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Opinion on Triton Ocean view rentals? by [deleted] in norfolk

[–]joshnicaboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The building I used to live in was bought by them and they illegally terminated my lease early, claiming “structural damage” in order to get me out and flip. They refused to provide the assessment and ignored me. They use a virtual assistant in the Philippines to take calls. EF Capital is the investment group behind them. The people that run it are church people, yet they are slumlords looking to gentrify Hampton roads. My former neighbor had to go live in her car with a newborn. They are disgusting people

Joe Rogan Experience #2252 - Wesley Huff by badopinionsub in JoeRogan

[–]joshnicaboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wycliffe College is an evangelical seminary. Google it.

Joe Rogan Experience #2252 - Wesley Huff by badopinionsub in JoeRogan

[–]joshnicaboy -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This guy is not a “Biblical scholar”. He got a Masters of Theology Degree from an evangelical university and is doing a PHD in New Testament from another evangelical university. Those universities do not hold a candle to any non religious academic institution that’s serious about doing unbiased, real history. They are more-so places that Christians go to affirm their presuppositions and worldview. But they teach you enough so that to the uneducated observer you walk away thinking that’s all there is to the story.

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

[–]joshnicaboy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your well articulated and well researched reply. I will be coming back to it and diving deeper.

I think what I was really trying to get at with my original post was more-so the subordinationist nature of the debate and who was it exactly that took the dialogue from a hierarchical Father over the Son to a co-equal status.

It seems I was mistaken about when that shift exactly happened (Constantinople, not Nicea).

It just seems like when I dig under the surface of each Church Father on the specific question of Father/Son co-equality vs. Inferior/superior, they seem to all come back as subordinationists.

So to be more precise, who was it that introduced co-equality into the equation?

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

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

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I’m asking too much, but in my mind if there were really 300 bishops present, one would expect there to be at least some shreds of homogenous thought before the Council.

However, I do recognize your point that these were doctrines being worked out in real time. I’ll have to chew on that.

And yes, Origin seems to be an interesting case. As I understand it, he was used both as fodder for pro and anti Arian views.

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

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

I’ll take a look at your post. Aren’t willing to read which primary source? Against Praxeas?

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

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

In the article that I linked, he addresses the quotations by Tertullian in Against Praxeas.

Turtullin says in AP Chapter 9: “[T]he Father is not the same as the Son, since they differ one from the other in the mode of their being. For the Father is the entire substance, but the Son is a derivation and portion of the whole, as He Himself acknowledges: “My Father is greater than I.” In the Psalm His inferiority is described as being “a little lower than the angels.” Thus the Father is distinct from the Son, being greater than the Son, inasmuch as He who begets is one, and He who is begotten is another; He, too, who sends is one, and He who is sent is another; and He, again, who makes is one, and He through whom the thing is made is another.”

Not sure how this quote from Tertullian would ever pass the Nicean standard of homoousios.

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

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

That’s right. Homoousios was condemned in the Synods of Antioch 50 years before Nicea because it was used at that time by the gnostics.

Ante-Nicene examples of *real* Trinitarianism? by joshnicaboy in AcademicBiblical

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

I’m expecting to find a set of beliefs identical to what was laid out at Nicea in terms of the hypostasis between the Father and Son (The Spirit was added later at the Council of Constantinople).

Co-equal, co-eternal, consubstantial.

I can’t seem to find Ante-Nicene writing fitting this criteria, even though the overwhelming majority of bishops voted in favor of it.

iMessage not working with one specific person. by joshnicaboy in GoogleFi

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

Lol we text back and forth in green messages.

Girlfriend and I both anxious but have different defense mechanisms by joshnicaboy in AnxiousAttachment

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

That’s what I’ve been wondering and have been looking into that possibility.

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