Btw Jesus is coming back to judge you before the sky turns red, so the idea of the tradition theoretically becoming irrelevant over time is a hypothetical that I’m granting out of charity.
You’re going well outside the boundaries that traditions would be relevant within to justify relativity because you hate God and Jesus Christ.
The sky is literally blue and for all intents and purposes, it will be forever. There are many things in the world just as unchanging as this, such as the necessity of food and water for life, the four seasons, etc.
There is nothing relative about it. Things actually don’t change that much. Maybe one day fundamental things will change, but only on a time scale so retardedly huge that traditions don’t actually last that long anyway, whether written or oral.
Your objection is either taking a whack perspective on relevant time scales, or is just schizo. I can’t tell which.
I just came back again. I found out if you use an Israeli VPN until your account is passes bot detection, it won’t require a phone number.
If there is a tradition that says the sky is blue, and we change it to say that the sky is green, that tradition has been perverted. Truths absolutely are universal. They might be circumstantial, but within a given circumstance, they apply identically across all of observable time and space. So actually yes, the world actually is concrete, and if a tradition is true then it should also have concrete foundations.
Otherwise, our traditions can only ever be rough approximations of truths (which is what pre-Bible religions were.)
Are there any Reformed Baptists? I am currently only relocating to Reformed Baptist communities.
I got permabanned for telling a trad woman I would dismember her limbs and shove them up her holes
You know you’ll be censored eventually though.
Written tradition doesn’t mean there can be no new tradition, it means the existing traditions can’t be perverted. When you say it should be fluid, do you mean we should lie? Or do you not believe our traditions are true to begin with? If so, what use are they, besides being fodder for enthusiasts?
The scholastics were very impressive in their day, when epistemic questions hadn’t been asked yet. Mystics weren’t really though, mystics are all pretty much identical.
solely on written tradition* sorry this one went through a couple of drafts.
Relying solely tradition means you can’t make up new bs every generation. Look at the difference between 3rd Century and 9th Century Christianity. Both bizarre and neoplatonic but in completely different ways. That’s why sola scriptura (and by extension the entire modern historical/critical mindset) was formed, the world needed orthodoxy, continuity, stability from generation to generation. It worked but the result for the branches of Christianity that adopted it is something far more dry than what came before.
If you live in a small town it’s usually the most convenient place to get a large variety of things.
The Christian equivalent of the esoteric is rigorous, mind warping Aristotelian scholasticism that will singlehandedly give you mega schizophrenia (I’m recovering)
I never found it confusing. The only learning curve is knowing which ones you want to add.
Recent news in e-Christian drama: Cameron, the host of Capturing Christianity, an Italian grifter married to a Nigerian princess, has suddenly remarked that he will be keeping his denominational affiliation private. This on the eve of his chrismation into the Papal Church, which both he and his friend Matt Fradd of popular Catholic podcast “Pints with Aquinas” made a spectacle of.
Why the sudden announcement? It seems to signal a change of heart and fear for his reputation.
The majority take: Cameron needed to make Capuring Christianity solvent, so he grifted a conversion to Catholicism for all it was worth until he squeezed out everything he could, and now that the gravy train has run out, he’s abandoning that community.
My opinion: My assessment of him has always been more favorable, but just as cynical. I think he was maliciously targeted and duped by his pop apologist friends (particularly Matt Fradd) into “accepting” a tradition he knew nothing about, and had no interest in learning. Throughout this whole parade, which has been largely promoted by others, not him, he has shown a basic lack of understanding of not only Roman custom and history, but his own. I think he’s legitimately not very smart and he got thrown into a situation before he even realized what he was doing, and only now is realizing the repercussions.
No one on this earth is more than three degrees of separation from Ethan Ralph.
Greek is not as hard as it seems. I only got up to entry level but that’s pretty much enough to wing your way through the New Testament and the Septuagint. It’s just a matter of there being a billion different declensions, which tbh I don’t remember at all, I just guess based on context lol