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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    Yep. I try to remember that when I engage with them, that they're dogmatic and legalistic about these falsehoods while in the grasp of gender ideology because of this.
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    Thought that I'm not sure has been brought up yet with regards to gender ideology: the human brain is designed to experience religion and spirituality. When swaths of society reject (or disallow) religious truth or segments of society believe all religions have truth, yet humans still have a...
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    Would it be alright if I PM'd you?
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    The main typologies I'm discussing in this outline/paper so far are the Temple, the Ark, Eve, and the burning bush (last in particular to emphasize the second condition of the perpetual virginity.) Any others you could think to include (based on Coptic tradition)?
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    Delving more into the Marian typologies in the OT right now. This is going to end up being a fairly lengthy writeup.
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    So, my three year old son prayed to the Christmas tree...

    As ArmyMatt said, we outwardly look similar to Catholicism (both Orthodoxy and Catholicism being Apostolic forms of Christianity), but the experience of the Church and of Christ is very different. Iconography is a form of liturgical art to express Christian Truths in a visual format dating...
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    A friend gave me access to a massive trove of articles on the Ever-Virginity of Mary, so I'm also digging through that for more typology.
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    Yep! He's the earliest Father who attests to it, and I've referenced that in the document I'm putting together, along with referencing Origen and Tertullian who make references to both the Protoevangelium and Mary's Perpetual Virginity that differ from what Clement of Alexandria says. (Note: I'm...
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    So, my three year old son prayed to the Christmas tree...

    Enlighten us.
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    For sure, he's been blaming it on Augustine and Jerome so far. I think the fact that the RCC, EOC, OOC, and Assyrian Church of the East all hold to some version of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary is a testament to it as a longstanding belief in Christianity, likely based upon Ezekiel 44:2 (so...
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    Yes, I can post it once it's done. I'm just trying to make sure I have all of my bases covered. Importance of the topic is that the belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity was an early and widespread belief.
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    If I finally piece together a cogent outline, is there anyone I could private message it to for a quick once over?
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    History of the Widespread Belief in Mary's Perpetual Virginity

    I agree. And I told him I would outline the history to correct him, so I'm trying to do that. Just not sure of the best quotes/references to add past what I outlined in my initial post.
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    What are you reading?

    Yehhh! Trying to get all of my ducks in a row, so to say.
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    Real distinction without composition?

    The Essence is the ineffable we cannot fathom or comprehend or know.
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    What are you reading?

    St. Maximus the Confessor at present!
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    Real distinction without composition?

    That is the relationship, though. They're both the uncreated ways that God EXISTS. One is simply related to how we're able to understand and experience Him.
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    Real distinction without composition?

    To my understanding, "essence" is what we cannot know of God; this is what is outside of the limitations of our human experience. His uncreated "energies" are part of how he is revealed to us. It is what are able to see, know, and experience of Him in everyday existence. Grace is an energy...
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