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One of the questions people ask Christians is, "What about those who have never heard the Gospel, what's going to happen to them?"...
ALSO, "If God has already determined who will be saved, then why evangelize?".
My answer has to always be what I truly believe the Scriptures teach from the deepest part of my honest conviction. Truly Biblical, truly honest, yet truly COLD, as only the truth can be.
Check out my YouTube video: "Is Eastern Orthodoxy the New move?"
There are many Protestants moving towards EO but there are also many coming BACK to Protestantism because they found out what's behind the glam-bam, bling-blam; holy murals and cool garb!
The EO Church doesn't believe in the fallenness of man the way Protestants do.
They don't believe in Christ's atonement the same way.
Baptism and Salvation outside the EO church is not allowed... but it is, but not really. Yet, they don't believe in an "invisible" Church. It's complicated!
(This blog / video thread will keep growing so be sure to revisit for new video additions.)
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A BIBLICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH - Part 1
PART 2:
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Here's the account of Cyril Lucaris, an Eastern Orthodox who dared to go purely orthodox and apostolic, and was treated equally as his Master, Jesus before pharisees.
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What Did They Get WRONG? Orthodox VS Stuart & Cliffe Knechtle
*There's nothing more apostolic than The Word of God.
*There is nothing infallible but the Word of God.
*The ultimate authority is The Word of God.
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Check out these other videos on EO vs. Protestantism, debates and personal testimonies from people who have come back to Protestantism from the EO church system.
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EO vs. Protestant Apologist, Matt Slick:
Another Matt Slick debate that later turns into a real dumpster fire.
Notice how the Roman Catholic can't stick to the agreed-upon debate topic, and immediately wants to appeal to the supposed infallibility of extra-Biblical sources.
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On The following video/podcast, Dr. James White and Pastor Jeff Durbin discuss the major problems with the Roman Catholic Church's stance on doctrines (in this case, the doctrine of eternal security but also other doctrines) where apostolic churches (in general) must regard tradition (as well as Church fathers and ecumenical church councils) as infallible instead of acknowledging that scripture alone is infallible, and sufficient as God's revelational truth.
Answering EO objections to Protestantism Part 1 and 2:
Why I can't be EO
This one is only for
divinenature.net
EO Body Snatchers!
(New converts to EO. How do they fall for such bad, bad arguments?)
My critics just don't get it... but do we expect that they will? Nahhh!
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**If you have any questions, or want to add your input on this topic, comment below.
We're revisiting Gnosticism. Responding to those who in their desperation to escape the Biblical truth concerning the doctrines of grace, have nothing left but to call Reformed theology, Gnostic, Nestorian, Anti-Trinitarian even! "When in doubt, accuse them of Gnosticism!"
Let's talk.
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Today's YouTube Premiere:
"The Atonement OFFENDS CHRISTIANS?"
4:30pm EST.
The ONLY HISTORICAL TRUTH of what happen on the cross (for our sins) to Christ, by God, The Father, and WHY it happen will forever BEST be illustrated IN SCRIPTURE and SCRIPTURE ALONE.
What some Christians say "CHURCH HISTORY" teaches or taught of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ; His atonement, etc. is ONLY PART OF THE STORY. Sadly, they lost the message of WHY Christ had to die; HOW bloody the sacrifice for sins actually was for hundreds of years in ancient Israel, etc. somewhere down the corridors of history, the most important aspects of the atonement was lost.
Like Israel, they lost the connection to the Old Testament atonement with its bloody sacrificial system for hundreds of years.
Today's talk is on the intimidation factor of speaking up in evangelism. Sometimes, we're either too harsh or to intimidated to speak up as the Church.
This will demonstrate how inconsistent legalism and sinless perfectionism is not only historically wrong but how this bad understanding of scripture will continue to degrade other orthodox Christian doctrines.
In the first video, this brother states that "WORKS is the SALVATION". which is complete heresy...
On the 2nd video, he'll change his position on sinless perfection claiming a believer in Christ CAN "POSSIBLY" SIN after maturity in Christ. If this is the case, it's no longer sinless perfectionism.
Video 3 demonstrates further how bad doctrine is progressive! You go from adding rocks to our road to causing an avalanche that can end up flattening us and destroying us unless we humble ourselves to the truth of The Word of God!
Video 4 demonstrates how having a WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS gospel does absolutely nothing to convince the world of the truth of God (in an apologetic sense). The message of the cross and regeneration is FOOLISHNESS to those who are perishing (1 Corinthians 1:10).
Let's continue praying to The Lord for the humility to recognize when we're wrong so that we can accept our blind spots wherever we have them in order to continue growing in God's truth.
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Sinless perfection is the theological position that a Christian can become SINLESS at some point in their walk with God.
Some falsely believe that this "perfection" can happen as soon as they're saved (born again).
People who believe this completely distort the doctrines of Justification, Sanctification and Glorification.
They completely misread the exhortation given by the Apostles to the early church to "walk in a manner worthy of your calling". (Ephesians 4:1; Col. 1:10; 1 Thess. 2:12, etc.)
This false teaching was rejected in the early 4th century but will resurface often when certain believers take on a hyper-literal reading of certain Biblical proof texts.
For more on the false doctrine of Sinless perfectionism, watch/listen to the following videos.
There's science and then there's "scientism". Science is a methodology, but many have made it their end-all-be-all to truth. When the elites of the world need to push a narrative which they think will attack the big-ticket item questions of life, truth; and the why's of life, they'll use it to end the questions and bring on conformity.
You have to have FAITH in order to even DO science.
But that's not what's being taught in early education these days.
"Trust the science" is what's being taught early; especially during which our educational system seems to be failing.
If the dollar weren't being phased away, you might be seeing "In science we trust" on our dollar bills. :)
I didn't get a chance to record my new video-Cast on exposing the terrible-tyrannical beginnings of totalitarianism. Try saying that five times fast! Ha!
I use a couple of social media friends to do this but it's widespread in our culture.
Hopefully, it'll be featured this coming week on my Divine Nature Podcast YouTube platform. Look out for it!
In the meantime, check out my first video on the "MUSLIM FAIL" (part 1) of a group of Muslims who try and make The Bible - The Word of God stand for things that are completely not found in scripture.
14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
With a heavy heart, I add my 2 cents on the incredibly sad and dark and devastating evil taking place in Israel. We pray for all those who are caught in the crossfire.
I open up with the necessity of Christ in these times, the ONLY hope for humanity.
I believe that the Jewish people, as a nation have found their way back to the land because of Godly appointment - whether they know it or not. Whether they're secular or religious. Despite that there are more Jews scattered still outside of Israel, God wants them to be maintained as a separate people, and being in their own land has established this by God's miraculous hand.
When we cry out for the peace of Jerusalem, we're also crying out, "Maranatha", "Come Lord Jesus!".
Jesus said that on that day, Israel will finally recognize Him as Messiah, and their hearts will be deeply pierced in repentance.#Israel#Hamas#Peace#middleeast#war#Zion#Zionism#endtimes#Eschatology#JesusChrist#lastdays#endoftheage#prophesy#stereoapp#Christianpodcast#Christian#Christianity#repentance#evil#genocide#terrorism
27 All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Let's open up our Bibles
and let's revisit the richness of God's Word pertaining to the sabbath.
There are those who think sabbath and immediately think "Saturday"... and yet there's so, so much more to the sabbath than simply a day of the week.
"He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”
-- Hebrews 4:7
"For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His."
The Beast system is seen more in this area than anywhere else. It's got people locked and incarcerated to false identities, and imprisoned in the futility of self-imposed deception. But the light of Christ shines in the darkest places to save and lift up, and re-establish people to who God has truly called them to be. Despite the lies of the world, Christ is still healing and saving.
"1946" is a soon to be released movie (and possibly a book) that'll try and capture more minds into deception by attempting to attack The Word of God. Despite the efforts of the world, this production will be just as flawed and as desperate as Dan Brown's fictional book trying to claim the origins of Christianity at the Council of Nicaea.
"1946" will attempt to claim that there was a dishonest political plot constructed by conservative evangelicals in the origin and use of the word, "Homosexual" in one of the English translations of the Bible.
Dr. James White is a New Testament critical text scholar, professor and Christian apologist and he blows this "1946" nonsense right out of the water:
"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." -- John 8:44
Some time back, I did a commentary on a Jordan Peterson video who now has joined The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro and who also bombed on the subject of "Same Sex Fatherhood" in an interview with Dave Rubin.
Matt Walsh did pretty well with his "What is a woman" video but when it comes down to the brass tax of answering the question, "WHY IS MARRIAGE SO IMPORTANT?", he can't come down the the complete truth and definition of marriage. It's almost like some high profile conservatives want, Christianity without God!
God who institutes marriage to give Him glory on the earth, has less and less representation of it on the earth it seems. Even among those who want to defend marriage, they want to do it via pragmatism, and themselves fall into the problem that we see with the world when they end up with arbitrary opinions of why marriage is even an institution, and not just "a thing people do".
This is only a snippet of how bad Walsh did on the Joe Rogan podcast. I couldn't bare to post the whole thing.
Christians need to remember that these conservative talking heads can be just as clueless and willingly clueless as the rest of the secular world around us.
The issue of Marriage is not just important to humanity, it's immensely important with physical and spiritual significance in human reality.