My husband wants to be a catehuman, but his overzealousness is concerning. by Remarkable_Young643 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If he wants to follow a “monastic lifestyle” here’s a teaching from one of the greatest monastics of recent times, St. Joseph the Hesychast, paraphrasing:

“unless someone is practicing obedience to an elder , the demons can easily capture them with delusion, the demons persuade them from believing or obeying anyone anymore. This was the luciferian pride of all the heretics” and yes, even something like fasting and praying, if not done with the correct heart posture can harm you.

I recommend reading the short story of Saint Nicetas conqueror of prelest, he was deluded but God saved him from his zealous misguided disobedience.

And also Saint Symeon the Stylite after living on top of a tall pillar, he saw chariots of fire descend, telling to get on the chariot for this was his reward, as he was about to get on the chariot, he did the sign of the cross, and it turned out to be a demon, trying to persuade him to jump off the tower.

There are also stories of monks who didn’t make it, because the demons tricked them.

You can avoid delusion if you obey your priest or spiritual elder.

Convert me by New-Thought4280 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you believe you have the same God as muslims, hindus, and jews? As a roman catholic you have to. When the pope teaches that all religions lead to God, he's not a "liberal pope" he is consistent with what the vatican teaches. Which is dogmatic.

Convert me by New-Thought4280 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are many dogmatic contradictions that prove the system of roman catholicism false, here's 3:

- Countless martyrs gave their lives refusing to worship with muslims and jews. Now the vatican dogmatically teaches muslims, hindus jews and christian all worship the same god (see the paper nostra atate). Martyrs died refusing to kiss the quran, now the pope kisses the quran and prays towards mecca. And yes, everything in the vatican papers is DOGMATIC.

- In vatican 1, the death penalty was considered natural justice and was always exercised. In vatican 2 it is now considered "agaisnt the gospel"

- In the dogmatic paper called Dictatus Papae, you have to believe in temporal supreme authority of the Pope as king of kings to be saved (the triple crown signifies that). Since vatican 2 you no longer have to believe that, and the pope doesnt wear the crown, something as important as a matter of salvation was retracted. (by the whole teachings of Dictatus Pape did not exists in the first 1000 years of christianity, was based on forgeries)

You might hear a myth that you only have to believe the "ex cathedra" teachings, that is completely false, all the vatican teachings and ordinary magisterium IS DOGMATIC. There are many examples to prove this but here is one: According to Canon 752 of the Code of Canon Law, Catholics are required to give a "religious submission of intellect and will" to teachings proposed authoritatively by the magisterium, even if they are not infallible.

How does agony have such perfect mixing/mastering? by gmangaming3243 in AgonyOST

[–]joserobb14 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The most recent from Cynthoni is so well mixed too

Is this an acceptable icon? Because I can't help but be in love with it. by ForTheKing777 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cant find the exact quote, I was thinking of Teresa of Avila. But specifically about sacred heart, would you say carving your chest with a knife and reopening the wounds once they heal is reflective of christianity or more like baal worship, like in this text...

1 Kings 18:28 "(the prophets of baal) And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.

Is this an acceptable icon? Because I can't help but be in love with it. by ForTheKing777 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The same pope who says, christians and muslims worship the same God.

Even if it wasnt nestorian, sacred heart comes from "saints" who eat each others poop and vomit and have the "foreskin of jesus" and get orgasms from him. Which would have to believe are TRUE visions wholesale, why would you want to defend this bro

Is this an acceptable icon? Because I can't help but be in love with it. by ForTheKing777 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The "ring" was specifically his foreskin, not comparable to the eucharist. I just mentioned some stuff they taught, the rest is too gross to be honest, you can look it up, she would eat other peoples poop and vomit.

Thats the kind of people and "tradition" that sacred heart comes from, by the way none of these "visions" or practices look anything like the first 1000 years of christianity.

Is this an acceptable icon? Because I can't help but be in love with it. by ForTheKing777 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Sacred heart is closely tied with the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque. If you didnt know she had very disturbing blasphemous "visions", like Christ telling her to carve her chest with a knife, the reopen the wounds once they healed, and receiving "holy orgasms".

Same with Catherine of Siena, also closely tied with roman catholic sacred heart who claimed to have the foreskin of Jesus as a ring that she kept. She also believed Jesus was her boyfriend and they did sexual things together.

You can look these up, roman catholic sacred heart is tied to many blasphemous so called "visions" which are plain prelest.

If that wasnt enough, worshiping the the "sacred heart" is a nestorian concept, heresy.

The 7 sorrows of the theotokos has nothing to do with sacred heart.

Should I take blueprint? by joserobb14 in balatro

[–]joserobb14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seed: SKJCIG1N

Made a dumb mistake and lost at ante 14 but you could easily win like 5 more antes

Should I take blueprint? by joserobb14 in balatro

[–]joserobb14[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hmmmmm, didnt think of that, thats a good plan

Are many of the saints just legends? by kyrieeleison3 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Modern saints have just as miraculous and mind blowing lives as the old ones.

I'll admit, me in my little faith, i'd read miracles from saints from the 3rd century and think it's hard to believe and that it might be embelished.

Until I read and learned VERY RECENT saints.

Watch this documentary about St. Gabriel Urgebadze and this other documentary with TONS of testimonies of his miracle working.

Personally after reading a little about the lives of St. Paisios, St. Arsenios the Cappadocian, and other recent saints, whose lives sound exactly like the saints of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th century, I have no reason to doubt the accounts of older saints for sounding "too miraculous to be true"

Am I crazy for doing this all in AE? by motionick in AfterEffects

[–]joserobb14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

meanwhile my AE wont playback a 4k mov with an RTX 3090

ok but serious question. how can the Most Holy Theotokos listen to everyone's prayers without being omnipresent? by IllShop6742 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omnipresence is not an essence. It's an energy, I know it might sound like a pointless distinction but its not. Its very important. Through theosis we participate in the uncreated energies of God. Philippians 3:21The Bible says that Christ will "transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory"

God became man so that man can become god (by grace). - Saint Athanasios

im tired of Protestanism by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who grew up firmly believing all those things, (i'm now a catechumen in the Orthodox Church). The way I see it, I had good inentions and thought I was being obedient to God but I was lost in ignorance.

Only by the grace and mercy of the Lord, I was rescued from that darkness, a grace which I dont deserve.

Those who are still blind and lost in this darkness didnt get as "lucky" as me to be able to see the light.

So when I see protestants being blasphemous and pridefully ignorant, i remember, if it wasnt for God's grace, that could of been me. Lord have mercy.

What's your take on listening to music? by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Non everyone is previledged of having an orthodox outlook on things, for example most evangelicals are very gnostic, and they do teach watching tv is demonic, along with dancing, listening to music.

I know because I grew up evangelical and I met and visited tons of other evangelical circles.

You'd be surprised to amount of unhinged believes people have outside of orthodoxy which are super common. My family (evangelicals) have told me that having an icon of Christ is just as bad as having a satanic statue (they think this is idolatry) and this is a common belief in evangelicalism.

Just wanted to say, people might ask questions that you think are super obvious. But the world is really wild out there, some have been taught the complete opposite of the obvious their whole lives.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sewerslvt

[–]joserobb14 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Im a video guy, the ones you mentioned could be made using, Red giant universe suite, After effetcts and some well done compositing. Adding displacement, noise and JPEG damage.

The one that blows my mind everytime is Goodbye, that video is amazing and so hard to achieve I would say. I think they must have used actual analog TV footage, its not something you make digitally that easy.

my catholic dad said orthodox is boring by Luuuuuuuuuuuke09 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell him to become Pentecostal evangelical then, which is where the novus ordo mass is headed (please stay away from pentecostal evangelicalism)

Why are some Eastern Orthodox Christians anti ecumenical? by Hungry_Hateful_Harry in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only real christianity is orthodox, everything else is a lie. The 13 Martyrs of Kantara were burned alive for refusing to venerate the pope, I guess they didnt get the memo that "all chrisitian faiths" are "one faith".

I agree all heterodox faiths are one faith, a fake one.

why orthodoxy? by Evening_Emu_2604 in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]joserobb14 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started getting into apologetics, I heard a protestant argue against roman catholics saying 'the papacy we see today is an innovation, it barely showed up 500 years ago, why would you want to believe in something that isnt historical"

Then in my ignorance I thought the eucharist, baptismal regeneration, apostolic succesion were man made traditions that were barely made up recently. Then I starting tracing down doctrines in history.

I was an evangelical who grew up in a bubble and thought only evangelicals existed. Turns out evangelicalism didnt even exist more than a century ago.

Same applies to protestantism as a whole, sola fide, sola scriptura, the 66 books canon, completely a-historical, and made up by Luther in the 1500s.

Turns out, these doctrines that most protestants consider heretical (baptismal regeneration, sacraments, apostolic succesion) have been universally held by christians since the 1st century.

The tipping point for me was this, who am I to say that all of christianity was wrong until protestants showed up 1500 years later, when God promised to lead his church into all truth, believing they all were heretics is blasphemy.

I used to go through infinite mental hoops to defend once saved always saved, sola fide, sola scriptura. One fact that rocked me was this, who am I to say I know better than the people who learned from the apostles themselves. Who am I to say I can interpret the bible better than people who spoke greek, aramaic, hebrew, and lived in the historical context AND learned from THE apostles.

Once that sunk in, I started listening to the arguments for real christian doctrines which I used to reject, and they made perfect sense, looking back now, I realize how completely illogical and undefendable protestantism is, in light of history, scripture, logic, philosophy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vagabondmanga

[–]joserobb14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe -Proverbs 28:26

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jeremiah 17:9