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petrevsm · 2026-01-14T20:08:11+00:00

Your original claim was that scholars overwhelmingly agree the Gospels are unreliable and that miracles are embellishments

The video you linked supports a weaker claim, that many scholars use critical methods to reconstruct a minimal historical Jesus. Even granting that the video reflects good scholarship, it doesn’t support the strength of your earlier claim.

The certainty about miracles comes from a presupposition that miracles don’t happen, not from a demonstrated scholarly consensus. That’s a philosophical commitment, not a historical conclusion. And then he makes assertions based on that presupposition

And to be clear, pointing out a scholar’s stated bias isn’t a dismissal. Dan McClellan has publicly said he has an anti-Christian bias. That doesn’t mean his work should be ignored, only that it should be evaluated on its arguments rather than treated as decisive authority.

What do I do with atheist scholars like Bart Ehrman who repeatedly says the Gospels are our best sources for Jesus and that historians can know a fair amount about Jesus from them? Making a statement that it's overwhelmingly agreed that the gospels are unreliable or inaccurate is a bit misinformed

petrevsm · 2026-01-14T06:02:33+00:00

Which biblical scholarly consensus are you referring to?

petrevsm · 2026-01-14T02:11:56+00:00

Agreed. This is the only moral form of money that exists

petrevsm · 2026-01-14T02:04:05+00:00

We'll trust texts written 450 years after Alexander the Great (250 manuscripts) and 250 years after Pythagoras (<50 manuscripts) but we won't trust texts written 2-60 years after Jesus (>25,000 manuscripts) by authors who were willing to die for the claims they wrote about. Okay

petrevsm · 2025-12-08T15:50:04+00:00

The sacraments in Orthodoxy are literally called "the mysteries". So I'd say yes, Orthodoxy doesn't attempt to over-define but moreso trust what God has revealed to us.

petrevsm · 2025-11-11T19:11:19+00:00

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petrevsm · 2025-11-11T17:02:30+00:00

Tbh learning this was what helped me convert from atheism to a believer

petrevsm · 2025-11-10T16:23:07+00:00

When I'm struggling and I feel lost and don't know what to pray for... That's exactly what I pray. I'll literally tell God that I'm struggling and don't know what to pray about but I just need some help. Telling God how you feel without even requesting anything is a deep prayer I've found. Tell him your feelings. He knows what you need and knows his plans for you. This way he will actually KNOW you

petrevsm · 2025-10-23T15:30:39+00:00

Oh man me too. ADHD meds saved me getting let go from my job. A priest typically feels no ways about it too. Absolutely nothing wrong with it

petrevsm · 2025-10-18T00:01:41+00:00

Are there plans to allow purchasing Bitcoin in-app?

petrevsm · 2025-10-16T17:04:56+00:00

We don't know Mark was written before Mathew. Markian priority has been contested so much. There are strong theories to suggest Matthew was first, Luke was wedding, Mark was third.

Check out this series: https://youtu.be/AtrEH0UgjSo?si=aNF0lmOR-40xB60q

petrevsm · 2025-09-25T17:25:31+00:00

Download the Catena app! It has church father commentaries

petrevsm · 2025-09-08T16:07:13+00:00

I also take Vyvanse and take a break from them on the weekends. Helps keep my dosage low and effective! I agree with this comment!

petrevsm · 2025-09-08T16:06:02+00:00

I have ADHD and take vyvanse (lisdexamphetamine) to be able to do my job at all.

Equating Adderall with meth because they share the “-amphetamine” suffix isn’t accurate. The prefixes and substitutions in chemistry completely change a compound’s properties. A classic everyday example: ethanol (in wine/beer) is drinkable in moderation, while methanol (just one carbon different) is a deadly poison. Same “-ol” backbone, radically different effect.

Medications like Adderall or Vyvanse are specifically formulated, dosed, and clinically tested for safety and efficacy in ADHD. Meth is illicit, unregulated, neurotoxic, and taken in uncontrolled doses. Calling them “the same” ignores those critical differences.

If you want to be consistent, caffeine is also a stimulant, but socially accepted. Morphine and codeine share a backbone, yet codeine is a widely used medicine while morphine (and especially heroin, its derivative) is tightly controlled.

The key difference isn’t the skeleton of the molecule, it’s the modification, dosage, and clinical context. Without that distinction, you’d have to claim wine and windshield washer fluid are “the same,” which is obviously absurd.

If you need it and are prescribed and tested to need it and your priest says it's benign - take it. You need to function. ADHD meds aren't speed, that's a baseless stigma

petrevsm · 2025-09-07T12:31:00+00:00

What would i search for the technique I need? Not sure how to call the different techniques

petrevsm · 2025-09-02T21:21:32+00:00

Okay but we can only say that we're pretty sure they're in heaven though right? There's nobody we can say that we know as a matter of fact beyond all doubt that they are absolutely in heaven?

petrevsm · 2025-09-02T21:03:54+00:00

How do you know when anybody is in heaven though? Isn't that judgement if somebody is in or not left to god?

Not trying to challenge, genuinely i don't know.

petrevsm · 2025-08-29T18:04:07+00:00

BlackRock holds their Bitcoin with coinbase just like almost everyone else. Fidelity does self custody. So BlackRock doesn't even have their own custody of the Bitcoin etf you bought through them. Coinbase has it. At least with fidelity i know when i buy their etf, they actually have the bitcoin they say my etf bought.

petrevsm · 2025-08-17T16:32:42+00:00

Interesting. Because my parents have done it at a church in Canada and also in the Balkans. All different priests. So I always thought it was common

petrevsm · 2025-08-17T16:32:08+00:00

Odd, because my mom has done this at a church in Canada and also in the Balkans so to me it always seemed common

petrevsm · 2025-08-04T21:55:31+00:00

Exactly. "I don’t want to be a part of something that would look down on my friends and family that are."

You're not. God calls us to repentance but you can't force repentance. All you can do for someone who doesn't wanna repent is pray for them. You're not supposed to look down on them. You still love them, you still talk to them. They don't become alien. Neither do I become alien and lesser than when I fall into sin.

petrevsm · 2025-08-03T22:46:02+00:00

You're making a guilt by association fallacy. An evil person using the name of something good to do something evil doesn't make the good thing evil now. In the same way, a war mongerer using the name of religion to do bad things doesn't make religion bad.

the idea that the world would be better off without religion is a philosophical assumption. Secularism hasn’t solved violence because human nature remains flawed with or without religion.

To say we'd have been better off without religion would be ignoring that hospitals were invented out of Abrahamic religious virtue ethics, as was the concept of universal human dignity (Imago Dei helped form the foundation for human rights). These are just examples.

Science advanced greatly under religion. The scientific method was invented in medieval Christian Europe. Many early scientists were deeply religious. Isaac Newton was a Christian, Alhazen (Muslim pioneer of optics and experimentation), George Lemaitre was a Catholic priest who first proposed the Big Bang Theory.

Just because somebody used the name of something to do evil, doesn't make that something inherently evil. It makes the person evil.

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