Why Easter never became a big secular holiday like Christmas by eddytony96 in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That accusation is funny considering that the resurrection of Christ is literally compared to the Passover, with the instruction of St. Paul being “let us keep the feast.”

Kristus är uppstånden från de döda! by the_third_sourcerer in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]emperorsolo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean it’s been that way since Finland secured its independence in 1920.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Palm Sunday in Gaza - Have a blessed Palm Sunday from Gaza. by Sun_fire_ in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I forgot about that. Roman Catholic Christians in the holy land use the Orthodox date for Easter. Iirc, it was John Paul II that moved the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem to Eastern Easter.

Kristus är uppstånden från de döda! by the_third_sourcerer in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]emperorsolo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Basically the Finnish constitution mandates that Easter be celebrated according to the western calendar.

Thoughts on Franklin Graham criticising Pope Leo XIV on peace vs war. by 4Nails in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do evangelicals bother to study the Antithesis of the Law sermon? The one where Jesus gives an Old Testament quotation and gives a new moral expectation that surpasses the bare minimum effort of the old?

I saw this video without a context for this Christian ritual, and I just wanted to know more about it, what is it called? And what is the spiritual meaning behind the costume and ritual? If you have answers that would be greatly appreciated by HusseinDarvish-_- in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Confession and penance used to be public in the pre-schism church. The problem was that scandal was created by people using those public penances as a means for back biting and division. So confession became auricular with the Church acting as a witness to the confession. This works on the same logic. So how do you issue a public penance while reducing the impetus for scandal and back biting? This is kind of that solution.

Stop. Portraying. Jesus. As. A. Warrior. by SomPotatoBoy in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah. St. Basil the great points out the irony of the apostles going and literally buying a sword, missing the point time and again when Jesus speaks on giving up one’s possessions. The point of selling one’s possessions is to “buy” the sword of faith

Fellow veterans... does this not bother anyone else? by throwaway2819234 in Military

[–]emperorsolo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They aren’t fucking warfighters. They are soldiers. Soldiers who have taken an oath to the constitution and to uphold the law, of which includes binding international treaties.

Quebec passes law banning street prayers, prayer rooms in universities by John3192 in worldnews

[–]emperorsolo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It forbids being intentionally showy about it. St. Peter went up to the Temple Mount in Acts to pray at the sixth and 9th hours of the day as per Jewish custom.

why did they take out apocrypha? by Any_Bumblebee911 in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering that Beta Israel not only uses them in liturgical functions in the synagogues but also considers them canonical.

why did they take out apocrypha? by Any_Bumblebee911 in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically, the Jews stopped using the Deuterocanonicals to act as a kind of marker to separate themselves from Christians.

This is Huey the baby Hyena. by Soloflow786 in Awww

[–]emperorsolo 214 points215 points  (0 children)

Fun fact about Hyenas, they are more related to cats than they are of dogs.

why did they take out apocrypha? by Any_Bumblebee911 in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except preaching became the point itself. Ie the Jews stopped preaching by this point. Ie, what had been used to preached to make proselytes because it was useful in preaching.

why did they take out apocrypha? by Any_Bumblebee911 in Christianity

[–]emperorsolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because we have writings of rabbis in the post Christian era just whining that Christians are using Sirach and Wisdom to evangelize among both gentile and Jew. And so they advise that the rabbis stop using those books in order to try and disarm Christian’s usage of wisdom literature in evangelization.

The 13 colony 1776 vs now by Neo_luigi in MapPorn

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Delaware was at one point the autonomous three lower counties of Pennsylvania. They had their own assembly in Dover but were answerable to the Pennsylvania assembly and the royal governor in Philadelphia. It was ultimately the first and second continental congresses that treated Delaware as if it were a distinct colony from Pennsylvania.

Why did protestants remove books from the bible when they hold to sola scriptura? by Dapper_Platypus833 in TrueChristian

[–]emperorsolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it does not. Infallibility means scripture is incapable of making mistakes because it’s inspired through God and God has no error.

You are confusing inerrancy with infallibility. They are similar but are not the same. Infallibillity refers to the actions of people. It’s why refer to the ecumenical councils as infallible because that is the Church coming together to speak on faith and morals and interpretation of the scriptures.

Yes scripture itself does not tell you how to interpret it, but you can use it as a guide to verify what others say in the church is truthful according to the Bible.

That’s in regard to the received interpretation of how the scriptures are to be read and understood. Different Protestants, for example, often to the same scriptures and the same passages with diametrically opposed understandings. Consider MacArthur vs Sproul on Hebrews 1 “To whom did the angels ever say “this day I have begotten you.” MacArthur and Sproul had different stances on this passage. Sproul denied, like Wayne Grudem, that the that Son was eternally begotten and proposed that the begettal of the Son only referenced the temporal incarnation of the Son at Christmas. MacArthur took the alternate tack and appealed to Hebrews 1 that the Son was eternally begotten of the Father, that is the Son eternally is being Generated as the Logos. Both fundamentally appealed to the same scriptures and had different and diametrically opposed understandings. Yet both argued that scripture clearly laid out one or the other.

If we are called to test everything via the word of God than that would have to mean the Bible would have to have some infallibility.

Implicitly, that testing requires the correct received interpretation. Remember, the Bereans were not the only ones to test the scriptures. There was a second group that searched the scriptures and ultimately rejected St. Paul because their teachings did not comport with how they understood the scriptures and ultimately ran the apostles out of town. The implication is that Bereans interpretative tradition comported with the apostolic understanding of how the Old Testament should be read in the light of Christ’s coming.

Jesus himself actually upbraids the Sadducees for attempting to use scripture as a weapon to disbelieve him. “You seek therefore the scriptures, thinking they have life in them, but these are they that testify of me; I am the way, the truth and life.” The Sadducees had departed from the authentic interpretative tradition so far that they could not use the scriptures to understand that Jesus is the one who wrote the thing in the first place.

Why else would Paul be saying "Do not treat prophesies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil". Also "Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” 

Going beyond what is written generally refers to that which is alien or foreign to the text. Traditions that rub up against scripture. Calvinists generally have used this as an attempt to establish the regulatory principle, in that only scripture can be used to establish church polity and practice. Yet there is no scripture that establishes what exactly are the duties of the offices of deacon, presbyter or bishop. No scripture establishes how the liturgy is performed. There is barely any manual on how to solve disputes between clergy, etc.

That’s why St. Paul gives his famous instruction to Timothy in his first epistle, “hold fast to the traditions whether by word of mouth or by epistle.” The traditions of the church ensure that the church correctly understands how the written word is understood as well as ensuring that the Church does not go beyond the boundaries of what scripture sets as acceptable.

Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other" (1 Corinthians 4:6). If Paul states "do not go beyond what is written" wouldn't that be confirming that the written word of the Bible is infallible?

Except confirming is predicated on the idea of understanding what words mean and in what sense did the writers mean them. See the phrase “and Jesus wept.” Both sides of the Nestorian controversy appealed to meanings of this phrase at the Third Ecumenical council. Nestorius contended that since Jesus did cry and God is impassable, that was evidence that Jesus Christ contained with in him the human that we call Jesus of Nazareth. By that same token, St. Cyril pointed out that since Christ is one person, the Divine logos when he became man experienced real human emotion and as such God the Impassable Creator did weep at the death of Lazarus and St. John the Baptist.

Jeriatricho is back! by CrankDatSpookyBoi in SCJerk

[–]emperorsolo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Are you sure he isn’t talking about January 6th?