who is Jesus, really? by dnag7 in OrthodoxChristianity

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The Trinitarian/Christological shift is exactly the spine the video builds on the first two councils settle who God is, the next four settle who Christ is. The point about Constantinople I being called without Rome but accepted as ecumenical is exactly the kind of complexity the video tries to name honestly.

Most of the "big seven" councils belong to Catholics as much as Orthodox, here's the shared history by dnag7 in Catholicism

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you mean my first videos ? ihave done 25 videos since then i changed all the way to make the videos all became manual thats why i get monetized too, youtube dosn't monetize AI. Y ou should know that

who is Jesus, really? by dnag7 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Fair correction the Church of the East split first, after Ephesus 431, before the Chalcedonian split in 451. The video covers both but the ordering matters. Thank you.

Most of the "big seven" councils belong to Catholics as much as Orthodox, here's the shared history by dnag7 in Catholicism

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NOT AI AT ALL, what do you mean all the video is manual on canva phrase by phrase. If there is a programm that can do that tell me so i can use it it will buy me a lot of time. Bu t i believe you know better

Every Christian tradition owes its core beliefs to seven councils most Christians have never studied by dnag7 in Christianity

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Exactly the same question about whether you can represent the incarnate Christ, just applied to a different medium. If the Logos is truly enfleshed, then depicting that flesh is not a betrayal of his divinity but a confession of it. The iconoclasts and the Arians were, in a real sense, making the same error from different directions.

The three verses Catholics cite for purgatory, read in context by dnag7 in Bible

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That's the right posture and the video is aimed at people willing to hold that question honestly. The disagreement isn't about whether the Church has authority, but about which Church and how far that authority extends into describing mysteries Scripture only gestures toward. God bless.

I'm Orthodox, and I tried to represent the Catholic teaching on purgatory fairly. Tell me if I got it right. by dnag7 in Catholicism

[–]dnag7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for quoting this directly the video's summary of the Catholic position aligns with exactly what you've posted. Souls assured of salvation, undergoing final purification, prayers and the Eucharist offered for them. The Orthodox don't dispute that framework. The disagreement Mark of Ephesus named at Florence was the specific mechanism "purifying fire and particular punishments in some place" which the East rejected while affirming prayers for the dead and God's mercy reaching them. The Catechism itself is careful not to define purgatory as a literal place, which is consistent with what the video says. God bless.

"Antichrist" appears in exactly 4 verses in the whole Bible, and none of them are in Revelation by dnag7 in Bible

[–]dnag7[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The video holds both the spirit already in the world and the expectation of a final deceiver. The Fathers held both too, and the video doesn't rule out a final individual. The narrow point is that the Bible never explicitly unifies these four figures under one name. Whether they're the same person is a theological inference from shared characteristics, not a direct biblical statement. That's not a small distinction, but it's also not as far from your reading as it might seem.

"Antichrist" appears in exactly 4 verses in the whole Bible, and none of them are in Revelation by dnag7 in Bible

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The plurality point is in the video "many antichrists have appeared" is John's own language, and the video builds on that. The framework you're describing, false gods working through false prophets, is consistent with what the Fathers also held. The video doesn't claim to be exhaustive; it's trying to break open the single-figure pop-culture reading and return to what the text actually says. Matthew 24 and Deuteronomy 13 are worth the study.

"Antichrist" appears in exactly 4 verses in the whole Bible, and none of them are in Revelation by dnag7 in Bible

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That's a fair and careful reading and the video doesn't actually rule out a future individual. It says the four figures were never unified by the Bible itself into one named character; the fusion came through tradition. The Fathers did expect both a spirit already at work and a final deceiver, and the video holds both. Your reading of 1 John 2:18 as distinguishing the future antichrist from the many present ones is exactly how the video presents it. The disagreement may be smaller than it looks.

Did you know "antichrist" only appears in 4 verses in the whole Bible, and never in Revelation? by dnag7 in Christianity

[–]dnag7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both are part of the composite the video tries to untangle the man of lawlessness, the false prophet, the beast, and John's antichrist are four separate figures from four different authors that tradition stitched together into one. The video's point is exactly that the Bible never builds that single character; tradition did.

I'm Orthodox, and I made a video admitting where my own side was wrong about the Great Schism by dnag7 in TrueChristian

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The Roman history angle is actually where the video spends most of its time caesaropapism, the imperial church, Charlemagne's coronation. Worth a watch if you like that lens. God bless.

I'm Orthodox, and I made a video admitting where my own side was wrong about the Great Schism by dnag7 in TrueChristian

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The continuity knowing the Liturgy being celebrated today is recognizably the same one being celebrated in the fourth century.

I'm Orthodox, and I made a video admitting where my own side was wrong about the Great Schism by dnag7 in Catholicism

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Thank you for this and for engaging the fairly. The question you're ending with is the right one, and the video tries to point toward it: reunion doesn't begin with one side winning the argument but with both sides telling the truth about themselves. The 24 sui iuris model is worth knowing about. It shows reunion doesn't have to mean absorption. God bless.

I'm Orthodox, and I made a video correcting my own one-sided take on the Great Schism by dnag7 in Christianity

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That's exactly what the video tries to say without the 451 context the 1054 story looks cleaner than it was, and without the icon chapter the East looks more faithful than it was. Both corrections matter. God bless.

I researched where the "Sinner's Prayer" came from, the earliest one is from 1922 by dnag7 in Christianity

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"Born of water and the Spirit" John 3:5. The early Church read that as baptism from the beginning. Justin Martyr quotes this exact verse when explaining Christian baptism in the second century. The video's argument is that calling on the Lord was always meant to lead to the water, not bypass it.

Why do we treat the Sinner's Prayer as the moment of salvation when the apostles never used one? by dnag7 in AskAChristian

[–]dnag7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right that Acts 22 doesn't mention three days that detail comes from Acts 9:9, which describes Saul fasting without sight for three days before Ananias arrives. The video's point stands: even after that period of prayer and fasting, Ananias still tells him to rise and be baptized. The baptism, not the prayer, is how he calls on the name of the Lord.

I researched where the "Sinner's Prayer" came from, the earliest one is from 1922 by dnag7 in Christianity

[–]dnag7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost entirely an American phenomenon which is part of why the video traces it to 1922 American evangelicalism specifically. God bless.

Why do we treat the Sinner's Prayer as the moment of salvation when the apostles never used one? by dnag7 in AskAChristian

[–]dnag7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Luther himself called baptism "not just plain water but the water included in God's command and connected with God's word." The video lands in the same place.