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Is this "Russia" in the room with us right now?

@STP

Yes, in Mastodong 😁

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Russia has the lowest unemployment rate among G20 countries

@Twig @inscius @STP Russia is getting their act together, unlike much of the world.

@Bunsen @Twig @inscius @STP I don’t know if it was entirely deliberate, but Russia is now set up perfectly as the Holy Warriors of God tearing down the obviously-satanic globobomo.

Do not participate. 1 out of 6 Russians and their allies survive the attempt.

[Eze 38:2-6 KJV] 2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.
@bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen Well that’s assuming it’s actually *the* End Times Prophecy unfurling - and not merely a “trial run”. Good keeping an eye out for the Signs of the Times; but no man knows the day or the hour.
[Eze 39:1-2 KJV] 1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and LEAVE BUT THE SIXTH PART OF THEE, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
@bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen No point disputing the possibility; it could be It. Especially in light of my own experience coming out of ROCOR.

@Bunsen @bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius Yes, and it’s further complicated by satan continually trying to pull it off, and getting beat back over and over. No denying though there’s something really imminent about it, these days.

@KingOfWhiteAmerica @Bunsen @bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius Something that always sticks with me is the thought that the 'big evil' that people fight against can be seemingly pinned on so many groups. Yeah I'm fully aware of the JQ, but you hear interesting things about the Masons, knights templar, Jesuits, and all the various other powerbrokers around the world. None of these groups are all powerful and capable of pulling off 1,000 year+ grand conspiracies.
Ephesians 6:12 comes to mind.
>For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

@BowsacNoodle @Bunsen @bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius There’s not the least sliver of doubt in my mind all these orgs are demon-driven, and the jews are basically the body of satan.

jews think they are good because they were Chosen. God repeatedly tells them that is not why.

You think they can't be Chosen because they're not good.

Holiness has nothing to do with being good. Nobody is good. No not one. Being Holy is to be set apart.

@bobbala @STP @Twig @inscius @BowsacNoodle @Bunsen Me ? I think no such thing. I have a different Ecclesiology from yours, but I also don’t dispute today’s “jews” are “Chosen” for something …

If you have another candidate, who? Eskimos, Chinese, Apache? There are some African tribes that are Torah observant.

I'm not any kind of jew, real or imposter.
They were Peter, James and John.

[Luk 9:27 NKJV] 27 "But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God."

[Mat 16:28 NKJV] 28 "Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

[Mat 17:1-2 NKJV] 1 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as White as the light.
@bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @BowsacNoodle @Bunsen Holy Transfiguration was one of the most significant events to the eventual Fall of The West - which wasn’t even noticed by them until some Westerners actually caught wind of what the Orthodox had been saying about St. Gregory Palamas. For centuries it was little more than a minor footnote, a bit of trivia around the “Error of the Greeks”.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen Elaborate please. I've heard someone mention St Gregory Palamas but never any detail on this.
@BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen Sorry in advance for what might come across like an “effortpoast” - but it’s a joy as far as I’m concerned 😏

Many Orthodox to this day tie the falling away of Rome from the Church Universal, to the Filioque or Papal Supremacy. And while these were indeed the beginning of cracks in the Unity of Christendom, they could in theory at least be workable.
But the split was final and irrevocable by the time of the dispute between St. Gregory Palamas, and the monk Barlaam, whose impiety stemmed from his attempt to dispute Hesychasm. Because, in the process, he made an extreme Theological assertion; that is, that the Light beheld on Mt. Tabor by Sts. James, Peter, and John, was not the Uncreated Light, but rather, a mere creation.
In doing so, Barlaam cemented within the Bosom of The West a direct Theological *change* to the Faith-Once-Held-By-All. From this, the Western teaching of “Created Grace” spilled forth throughout all the land, largely unnoticed outside the Orthodox Lands, and a rift betwixt the two had been set.
It is logically impossible after that to jerry-rig the Communions back together. Flat-denying the Grace of God is an Uncreated Energy of God, represents the kind of change no hemming, hawing and handwaving can possibly fix.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen Oh no, I did not know that! How could God's Grace be a created thing? Does it not just flow from God Himself? I've not ever heard of this before.
@Thusnelda @BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen In his zeal to justify his attack of Traditional Orthodox Monasticism, Barlaam was trying to prove that God is “unknowable” in Essence (which is true). So when the Holy Transfiguration was brought up, St. Gregory argued that - while Man indeed cannot know the Essence of God, through Divine Grace we are invited in Christ to participate in His Energies - which are Divine Attributes God can and often has revealed to us - and therefore can be known - by being invited in.
This has been the whole justification for Orthodox Monasticism since before Egypt; that devoting oneself wholly to this practice (Hesychasm) is indeed a worthy and God-pleasing exercise.
Barlaam was denying this - and did so so overzealously, that he made a Theological change. And that wouldn’t have been such a problem if it didn’t immediately become Rome’s official position !! One guy can be wrong, but all of Rome ?!
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen But why would Rome adopt something so obviously wrong?
Could there be more to it than this? I guess I'm looking for some sort of logical reason why Rome would think this is ok and there was no dissenting opinions on the matter.
@Thusnelda @KingOfWhiteAmerica @BowsacNoodle @bobbala @c00p @STP @Twig @inscius @Bunsen I believe Rome simply didn't think it wrong, as Western Theology was under the influence of Neo-Platonist ideas that Uncreated Energy could never simply be interacted with by created beings. In their eyes, distance must always be maintained between the Uncreated Creator/Immoveable Mover, therefore any interaction with that Uncreated Divinity must always be a creation that God has placed between us and God proper.

It's a lot of bad logic and the Western idea of Divine Grace was intrinsically linked with Augustine's ideas of how grace should logically be given out. Rome's idea of Grace soon became something else entirely beyond the original concepts by the Church.

(This post contains a lot of quick drive-by analysis that barely touched on this thousand year old theological argument, fair warning)
What must one do to go to heaven?
@AmonMaritza @Appalachian_Crusader @bobbala @STP @Twig @c00p @inscius @BowsacNoodle @Bunsen @Thusnelda Repent
Believe the Gospel
Recieve Holy Baptism
Trust and obey Lord Jesus until the end.

Of course, these are a very brief nutshell answers to that, based on St. Paul’s instructions to the Philippian jailer - who went on to become a Bishop iirc.
that sounds like the state of sanctifying grace to me.
@AmonMaritza @bobbala @STP @Twig @c00p @inscius @Appalachian_Crusader @Bunsen @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Thusnelda The East uses the term "Theosis" similar to "Sanctification" for Western Protestants.
[Jhn 3:16-18 KJV] 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Religion is man's attempt to justify himself to his god. Whatever that may be. Mother Nature or Gaia is one such god.
DameAtomicGinger

@bobbala @AmonMaritza @c00p @inscius @STP @Twig @Appalachian_Crusader @BowsacNoodle @Bunsen @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Thusnelda except if it wasn’t for chrstianity and monks in particular we would have nothing in moderation society literally. That’s the difference. One specifically attempted to preserve human history and the others ehh.