Catholic

2141
03:00:07.200 --> 03:00:13.280
layperson to hand way Francis. No, I don't. But an immediate pope

2142
03:00:13.360 --> 03:00:18.559
could I mean Pope pious? He
was condemned, heretic at a council by

2143
03:00:18.680 --> 03:00:22.360
his immediate successor and and all the
other bishops. Yeah, and did that

2144
03:00:22.520 --> 03:00:24.920
and did that. Yeah, but
you didn't seem no, you just you

2145
03:00:26.040 --> 03:00:28.959
just you missed everything that I again, that's why latter in six forty nine

2146
03:00:30.040 --> 03:00:33.920
is so important, because the Council
didn't just restate latter in six forty nine,

2147
03:00:33.920 --> 03:00:35.760
which had already condemned monothelitism, which
if they were papal, that's what

2148
03:00:35.879 --> 03:00:39.920
they would have done. Rather they
investigate the writings and condemned the pope.

2149
03:00:41.200 --> 03:00:43.600
So it's not a papal council like
you guys want to make it by the

2150
03:00:43.639 --> 03:00:46.879
mere fact that they didn't just cite
letter in six forty nine. I mean,

2151
03:00:46.959 --> 03:00:50.200
if Vatican one was true, then
the sixth Secumentical Council wasn't necessary.

2152
03:00:52.200 --> 03:00:54.360
I feel like what you're saying is, you know, like if we just

2153
03:00:54.440 --> 03:00:56.200
brought this down to like a very
simple judicial system, right, So in

2154
03:00:56.239 --> 03:00:58.559
other words, let's ignore all the
arguments and let's just bring it down to

2155
03:00:58.639 --> 03:01:03.879
something simple. But that's a false
analogy because you can't make you hear Can

2156
03:01:03.920 --> 03:01:07.760
you just hear me? Your breadth
of knowledge and you know, logic and

2157
03:01:07.799 --> 03:01:13.479
all that far greater than mine.
Obviously, if anything just helped me cash

2158
03:01:13.600 --> 03:01:18.600
up to you and tell me what
you think about this simple analogy. So,

2159
03:01:18.440 --> 03:01:22.000
uh, in a basic let's say
two people go to court, they

2160
03:01:22.120 --> 03:01:28.559
hash out something about we're in America, they hash out about something about the

2161
03:01:28.600 --> 03:01:35.239
Constitution, and uh, you know
that court rules in favor of the defendant,

2162
03:01:35.440 --> 03:01:39.239
It gets appeal, that goes to
the Supreme Court, and then the

2163
03:01:39.280 --> 03:01:46.200
Supreme Court confirms what that lower course
position was. We would understand that is,

2164
03:01:46.319 --> 03:01:50.079
Yeah, that's exactly how an app
appellate structure works. Do they discover

2165
03:01:50.239 --> 03:01:54.440
the truth in that original court hearing
at the lower local level? Do you

2166
03:01:54.520 --> 03:01:58.120
think that there? Okay, But
this analogy doesn't work because, as has

2167
03:01:58.159 --> 03:02:01.520
already admitted in Roman Catholicty alone,
the appellate court structure of the Canons of

2168
03:02:01.559 --> 03:02:05.280
Sartica is not Vatican one. So
if you're trying to make an analogy,

2169
03:02:05.680 --> 03:02:13.079
the actual history of the Church and
the Canons of Sartica don't work, right.

2170
03:02:13.159 --> 03:02:16.200
Yeah, I guess I can't really
answer that. So Canons of Sartica,

2171
03:02:16.319 --> 03:02:18.159
if you read the if Yeah,
there's a good book that discusses this

2172
03:02:18.280 --> 03:02:22.680
in a whole chapter by Edward Denny. It's called Papalism by Denny, and

2173
03:02:22.680 --> 03:02:26.799
there's a great chapter on Sartka in
there. UBI also has debates where Sartika

2174
03:02:26.879 --> 03:02:31.079
comes up. Sartaka calls for another
local synod. Oops. Uh, oh,

2175
03:02:31.239 --> 03:02:35.200
that's not papalism, because if it
was papalism, the Appleate structure would

2176
03:02:35.239 --> 03:02:39.840
not call for another council. It
would call for the decision of the Bishop

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of Rome. I don't know how
that necessarily falls though, I mean,

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why would we have another council if
the whole point is that the Bishop of

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Rome can solve it? Well,
the Bishop of Rome is in some sort

2180
03:02:54.200 --> 03:02:56.799
of ora called by it I comes
out. Okay, Well, then Vatican

2181
03:02:56.879 --> 03:03:01.680
one is not true because Vatican one
that this room is an oracle who's solved.

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03:03:01.799 --> 03:03:03.280
You're arguing that he solves the problems. That's the whole point. What

2183
03:03:03.319 --> 03:03:05.159
do you mean? All right,
well, hey, you got you got

2184
03:03:05.239 --> 03:03:11.239
me on it. Okay, But
yeah, I think you get what I

2185
03:03:11.360 --> 03:03:18.440
mean, you know, regardless of
agreement. Yeah, I just think that

2186
03:03:18.559 --> 03:03:24.520
the appellate structure analogy, uh,
has already happened. And it's the Canons

2187
03:03:24.559 --> 03:03:28.399
of Sartica in in the early Church
and the Canons of Sartica again, I

2188
03:03:28.520 --> 03:03:33.799
think they're even discussed in the Alexandria
document if I remember. Let me see,

2189
03:03:33.280 --> 03:03:37.600
I think it even points out that, like it doesn't actually do anything

2190
03:03:37.639 --> 03:03:43.440
to prove the Vatican One view.
And I know, I know you've handled

2191
03:03:43.479 --> 03:03:46.600
this one many a time, but
refresh me if you would. What what

2192
03:03:46.680 --> 03:03:54.159
do you make about the obviously the
dispute between Carill and Bartholomew, because they're

2193
03:03:54.200 --> 03:04:00.680
both trying to appeal to a universal
authority by by trying to decide, throwing

2194
03:04:00.719 --> 03:04:07.440
diosis in limits outside of the mutually
agreed Yeah, I mean we've had these

2195
03:04:07.559 --> 03:04:11.159
kinds of problems in the first thousand
years of the Church, where patriarchs were

2196
03:04:13.239 --> 03:04:16.120
in schism and disagreeing with one another. So like, how does that,

2197
03:04:16.959 --> 03:04:20.399
Well, what does that have to
do with proving whether the papacy is true

2198
03:04:20.479 --> 03:04:24.120
or not? Well, it would
have to do with it, because how

2199
03:04:24.200 --> 03:04:28.319
can either of them claim a universality
and their decisions if none of them had

2200
03:04:28.360 --> 03:04:33.879
a universal claim to begin Well,
the whole functioning of Orthodox canon law and

2201
03:04:35.040 --> 03:04:39.319
synods is different than the way that
things function in the Roman Catholic world,

2202
03:04:39.479 --> 03:04:41.479
right, So I mean there's a
whole process, for example, as to

2203
03:04:41.520 --> 03:04:46.760
how this goes about. Like so
For example, in our canon law,

2204
03:04:46.879 --> 03:04:52.200
there's stages of canonical discipline. The
first stage is removal of communion, so

2205
03:04:52.399 --> 03:04:56.280
we're still at the stage where there
is no longer communion between Kirill and Bartholomew.

2206
03:04:56.600 --> 03:05:00.920
And then the next stages that follow
would be like actually communication and so

2207
03:05:01.440 --> 03:05:03.440
yeah, it's true that you could
have a lot of people who, let's

2208
03:05:03.440 --> 03:05:05.879
say, let's say that let's say
the orth the doc Church gets split down

2209
03:05:05.920 --> 03:05:09.879
the middle. You could have a
lot of people who say, well,

2210
03:05:09.920 --> 03:05:16.079
I'm going to side with you know, the the EP or whatever. And

2211
03:05:16.159 --> 03:05:20.159
then yeah, definitely it would it
would probably be a situation where time eventually

2212
03:05:20.280 --> 03:05:24.079
tells like who's the you know,
the true true faith and who's the false

2213
03:05:24.120 --> 03:05:28.840
faith. But if you go to
the first thousand years of Christianity, you'll

2214
03:05:28.879 --> 03:05:31.559
find many examples of where we had
schisms like this, and in many of

2215
03:05:31.600 --> 03:05:35.440
those cases, as referenced by the
Malician schism, and what I talked about

2216
03:05:35.479 --> 03:05:39.680
with Basil, Rome didn't do anything
to solve the problem. In fact,

2217
03:05:39.719 --> 03:05:45.760
Basil complains that Rome is part of
the problem, right, Yeah, and

2218
03:05:45.840 --> 03:05:48.120
I I would need to read the
context. Well, it's just again,

2219
03:05:48.120 --> 03:05:52.200
it's only like it's only like four
or five pages of letters. Like I

2220
03:05:52.239 --> 03:05:54.760
said, sixty six to seventy,
I think I'll definitely read it. I'll

2221
03:05:54.799 --> 03:05:58.079
definitely read it for sure. And
that was the letter to Alexandria by Basil.

2222
03:05:58.639 --> 03:06:05.879
The first of the series of letters
on this issue is letter excuse me,

2223
03:06:05.959 --> 03:06:09.799
I think it's seventy one. I
might have missed. It's his letter

2224
03:06:09.879 --> 03:06:16.959
to Athenacious. You know who Athenasius
is. I'm sure Letter to Athenais eight

2225
03:06:16.840 --> 03:06:22.399
sixty Oh, is this through an
arian controversy? No, it's posted the

2226
03:06:22.479 --> 03:06:26.680
year three seventy one. It's letters. Hold on, it's letter sixty six,

2227
03:06:28.280 --> 03:06:35.200
Alesandrew, he's writing too correct interesting
the letter sixty six, sixty seven,

2228
03:06:35.319 --> 03:06:37.840
sixty eight, sixty nine and seventy. It's not that long. It's

2229
03:06:37.879 --> 03:06:43.239
about I don't know, maybe seven
or eight pages printed out, and he

2230
03:06:43.399 --> 03:06:48.159
talks about uh. By the way, you'll notice that he calls Antioch the

2231
03:06:48.239 --> 03:06:52.920
head church there, which Antioch is
not. The Head's just flowery terminology the

2232
03:06:52.000 --> 03:06:54.799
church fathers use all the time.
He says, I've asked for help from

2233
03:06:54.879 --> 03:07:00.360
Rome, from the West. They've
done nothing. He says that anti is

2234
03:07:00.360 --> 03:07:03.280
the head of the whole body.
Again, could we take that out of

2235
03:07:03.399 --> 03:07:07.120
context and make it say that the
Bishop of Antioch is the head of the

2236
03:07:07.120 --> 03:07:11.280
whole church. He says that when
I've asked rom to correct the unreally they've

2237
03:07:11.280 --> 03:07:15.280
failed. They've failed in the Orthodox
faith. They're worthless, They've given no

2238
03:07:15.399 --> 03:07:20.000
help. Rome has failed to condemn
heresies. Rome is ignorant, on and

2239
03:07:20.079 --> 03:07:22.520
on on. All he does is
talk about how much of a failure Rome

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03:07:22.680 --> 03:07:28.600
is and uh, yeah, where's
Vatican won in any of that? Right?

2241
03:07:28.680 --> 03:07:31.200
I mean I would echo those sentiments
as well currently, Okay, but

2242
03:07:31.319 --> 03:07:35.600
you don't have the liberty of that. If Vatican one is part of your

2243
03:07:35.639 --> 03:07:37.639
dogma, you don't have that liberty. Okay. So if you want to

2244
03:07:37.680 --> 03:07:41.959
agree with Saint Basol, then you're
on our side, because that's not a

2245
03:07:41.040 --> 03:07:46.920
Vatican one attitude. That's a battitude. That's a that's a vatitude. That's

2246
03:07:46.959 --> 03:07:50.840
not that's not a ratitude. All
right, So let's go to decrees of

2247
03:07:50.920 --> 03:07:56.200
Vatican one and we read that and
we find out what you actually have to

2248
03:07:56.239 --> 03:07:58.479
believe in regard to papal supremacy.
So you don't have the liberty of doing

2249
03:07:58.479 --> 03:08:03.120
that. You can't be Orthodox.
And Romancallo at the same time, Are

2250
03:08:03.159 --> 03:08:05.559
there like a few key lines with
Vatican one that you find is most problematic

2251
03:08:05.639 --> 03:08:09.799
that you could sign right now?
Or does it? Just go go to

2252
03:08:09.920 --> 03:08:13.719
papalincyclicals dot net and print out the
ten or fifteen pages and you'll see that

2253
03:08:15.200 --> 03:08:20.399
you don't have the liberty of degree
disagreeing with the papal ordinary magisterial teaching.

2254
03:08:20.479 --> 03:08:24.520
And in fact, even when it's
not magisterial ordinary teaching, even when it's

2255
03:08:24.760 --> 03:08:28.520
just ordinary, you have to submit
with docility to it, even if you

2256
03:08:28.600 --> 03:08:33.239
disagree. So how do you submit
to docility if you go to the SSPX

2257
03:08:37.559 --> 03:08:39.920
right, Well, yeah, and
that's a p that's canonically irregular. I

2258
03:08:39.959 --> 03:08:43.399
don't cur I don't presently go there. Okay, So then you do submit

2259
03:08:43.479 --> 03:08:46.399
with docility? Then you do have
Then you do submit, you recognize Francis,

2260
03:08:46.440 --> 03:08:52.520
and you do submit with facility to
his ordinary fallible teaching. Correct.

2261
03:08:52.079 --> 03:08:54.799
Yes, Well, it didn't sound
like in this discussion you were submitting to

2262
03:08:54.879 --> 03:09:01.559
his ordinary fallible teaching. Sound like
you dismissed a lot of it. I'm

2263
03:09:01.600 --> 03:09:03.360
not happy, Yeah, I'm not
happy. I'm not happy with me.

2264
03:09:03.479 --> 03:09:13.319
Okay, So then now you do
accept Vatican two? Uh? I mean

2265
03:09:13.360 --> 03:09:16.760
I'm not really in the position to
accept or not accept. Well, if

2266
03:09:16.799 --> 03:09:20.479
you accept Francis. Now see,
if you accept Francis, you have to

2267
03:09:20.559 --> 03:09:26.479
accept his teachings with docility, so
you do have to accept. So you

2268
03:09:26.559 --> 03:09:31.120
can't play agnostic on Vatican two.
Well well wait, hold on, I

2269
03:09:31.239 --> 03:09:37.120
have to accept what's infallibly defined by
Francis. And yeah, ecumenical councils are

2270
03:09:37.520 --> 03:09:43.000
Remember this whole this whole discussion was
ecumenical councils. So that's that's an documentary.

2271
03:09:43.159 --> 03:09:46.840
Any novisort of church that I go
to where Francis is recognized tells me

2272
03:09:46.920 --> 03:09:52.200
I have to believe in Vatican two
for sure. Yeah, and I would.

2273
03:09:52.280 --> 03:10:01.879
I would certainly say that there's confusion
in the church. But uh all

2274
03:10:01.959 --> 03:10:05.399
right, well look look we're gonta
move on. We got some other people.

2275
03:10:05.440 --> 03:10:07.920
I'm not trying to be rude to
you, but do you have any

2276
03:10:07.040 --> 03:10:11.600
last I'll give you the last comments
or statements anything you want to leave us

2277
03:10:11.639 --> 03:10:16.280
with. Uh, well, I
will tell you that. Uh. You

2278
03:10:16.360 --> 03:10:20.760
know, I very much appreciate your
work, and you know you've helped lead

2279
03:10:20.840 --> 03:10:22.680
me to a possibly Christianity. I
started to listening to you when I was

2280
03:10:22.719 --> 03:10:28.040
a Protestant. Uh. And I
did explore Orthodoxy and was going to an

2281
03:10:28.079 --> 03:10:31.959
Orthodox church for a good eight months. But as as it currently stands,

2282
03:10:31.159 --> 03:10:35.239
I'm more persuaded by the Catholic position. But I will be familiarizing myself with

2283
03:10:35.399 --> 03:10:41.000
Vatican One, okay, And I
hope to come on it again and chat

2284
03:10:41.040 --> 03:10:43.239
about it. I guess if I
could just throw one mass question and you

2285
03:10:43.280 --> 03:10:52.399
don't have to give me another,
can so something that I find persuasive as

2286
03:10:52.440 --> 03:10:56.319
a providential argument? Uh? And
I just want to understand your take on

2287
03:10:56.440 --> 03:11:01.120
it is. I understand that you
know from the the position we see florence

2288
03:11:01.200 --> 03:11:07.479
As you had the highest, you
had the Emperor of Byzantium, you had

2289
03:11:07.520 --> 03:11:13.440
the Pope, you had the all
the representatives of the pentarchy sign yes.

2290
03:11:13.959 --> 03:11:18.399
No, same Markoapatist didn't sign it. Would did he represent a patriarch or

2291
03:11:18.479 --> 03:11:24.239
was he just just a bishop?
Well, I mean there's nothing, there's

2292
03:11:24.239 --> 03:11:26.520
nothing about patriarch as that makes them
magically like, oh, well, it's

2293
03:11:26.600 --> 03:11:31.799
infallible when all the patriarchs accept it. I listed various criteria which helps us

2294
03:11:31.840 --> 03:11:37.600
to identify the councils that we accept. But in theory, because the patriarchic

2295
03:11:37.719 --> 03:11:43.079
system aris as post nicia. I
mean it's theoretically possible for all the patriarchs

2296
03:11:43.120 --> 03:11:50.239
and Orthodoxy to become heretical, right, I mean I find that problematic because

2297
03:11:50.280 --> 03:11:54.920
that I mean, that's the Protestant
you, right, Only only if you're

2298
03:11:54.920 --> 03:11:58.399
a Roman Catholic would you think that's
problematic because you're attributing to the Orthodoxy your

2299
03:11:58.440 --> 03:12:03.520
Roman Catholic sub positions. So no, there's no there's no five headed infallible

2300
03:12:03.799 --> 03:12:11.079
monster that runs the Orthodox ris.
They just represent big seas. Look,

2301
03:12:11.479 --> 03:12:15.280
so a patriarchy, it represents a
big sea, a big that's a big

2302
03:12:15.360 --> 03:12:18.799
jurisdiction. And the only thing that
patriarchts have that regular bishops don't have is

2303
03:12:18.959 --> 03:12:24.719
privileges within their their canonical jurisdictions.
And for example, in the Council's Rome

2304
03:12:24.840 --> 03:12:28.840
might be considered first, and you'll
notice that Rome is considered first and then

2305
03:12:30.319 --> 03:12:35.120
the other patriarch its are movable,
right, So it's movable in the history

2306
03:12:35.159 --> 03:12:39.600
of the first thousand years of Christianity
because eventually, even though it's controversial at

2307
03:12:39.680 --> 03:12:46.680
Constantinople, one constant Theinople is considered
to be second. And that move is

2308
03:12:46.840 --> 03:12:50.319
challenged by Pope Leo, not on
the basis of anything to do with papism,

2309
03:12:50.399 --> 03:12:54.760
but Pope Leo says it's not fair
to Alexandria a law the Canons of

2310
03:12:54.879 --> 03:13:03.440
Nicea because Nicea put Alexandria second,
But eventually the Bishop of Constantinople is accepted

2311
03:13:03.079 --> 03:13:09.399
as second to Rome. So you
understand that these positions are movable canonical positions.

2312
03:13:09.920 --> 03:13:11.799
And I don't have the view.
I've never seen any argument as to

2313
03:13:11.879 --> 03:13:16.079
how, like I mean, is
it possible for all for all the patriarchists

2314
03:13:16.079 --> 03:13:20.040
to become heretical. Well, if
we didn't have the patriarchates in the year

2315
03:13:20.799 --> 03:13:24.200
three hundred, you know, all
five of them, I don't understand why

2316
03:13:24.239 --> 03:13:28.079
it would be essential to the Orthodox
Church that we have quote five patriarchis.

2317
03:13:28.280 --> 03:13:33.440
It's just a canonical development that is
fine and good and helpful for certain times.

2318
03:13:33.520 --> 03:13:37.520
But even the Patriarch Constantinople, for
example, like he only has underneath

2319
03:13:37.559 --> 03:13:43.120
them nowadays, like a few thousand
people right in his actual like local juriss

2320
03:13:43.159 --> 03:13:46.280
Like it's minuscule compared to you know, hundreds of millions of people a la

2321
03:13:46.719 --> 03:13:52.440
Russian Orthodox Church or something like that. So it's like a lot of the

2322
03:13:52.600 --> 03:13:56.520
patriarchates stuff in the Orthodox Church.
I'm not saying it doesn't matter. I'm

2323
03:13:56.600 --> 03:14:01.600
just saying that canonical stuff, so
noodal stuff, that's what it's about.

2324
03:14:01.760 --> 03:14:07.120
It's not a five headed it's not
like five little popes versus one big pope.

2325
03:14:09.120 --> 03:14:13.319
Right, Yeah, I understand.
I understand what you're saying. Just

2326
03:14:13.399 --> 03:14:18.280
to finish the whole picture, and
you know, challenge any of my presuppositions

2327
03:14:18.319 --> 03:14:22.200
with them this as you may.
Yeah, as the Catholic see Florence.

2328
03:14:24.159 --> 03:14:26.120
Yeah, we see the Emperor,
we see these higher bishops, And I

2329
03:14:26.239 --> 03:14:33.719
understand what you just said. Just
to finish the point signing on, you

2330
03:14:33.799 --> 03:14:39.000
understand the rest of the Orthodox world
rejected it though, yes, so,

2331
03:14:39.680 --> 03:14:43.399
And also let me give you one
exit. There's something there's something you missing

2332
03:14:43.879 --> 03:14:46.280
hold on before you go on.
You can say whatever you want, but

2333
03:14:46.360 --> 03:14:48.760
before you go on, there's an
important mistake you're making, which is you

2334
03:14:48.840 --> 03:14:52.000
took issue with, for example,
laity having anything to do with this in

2335
03:14:52.120 --> 03:14:56.040
terms of reception. So when I
said the rest of the Orthodox world,

2336
03:14:56.040 --> 03:14:58.040
I meant the rest of the Orthodox
world's bishops and lady. So the Orthodox

2337
03:14:58.120 --> 03:15:01.520
Church is a big difference. But
between us and you, which is that

2338
03:15:01.760 --> 03:15:07.680
lady have a very important role in
also receiving and accepting doctrines and dogmas from

2339
03:15:07.760 --> 03:15:11.399
synods, councils, or bishops or
patriarchs. And this is very different because

2340
03:15:11.440 --> 03:15:13.719
you think, well, that doesn't
make any sense because you know what,

2341
03:15:13.959 --> 03:15:16.120
lady don't know anything. They shouldn't. No, they have an absolutely important

2342
03:15:16.200 --> 03:15:20.920
role. And we need only look
to the examples that you also have to

2343
03:15:22.000 --> 03:15:26.680
accept in your own church of the
Seventh Ecumenical Council and the icons. So

2344
03:15:26.799 --> 03:15:31.000
you may not be aware of this, but in the Seventh Ecumenical Council there

2345
03:15:31.079 --> 03:15:39.079
were many many patriarchs. There are
several patriarchs and bishops who believed in iconoclasm,

2346
03:15:39.639 --> 03:15:43.159
and there were other handfuls that did
not believe in iconoclasm. They were

2347
03:15:43.280 --> 03:15:52.760
iconoduals. So the but the locus
of the church's defense of iconodualism was not

2348
03:15:52.920 --> 03:15:56.799
from the patriarch its it's not even
necessarily from the bishop room, although initially

2349
03:15:56.879 --> 03:16:00.559
he did sign off correctly on the
right position just of image as itself.

2350
03:16:01.520 --> 03:16:05.079
In fact, it was the laity
and the monastics that saved the day in

2351
03:16:05.200 --> 03:16:11.760
the iconoclasm controversy. So there's actually
key examples of where corrupt bishops in iconoclasm,

2352
03:16:13.399 --> 03:16:16.000
same as an arianism too, by
the way, where corrupt bishops try

2353
03:16:16.040 --> 03:16:20.200
to force the church to accept iconoclasm. And it was the lady that played

2354
03:16:20.200 --> 03:16:22.399
a very key role with the monastics
in rejecting that. So that's an example

2355
03:16:22.440 --> 03:16:26.399
that's applicable to your church because that's
first thousand years. You think that's Roman

2356
03:16:26.479 --> 03:16:31.799
Catholic, then you have the same
thing going on in the iconic clasm controversy

2357
03:16:31.840 --> 03:16:41.600
that you're faulting me for pointing out
in Florence. Right, okay, so

2358
03:16:43.159 --> 03:16:45.959
thank you for that, really,
I do appreciate that. Now taking all

2359
03:16:45.959 --> 03:16:52.040
ads are so again just to finish
the point. Yeah, so what we're

2360
03:16:52.079 --> 03:16:56.000
taking issue with, like you see
in many ecumenical councils you always have the

2361
03:16:56.120 --> 03:17:01.319
sanking bishops and other orgy. You
always have a small remnant. And this

2362
03:17:01.520 --> 03:17:05.799
is me quoting I believe his name, Bishop Timothy Ware. He himself said,

2363
03:17:05.799 --> 03:17:15.600
Florence seemingly has all the marks of
an ecumenical council And you had cool

2364
03:17:15.639 --> 03:17:18.799
Can I can I quote James Martin
too or you what do you think?

2365
03:17:18.959 --> 03:17:24.280
So? Like, so what do
you accept James Martin? No, No,

2366
03:17:24.399 --> 03:17:26.319
I don't accept James Martin. Okay, so a bad argument in Timothy

2367
03:17:26.360 --> 03:17:31.239
ware, what does that mean?
Well, it's just a bishop, so

2368
03:17:31.440 --> 03:17:33.959
that whatever that means to anybody,
I don't know what it means to your

2369
03:17:33.040 --> 03:17:37.639
orthodox position. That's what I'm still
confused on. It's oh, come on,

2370
03:17:37.879 --> 03:17:41.040
you you know that because a bishop
says something bad, that's not a

2371
03:17:41.079 --> 03:17:45.040
good argument against. I can I
give find a thousand Rumman Cathol bishops saying

2372
03:17:45.120 --> 03:17:48.680
ridiculous things every day? So what
is that that doesn't that doesn't do anything?

2373
03:17:50.559 --> 03:17:52.399
That's a two Do you want a
two quote way? Is you know

2374
03:17:52.479 --> 03:17:56.680
a two quote way? Is uh? Two quote way like rules for be

2375
03:17:56.879 --> 03:18:01.399
not for me? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, I hear what

2376
03:18:01.440 --> 03:18:05.319
you're saying. I don't want to
get into the weeds of another little argument.

2377
03:18:05.319 --> 03:18:09.000
I just want to try to get
all this out. So the providential

2378
03:18:09.079 --> 03:18:13.159
argument I'm coming to is, uh, what you end up happened have happening

2379
03:18:13.319 --> 03:18:22.159
is, yes, you had a
small minority dissenter dissenting from Florence, which

2380
03:18:22.239 --> 03:18:26.040
we would find, you know,
arbitrary, and I know you wouldn't know.

2381
03:18:26.680 --> 03:18:31.920
Again, you're misunderstanding. So you
understand that there's it's not a minority.

2382
03:18:31.159 --> 03:18:35.000
It's just that's not that's false.
You understand that the rest of the

2383
03:18:35.079 --> 03:18:37.600
Orthodox world is the majority, and
they rejected this. So it's a minority

2384
03:18:37.760 --> 03:18:41.719
that's at Florence. So you're totally
wrong. Sure, okay, sure,

2385
03:18:41.920 --> 03:18:46.559
majority in the wider Orthodox world.
Minority as far as the Orthodox representatives.

2386
03:18:46.600 --> 03:18:50.520
That's true, that's correct. Okay, Yes, we're in agreement. We're

2387
03:18:50.559 --> 03:18:56.159
in a total agreement there. Okay. So uh and you have yeah,

2388
03:18:56.280 --> 03:19:01.280
okay, So anyways, uh,
and they were I think in a official

2389
03:19:01.440 --> 03:19:07.520
union for what a generation fifty seventy
years or something like that before the Muslims

2390
03:19:07.600 --> 03:19:11.639
came in killed? Correct, right, So Busantiem fell when it was UNI

2391
03:19:11.760 --> 03:19:18.760
it correct, Yes, it fell. I's altering then when the people write,

2392
03:19:18.239 --> 03:19:22.040
okay, you would see that as
a punishment for being union. Well,

2393
03:19:22.120 --> 03:19:26.959
I mean, I don't make dumb
providential arguments because they're they're stupid.

2394
03:19:26.959 --> 03:19:31.040
They don't prove anything. Well,
come on, come on, now,

2395
03:19:31.520 --> 03:19:37.200
Providence is totally biblical. No,
the Providence is biblical. But reading into

2396
03:19:37.319 --> 03:19:41.639
providence punishments and judgments. Have you
read City of God? You understand Augustine

2397
03:19:41.760 --> 03:19:45.959
makes fun of this whole idea because
the Roman Pagans were arguing that Rome fell

2398
03:19:46.000 --> 03:19:50.040
because they accepted Christianity, and Augustine
says that this is a dumb argument.

2399
03:19:50.159 --> 03:19:52.639
So I'm just simply saying that I
agree with Augustin, this is a dumb

2400
03:19:52.760 --> 03:19:58.159
argument. Hey, Augustine also is
propilioquay. So what does that have to

2401
03:19:58.200 --> 03:20:01.799
do with the point that I just
made about his argument against providential quote unquote

2402
03:20:01.840 --> 03:20:05.520
arguments that Rome fell because of Christianity. You understand that is it can be

2403
03:20:05.559 --> 03:20:07.680
interpreted in any different way, right, I mean you could argue that,

2404
03:20:07.559 --> 03:20:11.319
I mean, why can't I argue
then that it fell because it was union?

2405
03:20:11.440 --> 03:20:13.719
You see how arbitrary this is?
Is silly? I mean highest,

2406
03:20:13.920 --> 03:20:18.719
So let me argue that highest the
Ninth was highest. The Ninth was imprisoned

2407
03:20:18.760 --> 03:20:22.680
in the he was imprisoned in the
Vatican. Therefore, therefore that was a

2408
03:20:22.760 --> 03:20:26.520
punishment providentially and Vatican one is false. Do you see how silly these arguments

2409
03:20:26.520 --> 03:20:31.319
are? That is such a that's
Napoleon right when the Bonaparte put them off.

2410
03:20:31.719 --> 03:20:39.360
Well, the Masons took over in
Italy and the pote was imprisoned in

2411
03:20:39.399 --> 03:20:43.079
the Vatican. So is that a
punishment that disproves Roman Catholicism of Vatican one.

2412
03:20:43.600 --> 03:20:48.239
Do you see how arbitrary these interpretations
of history can be. I think

2413
03:20:48.280 --> 03:20:52.479
the difference is a scale. Would
this, dude, you understand how you

2414
03:20:52.559 --> 03:20:56.639
understand how philosophically absurd that is?
So now it's arbitrarily a quote scale?

2415
03:20:56.040 --> 03:21:03.879
Where do you get the scale from? Where? Hold on? Where do

2416
03:21:03.959 --> 03:21:07.799
I get this scale from? You
had you had the majority of the lady

2417
03:21:07.879 --> 03:21:13.680
and the lower clergy reject Florence,
and they rejected the council, and what

2418
03:21:13.799 --> 03:21:20.520
you had happened was every single patriarchate
fell under domination of Muslim rules. So

2419
03:21:20.680 --> 03:21:26.120
why can't I argue that Florence,
that Florence fell because it was Union Apostolic

2420
03:21:26.799 --> 03:21:33.159
originated. This is a here's here's
here's my kay, Here's why k because

2421
03:21:33.600 --> 03:21:37.399
the Orthodox world has continued to be
Orthodox, not Uniate, and they still

2422
03:21:37.440 --> 03:21:43.440
are under this burden. Yeah.
But and Pope Benedict says that that proof.

2423
03:21:43.559 --> 03:21:46.959
They says that the Orthodox had maintained
the faith for the last thousand years,

2424
03:21:48.000 --> 03:21:52.040
okay, which is which is totally
kosher as far as Catholic theology.

2425
03:21:52.120 --> 03:21:56.600
Because no, that means that we
don't need that means that being under the

2426
03:21:56.239 --> 03:22:01.159
That means that being under the papacy
doesn't improve excuse me. That means that

2427
03:22:01.239 --> 03:22:03.399
being out of the papacy doesn't give
us the knowledge of the true faith.

2428
03:22:03.440 --> 03:22:05.600
And it also means that being under
Muslims doesn't mean that we lose the true

2429
03:22:05.600 --> 03:22:09.719
faith. No, no, no, because it's a schismatic is different from

2430
03:22:09.719 --> 03:22:13.120
a heretic. And I know you
you understand this is schismatic. It could

2431
03:22:13.120 --> 03:22:18.319
be Orthodox and all their teaching,
but as schismatic is someone that doesn't that

2432
03:22:18.399 --> 03:22:22.639
doesn't And by the way, that's
a mistake because in the teachings of the

2433
03:22:22.680 --> 03:22:24.520
Lee of the thirteenth and Pious the
twelfth, and in your own canon law,

2434
03:22:26.239 --> 03:22:30.120
a schismatic is outside the body of
Christ. So it doesn't matter whether

2435
03:22:30.239 --> 03:22:31.840
I know there's a difference between a
schismatic and heretic, but both are equally

2436
03:22:31.879 --> 03:22:37.639
outside the church, so that that
doesn't apply. That doesn't I mean that's

2437
03:22:37.280 --> 03:22:43.360
I don't know, it doesn't because
a schismatic and a heretic are equally outside

2438
03:22:43.360 --> 03:22:48.040
of the church, so the argument
doesn't hold. Well, I understand that,

2439
03:22:48.159 --> 03:22:50.719
But you can still be Orthodox in
your teaching as a schismatic because the

2440
03:22:50.799 --> 03:22:56.120
thing that makes someone as schismatic as
opposed to well, then they are Orthodox

2441
03:22:56.159 --> 03:23:03.280
their theology, but they reject the
authority structure that we see as Christ establishing

2442
03:23:03.520 --> 03:23:07.479
with the Catholic Church. Right,
and then so what France or what Benedict

2443
03:23:07.520 --> 03:23:13.000
says is that the Orthodox had maintained
the faith and therefore the faith doesn't need

2444
03:23:13.000 --> 03:23:20.280
the papacy to be maintained. Okay, right, but there's still so none

2445
03:23:20.319 --> 03:23:22.159
of this proves Catholicism as the point. These are bad arguments, is the

2446
03:23:22.200 --> 03:23:28.120
point, right? Yeah, well, yeah, I think I think I

2447
03:23:28.200 --> 03:23:33.319
got the full point out there.
But why why Okay, but hold on,

2448
03:23:33.399 --> 03:23:37.639
But if we're going to use these
providential arguments, you understand that it's

2449
03:23:37.719 --> 03:23:41.159
arbitrary if when I point out that
Byzantium fell when it was uni eate,

2450
03:23:43.559 --> 03:23:48.120
well I don't think that's what I
would again respond to you with, is

2451
03:23:48.280 --> 03:23:54.040
if it had to do with it
being uniate, then why is why are

2452
03:23:54.120 --> 03:23:58.040
those places that fell way back when
on the and I forgot to mention this

2453
03:23:58.120 --> 03:24:01.280
piece and I know isproba bug you, But on the day of Pentecosta,

2454
03:24:01.319 --> 03:24:05.319
on the feast state of the Holy
Spirit, after a council that was designed

2455
03:24:05.799 --> 03:24:11.159
the Philioque among other things. You
know, these places have continued to be

2456
03:24:11.239 --> 03:24:16.040
under Muslim rule even though their rulers
are as you would say, Orthodox and

2457
03:24:16.120 --> 03:24:18.600
not Uniate. So obviously, if
this was okay, so by this argument,

2458
03:24:18.920 --> 03:24:24.120
by this argument, all of the
Western European nations which are now falling

2459
03:24:24.239 --> 03:24:28.159
to Muslim dominance, that also now
disproves the papacy. Because when I go

2460
03:24:28.200 --> 03:24:33.280
to Europe, it's Muslims everywhere.
So now you see how silly these arguments.

2461
03:24:33.280 --> 03:24:37.319
These are terrible arguments. Have you
been to Europe? I think,

2462
03:24:37.440 --> 03:24:43.559
have you been to Europe? Yes, when I've seen the shops in Berlin,

2463
03:24:43.639 --> 03:24:45.440
I know what you're talking about.
It, I'm talking to you right,

2464
03:24:45.520 --> 03:24:48.920
and it's everywhere. It's not just
right. So there's what gigantic hordes

2465
03:24:48.959 --> 03:24:52.600
of Muslims in Italy too. I
was just in Italy three months ago.

2466
03:24:52.639 --> 03:24:56.319
Okay, so uh so there we
go. That's so, so there we

2467
03:24:56.440 --> 03:24:58.760
go. God has punished and cursed
the Roman Catholic Church because the Muslims are

2468
03:24:58.799 --> 03:25:01.920
winning now. And see how about
these arguments are I would say, if

2469
03:25:01.920 --> 03:25:05.719
that's where the nuance ended, for
sure, I would see how that'sppen.

2470
03:25:05.840 --> 03:25:09.040
Well, if we got to go
into nuance that really we can't really get

2471
03:25:09.120 --> 03:25:13.440
into open immigration on this platform,
though I wouldn't want to. Well,

2472
03:25:13.479 --> 03:25:16.959
you said scale, and so what's
the scale of the rise of Islam in

2473
03:25:18.040 --> 03:25:24.479
Europe versus Catholicism? So now scale
doesn't apply. I mean, okay,

2474
03:25:24.719 --> 03:25:28.799
Well, the heale you're talking about
has got an incredibly small, it's incredibly

2475
03:25:28.840 --> 03:25:33.319
small timeframe. Oh so now it's
scale of time, not scaled numbers.

2476
03:25:35.719 --> 03:25:39.959
It's correct. I mean, the
more I'm the more witnesses you have attesting

2477
03:25:39.040 --> 03:25:41.719
to a particular reality, the more
weight and gravity is given. So it

2478
03:25:41.840 --> 03:25:46.719
just gets more and more qualified and
more and more arbitrary. Right because because

2479
03:25:46.760 --> 03:25:48.840
when when you're trying to flesh out
why we should believe that this is the

2480
03:25:48.920 --> 03:25:54.440
proper way to interpret the providential punishment, you understand that the more I drilled

2481
03:25:54.479 --> 03:25:56.399
into it, it got more and
more nuanced, qualified, and arbitrary.

2482
03:25:56.719 --> 03:26:01.000
And so now it's just oh well, it's only uh, the scale within

2483
03:26:01.079 --> 03:26:05.120
this time frame of the quantity of
this kind of this many converts with and

2484
03:26:05.200 --> 03:26:07.559
so it's it's just arbitrary. How
is this argument on arbitrary? I don't,

2485
03:26:07.559 --> 03:26:11.799
I don't, I don't know what
the funal issue is with nuance.

2486
03:26:11.920 --> 03:26:15.840
I mean nuances how you. I
don't have a problem with the word nuance.

2487
03:26:15.920 --> 03:26:20.559
It's the nuance of it becoming now
a small time frame and certain numbers,

2488
03:26:24.799 --> 03:26:28.520
right. I mean what I'm saying
to you is I find those things

2489
03:26:28.600 --> 03:26:33.200
peruisive. Uh well yeah, but
I mean people find bad arguments persuasive all

2490
03:26:33.200 --> 03:26:37.319
the time. So yeah, that's
possible. That's just a joke. That's

2491
03:26:37.360 --> 03:26:43.479
just a joke, man, that's
don't I'm too much of a super fan,

2492
03:26:45.200 --> 03:26:50.319
so never happened over here. But
well, yeah, hey listen,

2493
03:26:50.440 --> 03:26:54.239
I I just think this was a
great cover. It was a great conversation.

2494
03:26:54.440 --> 03:26:58.000
I appreciate you keeping it very civil
and cool. Uh you get a

2495
03:26:58.040 --> 03:27:01.159
great a on your DEMI. It
was a lot of fun. By the

2496
03:27:01.200 --> 03:27:03.280
way, is that Bono? Like
I say, the profile image, is

2497
03:27:03.319 --> 03:27:09.440
that Bono? It looks like Bono? That's just uh, that's just me,

2498
03:27:09.639 --> 03:27:15.639
man, that's me. Okay,
just had some rose colored shit five

2499
03:27:15.719 --> 03:27:18.200
years ago. Put them on.
Okay, that's the story. Not so

2500
03:27:18.319 --> 03:27:22.280
much. Well, thanks Kevin here. You're welcome to come on any time.

2501
03:27:22.399 --> 03:27:26.159
Bring any more questions objections that you
have. I would say, specifically

2502
03:27:26.840 --> 03:27:28.879
on Florence. There's a good book
by Ostro mov O s t r U

2503
03:27:30.120 --> 03:27:33.120
m o V. That's a really
good book to read. Okay, well,

2504
03:27:33.159 --> 03:27:35.680
thank you for uh oh hey,
one last question, are you still

2505
03:27:35.719 --> 03:27:43.840
running your philosophy course? Yeah,
it's uh it's available through uh Richard Grove's

2506
03:27:43.159 --> 03:27:48.360
autonomy Agora marketplace. So yeah,
it's still available. Okay, this is

2507
03:27:48.440 --> 03:27:52.520
a super random suggestion. Uh,
and I don't I'm not. I don't

2508
03:27:52.559 --> 03:27:56.600
work with these people at all.
Highly recommend checking out school dot com s

2509
03:27:56.680 --> 03:28:01.280
k o O L dot com.
Of course on they're doing a competition right

2510
03:28:01.360 --> 03:28:05.360
now. Mm hmm. I think
you'd be really interested in as someone who's

2511
03:28:05.399 --> 03:28:11.079
selling a compelling information product. Okay, so I would just recommend check it

2512
03:28:11.159 --> 03:28:16.280
out your program propagated. All right, y'all check that out. Thank you,

2513
03:28:16.360 --> 03:28:20.479
Kevin, appreciate that. Yeah,
that's a great conversation there, really

2514
03:28:20.719 --> 03:28:26.639
good civil. It's always great to
have a you know, a heated but

2515
03:28:26.879 --> 03:28:30.280
civil conversation with romancallics. I appreciate
that. So he gets a he gets

2516
03:28:30.280 --> 03:28:35.000
an A plus on U interaction there. He didn't and both of us kept

2517
03:28:35.040 --> 03:28:39.399
it civil. I think. So
it was heated but fun. Now this

2518
03:28:39.479 --> 03:28:43.200
guy's been sitting here waiting, jong
Wa. What's up? Jong Wa?

2519
03:28:43.319 --> 03:28:45.159
You've been waiting a long time,
So I guess I'll go to you.

2520
03:28:54.440 --> 03:28:58.879
What's up? Y'all? Thank you
for the super chats. Non go ahead?

2521
03:29:03.319 --> 03:29:05.239
Are you there? Yeah, I'm
there. What's up? Man?

2522
03:29:05.280 --> 03:29:11.639
What's on your mind? Yeah?
Well, pulling, mister, the abument

2523
03:29:11.120 --> 03:29:18.079
leading to the to the Trinity lead
into the the god of the Christian Orthodox.

2524
03:29:18.200 --> 03:29:22.239
Yeah. So I got a bunch
of videos where I talked about how

2525
03:29:22.319 --> 03:29:26.040
I'm just going to re retitle those
videos. How does tag lead to trinity?

2526
03:29:26.079 --> 03:29:28.680
Because that would be a lot easier
because this question gets asked me every

2527
03:29:28.760 --> 03:29:39.079
day. Jose, what's up?
Jose? Greetings from Germany. Uh net

2528
03:29:39.159 --> 03:29:45.120
infection. If somebody believes in Asian
philosophy, have you ever debated? We

2529
03:29:45.200 --> 03:29:48.000
have one Buddhist guy we did a
debate with on a live stream maybe two

2530
03:29:48.079 --> 03:29:54.040
years ago. You can find that. But those positions will typically debate.

2531
03:29:54.159 --> 03:29:56.360
People are always like, will you
going to debate a Hindu? When you

2532
03:29:56.440 --> 03:30:03.040
go to debate a Buddhist, they
don't typically debate because they're not missionary faiths.

2533
03:30:03.120 --> 03:30:07.639
Typically sometimes maybe Hindu's well, they're
a little bit missionary. But Jews

2534
03:30:07.680 --> 03:30:11.639
also don't typically gauge in debates that
much. I've had one or two Jews

2535
03:30:11.719 --> 03:30:16.639
ever come on discord to debate,
so for whatever reason that they typically don't

2536
03:30:16.680 --> 03:30:18.760
think. We had one Jewish guy
maybe two months ago, a Poplin so

2537
03:30:20.239 --> 03:30:26.479
also not a missionary based faith.
I've been debating them, and it's hard

2538
03:30:26.239 --> 03:30:31.399
to debate them because they say shamanism
is bad because you believe in Jesus.

2539
03:30:31.600 --> 03:30:35.559
Well, I mean, I think
we can have a better critiques than that.

2540
03:30:35.760 --> 03:30:39.639
For example, most of those Far
Eastern religions fall into some form of

2541
03:30:39.719 --> 03:30:43.959
monism or maya, and those are
really positions that are destructive to the possibility

2542
03:30:45.000 --> 03:30:48.040
of knowledge. So if you just
just critique it by you know, if

2543
03:30:48.079 --> 03:30:52.799
you deny basic logic, which most
Far Eastern positions do, then you're not

2544
03:30:52.920 --> 03:30:58.360
really You're not really be able to
say anything. Keishore and mad Ri ten

2545
03:30:58.399 --> 03:31:01.040
dollars. How's it going on over
content understand or the archeology? Will you

2546
03:31:01.159 --> 03:31:03.840
unblock me on Instagram? I don't
know. I mean, I don't know

2547
03:31:03.879 --> 03:31:07.399
who you are, and typically when
I block you on Instagram, I have

2548
03:31:07.479 --> 03:31:13.280
good reason to do it. So
I mean, is that your handle on

2549
03:31:13.399 --> 03:31:16.719
Instagram, so I don't even know. I guess I can look and see

2550
03:31:16.959 --> 03:31:20.360
and maybe since you sent a super
chat Lilac Flower days three dollars, I

2551
03:31:20.399 --> 03:31:22.399
found your videos a few days ago. I'm working through them. I'm not

2552
03:31:22.600 --> 03:31:24.680
Orthodox, I'm looking forward to learning
more. Well, thank you, Lylac,

2553
03:31:24.680 --> 03:31:31.760
appreciate that helpe you hope you find
uh the information atifying Jeff Koms three

2554
03:31:31.799 --> 03:31:37.239
dollars. What was the difference between
Protestant teaching of sanctification and Theosis? Are

2555
03:31:37.280 --> 03:31:41.159
they saying the same thing? No, I think it's a big difference between

2556
03:31:41.200 --> 03:31:45.920
I mean, we both might have
the same ideas that we want to morally

2557
03:31:46.079 --> 03:31:50.000
be better and we want to acquire
virtue, but we're saying very different things.

2558
03:31:50.079 --> 03:31:52.559
By how that's had right as you
saw, Redeem Zoomer at the beginning

2559
03:31:52.559 --> 03:31:56.200
of this video said that it's created
grace. Well, that's fundamentally absurd to

2560
03:31:56.239 --> 03:32:01.120
an Orthodox person. So I think
it's Saint Seraphim says. SARAHV says that

2561
03:32:01.200 --> 03:32:05.719
the whole over the Orthodox life is
the acquiring of the Holy Spirit, and

2562
03:32:05.799 --> 03:32:09.920
that means uncreated grace. That's what
aosis means. So it's not a mere

2563
03:32:09.079 --> 03:32:13.959
sort of Protestant moralism where we're just
trying to like engage some kind of self

2564
03:32:15.000 --> 03:32:20.479
help self betterment program. It's actually
acquiring the virtues and the life of God.

2565
03:32:20.799 --> 03:32:24.639
Jose, what's up are you there? Hey? Do you have a

2566
03:32:24.680 --> 03:32:28.639
disagreement or a argument? No,
I just wanted to ask when we could

2567
03:32:28.680 --> 03:32:33.559
find you on TikTok again. Yeah, somebody said in the chat you would

2568
03:32:33.559 --> 03:32:37.360
get a lot more interactions for this
if you did TikTok. That's true.

2569
03:32:37.719 --> 03:32:41.440
However, Yeah, it is so
so low tier dude, Like it's so

2570
03:32:41.639 --> 03:32:45.399
hard to I mean, people don't
even understand if you really want to test

2571
03:32:45.440 --> 03:32:48.719
your patience. I mean, I'm
serious, man, It's it's so hard.

2572
03:32:50.079 --> 03:32:52.600
Actually, maybe I should do it
because it's like training and virtue or

2573
03:32:52.639 --> 03:33:00.319
whatever, Like to test your patience
on TikTok is a big challenge. So

2574
03:33:00.639 --> 03:33:03.360
it's it's like double XP weekend on
virtue training. I mean, you just

2575
03:33:03.719 --> 03:33:07.520
you don't understand until you do it. People hear me saying this. I

2576
03:33:07.600 --> 03:33:13.600
mean it's just like people screaming and
just it's crazy. It's it's like it's

2577
03:33:13.600 --> 03:33:16.200
a madhouse, dude. So it's
hard for me to to put up with

2578
03:33:16.319 --> 03:33:18.840
it. But it does get a
lot of views, and it does get

2579
03:33:18.840 --> 03:33:22.120
a lot of people love that.
It's almost more like blood sports, not

2580
03:33:22.200 --> 03:33:26.319
really a debate. So I don't
know, do you have a question?

2581
03:33:26.280 --> 03:33:30.959
I mean you get the occasional,
you know, high tier. Yeah,

2582
03:33:31.000 --> 03:33:33.360
there have been if like that.
There's a Calvinist guy that has really good

2583
03:33:33.440 --> 03:33:37.399
questions about Bonson. He has Bonson
as his profile and he had a lot

2584
03:33:37.399 --> 03:33:41.879
of good Christology questions. And you
get you get a lot of Muslims.

2585
03:33:41.079 --> 03:33:45.799
If you want to really tap into
the Muslim sphere, you definitely should do

2586
03:33:46.840 --> 03:33:50.920
uh TikTok. You get more upstairs. And then last thing, could you

2587
03:33:50.040 --> 03:33:54.559
do just a quick off the cuff, you know, one or two line

2588
03:33:54.639 --> 03:34:01.959
reputation to these three different philosophy real
quick? I mean I can try,

2589
03:34:01.040 --> 03:34:05.719
but I don't know if it's sufficient
to be just, you know, just

2590
03:34:05.799 --> 03:34:11.280
straight off the bad. Evolution.
Yeah, I typically critique evolution from a

2591
03:34:11.399 --> 03:34:16.879
philosophical perspective. Like I'm not trained
in biology or you know, geology,

2592
03:34:16.959 --> 03:34:20.440
so I don't I don't usually go
into that domain. I'll talk about some

2593
03:34:20.520 --> 03:34:24.719
of those arguments, but typically when
I refute philosophy, it's from evolutions from

2594
03:34:24.719 --> 03:34:30.479
a philosophical perspective of that there's not
really sufficient evidence or any way to prove

2595
03:34:30.680 --> 03:34:35.680
that everything came from one thing,
or that there is a transmutation of species.

2596
03:34:35.360 --> 03:34:41.440
Usually the arguments are, well,
but you know there was adaptation in

2597
03:34:41.559 --> 03:34:46.680
this one instance, so therefore,
over billions of years, there would be

2598
03:34:46.040 --> 03:34:48.920
mutation in a totally different species.
Yeah, but that's the thing that's in

2599
03:34:50.079 --> 03:34:52.680
question, right, So that's a
huge leap that I don't see is justified.

2600
03:34:54.200 --> 03:34:56.799
I mean, there's there's other approaches
that you could do to evolution.

2601
03:34:56.840 --> 03:35:01.799
I mean, it just depends on
how how how far they're taking their evolutionary

2602
03:35:01.879 --> 03:35:05.520
theory. Right. Some people might
think evolution means everything is in an evolutionary

2603
03:35:05.600 --> 03:35:09.399
flux. Well, if everything is
an evolutionary flux, then the proposition that

2604
03:35:09.520 --> 03:35:13.319
everything is an evolutionary flux is also
an evolutionary flex and therefore self reputing.

2605
03:35:13.079 --> 03:35:18.719
So it just depends on what type
of person we're talking to. Modism,

2606
03:35:20.559 --> 03:35:24.000
Well, if everything is one,
then I could never know that everything is

2607
03:35:24.079 --> 03:35:28.600
one, because my coming to know
everything is one is particular indiscreete and therefore

2608
03:35:28.719 --> 03:35:35.239
not and is therefore one, So
it's illusory, gotcha? And then last

2609
03:35:35.280 --> 03:35:41.399
one, non dualism. Well,
non dualism is a form of monism.

2610
03:35:41.479 --> 03:35:45.200
So what does that mean? Never
mind? Well, I mean it depends

2611
03:35:45.239 --> 03:35:46.520
on what you mean by non dualism. I mean there might be a non

2612
03:35:46.639 --> 03:35:50.120
dualist view of epistemology, a non
dualist view of the soul. I mean,

2613
03:35:50.360 --> 03:35:54.920
what do you mean by a non
dualist view of metaphysics? Just be

2614
03:35:54.040 --> 03:35:58.239
more precise, what do you mean? Yeah, like metaphysics typically speaking about

2615
03:35:58.399 --> 03:36:03.399
like you know, Well, let's
just moan it upright, Thanks, Jack,

2616
03:36:03.399 --> 03:36:11.399
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e since five dollars, Thank you, Elli appreciate that all of our five

2657
03:39:07.680 --> 03:39:11.680
dollars. I don't have Twitter.
So I'm going to ask you here,

2658
03:39:13.120 --> 03:39:22.360
can we trace the idea of post
abosolic ideas of ecumenical councils being infallible?

2659
03:39:24.120 --> 03:39:28.520
Athanasious speaks of Nicea as the Holy
Spirit speaking, So I mean that would

2660
03:39:28.600 --> 03:39:33.520
kind of be the equivalent of that. Uh yeah, the way Athanasia speaks

2661
03:39:33.520 --> 03:39:39.959
of Nicia. What about a council
condemning one person? Uh Theodoric cirrus.

2662
03:39:39.200 --> 03:39:43.479
Yeah, there's a I mean,
there's a lot to say about ecumenical councils

2663
03:39:43.959 --> 03:39:48.440
leaving certain questions open. For example, Calcedon is an ecmmenical council, but

2664
03:39:48.559 --> 03:39:54.760
Calcidon didn't satisfy and settle all the
crystological disputes and debates that were going at

2665
03:39:54.799 --> 03:39:58.600
that time. And that's precisely why
the Fifth Council happens, and so the

2666
03:39:58.639 --> 03:40:07.000
Fifth Council happens to distinguish to actually
be more clear about what Calciton left unclear.

2667
03:40:07.559 --> 03:40:11.319
So that doesn't mean that ecumenical councils
are wrong. It just means that

2668
03:40:11.799 --> 03:40:16.200
there's going to be questions that,
by the nature of them being at one

2669
03:40:16.280 --> 03:40:20.639
space at one point in time,
that they don't answer everything. And if

2670
03:40:20.680 --> 03:40:22.520
you read any of the literature of
the academic literature on the Fifth Council,

2671
03:40:24.159 --> 03:40:28.079
and particularly you know the rise of
in hypostat in hypostaton and how it's used

2672
03:40:28.159 --> 03:40:33.959
by Leontius of Jerusalem and how it's
accepted of the Fifth Council, et cetera,

2673
03:40:33.280 --> 03:40:39.520
then we begin to see that this
is the next layer of clarification that

2674
03:40:39.639 --> 03:40:45.120
happens Postcalcidon. So I think that
helps to explain what's going on with Theodora

2675
03:40:46.879 --> 03:40:50.239
and the idea of a work being
condemned than people individual people being excused,

2676
03:40:50.319 --> 03:40:56.959
and so forth ender five dollars cyber
polygon happening today. I saw people talking

2677
03:40:58.000 --> 03:41:03.079
about internet being out, but no
internet outage or cell phone outage has affected

2678
03:41:03.159 --> 03:41:07.840
me today, So maybe they're running
some kind of test test run for something

2679
03:41:09.360 --> 03:41:11.879
I haven't looked at the news today, so I don't even know what's happening

2680
03:41:11.920 --> 03:41:22.000
today. I saw Lord Boldemort talking
about the FBI warnings of whatever about Chinese

2681
03:41:22.040 --> 03:41:26.120
hacking or something, but I haven't
even seen the news. So literally today

2682
03:41:26.159 --> 03:41:28.559
all have done is think about what
we're talking about here. I'll have to

2683
03:41:28.600 --> 03:41:31.000
look and see Banjo. I wouldn't
be surprised though, I mean, we

2684
03:41:31.079 --> 03:41:35.520
know some kind of crazy events are
coming. We've been talking about this for

2685
03:41:35.959 --> 03:41:39.879
the last six months, right of
what crazy events are coming in twenty twenty

2686
03:41:39.879 --> 03:41:43.920
four, we've been speculating. We've
listed the various possibilities, you know,

2687
03:41:43.200 --> 03:41:52.360
cyber pandemic, another koof economic collapse, riots, you know, we talked

2688
03:41:52.399 --> 03:41:54.040
about all kinds of different possibilities,
and we don't know. I don't know

2689
03:41:54.079 --> 03:41:56.559
what's going to Maybe they'll do like
two or three of these, right,

2690
03:41:56.600 --> 03:42:03.799
who knows? Bajo Fields Sendah,
what's the argument about, Luke, whoever's

2691
03:42:03.840 --> 03:42:07.879
not against you is for you?
Yeah, he also says that that guy

2692
03:42:07.000 --> 03:42:11.680
will also whoever's not against us will
also be one of us. So the

2693
03:42:11.760 --> 03:42:16.000
assumption is that that person would not
continue to just operate. You know,

2694
03:42:18.239 --> 03:42:22.799
what's the word, I'm lone wolf
he's not going to continue to work lone

2695
03:42:22.840 --> 03:42:26.319
Wolf because read the Book of Acts. You'll notice that Paul, trying to

2696
03:42:26.360 --> 03:42:33.479
get this to focus again goes out
of focus. Thank you. When Paul

2697
03:42:33.559 --> 03:42:35.799
goes out and he finds people that
are disciples of John or people who are

2698
03:42:35.879 --> 03:42:41.280
less instructed, he doesn't immediately call
them heretics. He treats them as brethren

2699
03:42:41.319 --> 03:42:43.399
and then invites them to become under
the episcopade. I think this is Acts

2700
03:42:43.559 --> 03:42:48.399
nine and like Acts eighteen somewhere in
there. So go look at those examples,

2701
03:42:48.440 --> 03:42:52.079
and there's really good notes in the
Orthodox Study Bible when it comes to

2702
03:42:52.239 --> 03:43:00.959
those chapters. So Ethan five dollars. Are you familiar with the medi old

2703
03:43:01.000 --> 03:43:05.040
French mystic Marguerite Poorite? I'm not. What do you think about her?

2704
03:43:05.159 --> 03:43:11.479
No idea. I can't imagine though, that as Orthodox we have much of

2705
03:43:11.520 --> 03:43:18.000
an interest in medieval French mystic women. Father Deacon Patrick, ten dollars,

2706
03:43:18.159 --> 03:43:26.159
could a two minute dialogue with Boomer
Garcia happen in nom uh? Well,

2707
03:43:26.239 --> 03:43:30.440
not for ten dollars, but thank
you for that, Father Deacon Patrick.

2708
03:43:30.559 --> 03:43:33.760
But maybe maybe le let's say we
could channel oh yeah, you know men.

2709
03:43:33.799 --> 03:43:37.280
When I was over Nom. You
know, we had a lot of

2710
03:43:37.319 --> 03:43:39.680
hard times, yo. There you
know what I was in the in the

2711
03:43:39.760 --> 03:43:41.840
tunnels of the Viet Cong had dug
your noise down there, and I phoned

2712
03:43:41.879 --> 03:43:46.079
what I thought was a couple of
you know, maybe like old McDonald's reppers

2713
03:43:46.159 --> 03:43:48.479
or whatever, and I said,
gee, how did the heck does the

2714
03:43:48.760 --> 03:43:52.399
does the via con get the McDonald's
reppers in their tunnels? And then boom

2715
03:43:52.479 --> 03:43:56.159
a bomb goes off. Next thing
I know, I'm waking up on a

2716
03:43:56.760 --> 03:44:00.479
uh on a platform, flame me
out of Nom and I'm on a vision

2717
03:44:00.600 --> 03:44:03.200
question another dimension. And then I
came back into my body and I realized

2718
03:44:03.280 --> 03:44:07.799
that it was just a dream.
When I was leaning over there waiting for

2719
03:44:07.959 --> 03:44:11.079
the himis to come over the I
don't know. I don't know where it's

2720
03:44:11.079 --> 03:44:13.239
going with that one. I don't
even know what a HEMMI is the motorcycle

2721
03:44:13.280 --> 03:44:16.520
like a helicopter? I guess,
right, is that is that a helicopter?

2722
03:44:16.559 --> 03:44:20.360
I don't know? How's that?
That's what you get for ten bucks,

2723
03:44:20.680 --> 03:44:24.120
slowest boy, three dollars. I've
heard you say, conraditional statement.

2724
03:44:26.040 --> 03:44:30.760
If Jesus rose from the dead,
that proves the religion truth? No never

2725
03:44:30.879 --> 03:44:39.200
made that statement. You must have
totally misunderstood me, because I said that

2726
03:44:39.360 --> 03:44:46.120
if Jesus rose from the dead,
then that means some type of miraculous event

2727
03:44:46.120 --> 03:44:52.120
occurred, right, And many religions
might claim a resurrection, or they might

2728
03:44:52.200 --> 03:44:56.319
claim some sort of miracle, But
the miracle only has the meaning that it

2729
03:44:56.399 --> 03:45:00.200
has in the context of the rest
of the religion, right, I mean,

2730
03:45:01.559 --> 03:45:05.479
Elisha his bones raised someone from the
dead. So raising from the dead

2731
03:45:05.520 --> 03:45:13.159
itself doesn't tell us that it has
the meaning of Messiah or right whatever.

2732
03:45:13.319 --> 03:45:15.840
Right, So it's in other words, it's part of the truths that are

2733
03:45:15.879 --> 03:45:18.959
part of the whole context. You
need the rest of the Christian religion of

2734
03:45:18.040 --> 03:45:22.879
Jesus being Thesiah, the son of
David, and what the meaning of resurrection

2735
03:45:22.159 --> 03:45:26.840
is. And that's why just resurrection
arguments don't work. So I've never argued

2736
03:45:26.840 --> 03:45:30.360
that. I mean, I've I
learned this argument was bad when I was

2737
03:45:30.440 --> 03:45:33.799
twenty, and I've never made this
argument. So you must have Your name

2738
03:45:33.879 --> 03:45:37.760
is slowest boy, so you must
have misunderstood as a slow boy. That's

2739
03:45:37.760 --> 03:45:39.200
okay, I'm not dissing you.
We can help you become a fast boy.

2740
03:45:41.280 --> 03:45:43.399
You said miracles don't prove the truth
of religion. Correct. They attest

2741
03:45:43.479 --> 03:45:46.159
to it, they don't prove it. So what proves the truth of Christianity?

2742
03:45:46.159 --> 03:45:50.079
The transional argument is the best logical
proof. But I think that miracles

2743
03:45:50.120 --> 03:45:54.280
occur and they attest to it,
they can become evidences. But evidences are

2744
03:45:54.360 --> 03:46:00.799
not strict proofs, because the resurrection
of Jesus as an evidence only has the

2745
03:46:00.959 --> 03:46:05.000
meaning that it has with the rest
of the Christian religion. That should be

2746
03:46:05.079 --> 03:46:09.000
obvious. Anonymous three dollars. You
don't believe we're in the end times,

2747
03:46:09.040 --> 03:46:11.840
you said, I said, I
don't know that. So again people just

2748
03:46:11.959 --> 03:46:16.319
coming out with accusing me of positions
that aren't my positions. Saying that I

2749
03:46:16.440 --> 03:46:18.079
don't know that if we're in the
end times is not equate to we are

2750
03:46:18.159 --> 03:46:22.959
not in the end times, So
two different things. Why do you think

2751
03:46:22.000 --> 03:46:26.079
that? Are there saints that take
a position on it? What I mean,

2752
03:46:26.120 --> 03:46:28.719
there's saints that take very's position on
different things. So if some saint

2753
03:46:28.799 --> 03:46:33.680
thinks that we're in the last days, it doesn't mean it's true. Everything

2754
03:46:33.719 --> 03:46:35.239
points in that direction. I could
be, but I mean, I think

2755
03:46:35.280 --> 03:46:41.319
you're getting ahead of yourself if you're
assuming that you know, oh we are

2756
03:46:41.399 --> 03:46:46.000
in the end times maybe double one
honey, one hundred dollars. Thank you

2757
03:46:46.079 --> 03:46:48.600
so much always dropping those fat super
chats, winning the super chat contest.

2758
03:46:48.920 --> 03:46:54.079
Appreciate that order our soul five dollars
dedicated video. Maybe too exhaustive explanation of

2759
03:46:54.120 --> 03:46:58.159
the distinction between epistemic certitude and normative
authority. Yeah, maybe we should,

2760
03:46:58.200 --> 03:47:03.799
but I mean we've I mean if
I've covered that like thirty times on thirty

2761
03:47:05.399 --> 03:47:07.840
open forums. It's like people if
they really want the answers, they can

2762
03:47:07.879 --> 03:47:11.319
go back and kind of watch that. I mean, gub does literally a

2763
03:47:11.479 --> 03:47:18.440
timestamp for every live stream. I
mean, like you know, he turns

2764
03:47:18.479 --> 03:47:26.120
it out, So thank you for
that. If you guys want access to

2765
03:47:26.159 --> 03:47:30.959
the books, remember you can go
to the website get copies of my philosophy

2766
03:47:30.959 --> 03:47:33.680
books, my Hollywood books, the
Red Book. Remember also, you guys

2767
03:47:33.719 --> 03:47:37.399
got to get take us to our
live event in Hollywood. I don't know

2768
03:47:37.440 --> 03:47:43.079
why everybody isn't just immediately jumping on
this. It's going to be amazing fun

2769
03:47:43.040 --> 03:47:50.120
because when else are you going to
be able to come and meet Jamie Kennedy

2770
03:47:50.239 --> 03:47:58.799
and then immediately go and have a
debate with me. If you want to

2771
03:47:58.799 --> 03:48:03.760
come to bait me, I don't
care he come to bait and then come

2772
03:48:03.840 --> 03:48:11.479
over here. We got five hours
of talk lecture, five hours of entertainment,

2773
03:48:13.120 --> 03:48:16.760
five hours of bring your theology questions
or geopolitical questions or whatever. Just

2774
03:48:16.920 --> 03:48:20.040
come get your ticket right here at
the event bright You can see it right

2775
03:48:20.079 --> 03:48:28.280
there. And it's not just for
California bros. If you live in the

2776
03:48:28.680 --> 03:48:31.799
Vegas area, you can come over
there as well. If you live in

2777
03:48:31.920 --> 03:48:37.879
there's the link for the tickets right
there. I will be covering geopolitics,

2778
03:48:39.000 --> 03:48:45.559
espionage, and orthodox metaphysics. Jamie
will be covering Jamie my wife will be

2779
03:48:45.639 --> 03:48:52.799
covering Hollywood Witches and Bitches, Hollywood
witchcraft, Hollywood witchcraft. Jamie Kennedy will

2780
03:48:52.799 --> 03:48:56.360
be doing stand up and he's a
lot of fun. We had a great

2781
03:48:56.440 --> 03:48:58.680
ton. So it's not what we
did at the last LA event what eight

2782
03:48:58.719 --> 03:49:03.920
months ago. This is a different
all different material. Okay, So I

2783
03:49:03.959 --> 03:49:05.879
don't think that well I already saw
this. No, No, this is

2784
03:49:05.959 --> 03:49:11.760
all different and it's gonna be like
a five hour NERD party. I mean,

2785
03:49:11.600 --> 03:49:15.200
where are you at? Why aren't
you here? Get your ticket now?

2786
03:49:16.200 --> 03:49:18.000
Go ahead, sign up right there, event. Right, there's a

2787
03:49:18.040 --> 03:49:22.719
link, and let's see. Got
another super chat here, ricky five dollars?

2788
03:49:24.639 --> 03:49:28.120
Can you do the I'm so pious
that you should be praying and not

2789
03:49:28.280 --> 03:49:33.000
depict I'm so pioused that I don't
understand why these people would go onto the

2790
03:49:33.079 --> 03:49:39.280
internet and not post their prayers.
Jesus says very clearly in the Sermon on

2791
03:49:39.319 --> 03:49:43.360
the Mount to make sure that you
stand on the street corner of Twitter and

2792
03:49:43.440 --> 03:49:48.600
tell everybody when you're praying, and
that God would lift you from heaven.

2793
03:49:50.159 --> 03:49:52.360
And if you're debating, then you're
not as pious as me. How's that?

2794
03:49:52.440 --> 03:49:56.600
Is that what you wanted? Let's
see somebody else wants to come on

2795
03:49:58.840 --> 03:50:07.040
Flame two. Get your tickets y'all
March fifteenth, Friday night. That's even

2796
03:50:07.079 --> 03:50:09.920
better than last time. Last time
was like a weeknight. We still got

2797
03:50:09.920 --> 03:50:11.840
one hundred people, So get your
tickets right there, March fifteenth, Friday

2798
03:50:11.920 --> 03:50:20.799
night. Yes, sir, okay. So I have two questions. I'm

2799
03:50:20.840 --> 03:50:24.239
not debating you. I can't do
that. But I have two questions and

2800
03:50:24.319 --> 03:50:28.200
they're kind of connected. So the
first would you rather ask them one of

2801
03:50:28.280 --> 03:50:31.040
the one? I asked one question
and you answer, do I do I

2802
03:50:31.159 --> 03:50:37.840
just put do I just ask both
of them? Okay? So I'll just

2803
03:50:37.879 --> 03:50:41.879
say both of them. Okay.
So after his resurrection, why did Jesus

2804
03:50:41.040 --> 03:50:46.319
need to ascend so that the Holy
Spirit could descend when both were existing at

2805
03:50:46.319 --> 03:50:50.079
the same time. When Jesus was
baptized, the Holy Spirit was present with

2806
03:50:50.200 --> 03:50:54.399
him. Had he stayed and started
his thousand year kingdom, then the whole

2807
03:50:54.440 --> 03:50:58.399
world to be Christian. The Church
shouldn't be divided as the authority would default.

2808
03:51:01.520 --> 03:51:03.399
So let's hold on. Let's answer
the first one. That's okay,

2809
03:51:03.479 --> 03:51:07.239
So let's answer the first one.
So it has nothing to do with whether

2810
03:51:07.440 --> 03:51:11.680
the Holy Spirit was omniscient or like
he wasn't here. It has to do

2811
03:51:11.760 --> 03:51:15.120
with the mode of his presence.
The Holy Spirit was not present in the

2812
03:51:15.239 --> 03:51:18.799
mode of empowering the church at Pentecosts, so that's why pentecost is something new.

2813
03:51:20.239 --> 03:51:26.159
So it's a new mode and new
empowerments in presence that is not present

2814
03:51:26.280 --> 03:51:28.520
prior to that. In the same
way, so we say the same thing,

2815
03:51:28.559 --> 03:51:31.799
for example, about Jesus. Jesus
is on the present, but the

2816
03:51:31.959 --> 03:51:37.479
unique mode of his incarnation is different
from just being omni present. So for

2817
03:51:37.600 --> 03:51:43.000
example, when Jesus was walking around
in Jerusalem. He's present in Jerusalem in

2818
03:51:43.079 --> 03:51:46.200
a unique way that's not identical to
his presence in the rest of the world

2819
03:51:46.319 --> 03:51:50.239
through his Omniscients. So both are
true at the same time. But it's

2820
03:51:50.280 --> 03:51:54.920
a new mode of presence. So
when he has said that he achieved that

2821
03:51:56.079 --> 03:51:58.440
new mode of presents, no,
I just said that when he was incarnate,

2822
03:51:58.799 --> 03:52:03.760
he was in a unique mode and
new mode of being in the form

2823
03:52:03.799 --> 03:52:07.600
of man as scripture says. So
the incarnation is his entering into the canotic

2824
03:52:07.719 --> 03:52:13.440
state, kinosis and new mode of
being. The Pentecost of descent is the

2825
03:52:13.879 --> 03:52:20.520
new mode of the presence of the
Holy Spirit. Okay, So the whole

2826
03:52:20.559 --> 03:52:22.959
point of his ascension was sor the
Holy Spirit. Now, there was a

2827
03:52:24.079 --> 03:52:26.399
multiple many points to the ascension.
For example, in the Book of Hebrews

2828
03:52:26.479 --> 03:52:31.360
in chapters six, seven, and
eight that describes the cleansing that he would

2829
03:52:31.399 --> 03:52:37.040
do in the typological fulfillment of the
high priests entrance into the Holy of Holies,

2830
03:52:37.040 --> 03:52:41.319
when he would sprinkle the mercy seat
that was typologically the ascent of Christ

2831
03:52:41.399 --> 03:52:43.680
into the Third heavens, the true
Holy of Holies, to cleanse the way

2832
03:52:43.840 --> 03:52:48.680
in our nature for us. So
his assumption of our nature to thenk go

2833
03:52:48.760 --> 03:52:52.040
into the presence of God. And
the ascension is the ability for us to

2834
03:52:52.120 --> 03:52:56.559
achieve thiosis and to be sons of
God. So the ascension was required in

2835
03:52:56.639 --> 03:53:01.559
that sense, correct, Okay,
I'll have to read more into that.

2836
03:53:01.799 --> 03:53:07.959
So my second question would be why
did Divinity bother with the Old Testament?

2837
03:53:07.000 --> 03:53:11.239
If it was all meant to foreshadow
Jesus, why not sin Jesus assurely as

2838
03:53:11.280 --> 03:53:15.680
possible during the time of Adam,
and then he could have taught all that

2839
03:53:15.879 --> 03:53:18.399
was needed, died and then was
resurrected to start the New Covenant, and

2840
03:53:18.440 --> 03:53:22.840
then he could have assented and done
all the things you said before. What

2841
03:53:22.040 --> 03:53:26.399
was the point of the Old Testament? Well, I think that in God's

2842
03:53:26.559 --> 03:53:31.280
providence and infinite knowledge, he waited
until the time was right, as scripture

2843
03:53:31.319 --> 03:53:37.159
says, to bring the birth of
the Messiah, when humanity had been led

2844
03:53:37.200 --> 03:53:41.920
to a certain stage, and so
due to probably the effects of sin,

2845
03:53:41.120 --> 03:53:46.280
humanity probably couldn't bear a lot of
the truth and teachings and things that were

2846
03:53:48.239 --> 03:53:50.600
that were brought about, for example, the time of Christ. Like you

2847
03:53:50.680 --> 03:53:56.799
have the example of Alexander the Great
spreading Greek culture such that cooin a Greek

2848
03:53:56.959 --> 03:54:01.879
was everywhere, so providentially, coin
a Greed was the means by which the

2849
03:54:01.000 --> 03:54:05.840
message of the Gospel spread throughout a
lot of the Empire at that time.

2850
03:54:05.399 --> 03:54:09.799
And if you didn't have a language
as an example, you know, if

2851
03:54:11.520 --> 03:54:15.639
Jesus had come at the time of
Abraham, right, there's not a widespread

2852
03:54:15.799 --> 03:54:20.399
language that would have been useful in
that way. So God usually likes to

2853
03:54:20.639 --> 03:54:26.920
use existing human providential things. So
I think he also wanted to show and

2854
03:54:28.079 --> 03:54:33.879
demonstrate a fulfillment of hundreds of prophecies, as opposed to like if you'd come

2855
03:54:33.920 --> 03:54:37.440
the day of Abraham, there would
have been like only a handful of prophecies,

2856
03:54:37.399 --> 03:54:43.280
but rather by waiting a few millennium
you have hundreds of prophecies that are

2857
03:54:43.319 --> 03:54:46.399
stacked up throughout the Bible that ended
up being fulfilled. So it's another attestation

2858
03:54:46.639 --> 03:54:50.040
to you know, the Jesus being
them sized. And there might be other

2859
03:54:50.159 --> 03:54:56.799
reasons that as humans finite, we
don't even know sure maybe but might come.

2860
03:54:56.959 --> 03:55:00.840
I think my question was that,
so basically, if he had appeared

2861
03:55:00.840 --> 03:55:03.799
as early as possible during the time
of Adam, that would have been that

2862
03:55:03.879 --> 03:55:07.520
would have been pre that would have
been pre Babel, so everybody would have

2863
03:55:07.559 --> 03:55:11.040
been speaking the same language. So
I don't think that would have been a

2864
03:55:11.200 --> 03:55:16.079
problem. And I feel like Jesus, Chris, why do you think everybody?

2865
03:55:18.479 --> 03:55:22.479
Every everybody is not speaking the same
language. That's why Babel is confused

2866
03:55:22.639 --> 03:55:26.920
because at Babel, if they if
Babel had been achieved, they would have

2867
03:55:26.079 --> 03:55:30.680
spoken one language. So what do
you mean they spoke? I thought they

2868
03:55:30.719 --> 03:55:33.319
were speaking one language while they were
building Babel, and then God made them

2869
03:55:33.360 --> 03:55:35.920
all have to fall. Well,
I mean, yeah, okay, maybe

2870
03:55:37.040 --> 03:55:41.680
they were. But my point is, like Jesus, I see what you're

2871
03:55:41.719 --> 03:55:46.239
saying, right, But the first
thing is Jesus actually is all over the

2872
03:55:46.280 --> 03:55:50.879
Old Testament. He's the person talking
to Abraham. He's the one who He's

2873
03:55:50.920 --> 03:55:58.559
the one who scrambled the languages at
at the babyl mm hmm. But wouldn't

2874
03:55:58.600 --> 03:56:01.239
have made more sense to enconne during
the time with Adam as early as possible?

2875
03:56:01.840 --> 03:56:05.319
Well, but God wanted so.
One thing that the progressive revelation does

2876
03:56:05.639 --> 03:56:11.719
is that it expands the call.
So for example, in Genesis it's a

2877
03:56:11.799 --> 03:56:16.479
family, and then by the time
of Abraham it's a tribe and by the

2878
03:56:16.559 --> 03:56:18.760
time of Moses it's a nation,
and then by the time of Christ it's

2879
03:56:18.799 --> 03:56:26.000
an empire that is global. So
there's this gradual expansion that I think shows

2880
03:56:26.079 --> 03:56:31.559
the Covenant is broadening and bringing more
and more people into it. So for

2881
03:56:31.639 --> 03:56:37.639
whatever reason, God wanted to gradually
expand it, all right, And my

2882
03:56:37.840 --> 03:56:43.559
last question would be what would be
the best book on the introduction to Orthodox

2883
03:56:43.600 --> 03:56:50.959
philosophy. Well, John Damascus Is
Fount of Knowledge is a classic book that

2884
03:56:50.120 --> 03:57:01.280
introduces it, but also Yarislav of
Pelican's book christian the one about the Cappadocians

2885
03:57:01.360 --> 03:57:07.440
and Metaphysics Christianity in the class Christianity, Classical Tradition, The Metamorphosis is Natural

2886
03:57:07.520 --> 03:57:09.399
Theology and the capp Dotionans by yar
Slav Pelican B. L I K.

2887
03:57:11.479 --> 03:57:16.520
Christianity and the Clastical Tradition and yar
Slav Pelican P. E l I K.

2888
03:57:18.840 --> 03:57:22.520
Okay, because that will that will
teach you the terms of the Cappadocians.

2889
03:57:22.959 --> 03:57:26.559
Anamascus has Found of Knowledge is really
just kind of going through a bunch

2890
03:57:26.639 --> 03:57:33.479
of Aristotelian philosophical terminology, Okay,
and will it and we will That second

2891
03:57:33.559 --> 03:57:37.040
book by Staff Willot teach middle of
the terms as well, so things like

2892
03:57:37.399 --> 03:57:45.120
theosis mode and like yes, yes, yes, okay, thank you,

2893
03:57:45.440 --> 03:57:52.760
Yeah, good questions. I appreciate
that. We'll do one or two more

2894
03:57:52.840 --> 03:58:09.200
here, Jason, Yeah, i'm
you. Hey, Jay, I'm here.

2895
03:58:11.799 --> 03:58:16.200
I noticed that in a debate when
someone said it was silly to think

2896
03:58:16.319 --> 03:58:22.920
that death entered because of the world, because of sin, because the first

2897
03:58:22.159 --> 03:58:28.559
salad would have been death. But
and I noticed that in your answer you

2898
03:58:28.680 --> 03:58:33.360
didn't say, well, in Christianity, life is in the blood. And

2899
03:58:33.440 --> 03:58:37.000
I thought, oh, that was
an easy one. We don't classify lettuce

2900
03:58:37.159 --> 03:58:41.319
as being alive, but can you
talk about that a little bit? Well,

2901
03:58:41.680 --> 03:58:46.000
that's just equivocating on the word alive. And so yeah, I think

2902
03:58:46.120 --> 03:58:50.079
plants are alive. There's nothing wrong
with saying plants are alive because plants die.

2903
03:58:50.239 --> 03:58:54.559
If a plant dies, then it
was alive. And all death entered

2904
03:58:54.600 --> 03:58:58.360
as a result of the fall,
including plant life. Okay, So that's

2905
03:58:58.440 --> 03:59:01.319
the position that you take, is
that plant death occurs because of the fall.

2906
03:59:01.920 --> 03:59:05.920
All death occurs because of the fall. Yeah, got you? Okay,

2907
03:59:05.840 --> 03:59:09.040
very good, Thank you very much. And you do you don't take

2908
03:59:09.079 --> 03:59:16.840
that position? I well, I
grew up Protestant, And when I under

2909
03:59:16.200 --> 03:59:22.959
my understanding of life, I thought
they were eating salads in the garden of

2910
03:59:22.040 --> 03:59:28.040
eating and like eating fruit. And
that is that now the mode of existence,

2911
03:59:30.000 --> 03:59:33.440
the mode of existence prior to the
fall is different than after the fall.

2912
03:59:33.479 --> 03:59:37.319
That's why God says that he killed
an animal and made them skins.

2913
03:59:37.360 --> 03:59:41.040
That's talking about our flesh, physical
body that we have now. So the

2914
03:59:41.159 --> 03:59:43.639
type of bodies that they had were
not identical to the bodies that we have

2915
03:59:43.799 --> 03:59:48.879
now. Understood, if you read, if you read, if you read

2916
03:59:48.959 --> 03:59:54.239
Romans eight, it says that all
death, all entropy, all you know,

2917
03:59:54.319 --> 03:59:58.280
whatever, it's the result of the
fall. Matt, what's up,

2918
03:59:58.319 --> 04:00:13.959
Matt being man? Two dollars?
What do you think about Catholic social teaching

2919
04:00:13.000 --> 04:00:18.200
subsidiarity, human dignity, common good? Where does it overlap with Orthodoxy?

2920
04:00:18.360 --> 04:00:22.520
Well, I mean those are kind
of you know, those are kind of

2921
04:00:22.719 --> 04:00:26.399
vague phrases. So do I believe
in human dignity, Yeah, but not

2922
04:00:26.040 --> 04:00:30.879
in not on the same basis,
hold on, not on the same basis

2923
04:00:30.920 --> 04:00:37.159
as the Roman Catholic uh to base
it on you know, natural law would

2924
04:00:37.879 --> 04:00:43.879
Yeah, it's just hold on a
minute, common good, I mean common

2925
04:00:43.920 --> 04:00:46.159
good is kind of a basic Yeah, of course we believe in the common

2926
04:00:46.159 --> 04:00:48.799
good, but that's also kind of
a basic idea, so we'd have to

2927
04:00:48.840 --> 04:00:52.159
be more specific. I just don't
think that the Roman Catholic idea that all

2928
04:00:52.239 --> 04:00:56.959
that is somehow based on self evident
principles of natural law makes any sense.

2929
04:00:58.120 --> 04:01:01.399
But probably a lot of the basic
ideas we would agree with. Sure,

2930
04:01:01.760 --> 04:01:11.399
go ahead, what's your what's your
idea? Matt? Go ahead? Hey,

2931
04:01:11.520 --> 04:01:18.040
jam I'm currently Pentecostal, but I
have been looking into Orthodoxy. But

2932
04:01:18.120 --> 04:01:26.920
I've just been struggling with I suppose
that whole scripture and tradition, and I

2933
04:01:28.200 --> 04:01:37.360
just wanted to that the sacraments are
actually outside the church as well as inside

2934
04:01:37.399 --> 04:01:41.840
the church. You're cutting out,
man, Sorry. So in terms of

2935
04:01:41.959 --> 04:01:46.680
tradition, I would say, uh, you know, Paul talks about handing

2936
04:01:46.760 --> 04:01:50.280
on the traditions as he delivered them. In Corinthians, Paul talks about the

2937
04:01:50.399 --> 04:01:56.040
oral and the written traditions, and
second Thessalonians. You know, tradition is

2938
04:01:56.600 --> 04:02:00.319
just means what's handed down, right, So there's good traditions and the bad

2939
04:02:00.399 --> 04:02:03.360
traditions. The Canada Scripture itself is
part of the church's tradition, like what

2940
04:02:03.479 --> 04:02:07.920
books make it up. The Bible
itself doesn't identify which books go into the

2941
04:02:07.959 --> 04:02:11.120
canon, so the church is necessary, tradition necessary, So Jesus is refuting

2942
04:02:13.120 --> 04:02:16.520
traditions that replace what God says,
not all tradition. You're yell, what's

2943
04:02:16.600 --> 04:02:28.440
up? Can you hear me?
Sir? Hey? So I'm a long

2944
04:02:28.520 --> 04:02:31.840
time listener, man, I was
just wondering. I had a few questions.

2945
04:02:31.440 --> 04:02:35.600
I well, actually, let me
say this. I started rereading the

2946
04:02:35.680 --> 04:02:39.879
Bible from the very beginning because I've
been a long time believer in Christ,

2947
04:02:39.959 --> 04:02:41.680
but I never really read the Old
Testament, so I'm kind of going through

2948
04:02:41.719 --> 04:02:48.079
it again fully, you know,
as as an adult. And so I

2949
04:02:48.159 --> 04:02:50.719
just had a couple of questions to
see what you you know, what you

2950
04:02:50.840 --> 04:02:56.799
thought? Do you have any disagreements
but today specifically about disagreements? Oh no,

2951
04:02:56.920 --> 04:03:01.079
I apologize. What's your question?
Make it quick? Okay? Well,

2952
04:03:01.120 --> 04:03:07.959
I was just wondering. So a
lot of the truth are people who

2953
04:03:09.040 --> 04:03:11.520
I don't know if they read the
book, they always reference the fallen angels

2954
04:03:11.600 --> 04:03:16.120
when they talk about the sons of
God. And I was wondering, like

2955
04:03:16.280 --> 04:03:20.159
what your take on that was,
because how I understand it is that the

2956
04:03:20.280 --> 04:03:26.559
sons of God would be Set's bloodline. And yeah, I don't think there's

2957
04:03:26.559 --> 04:03:28.840
any there's not one orthodox position on
this. You can believe in angels or

2958
04:03:28.879 --> 04:03:33.760
Seth. I believe that if you
accept the Dudero canon. There's about four

2959
04:03:33.879 --> 04:03:37.000
places in the Duero canon where it
specifies and makes it pretty clear that it

2960
04:03:37.079 --> 04:03:39.799
is uh titans or giants. Uh. So I've always believed in the angel

2961
04:03:39.840 --> 04:03:45.680
here. Okay? Cool? And
then one more thing, if you could,

2962
04:03:45.959 --> 04:03:50.680
who do you think that Satan has
like an actual identity? And if

2963
04:03:50.719 --> 04:03:54.239
he does, like, what do
you mean of course he's an angel?

2964
04:03:54.280 --> 04:03:56.319
What do you mean? Well?
Okay, that's why I was wondering.

2965
04:03:56.399 --> 04:03:58.959
I thought he was an angel,
But like, does he have another name?

2966
04:04:00.360 --> 04:04:01.520
And where does the name? Where
does Lucifer come from? I hear

2967
04:04:01.520 --> 04:04:05.319
a lot of people say Lucifer,
but I don't see that connection. That's

2968
04:04:05.319 --> 04:04:13.600
in Isaiah fourteen. But does isn't
that referencing a king? It's comparing Satan

2969
04:04:13.760 --> 04:04:18.079
to the king and the king to
Satan. Interesting? Okay, he does

2970
04:04:18.120 --> 04:04:20.360
this a lot. I mean,
Ezekiel twenty eight does the exact same thing,

2971
04:04:20.399 --> 04:04:26.440
where it compares another king to Satan. So the fall of a king

2972
04:04:26.600 --> 04:04:28.719
is compared to the fall of the
pride of Lisfer, So it's a both

2973
04:04:28.799 --> 04:04:33.920
and not in either war. Interesting, Okay, thanks man? Yeah,

2974
04:04:33.719 --> 04:05:01.559
good questions, Ryan Hard. What's
up? Ryan Hard? You gotta unmute,

2975
04:05:01.600 --> 04:05:11.120
man, guys, you gotta umute
Rein Hard. You gotta unmute if

2976
04:05:11.159 --> 04:05:30.559
you want to talk. Okay,
don't you demonea what's up? Yeah?

2977
04:05:30.760 --> 04:05:33.719
Can you hear me? Yeah?
What's up? Man? Yeah? Right,

2978
04:05:33.479 --> 04:05:37.719
so I don't I know. I
heard you say that this is mostly

2979
04:05:37.719 --> 04:05:41.079
for disagreements. I don't know if
it's a disagreements. Well, yeah,

2980
04:05:41.120 --> 04:05:45.319
so everybody calls in on the day
of disagreements and they don't disagree. What's

2981
04:05:45.399 --> 04:05:48.360
up? Yeah, I'm not I'm
not trying to be rude, but I

2982
04:05:48.360 --> 04:05:52.680
want to go back to Rhinehard because
you might actually disagree. Soday is for

2983
04:05:52.840 --> 04:06:01.040
disagreements and nobody ever calls them disagrees. Go ahead, Ryan Hard. Although

2984
04:06:01.200 --> 04:06:03.879
actually we had a great conversation with
a disagreeing Romancalllic for like an hour hour

2985
04:06:03.920 --> 04:06:09.280
and a half, So I take
that back. Most people known what's yep?

2986
04:06:09.120 --> 04:06:13.799
Yeah, Jay, I just wanted
to ask what unites in the hypostatic

2987
04:06:13.920 --> 04:06:18.040
union. What are the things that
unite? They unite Christ? What do

2988
04:06:18.079 --> 04:06:22.879
you mean at the union? Right? What unites? Like when we speak

2989
04:06:22.920 --> 04:06:26.239
of a union, we're speaking of
two things that unite. What are those

2990
04:06:26.319 --> 04:06:31.040
things with respect to Christ? Right? So the divine person who possesses the

2991
04:06:31.079 --> 04:06:39.280
divine nature unites himself to a human
nature. So it's the person uniting himself

2992
04:06:39.319 --> 04:06:41.920
to the human nature, correct?
Because yeah, because then I'm just wondering

2993
04:06:41.959 --> 04:06:46.319
because usually when we talk about a
union, those two things become one after

2994
04:06:46.440 --> 04:06:50.159
the union, right, So it's
like an objection by you know, the

2995
04:06:50.239 --> 04:06:54.479
Orientals that I'm struggling with. So
if we're saying that the person unites with

2996
04:06:54.559 --> 04:07:00.319
the nature, what becomes one.
That's why it's called the hyposthetic union.

2997
04:07:00.399 --> 04:07:03.680
And this is why even after the
union and the two Letters to six Census,

2998
04:07:03.799 --> 04:07:07.959
Cyril talks about two natures. This
is cleared up at the Fifth Council.

2999
04:07:07.799 --> 04:07:11.879
In the word in hypostatic. So
the human nature exists in the mode

3000
04:07:11.879 --> 04:07:18.559
of the divine logos who assumed it. Yeah, I understand that the logos

3001
04:07:18.559 --> 04:07:22.399
assumes the human nature, right,
And what is the logos? Do you

3002
04:07:22.440 --> 04:07:24.920
think the logos is just a divine
nature or is he a person with a

3003
04:07:24.000 --> 04:07:28.639
nature? No, the Logos is
the person of Christ. Okay, so

3004
04:07:28.719 --> 04:07:33.200
then you affirm what I just said. Yeah, and I'm not I'm not

3005
04:07:33.360 --> 04:07:35.040
taking a contrary stance. I'm just
asking. I don't think that answered my

3006
04:07:35.159 --> 04:07:39.520
question. I think it did answer
the question. But how did it not

3007
04:07:39.840 --> 04:07:43.120
said? Was that the logos assumed
the human nature and that he exists within

3008
04:07:43.200 --> 04:07:46.479
that human nature? You understand.
So it's in hypostatic Do you know what

3009
04:07:46.520 --> 04:07:50.719
that word means? In hyposthesization?
Is that what you're talking about? Yeah?

3010
04:07:52.000 --> 04:07:56.399
Yeah, isn't that when the person
assumes the nature and then the nature

3011
04:07:56.440 --> 04:08:00.000
subsists within the person. Well,
but it also applies to the human nature,

3012
04:08:00.079 --> 04:08:01.319
or that it exists in the mode
of the logos that assumed it.

3013
04:08:01.559 --> 04:08:07.200
Sure, yeah, yeah, sure. So I'm saying what became one after

3014
04:08:07.280 --> 04:08:09.440
the union? I know that he
assumed the human nature. I'm saying what

3015
04:08:09.559 --> 04:08:13.120
became one? When two things unite, they become one? Yeah, but

3016
04:08:13.239 --> 04:08:16.200
they become one in what way?
It doesn't mean they become a tertion quid

3017
04:08:18.399 --> 04:08:22.120
you could take numerically, I guess, yeah, but this isn't either or

3018
04:08:22.280 --> 04:08:26.680
right, So it's not a tertion
quid. So the monophyside position is a

3019
04:08:26.840 --> 04:08:31.600
tertion quid. And then what happened
in the death? Sorry, what happened

3020
04:08:31.639 --> 04:08:33.959
in the What in the death?
If it's a tertiam quid? What happened

3021
04:08:35.000 --> 04:08:39.120
in the death? Like, I
don't understand what you're asking me. So

3022
04:08:39.200 --> 04:08:43.479
you're not familiar with the common objections
to the monophicide position, but you're trying

3023
04:08:43.479 --> 04:08:46.040
to arguement opthetism. I'm aware of
the objections. What do you mean,

3024
04:08:46.719 --> 04:08:48.520
Well, then you would be aware
of what I just asked you. What

3025
04:08:48.600 --> 04:08:54.079
happened in Christ's death? Oh?
When Christ died, his human soul separated

3026
04:08:54.120 --> 04:08:58.280
from his body. Okay, so
he maintains the human nature and it's not

3027
04:08:58.399 --> 04:09:01.040
a tertion quid. Yeah, yeah, the human nature doesn't go away when

3028
04:09:01.079 --> 04:09:05.479
he dies. Okay, then you
agree with the Orthodox position. Yeah.

3029
04:09:05.680 --> 04:09:07.840
Like I said at the beginning,
I agree with your position. That's still

3030
04:09:07.920 --> 04:09:11.760
not answering my question. It is
answering your question because something could be one

3031
04:09:11.959 --> 04:09:15.959
in more than one way. So
only if you have a reductionist idea of

3032
04:09:16.079 --> 04:09:18.120
what one means would you think that
it's a tertium quid. Do you know

3033
04:09:18.159 --> 04:09:20.079
what I mean? Boyu? Turton
quid? Okay, okay, that's fine,

3034
04:09:20.079 --> 04:09:22.760
that's fine. You answer my question. Okay, that's fine. Do

3035
04:09:22.840 --> 04:09:26.520
you know what a teri quid means? Okay, so you've been answering and

3036
04:09:26.520 --> 04:09:28.879
you don't even know what that means. But the concepts we're talking about I'm

3037
04:09:28.920 --> 04:09:31.280
familiar with. I mean, you
can explain the word. I'll guarantee you

3038
04:09:31.319 --> 04:09:37.360
I know what it means. Well, this is a common term in monophysite

3039
04:09:37.440 --> 04:09:43.079
oriental disputes between Orthodoxes. But you
acted like you knew about it. What

3040
04:09:43.239 --> 04:09:48.600
have I gotten wrong? Well,
you're giggling because you're talking. That's not

3041
04:09:48.719 --> 04:09:52.040
English, right, So what I
understand the concept? Okay, well hold

3042
04:09:52.040 --> 04:09:54.360
on, if you understand, if
you understand the concept, what is it?

3043
04:09:56.319 --> 04:09:58.879
Look, I'm saying you can explain
the word and I'll know the concept.

3044
04:10:00.000 --> 04:10:03.680
You've already been sassy, being condescending
and giggling at me like this is

3045
04:10:03.760 --> 04:10:05.680
like I didn't answer your question because
you think it's a gotcha to tell me

3046
04:10:05.799 --> 04:10:09.680
this like non English word, and
because it shows that you don't actually know

3047
04:10:09.760 --> 04:10:13.680
this dispute because you said you did. Yeah, so when like an English

3048
04:10:13.680 --> 04:10:18.040
speaker knows what essence means, that
it doesn't matter because you know what.

3049
04:10:18.879 --> 04:10:22.120
So you knew what in hypostaton was, but you don't know what Greek to

3050
04:10:22.159 --> 04:10:24.760
read. The quid is not a
Greek term, it's a Latin term.

3051
04:10:24.959 --> 04:10:28.760
I know it's an analogy. But
anyways, Jay, thanks for answering my

3052
04:10:28.879 --> 04:10:35.920
question. You answered it quite well. Yeah, see these people and you

3053
04:10:37.040 --> 04:10:45.159
definitely specified what became one? Right, So what is your position? The

3054
04:10:45.280 --> 04:10:48.799
question to ask? Right? So
this is a newly made profile. So

3055
04:10:48.879 --> 04:10:50.799
what's your real position? So you
made this profile to come on the debate?

3056
04:10:50.920 --> 04:10:56.120
Right? Yeah? Because I deleted
Twitter. I don't know why you

3057
04:10:56.280 --> 04:11:01.440
keep giggling like this is some goatcha. Uh huh, what's your point?

3058
04:11:01.280 --> 04:11:05.440
So? Who are you really?
Hey, here we go, here we

3059
04:11:05.440 --> 04:11:07.200
go. We gotta keep her pretty
my name now? So this is a

3060
04:11:07.280 --> 04:11:15.200
mute automatic blot. I'm well,
if you're irrelevant, why are you?

3061
04:11:15.319 --> 04:11:16.639
Why are you? Like? What
is so funny? Like I don't understand

3062
04:11:16.680 --> 04:11:20.559
the logic of these people? Why
do you keep repeating my name? Like?

3063
04:11:20.600 --> 04:11:24.120
Why do you do this? You
guys are all the same. Your

3064
04:11:24.280 --> 04:11:28.559
reasoning is horrible, My reasoning is
horrible. Okay, so you admitted that

3065
04:11:28.680 --> 04:11:39.200
you admitted I answered your question,
but the reasoning is horrible, h exactly.

3066
04:11:41.719 --> 04:11:45.760
So this is the you see how
he played this game. And I

3067
04:11:45.799 --> 04:11:50.399
can always immediately identify these people because
they start giggling and they start getting all

3068
04:11:50.520 --> 04:11:54.680
sassy and they pretend like they're pious, and then they start repeating my name,

3069
04:11:56.079 --> 04:11:58.719
and uh yeah, it's guy's ridiculous. So he doesn't even know.

3070
04:12:00.159 --> 04:12:03.399
Anybody who knows that dispute would know
what the word tertium quid means. It

3071
04:12:03.520 --> 04:12:07.440
means third thing, and he doesn't
know that, so he doesn't actually know

3072
04:12:07.719 --> 04:12:13.319
the basics of the dispute between Orientals
and Orthodox. That's a classic. It

3073
04:12:13.360 --> 04:12:16.840
doesn't mean you have to know the
Latin. It means that you would know

3074
04:12:16.959 --> 04:12:26.639
this dispute. And you notice how
the fake piety all spilled. It eventually

3075
04:12:26.719 --> 04:12:35.360
comes out. Hello, yeah,
what's up man, helly day, I

3076
04:12:35.440 --> 04:12:43.719
get to see you. I would
like to ask about the the one will

3077
04:12:45.040 --> 04:12:52.200
in the Roman Catholic side of do
you fil do you have any objections?

3078
04:12:54.440 --> 04:12:58.239
How does one will? How would
that prove Philou? No, no,

3079
04:12:58.360 --> 04:13:03.479
no, no, not because I'm
new and I'm just starting to understand,

3080
04:13:03.879 --> 04:13:09.399
and I understand the mostly the Eastern
Orthodox side, but then when it comes

3081
04:13:09.440 --> 04:13:15.920
to the Roman Catholic. There's an
objection to you made. If I'm mistaken

3082
04:13:16.000 --> 04:13:22.360
of the right, we're gonna move
I'm sorry, I don't know. I

3083
04:13:22.399 --> 04:13:24.040
don't understand. We're gonna move on. It's hard to understand what you're saying.

3084
04:13:26.959 --> 04:13:31.399
Uh, today is for people who
disagree objections reformed. Here we go.

3085
04:13:33.799 --> 04:13:39.920
We spent uh good bit of time
refuting reform, redeemed zoomer. I'm

3086
04:13:41.000 --> 04:13:50.680
mute, dude, reformed, man, I'm mute. Hello, yep,

3087
04:13:52.840 --> 04:14:00.319
what's up. I'm reading a little
bit about the ontology of scripture. I've

3088
04:14:00.360 --> 04:14:05.520
never really investigated the canon, and
I was just wondering if what the Orthodox

3089
04:14:05.639 --> 04:14:09.280
position is on the ontology of scripture
and if, like cool, the canon

3090
04:14:09.399 --> 04:14:13.040
is the canon is different from ontology. That's a historical question. So I

3091
04:14:13.040 --> 04:14:20.040
don't know what you're talking about.
Right, Well, there's like in the

3092
04:14:20.120 --> 04:14:24.719
reform to literature like that I'm reading, like Michael Kruger and stuff. They

3093
04:14:24.920 --> 04:14:30.520
posit an ontological canon that it's the
speech of God. That's called a historianism.

3094
04:14:30.639 --> 04:14:33.000
Right, So there's this like ethereal
thing that is the word of God,

3095
04:14:33.079 --> 04:14:37.079
that's the canon of scripture. But
then there's this historical thing that's another

3096
04:14:37.159 --> 04:14:39.479
thing, right, there's no such
thing as a Canada scripture that is not

3097
04:14:39.840 --> 04:14:45.559
the actual historical decision of the Church. So is it true that God knows

3098
04:14:45.639 --> 04:14:50.319
the canon of scripture? Yes,
that's not an ontological canon that a reform

3099
04:14:50.399 --> 04:14:56.479
person has access to outside of history, right, Well, I mean they

3100
04:14:56.559 --> 04:15:01.959
make arguments for that. It coincides
that it's a product of history. How

3101
04:15:01.000 --> 04:15:05.840
does that prove the Protestant canon because
the whole again, it's bypassing the fact

3102
04:15:05.920 --> 04:15:11.239
that the reform person has no access
to who God is apart from the Bible.

3103
04:15:11.399 --> 04:15:13.360
But the Bible is the thing in
question, so it's a way for

3104
04:15:13.440 --> 04:15:16.280
them to try to get around the
necessity of the Church in the decision of

3105
04:15:16.319 --> 04:15:20.600
the canon. But there is what
what access does a reform person have to

3106
04:15:20.760 --> 04:15:24.559
the mind of God to get the
canon? This is preposterous because when he

3107
04:15:24.600 --> 04:15:28.280
starts talking about God, his presupposition
is the canon. But that's the thing

3108
04:15:28.319 --> 04:15:35.600
in question, right, I guess
I don't. I'm new to these the

3109
04:15:35.760 --> 04:15:41.200
literature, so I was just I
don't really understand. It's just a made

3110
04:15:41.280 --> 04:15:45.760
up thing the reform people to try
to get as it's it's presupposing the thing

3111
04:15:45.840 --> 04:15:48.399
in question, Oh, I don't
need to go to the historical church to

3112
04:15:48.479 --> 04:15:52.040
get the canon, because I have
access to the God canon in the mind

3113
04:15:52.079 --> 04:15:56.200
of God. No you don't.
Well, I think the argument that I've

3114
04:15:56.559 --> 04:16:03.920
come across is the the ontological canon
is or the way they the way they

3115
04:16:04.040 --> 04:16:08.879
explain is that they're kind of I
guess thing they try to say is a

3116
04:16:08.959 --> 04:16:15.559
defeater is that the speech of God
constitutes the Church, and the Church is

3117
04:16:15.600 --> 04:16:21.479
a recipient of the canon, but
not the doesn't give the the speech.

3118
04:16:21.600 --> 04:16:25.000
The speech of God is identified as
the second person of the Godhead, the

3119
04:16:25.079 --> 04:16:26.840
Logos. So you could say that, you could say the Church is a

3120
04:16:29.399 --> 04:16:33.200
bearer of God's word and a manifestation
of the body of the Logos. Sure,

3121
04:16:33.639 --> 04:16:37.200
but none of that in any way
gets around the historical fact that the

3122
04:16:37.319 --> 04:16:40.319
Church determined the cannon within history.
I mean, even James White admitted this

3123
04:16:40.479 --> 04:16:42.600
in his debate with Trent. Right. Well, that's the thing, That's

3124
04:16:42.639 --> 04:16:48.319
what I guess I'm confused about because
the scholars, let's put it this way.

3125
04:16:48.399 --> 04:16:51.360
Let's put it this way. How
does positing any of that tell you

3126
04:16:51.520 --> 04:16:57.159
what books go in the Bible.
That's a good question. It doesn't it

3127
04:16:57.200 --> 04:17:00.639
doesn't do that, So it's just
another way to try to assume the Protestant

3128
04:17:00.680 --> 04:17:08.959
can interesting, So what's the uh. Is there like a book that I

3129
04:17:10.040 --> 04:17:14.319
could read to help understand. Yeah, I would read two Protestant books on

3130
04:17:14.399 --> 04:17:18.319
this. I would read H.
Lee McDonald's book The Formation of the Christian

3131
04:17:18.360 --> 04:17:21.120
Biblical Canon, and I would read
F. F. Bruce's book The Cannon

3132
04:17:21.159 --> 04:17:26.000
of Scripture, and you'll see two
Protestant scholars basically emitting the centrality of tradition.

3133
04:17:26.319 --> 04:17:29.959
So that was the thing that convinced
me back in the day of this

3134
04:17:30.200 --> 04:17:33.360
at this point, but thank you, Reform Buzzer, appreciate that. Lewis

3135
04:17:37.040 --> 04:17:47.120
Lewis, hey, ja, Yeah, I just wanted to ask with regards

3136
04:17:47.120 --> 04:17:52.559
to the Trinity. I'm Christian,
by the way, but we say that

3137
04:17:52.760 --> 04:17:56.639
there is one will in the Trinity. So the focus on Holy Spirit share

3138
04:17:56.680 --> 04:18:02.600
one will the more they have the
same will. But then I'm quite new

3139
04:18:02.639 --> 04:18:06.879
too of those theology. Actually,
So when the Father sends the Spirit,

3140
04:18:06.959 --> 04:18:12.120
for example, how does that work? So because it is in the Father

3141
04:18:12.280 --> 04:18:18.360
willing for himself to send the spirit, and so is the Spirit willing that

3142
04:18:18.479 --> 04:18:21.840
as well, I don't understand how
it was. Yeah, the will is

3143
04:18:21.920 --> 04:18:25.920
a common faculty or property that exists
in the mode of the persons that have

3144
04:18:26.079 --> 04:18:27.920
it. So there's not three wills, there's one will, but that one

3145
04:18:27.959 --> 04:18:30.840
will has had in the tropos or
the mode of the three persons that have

3146
04:18:32.000 --> 04:18:37.440
it. So uh, yes,
each each person individ actualizes you could say,

3147
04:18:37.520 --> 04:18:40.879
the one action in a unique role
or in a unique mode. So

3148
04:18:41.079 --> 04:18:44.680
the father sends the son, for
example, the father sends the son to

3149
04:18:44.719 --> 04:18:48.120
become a carnate. Son becomes a
carnate, and then the son sends the

3150
04:18:48.159 --> 04:18:52.920
Holy Spirit to the church. So
that one action of redemption is triadic,

3151
04:18:52.680 --> 04:18:56.879
but it's executed, you could say, in the mode of the three persons

3152
04:18:56.920 --> 04:19:03.959
that have that one action. So
we have to just distinguish person nature essence

3153
04:19:03.040 --> 04:19:08.120
or are accuming person nature, will
and energy and mode. So people oftentimes

3154
04:19:08.159 --> 04:19:12.879
forget mode as a very important trinitarian
distinction. So what you're looking at is

3155
04:19:14.000 --> 04:19:18.159
the difference between the property or faculty
of nature and the mode of that property,

3156
04:19:18.239 --> 04:19:22.879
which is in the mode of the
person. So it's even though person,

3157
04:19:23.040 --> 04:19:26.600
even the will is not a property
of nature, it exists in the

3158
04:19:26.719 --> 04:19:32.920
mode of the person that has the
nature. I wait, I see so

3159
04:19:33.040 --> 04:19:37.000
did you what did you just say? Will is not a property of nature?

3160
04:19:37.360 --> 04:19:40.239
No, will is a property of
nature, but exists in the mode

3161
04:19:40.280 --> 04:19:44.920
of person that has the nature.
Yeah, okay, then yeah, okay,

3162
04:19:44.959 --> 04:19:48.799
that's fine. That answers it.
Yeah, good questions? Those are

3163
04:19:48.879 --> 04:19:52.719
those are really Yeah, just remember
that mode is just as important for trinity

3164
04:19:52.840 --> 04:19:56.840
ent theology as you know any of
the other terms, like you know,

3165
04:19:57.479 --> 04:20:03.639
energy, essence, nature. Mode
is just as important u k h f

3166
04:20:03.799 --> 04:20:06.040
F. Now this is for people
that disagree. Well, have like one

3167
04:20:06.079 --> 04:20:11.319
person that disagreed today and that one
snarky soy I'm an off site guy they

3168
04:20:11.399 --> 04:20:22.280
called in. Can hear it?
Hey, j I was just wondering,

3169
04:20:23.319 --> 04:20:29.520
as far as the EP goes,
do you have any disagreements or just about

3170
04:20:30.159 --> 04:20:33.520
Okay, that's come on, bro, Yeah, I'm not trying to be

3171
04:20:33.600 --> 04:20:34.639
mean to you. Don't get mad
at me and saying I'm not being mean

3172
04:20:34.680 --> 04:20:38.479
to you specifically said many times today. Is for people who disagree. It's

3173
04:20:38.520 --> 04:20:42.600
not about EP and mer curious,
what's unless you have a disagreement about that

3174
04:20:42.959 --> 04:20:47.159
topic or something that Roman Catholt guy
thought that the EP was a good argument.

3175
04:20:56.719 --> 04:21:03.840
Go ahead, gotta umute. Uh, Jay I was launching your debates

3176
04:21:03.879 --> 04:21:08.159
with Matt Dilonti and whatever. But
would you say that atheism is impossible,

3177
04:21:11.760 --> 04:21:17.120
uh, logically impossible? Like No, when we say the word impossible,

3178
04:21:17.159 --> 04:21:21.719
we mean like, uh, like
when we say atheism is impossible. Right,

3179
04:21:21.879 --> 04:21:23.399
you would say that entails a contradiction. Yeah, you know we've already

3180
04:21:23.399 --> 04:21:26.360
addressed this like multiple times. So
did you just want to repeat the argument?

3181
04:21:26.440 --> 04:21:33.479
It's a metallogic metalllogical argument. Go
ahead and address it, right,

3182
04:21:33.520 --> 04:21:37.079
Well, I've addressed it many times. But your argument, your argument rests

3183
04:21:37.600 --> 04:21:41.360
it rests on the argument, the
argument that you're going with. I've already

3184
04:21:41.360 --> 04:21:45.479
know this is J Mike's argument.
The argument rests on the assumption that everything

3185
04:21:45.600 --> 04:21:48.879
is. You're not gonna let me
finish, So it's a first it's not

3186
04:21:48.040 --> 04:21:52.200
a first right, So the argument
is about the possibility of logic at all,

3187
04:21:52.799 --> 04:21:59.879
not a first order logic argument.
Okay, that's the addressing of your

3188
04:22:00.040 --> 04:22:07.600
objection. What's my objection that the
proposition or that the belief in atheism does

3189
04:22:07.680 --> 04:22:10.600
not entail a contradiction. That's where
you're arguing, right, That's not what

3190
04:22:10.680 --> 04:22:12.920
I said. That's that's the argument
that you guys make right is not the

3191
04:22:14.000 --> 04:22:15.799
belief in it. Okay, So
now you're now you want to haggle over

3192
04:22:15.879 --> 04:22:21.639
words. No, it's it is
you're haggling over words. And I've already

3193
04:22:21.680 --> 04:22:26.040
addressed this many times metalogical questions.
That's fine, I understand that, okay.

3194
04:22:26.440 --> 04:22:27.959
But the thing is that you're also
making the other claim, right,

3195
04:22:29.000 --> 04:22:33.200
the first order logical claim that atheism
is impossible logically, which would mean that

3196
04:22:33.280 --> 04:22:34.879
it has to intail You didn't even
know what it means in terms of justifica

3197
04:22:36.040 --> 04:22:40.879
contradiction, like who's out there of
us thinking it doesn't entail a contradiction?

3198
04:22:41.959 --> 04:22:48.799
What's the contradiction. The contradiction is
if the denial the denial or the non

3199
04:22:48.920 --> 04:22:56.920
acceptance of the necessary condition for the
possibility of knowledge. What you're doing is

3200
04:22:56.000 --> 04:23:02.760
you're both affirming that and that condition
at the same time. That's a contradiction.

3201
04:23:02.840 --> 04:23:04.600
Well, hold on, hold on. That would just be a contradiction

3202
04:23:04.680 --> 04:23:07.479
in the beliefs of the said person, which I just addressed, right,

3203
04:23:07.559 --> 04:23:10.920
Even if I was to take that
as true, that would just mean that

3204
04:23:11.040 --> 04:23:15.520
one person, That would just mean
that one person has contradictory beliefs. I'm

3205
04:23:15.520 --> 04:23:19.479
talking about the world view of atheism, and I just I just said that.

3206
04:23:21.680 --> 04:23:26.000
Yeah, you said that. Now
he's changing the subject to an individual

3207
04:23:26.079 --> 04:23:30.239
atheist, as if it's not addressing
the actual claim. Is like me saying,

3208
04:23:30.760 --> 04:23:33.680
is is impossible because Jay Dyer has
some contradictory position. I know that's

3209
04:23:33.799 --> 04:23:37.799
that's not what we're arguing. That's
exactly what you said. No it's not,

3210
04:23:37.840 --> 04:23:41.200
but it is. He said,
this is the reason it applies to

3211
04:23:41.280 --> 04:23:45.479
everybody is because it's prior to argumentations, because it's a metallogical Argument's about the

3212
04:23:45.520 --> 04:23:49.399
possibility of logic at all. That's
the point that applies to any that applies

3213
04:23:49.440 --> 04:23:53.520
to any position, that applies to
any position. Yeah that's fine, so

3214
04:23:55.200 --> 04:24:00.360
anonius or whatever. Okay, So
that presupposes that knowledge is even possible.

3215
04:24:00.399 --> 04:24:03.959
How would this go through on an
epistemological nihilist? You think we haven't addressed

3216
04:24:04.000 --> 04:24:07.920
that? You how many times epistemological
nihilists have caused and called in We have.

3217
04:24:07.079 --> 04:24:11.840
We've addressed it in the past.
Addressed now because if we've already addressed

3218
04:24:12.079 --> 04:24:15.399
this isn't even is this even your
position? Are you're just coming out with

3219
04:24:15.479 --> 04:24:18.760
other positions? This isn't your position, No, Jane, Look you try

3220
04:24:18.799 --> 04:24:21.479
to understand what I'm saying. Listen
closely. I said, I know what

3221
04:24:21.600 --> 04:24:23.639
epistemic nihilism is. We've had them
call in many times and say, you

3222
04:24:23.680 --> 04:24:26.239
don't know what it is, so
maybe just try to listen. I said,

3223
04:24:26.760 --> 04:24:30.520
how would this go through on an
epistemic nihilist. That's not to say

3224
04:24:30.559 --> 04:24:34.079
that I am one. You can't
get through a second order statement about epistemic

3225
04:24:34.239 --> 04:24:41.000
nihilism. So epistemical nihilism does not
accomplish what they wanted to do because there's

3226
04:24:41.000 --> 04:24:44.920
a second order, there's a third
order that they don't get out of the

3227
04:24:45.000 --> 04:24:48.559
problem. Mm hmm. Yeah,
but they do. And this is why,

3228
04:24:48.760 --> 04:24:51.760
right, you said that, The
reason that it would be contradictory is

3229
04:24:51.840 --> 04:24:56.559
because the atheist is going to have
to affirm something about the necessity or like

3230
04:24:56.639 --> 04:25:00.559
the necessary preconditions for the intelligibility of
knowledge, right, the intelligibility of mathematics,

3231
04:25:00.639 --> 04:25:04.000
logic, all that stuff. But
an that systemic nihilist would just deny

3232
04:25:04.079 --> 04:25:07.000
the existence of those things. Yeah, and so now you can't make sentences.

3233
04:25:07.120 --> 04:25:11.719
So now you can't make arguments.
So now you can't make arguments or

3234
04:25:11.760 --> 04:25:15.600
sentences. We've heard that a thousand
times. That's why. I don't care

3235
04:25:15.639 --> 04:25:21.040
that you've heard it because it's been
addressed a thousand times. Yeah, so

3236
04:25:21.159 --> 04:25:23.000
what do you what do you do? You want to be cool like I

3237
04:25:23.040 --> 04:25:26.239
don't. Yeah, I don't get
it. Okay, so can you just

3238
04:25:26.319 --> 04:25:30.360
address it instead of saying you've addressed
it? Yeah. The addressing is that

3239
04:25:30.520 --> 04:25:33.799
if you adopt that position, you
can't make arguments anymore. So, yeah,

3240
04:25:33.159 --> 04:25:36.920
I know, I'm talking to you
now. This is my this is

3241
04:25:37.000 --> 04:25:38.520
my thing. I'm talking to you
now, and I'm addressing it by telling

3242
04:25:38.520 --> 04:25:42.079
it. I'm addressing it by telling
you that if you adopt that position,

3243
04:25:42.159 --> 04:25:45.760
you can no longer argue or make
sentences at all. And if you want

3244
04:25:45.799 --> 04:25:47.719
to, and if you want to
do that, then you can. Then

3245
04:25:47.760 --> 04:25:51.399
you then that's fine. Then the
then you have to drop the MinC.

3246
04:25:51.920 --> 04:25:55.360
The thing is that thestemic nihilist could
just agree to all those conditions, it's

3247
04:25:55.360 --> 04:25:57.920
still wouldn't right, So then so
then we've won. Then we've won the

3248
04:25:59.000 --> 04:26:03.680
debate and they can't if they listen, if you can't make sentences, all

3249
04:26:03.760 --> 04:26:06.520
right, if you're gonna if you
don't shut up, I'm booting you shut

3250
04:26:06.600 --> 04:26:07.639
up, or I'm booting you shut
up. Round booting you. I know,

3251
04:26:07.760 --> 04:26:18.719
I know you want an excuse,
Okay, Jade, Yeah, so

3252
04:26:18.799 --> 04:26:25.399
we've addressed this. Probably you don't
get out of it because you say,

3253
04:26:25.520 --> 04:26:30.399
I don't accept anything. This is
so dumb. There's an epistemic import in

3254
04:26:30.559 --> 04:26:36.920
making those second order statements about their
epistemic nihilism that they're not assenting to something.

3255
04:26:37.440 --> 04:26:41.159
Yeah, j Mike is so low
tire. He doesn't even understand that

3256
04:26:41.680 --> 04:26:47.440
adopting a position where you don't believe
in logic doesn't get you anywhere in a

3257
04:26:47.520 --> 04:26:49.920
debate. I mean, that's it's
so obvious, it's so crazy. What

3258
04:26:49.959 --> 04:26:52.319
would you say to this father deacons? Somebody says, well, but I

3259
04:26:52.440 --> 04:26:56.959
don't I don't believe in logic or
any of your positions, and therefore you

3260
04:26:56.040 --> 04:27:00.520
can't prove Christianity. Well, first
of all, you're making a second order

3261
04:27:00.600 --> 04:27:07.079
statement, right, an epistemic statement. Third point that I wanted to make,

3262
04:27:07.120 --> 04:27:11.559
and I just addressed this in my
paper, is you get them to

3263
04:27:11.719 --> 04:27:18.079
admit some type of epistemic deflationary position. I'm not in a position to know.

3264
04:27:18.200 --> 04:27:26.879
Okay, what do they do?
They immediately slip back in their epistemic

3265
04:27:26.959 --> 04:27:30.719
stuff that they want that they just
denied to say, well, that doesn't

3266
04:27:30.799 --> 04:27:34.600
prove Oh wow, now you're making
another epistemic statement. Notice all the epistemic

3267
04:27:34.719 --> 04:27:40.879
statements he was saying, Well,
that doesn't include a contradiction, and that

3268
04:27:41.040 --> 04:27:44.719
doesn't work for this, that doesn't
do well Wait a minute, I thought

3269
04:27:44.760 --> 04:27:48.440
you just admitted you're not in a
position to make any statements epistemic statements.

3270
04:27:49.719 --> 04:27:56.079
So you want to see a contradiction, that's exactly a contradiction. And furthermore,

3271
04:27:56.200 --> 04:28:00.399
the contradictions entailed. And I'll say
a couple things, because you're correct

3272
04:28:00.440 --> 04:28:07.000
to you to point out the contradictions
entailed and not a belief that you have,

3273
04:28:07.200 --> 04:28:12.920
but the lack of assenting to the
necessary conditions while at the same time

3274
04:28:14.840 --> 04:28:18.920
assuming the necessary conditions. This is
why ran Till says there is no atheist,

3275
04:28:18.840 --> 04:28:22.760
it's just those that deny God.
So that's a contradiction. But my

3276
04:28:22.879 --> 04:28:26.159
final point that I want to make
is the point that you are making about.

3277
04:28:26.159 --> 04:28:33.680
So this is a metallogical, metapistemological
consideration. What comes first epistemically the

3278
04:28:33.799 --> 04:28:42.959
necessary conditions that make contradictions normatively binding
as far as leading to falsehood or the

3279
04:28:44.040 --> 04:28:48.159
contradiction itself. Notice what they want
to do. They want to put contradiction

3280
04:28:49.079 --> 04:28:56.680
is the first epistemic standard, first
epistemic principle, right, and then try

3281
04:28:56.760 --> 04:29:00.680
to reduce everything to that while we're
pouring now that well, wait a minute,

3282
04:29:00.719 --> 04:29:06.040
what why should I think that's a
justification. I've addressed this in my

3283
04:29:06.120 --> 04:29:12.040
paper before too. All contradiction means
is at that level from their worldview,

3284
04:29:12.799 --> 04:29:18.799
I can't do this psychologically without this
happening. It certainly doesn't say it's a

3285
04:29:18.959 --> 04:29:23.440
normative that you ought to or that
it's binding on us, that it leads

3286
04:29:23.559 --> 04:29:30.120
to falsehood, or any or the
rejection of a contradiction leads to knowledge and

3287
04:29:30.200 --> 04:29:38.280
truth. So they fail to grasp
the meta loogical, metapistemological question, what

3288
04:29:38.559 --> 04:29:48.440
stands behind there that makes the avoidance
of contradiction normatively binding on us, or

3289
04:29:48.520 --> 04:29:52.200
that contradiction leads to falsehood. They'll
never be able to answer it. They'll

3290
04:29:52.239 --> 04:29:52.920
say, Oh, I don't know, I don't have to answer that.

3291
04:29:53.040 --> 04:29:56.079
Why slip it all back in and
pretend that I've already had an answer for

3292
04:29:56.200 --> 04:30:04.120
it. So it's totally disingenuous and
self refuting. Yeah, he just repeats

3293
04:30:04.159 --> 04:30:08.239
this over and over and over.
It's like as if the repetition will like

3294
04:30:08.319 --> 04:30:11.479
make it somehow true. All right, thank you guys so much. If

3295
04:30:11.520 --> 04:30:14.520
you would hit like and share,
it's been a lot of fun. Be

3296
04:30:14.600 --> 04:30:18.799
sure and head on over to uh
the supporters of the show in the stream

3297
04:30:19.840 --> 04:30:23.920
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