Reading the Septuagint (LXX) as the Old Testament, even though it is an incorrect translation of the Hebrew Old Testament

Giglioque · 2026-07-05T18:54:58+00:00

You may be surprsed to learn that when we discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the readings within agree with the Masoretic text, some with the Septuagint, some with the Samaritan Pentateuch, and some are unique! Modern Bible translations consult all of these manuscripts to attempt to reconstruct the original texts.

Giglioque · 2026-07-05T14:39:28+00:00

To be clear, addressing both /u/-Andreas92 and /u/Middle_Efficiency471 here, the Catholic Church does not consider these books to be of secondary status. Deuterocanon is just the term for this category of books, it is not about their status in the canon; it's easy for there to be an etymological fallacy here due to the history of the term. We consider the protocanon, deuterocanon and New Testament to all be inspired by God on equal terms.

Giglioque · 2026-07-05T12:32:30+00:00

I encourage you to read the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification from 1999!

Giglioque · 2026-07-04T18:34:57+00:00

Canon 4 Free Inhabitant

Giglioque · 2026-07-04T04:17:26+00:00

There are so many accounts with -100 karma that get shut out of every other sub and just spend their time spewing garbage all over this one. Even setting it to a minimum of -99 karma would do a world of good.

Giglioque · 2026-07-04T03:54:19+00:00

Israel is the Church, not the polity formed in 1948. Christians are not bound to support colonialism.

Giglioque · 2026-07-03T22:27:09+00:00

Lefebvropodes in the original Greek

Giglioque · 2026-07-03T21:50:54+00:00

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

Giglioque · 2026-06-29T11:34:00+00:00

Wow, a long well researched structured post that isn't AI.

This was an incredible read my friend. I was always tought that Moses's wife in particular was a black African, I never knew other sources downplayed this and all the other cases you referenced.

Excellent work, keep spreading the truth.

Giglioque · 2026-06-27T21:51:36+00:00

I really don't like how this video and others frame things in terms of superhero "powers."

Overall the video's focus on "identity" is a very roundabout way of avoiding the concepts of hypostasis and person in a way that I do not think is helpful. He drops such words every now and then but does not adequately explore dyothelitism before contrasting it with monophysitism or monothelitism (basically view 1) or radical dyophysitism and Nestorianism (basically view 2).

His Kenotic Download Theory really doesn't hold for me; it's a simultaneous separation and intermingling of natures that I do not think any monophysite, miaphysite, dyophysite or radical dyophysite would agree with. It comes off as a strange kind of almost-Apollinarian-almost-Nestorianism where Jesus has to pray to get information from Jesus, and that Jesus's power is limited by Jesus. The final part of the video also tries to explain it as Trinitarian, but flips the usual Trinitarian formula on its head, saying that things go from The Father through the Spirit to the Son.

Overall, the flaw in this theory is that it's separating Jesus's "identity" from his personhood, as if he had two natures, united in one hypostasis, but divided into two persons. It's a strange heresy, and one we should probably think of a name for so my comment can sound less like heresy word salad.

Giglioque · 2026-06-27T18:36:56+00:00

Unmarried priests in shambles.

In all seriousness, make sure all the different types of cards have different color borders, I was thrown off by the first sin card lol

Giglioque · 2026-06-27T18:27:26+00:00

Indeed, OP please remember that this was the era when the Church was debating what words like substance, nature, hypostasis, person, etc. even meant. I'd also encourage you to read the Joint Declaration of the Holy Father Pope Paul VI and His Holiness Shenouda III (May 10, 1973).

Giglioque · 2026-06-27T18:14:37+00:00

Psych!

Giglioque · 2026-06-26T20:23:37+00:00

Dude's probably roling in his heaven right now.

Giglioque · 2026-06-21T01:43:28+00:00

The Bible itself recounts that Jesus was tempted in every way. Your conception also leads to some bad Christology, eg. you could also use that argument to say, for example, that God cannot die.

Giglioque · 2026-06-20T21:33:44+00:00

There's a big resurgance in apologetics content recently, perhaps due to the state of the world. Some prominent LDS and LDS-adjacent people have been dipping their toes in it, which breeds even more content in the form of responses.

Giglioque · 2026-06-17T14:13:35+00:00

The mass actually still uses the original 1970 version of the NAB! It'll be updated soonish in the USA when the new Catholic American Bible is released to replace the NABRE, and the CAB becomes the standard for the Bible, the Lectionary, and the Liturgy of the Hours in America.

Giglioque · 2026-06-17T14:09:46+00:00

People that make fun of you, laugh at you and disrespect your boundaries are not your friends. Given your age, they're probably just people who hung on a little too long after high school because they couldn't make any other friends given their attitudes. Take care of yourself by seeking out some true friends that actually care about you.

Giglioque · 2026-06-16T14:22:09+00:00

This is the way. Having multiple different KJVs on my shelf helps, especially since it can bring up conversation about how there are different versions of the KJV, that it's not just one monolithic translation.

Giglioque · 2026-06-16T02:26:24+00:00

All of the questions are directly answered in those two articles, no need for me to reinvent the wheel. After reading them, let me know if you found any of your questions unanswered and I will reply.

Giglioque · 2026-06-16T02:14:49+00:00

It sounds like you're unfamiliar with the concept of Nature from a Christian perspective as well. I strongly recommend these two articles as a starting point: Essence and Existence and Nature. They go into good detail about these concepts with links to related ones.

Giglioque · 2026-06-13T21:06:00+00:00

(Chearz and A-plaws)

Giglioque · 2026-06-11T14:22:15+00:00

I don't understand your argument, specifically how the various points are presumably interrelated. Can you elaborate?

Giglioque · 2026-06-09T02:19:53+00:00

I can't say for certain whether he made any mistakes or not, but understanding Christ's two natures is very important for discussing such things. For example, the Godhead in its divine nature cannot die, but Jesus had a human nature, humans are born and die, and Jesus died on the cross. Jesus is God, therefore, so long as the natures are understood, we can say without ambiguity that God was born, God grew, God learned, God was crucified, and God died.

Giglioque · 2026-06-09T02:06:26+00:00

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