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  1. J

    WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

    That's probably a typo of "tradition."
  2. J

    Theologians refute misconceptions about 1,700-year-old Nicene Creed

    From the article: The Nicene Creed reaffirmed the orthodox belief that Jesus was “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father.” My understanding is that "God from God" is actually not original to the Creed (and is redundant with...
  3. J

    What's the use of faith alone?

    Origen and Tertullian aren't Church Fathers. There's a reason they aren't venerated as saints. Even if he were gnostic, which is a ridiculous claim in and of itself since a significant amount of the main work he's known for is dedicated to opposing gnosticism, he can't be said to have "started"...
  4. J

    What's the use of faith alone?

    Yes, and you probably should delete the parts of your posts that have now been pointed out to you as slanderous.
  5. J

    Testing Bible verse recognition

    Git repo: GitHub - backdrop-contrib/reftagger: Converts Bible references on your Backdrop CMS site into links with tooltip and link to full text
  6. J

    Testing Bible verse recognition

    Genesis 1:1 Gen. 1:1 Gen 1:1 Gn. 1:1 Gn 1:1 Revelation 1:1 Apocalypse 1:1 Apocalypse of John 1:1 Apoc. 1:1 Apoc 1:1 Psalm 50:1 Psalm 50:1 KJV1611 Psalm 50:1 LXX Wisdom 1:1 NRSV Sirach 1:1 RSV Ecclesiasticus 1:1 NRSV Tobit 1:1 VULG Baruch 1:1 DRC Psalm 151:1 NRSV Psalm 151:1 LXX Prayer of...
  7. J

    What's the use of faith alone?

    Biblical literacy like knowing the difference between Ψ and Υ? I'd think you'd need to know at least the alphabet before claiming you could wipe the floor with the Church Fathers. It seems like in spite of your assertion that Scripture is so clear a child can understand it, the only people who...
  8. J

    What's the use of faith alone?

    Most contemporary Protestant laymen don't even have an awareness of the categories the Church Fathers deal with, much less an understanding and thought-out disagreement with any of them. Yes, so why are you doing that?
  9. J

    What do all Christian denominations agree with?

    You would think it goes without saying, but the deity and consubstantiality of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Really, the totality of the Nicene Creed, since that's the standard confession of Christian faith.
  10. J

    Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues?

    It's things like this experiment that make me think free or even relatively cheap AI chatting, at least with such large models, is not long for this world. Widespread casual use of LLMs uses a ton of energy, and at some point the current boom is going to slow down and companies like OpenAI are...
  11. J

    When Protestants say Peter can't be ‘the rock,’ they have it exactly backwards...

    @Michie looks like you accidentally posted a link to the New Advent home page instead of the article https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/matthew-16-and-a-parallel-for-peter Just read the whole thing, I'm kind of surprised he held on to the idea that Petros means "small stone." I...
  12. J

    Church discipline no longer practiced in most Protestant churches: Survey

    In most cases it would probably be something like excommunication or loss of church membership.
  13. J

    Episcopal Church court sides with priest disciplined for 'Eucharistic fast' against racism

    Phyletism isn't racism, it's the idea that there should be separate churches for separate races, which may be the result of racist thought. Phyletism is what was condemned as a heresy at Constantinople 1872, not racism in general. Regardless, the idea of a priest withholding Holy Communion from...
  14. J

    Church discipline no longer practiced in most Protestant churches: Survey

    I can't think of any case where someone was disciplined in any of the Methodist or non-denom churches I attended. I really don't know what discipline a Methodist pastor could even enforce on a layman; with the practice of open communion, even denominational membership doesn't carry much meaning...
  15. J

    AI is not the problem. We are

    I've noticed it even on this forum. More and more people are blindly trusting the output of an LLM for theological arguments and spiritual guidance. In one case recently someone "refuted" an article by asking Chat GPT to do so and then just copied the section headings and clipped out the bulk of...
  16. J

    WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

    Cornelius was "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house" (Acts 10:2). He and his household had already been prepared. A much better example for your case would be the Philippian jailer, but then we come to the problem that your whole premise is flawed: there are some...
  17. J

    “Saved Through Islam”: Michael Lofton Jumps the Shark

    I don't think he's ever identified as a traditionalist himself, but he used to be a lot friendlier to traditionalists. He even had an amicable interview with the SSPX district superior of Canada at one point, and on another occasion the channel hosted an 8-hour set of talks from Catholic and...
  18. J

    “Saved Through Islam”: Michael Lofton Jumps the Shark

    You'd be surprised how many people view "Youtube channel haver" as a position of importance. Lofton has made a name for himself among that crowd as the go-to anti-traditionalist, "Pope Francis can do no wrong" apologist, alienating his co-hosts in the process and leaving him to run the channel...
  19. J

    Religious freedom report: Russia guilty of ‘severe’ violations against religious minorities

    The Ukrainian Orthodox referred to in the report are specifically the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which as I understand it was formed a few years ago out of Ukrainian nationalist sentiment. The canonical church there is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which Russia doesn't have a...
  20. J

    Fast exceptions

    In general, no, I'm not worried about that, nor am I disturbed by anything I've asked about, just curious about minutia. I did have some scrupulosity about confession unrelated to my post on canonical penalties, but my spiritual father addressed it.
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