I loved the whole show and especially insightful were the two wrap up perspectives given at the end by both fathers.
@AncientFaithMinistries2 ай бұрын
Yes, their closing remarks are highly insightful
@Zincfffff7 ай бұрын
Excellent episode. Thanks!
@zita-lein5 ай бұрын
@24:00 Fr. Andrew: “They weren’t meant to know Latin.” 😂 Good shot! Love it! ❤️💙
@angiec95996 ай бұрын
I always look forward to listening to your podcast. This one was especially awesome. Thank you.
@Steto196 ай бұрын
This listener doth protest @02:19:18 ! When most sane and normal think of free will, we think of the song called “FreeWill” performed by the illustrious, wonderful and excellent Canadian progressive rock band called Rush !
@emmanuellakwabena96746 ай бұрын
The final reflection in this talk reminds me of what Father Stephen Freeman often quotes, "God did not become man so that bad people would become good, but to make dead people live!"
@tamarapurplesweetgrassmacg11756 ай бұрын
Thanks
@sethtreyАй бұрын
God does these things because he wants to, and because He does them, they are good. That's my ten-minute guess as to where this goes.
@biffkline87717 ай бұрын
I now have a little more sympathy for Sam Harris knowing that he is standing in the shadow of greatness. He could only hope to reach the level of genius it takes to create a masterpiece like 'Soap'.
@Cthuski7 ай бұрын
He's kinda like a modern day Schopenhauer
@allenhodge72457 ай бұрын
Holy Spirit Baptism is a three-day fast to take the water 💧 of life freely 🌫🌬🔥
@tamidavis73067 ай бұрын
☦️☦️☦️
@viravirakti7 ай бұрын
1:35:15 In fact, from a Christian and biblical perspective, we shouldn't stop at the unity of the human nature: not just the human nature is one, but all nature is one, because it is all God's creation, so we are one with all the creation, and also one or united with God through Christ. Christ took not only the human nature, but all nature, all His creation through the human nature, because the human nature is also an image or synthesis of all creation. And just as every human being is a member of Christ's body, THE human being itself, the human nature, is a member of all the creation, with a particular function and purpose within creation. So, we see now the moral responsibility which derives from this aspect : we aren't supposed to be good, kind, altruistic, protective, mercifull and rightfull only with people, but with all creation, especially with the sentient creatures, as the human being is the steward of creation, not its exploiter or abuser. But, just as some Christian people were looking for Christian or biblical justifications for slavery or other abuses, people are still looking for justifications to abuse and exploit the creation. And nothing produces more suffering and even more environmental damage in the world than the animal agriculture, especially the the factory farming, the exploitation of animals for (unnecessary) food. Not to mention the suffering up untill extinction of the wild animals by the destruction of their (and our) environment and planet, for our pursuit of comfort, wealth, money and so called progress, material progress; for a "better" and "safer" "material situation", as we call in Romanian the financial situation. It this context, the Orthodox fasting makes sense more than ever and as a general rule of Christian living : to not eat animal products and to give alms and share our fortune all around and all the time.
@AJ02237 ай бұрын
Is it Orthodox to not eat the flesh of animals... at all? Ever? I fast on fast days and eat on other days. I agree with you totally and completely. My one rebuttal is I don't think it's wrong to eat meat during feasts, especially if it's responsibly and ethically sourced. But "big food", factory farming is definitely an evil institution. It's not just the slaughtering of so many (hundreds of) thousands of creatures that's an affront to God: it's also the cloning and genetic modification of these animals, as well as the treatment and processing of these foods and all the harmful things that are added to them. One should also consider the lust for power and money that dominates this system, and the damage it does to - as you say - man's stewardship of God's creation and man's place in this creation as His image and likness. But that said, I haven't yet made it to the timestamp you sourced. I'm about 25 minutes into the video now, so presumably I am missing significant context to your comment. I look forward to getting there. God bless you, friend.
@viravirakti7 ай бұрын
@@AJ0223 Hello, friend! I have no doubt that is totally Orthodox not to eat the flesh of the animals, or even any sort of animal product. The fasting itself has the purpose to remind us of, and put us in our original, uncorrupted state from before the fall, without passions and carnal appetites, when we were closer to God and were indeed supposed to eat only plants, Genesis 1.29, so to not eat animal flesh is basically more Orthodox than to eat it, or truly Orthodox, as it is closer to sainthood, and most saints and ascetic indeed were not meat eaters, but vegetarians. There are even monasteries in which meat it's not eaten at all, as in the Mount Athos. In the Orthodox Church there is no rule or obligation to eat meat or anything at all, except the body and the blood of Christ, who, BTW, gave His life willingly, it was not taken from Him, as Himself said, and He even commanded us to eat His body and to drink His blood. It is allowed, of course, even since after the fall, but there's no obligation. Also, as it is said, Orthodoxy is the cure for our sinful and corrupted state and nature, which is supposed to bring us back, throgh Christ, to our original, pre fall state and closeness to God, which includes the vegetarianism, the non violence. Regarding the provenience of the animal flesh or of other animal products, we must realise that, first of all, that still implies the killing of the animals, the stealing of the babies from their mothers in order to take their milk, and many other more or less abusive or violent procedures necessary for an efficient or rentable production, and that, ultimately, there's no such thing as "humane" killing. Killing is killing and is violence. Almost all animals are still killed at a very early age, basically in their childhood, and, especially at the country side, in free range farms, there's also a connection between the animals and the farmers, where the animals trust their owners and considers them their protectors, part of, and the leaders of their group. So, to be honests, killing them is actually a betrayel of their trust. It is just as killing your dog for food, which, in some countries it is done, and, to be honest again, it is allowed even in Orthodoxy and it's biblical, as God declared all animals clean in the new testament, and even after the fall He said that we can eat everything that moves. But, of course that we don't have to. I recommend the documentary "Peaceable kingdom", in which former farmers speak about their experience and relation with the animals. Secondly, we must also realise that the free range farms does not cover, not even by far the present and constant growing demand for animal products, so it is even more unsustainable than the factory farming. That's precisely the reason why factory farms were invented, in order to produce faster, more and cheaper, with all the horrible consequences, both for the animals and the environment. But an exclusive free range system would require even more space than the one used by the intensive system, that is even more clearing of forests and of other natural areas for pastures, as it still happens with the Amazonian forest. There is not enough land and the planet would not be able to sustain a free range farming system to feed 8 billion people and more. Animal agriculture is, overall, a highly resource consuming industry, of land, crops and water. Without it, we could easily produce more than enough, diverse, cheap, healthy and nutritious plant food to feed all the people and eliminate world famine, instead of giving almost half of the crops to the farmed animals. And it is even more Orthodox to do so, as we would and we should allow more people, more human life to come into existence, by using the resources for this purpose, instead of using them to bring tens and hundreds of billions of animals who live a short, miserable and often unnatural life and are ultimately killed without the chance to defend themselves and to fight for their lives. That's not fair, but just a consequence of our fallen state, which we should struggle to overcome. And it's not even that hard, to eat only plants. Not in our times. There are much harder things in our spiritual battle in this life. God bless you, brother!
@patrickrowan64063 ай бұрын
I felt very confused after watching this episode. They talk about using a values statement as being relativistic. It didn't really seem they go on about that much. They talk about how God can't do anything that would violate his nature as false because his nature is infinite. Does this mean that God changes nature? To me, it seemed like it would make God an illogical being. I probably should just give it a relisten. Also, doesn't the Bible say God can't tell a lie? I think that there is a verse about that, maybe I'm wrong
@NdxtremePro6 ай бұрын
So, Calvinist are "Trust me, Bros.?"
@wasumyon61477 ай бұрын
Kissinger ended the cold war in China and war in Vietnam. He has many fans in those countries.
@mikebaker24366 ай бұрын
"When you go and get a PHD, you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing and so your knowledge of things is like this cone that comes down to a tiny point......this is one of those things: that people tend to treat scholars sort of the way Marvel Comics treats scientists. Like, if you're in a marvel comic and you're a scientist, you can build an interdimensional portal--that's what scientists do--and make a chemical potion to shrink people, you can do anything like there's no particular science you've studied you just know science. You can invent things; engineering you know too apparently." "People treat scholars that way, but the reality is that being a scholar means you know an incredible amount about something very specific and so, when you're talking, the further you get away from that specific thing the less you actually know, right? So, anytime a scholar is talking outside his field you shouldn't listen to him at all because--usually they'll say if a scholar is talking outside of his field it has the same value as a layman--I think it has less value than a layman because we get pompous from having a PHD and so we think we know more than we do." -Fr Stephen De Young
@sethtreyАй бұрын
I guess you can't help making fun of Calvinists, can you?
@easymentality4 ай бұрын
It just occurred to me.... Fr. Stephen DeYoung sounds a whole lot like Shane Gillis and I can't get it out of my head.
@CassandraTroy6 ай бұрын
Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_law