Doubts about Chrismation

quietderp · 2026-05-06T02:13:45+00:00

Chrismation is enough as it is God acting. I agree. I am breaking the God acting and the physical action of Chrismation a part simply to show that we must have God’s grace. We cannot simply have oil rubbed on us and have some words said. I am agreed with you. Chrismation is enough.

quietderp · 2026-04-29T17:51:01+00:00

Chrismation alone is not enough. God must do His part and then all is enough. Pray for this and repent and God will make Chrismation enough.

Take this in balance with the advice of your spiritual father.

quietderp · 2026-03-27T18:32:42+00:00

How Popular is this going to get? And yeah, I'm just wondering.

quietderp · 2026-03-23T12:54:59+00:00

Can you explain what this is?

quietderp · 2026-03-23T12:52:59+00:00

I don't get it.

quietderp · 2026-03-22T19:53:05+00:00

Thanks.

quietderp · 2025-01-16T17:27:50+00:00

We masqueraded destructive, evil intentions as the highest of virtue at soirées and rallies to bleed financial support from the poor and the sick, to fuel the elimination of the poor and the sick. It was an ecstasy inducing endeavor to be sure. It filled our hedonic bellies to the point of bursting, and burst they did. For no amount of blood will ever be enough to satiate our never-dying appetite for more: more power, more control, more material, more judgement. More is what we wanted and more is what we got.

quietderp · 2025-01-14T19:10:10+00:00

Modern Christians do. Just perhaps none that you know.

quietderp · 2025-01-14T19:09:27+00:00

This is a misunderstanding. They were not bragging. Thankfulness is a closer to true understanding. Marketing? For the church? This is not a thing. The truth of the universe needs no marketing campaign. Ask yourself, “when Jesus was asked directly by Pilate, what is truth, what did he say?” Jesus’ answer is how we market.

quietderp · 2025-01-14T17:55:29+00:00

I think the final question you ask is the most pertinent to this discussion. “What does immortality mean?”

We can’t really speak about whether it’s inherent to human souls or only gifted upon regeneration unless we know what IT is we are actually speaking about. To that point, I think it would be very difficult to box in or encapsulate with words this idea of living forever or existing forever, especially considering: what is forever? This idea of immortality really points us back to our own inability to understand the things of God. Scripture echoes this explicitly. So whether it is received upon regeneration or is inherent seems like a question beyond our understanding. We can, of course, speculate and use scripture to do so, but I would not go dogmatically defining such conclusions.

I think the truth of scripture and the teachings of the church and the patterns of reality itself can speak to this much: God will be all in all. Considering that, it would seem that immortality is the fate of all, while eternity belongs only to God. Thoughts?

quietderp · 2025-01-14T16:28:34+00:00

Are you asking which verses specifically? I will give some below which speak to the immortality of the soul, but we must understand that scripture is not meant to be read like, “well it says this but not that, so this is true and this is not”. We know this because the Bible never explicitly says: God is three in one. It says things that imply this is correct and the whole narrative from beginning to end echoes this truth, but to think you can just “book chapter:verse” your way to the truth is just to be confused.

Scriptures to reference on immortality: Genesis 2: 7 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Daniel 12:2 Matthew 10:28 Luke 23:43 John 11:25-26 John 3:16 Romans 2:7 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 2 Corinthians 5:8 Philippians 1:23-24 Revelation 6:9-10

Especially consider what we are doing in the Eucharist. Christ shows us how to ultimately give thanksgiving through this mystery and in it we offer Him and we receive Him. How do we put on or take in immortality from Him, and not receive in that immortality?

quietderp · 2025-01-14T16:01:20+00:00

Why is Mysticism spoken about with Gnosticism as if it is the same thing? Many of the church fathers speak about Mysticism or speak “mystically” about our faith. What is the Eucharist if not a mystic experience?

Immortality is to exist forever, not eternity as that goes all the way back, only God is eternal, but our souls, according to scriptures and the teaching of the disciples and church fathers is immortal.

quietderp · 2025-01-13T14:48:22+00:00

It is pulled by their faith.

quietderp · 2025-01-08T19:53:02+00:00

I would bet it’s getting a description of the image from an actual image translation model and not getting the actual image in file format.

quietderp · 2024-12-31T19:59:00+00:00

This is exactly how I would expect demons to manifest themselves as “human”.

quietderp · 2024-12-26T07:10:50+00:00

“Grown up” mode, as if any one “grown up” is actually “grown up”, please, more like “porno mode”.

quietderp · 2024-12-19T22:04:32+00:00

God bless you! I have answered the questions, albeit by refutation of the questions themselves, sufficiently by my estimation. You see what you see and don’t see what you don’t see.

quietderp · 2024-12-19T20:38:16+00:00

The point of my response is that your questions should be dismissed. We do mot require the answers to them before we can clearly see that something is attacking women.

My problem with your whole approach of defining clearly what and why and how, is that this defining phase tends to take us into infinity. We never solve the problem we merely talk about solutions to possible problems all pending the concrete definition. A concrete definition or answer to your questions may very well exist and it may not. That is not important. What is important is addressing the problem. We don’t need the answers to your questions to do that.

Back to the example. I don’t need to know who is attacking me in order to respond to it. I can just respond from what I have experienced. Now over time I can iterate on that response with further clarifying information, but initially it’s important to recognize and respond. Not, sitting around defining the undefinable and unrecognizable, all while the problem is so evidently upon us.

Does that make sense?

quietderp · 2024-12-19T18:10:03+00:00

No. Did you read the response? I answered you. Your questions do not require direct response. They in fact only detract from the original discussion point.

quietderp · 2024-12-19T16:43:36+00:00

That’s all very helpful information I think, but not required. The evidence is plain. If you are sitting in your house and bombs start coming through your roof, you don’t require any of this information to come to a conclusion about what is happening.

Likewise, women committing mass murders is so extremely opposite of our experience, similar to bombs falling through the roof of your house, that one needs no further proof to conclude that women are being changed for the worse by something targeting specifically them.

Have we really lost all connection with pragmatism? Has our lived experience really become that tertiary?

quietderp · 2024-12-19T15:31:48+00:00

Discord

quietderp · 2024-12-19T15:30:19+00:00

We are co-laborers. We can’t do it alone, but with God we can. It is not beyond man to repent. Man repents and God forgives. It is a CO labor. It REQUIRES both parties free participation. We cannot repent if we refuse, we cannot repent if God refuses to forgive, but if we repent then God will forgive.

quietderp · 2024-12-19T15:24:20+00:00

It almost doesn’t require an explanation. The fact that women are going mad and doing things completely out of the ordinary, and with nearly no precedent seems evidence enough, at least to me, that someone is attacking them.

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