@Dave the Rave Im skeptical as well yet here i am. Convince him to follow the rules and adopt the lifestyle for pragmatic (self-improving) reasons. The rest will fall in place.
Legit thing: I honestly can't side with the (current) nation over terrorists. Like, I honestly can't decide which one is worse, and I would never risk my life or anything of mine for either of them.
I had someone try to go all sola scriptura on me a few weeks back, said that it was more important to study the Bible than to do a theology unit I enrolled for
Freaking evangelicals think they are on the side of the Reformers when, in reality, they reject almost every doctrine the Reformers put in their confessions and sermons. Luther, Chemnitz, and even Calvin quote the fathers incessantly
This Bowl of Soup guy is an idiot too. The Didache was a catechism, of course it doesn't mention infants and it permits affusion very clearly. Irenaeus certainly puts Paul and Peter above the other disciples. He's right about Chrysostom, but he can't spell his name.
Idk man, something to be said about sola scriptora that could probably fix a lot of the sicknesses in the old Church. Prots can be a bit retarded throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to broader tradition, but there's also no truer tradition than the Word ultimately speaking.
Not talking about the basic stuff I should add (that Mary was mother of Christ and blessed among women is Sola Scriptora in itself, and immaculate conception/perpetual virginity is pretty old tradition, but not necessarily a dealbreaker even if I don't buy it), I'm talking hardline Servite bullshit like Mary being an equal and Co-redemptrix with Christ.
