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  1. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    You’re reading Romans 14:5 in isolation and in contradiction to the rest of the pericope. Reread it together with Romans 14:6-20 The Incarnation and the Resurrection are not man-made ideas, and the celebration of Pascha even predates the Resurrection, but acquired its specifically...
  2. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    It’s not a false accusation; I’m not accusing you of anything, I am trying to understand why you posted what you did. If you did not intend to deny that the fingers of Christ are the fingers of God, then why did you post the above in a response to my post where I said the same fingers that...
  3. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Of course it does. Take a closer look at Romans 14:5-20
  4. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    I agree that Sacred Scriptures show that three persons of the Holy Trinity, one God, do not work against each other, for a house divided cannot stand. Therefore why do you deny that the fingers of Christ are the fingers of God? The denial contradicts the principle of divine unity you are...
  5. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Yes there is - Genesis 1, entire, and Romans 14:5-12, and Colossians 2:16.
  6. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    The point you’re missing is the unity of God - God Holy Spirit and the Only Begotten Son and incarnate Word of God, our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ are consubstantial, of one essence, that of the unoriginate Father. You’re creating a division between the persons of the Holy Trinity that...
  7. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    All days are now sanctified for Holy Use, since Christ commanded us to pray without ceasing. The Sabbath is specifically the day on which Christ rested in the tomb, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Genesis 1 and the Decalogue. Thus, the Orthodox Church correctly observes the Sabbath by...
  8. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Your hopes are not in vain; I am completely opposed to the Pharisees because I believe their interpretation of the Sabbath was incorrect, and likewise their faulty scriptural canon and the Oral Torah and other practices which were carried on into Rabbinical Judaism.
  9. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    This is wrong in two respects: firstly, Jesus Christ is fully God, and we worship one God in three persons, so any attribute of God applies to Him; secondly, if one were to try to attribute something to a specific person of the Trinity in the absence of a specific scriptural identification, only...
  10. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    Those same fingers of God gleaned wheat on the Sabbath and engaged in other activities on the Sabbath which offended the Jews of the time as not being restful. Insofar as Christ was the first Man in the true sense of the word, using His divinity to not only restore but glorify our fallen...
  11. The Liturgist

    Spanish Inquisiton

    While @Valletta made a provocative statement, as far as Western Christianity is concerned, it is correct - the Bible was propagated through Western Europe by what became the Roman Catholic Church, albeit mostly before the Great Schism with the Orthodox of 1054 that resulted from the doctrinal...
  12. The Liturgist

    Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues?

    I don’t think that’s the case, because Moore’s Law remains in effect, and the resources required tomorrow will be less than the amount required today. Furthermore, the quality and capabilities of the systems continue to increase. Rather if a bubble develops, it will take out also-ran AI...
  13. The Liturgist

    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    That’s true, and I appreciate your desire to avoid the excesses that I urge members to avoid. That being said, some debate and criticism is legitimate, although one could also say it is strictly speaking off-topic for this thread, which you have observed, and which I again greatly appreciate...
  14. The Liturgist

    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    Indeed, also for multiple regional dioceses with the Western church. And these lines have been traced since then. There was an obscure group of Old Catholics who set out to obtain as many lines of succession as possible, usually from Episcopi Vagantes who had been sacked by their...
  15. The Liturgist

    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    I’ve never known you to engage in excessive criticism. The key word here is excessive. I would define excessive criticism as criticism of a denomination that is continual, incessant, repeats arguments previously refuted, ignores contrary evidence, relies upon logical fallacies or historical...
  16. The Liturgist

    How is it that the Catholic Church is evil?

    The problem is of course twofold: the five Solas are innovative, lacking any Patristic backing, whether Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox or of the Church of the East (sometimes erroneously called the Nestorians; while it is true they venerate Nestorius and were controlled by...
  17. The Liturgist

    Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues?

    Indeed, but neither can humans (when it comes to giving those sounds a semantic, linguistic meaning). ChatGPT doesn’t yet, as far as I’m aware, have generalized acoustical pattern recognition, so it cannot for example tell the difference between the exquisite roar of a JT3D turbofan on a...
  18. The Liturgist

    Can ChatGPT interpret speaking in tongues?

    Since the languages are unknown, and insofar as they lack semantic structure, unknown, ChatGPT obviously can’t interpret them. What it can do, what it is very good at doing, is pattern matching. So if you feed it random syllables, it will try to match those with corresponding patterns...
  19. The Liturgist

    Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

    I don’t mind paying, but I’m looking for a cheaper option if possible. One would expect having to pay for the EF Tridentine / Monastic / Dominican offices online but not the Liturgy of the Hours, when the reverse is the case.
  20. The Liturgist

    The Stone God Couldn't Lift: A Paradox

    This is beautifully expressed in a manner consistent with the Early Church Fathers, with Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the traditional faith of the liturgical churches of Western Christianity, this shared faith being the basis for our reconciliation and reunification. I am...
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