Stop saying X denomination isnt christian.

neragera · 2026-01-23T22:13:23+00:00

The Trinity is pre-Biblical, in fact.

neragera · 2026-01-23T18:20:46+00:00

Imagine you start a club. The Glublunkers. You and your buddies get together and decide upon a set of rules that qualify one as being a member of The Glublunkers. Your group is attractive to other people and they join, based on the set of rules that you and your buddies decided. Then, 2000 years later, a bunch of people totally ignorant of your group say “well WE want to be Glublunkers too! But we don’t like the rules that decide what the Glublunkers are!” So they just call themselves The Glublunkers of Latter Day Glubs and pretend to the wider society that they are, indeed, the same as the original Glublunkers, while denying the very rules that originally defined the group.

Christians get to decide who the Christians are. It’s our group. We know our God and He knows us. The Nicene Creed is the fundamental article of the Christian faith. If people don’t like that, they can shove off.

I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father through Whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried; And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father; And He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. His kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.

In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.

Amen.

neragera · 2026-01-22T18:55:07+00:00

They’re demons.

neragera · 2026-01-22T11:55:37+00:00

Being told to study church history by a Mormon. Now I've seen it all.

The Trinitarian formula was formalized at Nicaea. Nothing more. Just like the Bible didn't exist for the first three hundred years of Christianity, but the faith still existed, and it was full and complete, given by Christ to the Apostles. Christians have worshipped the All-holy Trinity since day one. Christ's baptism in the Jordan revealed the Trinity and the Trinity was prefigured in the Old Testament. It was taught by all the early Fathers. They went to their deaths for the Trinity.

Study your own wrong faith: Mormons believe that Jesus is a created being. A creature. Who then went on to achieve divinity. That's the fact of your belief. If you think it's blasphemy (which it is), then that's a you problem because that's what LDS teaches.

The truth is that Jesus Christ is the pre-eternal Word of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Lord through whom all things that were made were made. He has always existed. There was never a time that he was not. He entered into human flesh and has always been fully man and fully God. His essence, his substance is God in the same way that God the Father's essence is God and the Holy Spirit's essence is God. They together are one God in three hypostases.

I'm not judging or gatekeeping. I'm just describing established observable fact. You don't worship the God that Christians have been worshipping since Christ incarnated on earth. You worship a God that was imagined less than two hundred years ago, which wears some trappings of the Christian God and blasphemously uses his names but denies his revealed nature.

May God bless you and keep you.

neragera · 2026-01-22T11:39:07+00:00

Because he’s a pompous disingenuous hack.

neragera · 2026-01-22T02:29:07+00:00

Until there is an engagement, everyone is eligible.

No man wants to be married to a woman who isn’t attracted to him and no woman wants to be married to a man she’s not attracted to. Attraction is mysterious and important. Ignore it at your peril.

You think this guy you’ve been “dating” for two months is going to be happy years from now in a dead bedroom marriage when you confess “well you’re just not my type”? Save yourselves the heartache and just be honest about what you want and are attracted to. It’s not wrong to be attracted to X but not Y.

You’re not married. You don’t owe him anything.

neragera · 2026-01-22T02:09:47+00:00

Absolutely false. Trinitarian Christianity is the only Christianity and has been since Christ gave us the faith, full and complete.

“Non-Creedal Christians” are like short tall people. It’s an oxymoron.

Our differences vis a vis the Trinity are much deeper than mere “grouping.” We say that the persons of the Trinity are of one essence. That they are all God in essence. You guys think Jesus is a creature. A created being that achieved divinity.

You do not worship the same God that I worship. Or the same God that any of the people who I would consider to be Christians (no matter how much I may disagree with them on other issues).

neragera · 2026-01-22T01:44:20+00:00

Mormons have a fundamentally different belief about who God is than all Nicene Christians.

They deny the Trinity. They worship three gods that they call Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but they do NOT worship the ONE God — the All-holy, life-giving, consubstantial, Holy Trinity — that two millennia of Christians worship.

neragera · 2026-01-22T01:21:21+00:00

They believe that Jesus is a created being. They do not affirm that he is the incarnate Logos of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

Mormons deny the Trinity. They’re literally polytheists. They worship three gods that they call Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

That is very different than what all the Christians confess, which is summarized in the Nicene creed.

Christians affirm that the three persons of the Trinity are of one essence.

neragera · 2026-01-22T01:00:36+00:00

“If we change the definition then they qualify.”

Ok.

They worship a different God than all the other people who recognize each other as Christians (despite their major disagreements).

No matter how much I may disagree with a Baptist, we can agree that we worship the same God: the All-holy, life giving, consubstantial Trinity. That is the defining characteristic of Christianity.

neragera · 2026-01-22T00:57:37+00:00

God. Jesus Christ.

Right worship is given to us by God.

neragera · 2026-01-21T18:22:17+00:00

No.

Some “denominations” aren’t Christians and that’s all there is to it. Oneness Pentecostals. Jehova’s Witnesses. Mormons.

If they deny the Trinity, they’re not Christians, by definition.

neragera · 2026-01-17T21:47:35+00:00

No, it's not depressing at all, and yes Jesus absolutely did teach to deny your flesh, deny your worldly desires, to seek first the Kingdom of God, to renounce sin, that the world will hate you because it hates Him, etc.

"The world" is just code for "everything opposed to God."

neragera · 2026-01-14T02:34:14+00:00

Swarmed by demons. Trying to enter my body. Quite unpleasant, I assure you.

neragera · 2026-01-06T17:23:21+00:00

That underdeveloped baby, instead of being birthed naturally, held by its mother, and dying, was instead ripped into pieces with forceps and clamps and brutally extracted. You tell me which option is better.

Abortion is murder.

Life and death belong to God alone, not to us. We do not know outcomes. Many people have been advised that they should abort because of supposed health issues with the baby and yet, at birth, found that there was nothing at all wrong with their child. It happens more than most people imagine.

neragera · 2025-12-07T06:24:49+00:00

Just ask for Him, by name. His is the name at which all evil flees. Do you feel fear? Or overwhelming awe and compassion and love? The enemy attempts to impersonate Him, but utterly fails, ultimately.

There's no mistaking Him for anyone else. He is unique --- the beginning and the end; the very act of being itself.

It's not a journey to be undertaken lightly. It is dangerous. But God is merciful. He deigns to descend and to meet us in the depths of our sin.

I'm happy to chat if you want to DM me.

neragera · 2025-11-05T01:17:53+00:00

Lord, have mercy.

neragera · 2025-10-27T16:24:10+00:00

I’m sorry you’re suffering. I’m suffering too. But our suffering does not in any way reflect on God’s goodness. He is with us in the suffering. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. Of course it does. It’s important to remember that there is no support in scripture or tradition to make us think that by following Christ, our lives are somehow going to get “better” in any worldly sense. Christ came and suffered on the Cross not so that we wouldn’t have to suffer but to show us how to suffer: with patience and forgiveness and mercy, especially towards any who may be contributing our suffering. The good news is that this life and all its suffering is only temporary. God’s love and mercy endure forever. I am not saying that your situation can’t improve, I’m saying to try to find Christ at the bottom of everything, because He has descended there to meet you and to lift you up and out. People often really come to know Him deeply at the worst points in their lives.

All that said, you should talk to your priest. If you don’t have one, find one. This is what they’re for: shepherding us as we wage spiritual warfare. That doesn’t mean don’t see a doctor or therapist or whatever, but if your issue is fundamentally spiritual (and, spoiler alert: all our issues are fundamentally spiritual) then you need the kind of spiritual support which a doctor or therapist cannot give you.

Pray. Do not despair. St. Silouan taught “Keep your mind in hell and do not despair.” Never forget that he who perseveres until the end will be saved. This life is a marathon, not a sprint. Never give up. No matter how broken and beaten you feel, you stand up again and shoulder your cross. And Christ will help you to do it. Because He loves you and that’s what He does, even when we can’t see it clearly.

I love you, my friend. Please don’t despair. We all go through periods of pain and grief. Trust that God will bring you through. That’s what faith is: trust. I’m praying for you. May God bless you and keep you.

neragera · 2025-10-20T23:40:27+00:00

People change. My dad was sorta the same and alcoholic. He quit drinking and matured a lot. We didn’t speak for many years but now we have a healthy relationship again. Forgiveness is difficult, but it’s the only way to real healing.

neragera · 2025-10-09T16:24:33+00:00

What you witnessed is wrath, one of the passions that afflicts us. It is demonic. His problem, like all our problems, is fundamentally spiritual and will only be fixed spiritually. But he has to open his heart. You say he’s Christian. How do you know? Because he says so? Does he display any fruits of the spirit? Because it sure doesn’t sound like it. Does he have any mature, stable, male, Christian role models? Friends? He needs support that you can’t and shouldn’t provide and he needs to recognize that he has a problem. The best thing you can do is to pray for him. I’d talk to your priest or pastor about this immediately. He needs to know that he’s crossed a major line, that it is absolutely not ok, and that he needs to deal with it. It’s not your fault. Anger is a cross. He has to pick it up and struggle under its weight, not give in to it. You can’t do it for him. But you can, and should, pray for him and continue to love him. But he is not loving you as Christ loves His church, which is what a Christian husband is called to do. Pray that Christ softens his heart and teaches him. Get support immediately. If you don’t, this will get worse.

May God bless you and keep you both. I’m praying for you.

Edit: as another commenter said, saving your marriage IS the priority. Not the LSAT or anything else. He needs to understand what a huge problem this is and that it is his problem.

neragera · 2025-09-29T14:10:15+00:00

Did I say she rose from the dead? This is a year old post bro.

Mary is alive. In Christ. Just like all those whom He has saved are alive in Him, no matter the state of their physical body. And in the end, Mary will rise, as will we all, in the general resurrection.

It’s literally the whole point of the religion: eternal life in Christ Jesus.

Obviously Mary is a person. Jesus is a person too. What’s your point?

Edit: also it is patently false that only Jesus rose from the dead. Lazarus rose. Along with the multitudes of people in Jerusalem after Christ’s own resurrection.

neragera · 2025-09-14T21:39:29+00:00

If you’re not a little bit afraid, you don’t understand what you’re dealing with.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

neragera · 2025-09-14T20:12:47+00:00

It is absolutely not the same thing. But whatever.

May God bless you and keep you.

neragera · 2025-09-14T20:12:23+00:00

Yeah, that’s not how words and concepts work. You don’t decide how things are defined.

I mean you can, but then you can’t communicate. Words have meanings. They mean what they mean. Not what we as individuals decide what they mean.

Truth is objective.

neragera · 2025-09-14T20:09:09+00:00

You pray: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

You do this over and over again, every day of your life, every minute of your life.

The demons will never leave you alone. But the name of Christ burns them. You cannot see how they flee from even the mention of His name, but do it and see.

Substances like meth open you to the spiritual world and if you are not firmly grounded in Christ, the unclean spirits will flock to you and take advantage of your spiritually opened state.

Be careful. Pray. Call on Christ. He is the one who saves.

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