I'm keeping my Christmas and folkish traditions damnit

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☦ ORTHODOXY OR DEATH ☦

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@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe - well....the essentials are clear & commanded. Non essentials....are just that.

Christianity wouldn't be what it is without its European character which is now engrained into it.

@☦Colton of Yore☦ - And you have the tail wagging the dog!

@rhebner What you don't realize is that in a historical context, Sola Scriptura means "if it's not commanded it's forbidden"

Keep the Judeo out of my Christianity and everything’s cool 😃

God bless you all.

@rhebner Thus, since drugs/porn aren't mentioned in the Bible, it's clearly okay to use them since there's no commandment against it.

Therein lies the issue.

The plant that will heal all nations.

It doesn’t directly say it but it says jt

Lol TradCab.

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@rhebner Much of our Western morality lies in extrabiblical theology

Church tradition answers our needs in a grounded way

this is why we have the Saints

@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe - Sola sciptura - in the context of: Salvation by Christ alone, through faith alone, according to the scriptures alone.

@rhebner There's no issue with that.

In a historical context that's not all that it means though.

@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe - Correct. That was the context.

@rhebner No, it's often been cited to claim that doctrine not explicitly stated in the bible is sinful.

That's not like, a thing though. The Scriptures tell us that there is a church with Sacraments

so

@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe - Now regarding drugs/porn....the scriptures have plenty to say in principal - comparing scripture with scripture.

Yes

@rhebner At the end of the day, Orthodox Christians are still Christians.

The Catholic church has caused a lot of infighting and division in Christianity. Protestants wouldn't exist if not for indulgences and the precedent of the first Schism.

1054 is the ultimate of bullshit years for the West

I forget which Pope it was

but one of them fabricated a letter from Emperor Theodosius that read that the City of Rome belonged Eternally to the Church of Christ

and that Rome relinquished rule of the city to the Church

@Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe - Yes! The Nicene Creed is simply a codified summary of what the Bible means by...'what we believe'. It's a summary.

In fact after Theodisius died in 395, although the Roman Senate still met in Rome

The western Empires seat of Government was Ravenna