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This is a disrespectful response to someone who has given a thoughtful and detailed response to your original claim. For that matter, why should anyone believe yours?

The Great Western Schism isn't directly applicable to today's situation though, because the key issue was one of canonical procedure, not faith and morals. And that's not just the "winners writing history," since both lines of papal claimants ultimately agreed to let a council resolve the...

To get at what seems to be the core part of the OP: the literature is contradictory because the situation has only ever been theoretical, as far as non-sedevacantist Catholics are concerned. The one possible exception would be Pope Honorius, but there are reasonable arguments against his having...

I'm no defender of Francis, but having watched the video from the linked timestamp to the end, I think it's clear that he was speaking in a vague general sense to a secular audience, so his comment doesn't deserve the detailed analysis and point-by-point criticism it's been getting. There are...

Yes. The ancient Christian writer Tertullian addresses both of these questions in his work De Spectaculis: Tertullian was not the only one who wrote against the theater, either.

This is a good summary of theological progressivism, although I would say "all Gospel no Law" is too generous to this error that is plaguing every church today. It is not teaching the Gospel to say that all religions are paths to salvation (i.e. that the Incarnation wasn't necessary) or to cast...

There is a hierarchical relationship in their origin: "For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve." (1 Tim. 2:13) Regardless of what modern scholars say, St. Paul clearly lays the blame on Eve: "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into...

My understanding of the term has always been that "spirit" is used in the general sense to mean "an air of" something, like a "spirit of hatred" or "mean-spirited." I don't think anyone is saying that there's a specific spiritual being that is "the" or "a" Jezebel spirit, even if they may use...

I'm a Purism customer and have enjoyed most of the things I've gotten from them, but I would caution anyone looking into their products to do their due diligence first. There are usually quirks or compromises that have been made in the interest of privacy or security, and sometimes just as a...

An alternative is to create a Windows virtual machine on the Linux installation. The setup can be tricky if you want to do extra things like have a shared folder between your host and guest, but for equivalent functionality to dual boot, a VM will do the job for the vast majority of people. This...

I hadn't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me. The 1989 hymnal's psalter (roughly the second half of the book containing psalms to be read or sung) removed most references to God as "He," instead repeating "God" where a pronoun would normally be used. It also removed the generic third person...

That is a big part of why the liberals who gained control at the General Conference deleted the disaffiliation section; if disaffiliation were allowed, the UMC would lose just about all of its African membership. Their plan seems to be to pursue a policy of "regionalization," where the Africans...

I played around with it back when it was Backtrack Linux. It was interesting to look around, and I tried using some of the pentesting tools on my home network without any success. PC, with a Mac you're paying extra for the brand name and supporting a company that is famous for its opposition to...

Nothing in that thread answers the original question or my question. I understand that you do not identify yourself as belonging to any particular denomination or even as non-denominational, but you were asked in two ways whether you could point to anyone else in church history who shares your...

This is dodging @HTacianas's question. Or are modern memorialist Protestants (a subset of a minority of Christians) the only people you can find in church history who agree with you?

In all fairness to the sedevacantists, the bad popes of the past were personally depraved, but didn't promote scandalous and contradictory doctrines as official Church teaching like the recent popes, especially Francis, are accused of doing.

Your statement was so far off the mark that it didn't warrant much more response than @Valletta gave. Do you actually think Catholics believe the Pope has knowledge of "unheard" or "secret" sayings of Jesus? That's Gnosticism. Rereading the last page of posts, you misinterpreted Valletta's...

Yes, and ironically if the trust clause were being enforced evenly and fairly, the churches that were flouting the Book of Discipline prior to last week's changes would have had their property seized. But of course it wasn't, which was part of the motivation on the traditionalist side to add the...

My understanding is that they were almost unanimously on the traditional side of every vote, but I wasn't following the conference closely enough to look at individual votes. Some of the African delegates released a statement after the conference expressing their disappointment both with the...

Yep, UMC churches don't really own their own property due to the "trust clause" in the Discipline: https://www.umc.org/en/content/ask-the-umc-what-is-the-united-methodist-trust-clause At the 2019 special session of the General Conference, a section was added to the Discipline that allowed...