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The papacy is biblical. Jesus established it. And the Bible names three popes. 🧵👇
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‘Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.’ - St Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, on his way to be fed to the lions in the coliseum, c. AD 107.
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This reprobate further clarifies that maybe these children arent Christians anyway.
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This post is incomprehensibly wicked. Joel went from saying ‘it was an accident’ to implying ‘and they deserved it’ within about a day. Imagine posting this about ‘all’ these children.
This won’t be easy for people to hear, but there are only about 200 professed Catholics still living in Gaza and they all support Hamas.
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The success of the Christian West is the success of the Catholic Church.
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Some protestants (not Luther or Calvin) say nothing in Scripture *implies* that Jesus' brothers were from Joseph's prior marriage. Not true. Jesus tells John to care for Mary after Jesus' death. Jn. 19:26-27. Why, if Mary had other children around Jerusalem?
@FrMatthewLC Nothing in scripture says or implies that Joseph was married before or had previous children. That comes from a gnostic writing written over a hundred year after Jesus. Mary and Joseph were married. If Jesus had brothers & sister, then the obvious reading is that they are
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Upshot? The earliest Christian interpretation of ‘brother’ and the earliest Christian testimony was that his ‘brothers’ were half brothers—sons of Joseph but not of Mary. No passage in scripture says otherwise. So Lizzie’s sola scriptura fails to refute the traditional view.
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James doesn’t identify himself as the brother of Jesus. And Jude calls himself the brother of James, not Jesus. Why would he call himself the brother of James if Jesus was the eldest brother? The reason: James was the eldest brother, and Jesus was only his brother by Joseph.
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If my mother was at my brother’s crucifixion, I’d be there to support her and mourn him. But Jesus’s ‘brothers’ aren’t—more consistent with their being sons of Joseph from a prior marriage, and not sons of Mary. We get a hint of this in their own writings.
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Who is at the crucifixion? His mother, Mary. But not Joseph, who by now is dead. Jesus’s ‘brothers’ also aren’t there. That’s why Jesus had to entrust Mary to the care of *John.* If she had other children, why would he need to? And why were his allegedly full brothers absent?
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Ever wonder what happened to Joseph? He falls out of the story pretty quickly. He’s not at the crucifixion. The reason: He died before Jesus’s ministry, probably because he was elderly—exactly like the earliest Christians implied.
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Lizzie says Mary must have had other children because the New Testament says Jesus had ‘brothers.’ But the earliest evidence we have says that Joseph had children from a prior marriage. Lizzie can’t rule out that claim by scripture alone. And scripture supports it. Evidence 👇
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The Orthodox broke with the Catholic Church partly over the filioque—the view that the Spirit proceeds from the Father *and* the Son. The problem: Orthodox saints like Gregory of Nyssa taught exactly that. Awkward, unless you remember: they were Catholic!
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Some people expressed doubt that the Ecumenical Patriarchate will take the East back to Rome. Orthobros like Jay Dyer are concerned he’ll do just that: ‘It has a pretty strong desire … to go back to Rome.’ Amusingly, he subconsciously concedes it would be going *back* to Rome!
The Eastern Orthodox Church will come back home to Rome at the Second Council of Florence. These two patriarchs agree far more than they disagree. Bartholomew and Pope Leo will bring the East and the West together again.
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The great English cathedrals will be returned to the Catholic Church within this century, 500 years after they were expropriated.
ENGLAND The INCREDIBLE moment when Catholics sang SALVE REGINA after Mass in Canterbury Cathedral this evening
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At the Council of Florence, the Eastern bishops and patriarchs, and even anti-unionist Mark of Ephesus, acknowledged that the council would be ecumenical.
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For those who don’t know, the East already agreed to reunion twice, at the Council of Lyon 1274 and the Council of Florence. Unfortunately, the bishops later reneged, Constantinople fell, and the Ottomans ensured that anti-unionist patriarchs would get appointed.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church will come back home to Rome at the Second Council of Florence. These two patriarchs agree far more than they disagree. Bartholomew and Pope Leo will bring the East and the West together again.
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The answer: Catholic bishops in church councils from the 4th and 5th centuries. Early Christians disputed no fewer than 7 out of the 27 NT books you have in your Bibles, disputes that weren't resolved until the bishops finally resolved them. Why do you trust their judgment?
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Now you know one of the earliest Christian lists of NT books, and it probably doesn't match yours. So how do you know yours is right? Who decided the NT list you have today?
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