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Christian Exclusivism Debate Arjuna Vs Mark Cheen
This is a repost of a debate I participated in on @tgtengage where I debated Mark Tan Yean Cheen, a lay pastor in Malaysia. My main arguments were that exclusivism is inconsistent with God being all loving because, in many cases, members of different in religions have come to the same conclusion about the main goal of life being God, but have come to different conclusions about what the best way to do worship God is. This is related to the fact that in politics moral disagreement is rare.
People generally agree that poverty and ill health are bad, what they disagree about is what the best way to solve these problems are. An all loving God would accept our sincerity and ignore our mistakes just as a decent human being can respect people who have different ideas of how to best solve problems.
I also argued that members of other religions are not necessarily mistaken, they could just be connecting with God in different moods and understanding different aspects of God.
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Christian Exclusivism Debate Arjuna Vs Mark Cheen
This is a repost of a debate I participated in on @tgtengage where I debated Mark Tan Yean Cheen, a lay pastor in Malaysia. My main arguments were that exclusivism is inconsistent with God being all loving because, in many cases, members of different in religions have come to the same conclusion about the main goal of life being God, but have come to different conclusions about what the best way to do worship God is. This is related to the fact that in politics moral disagreement is rare.
People generally agree that poverty and ill health are bad, what they disagree about is what the best way to solve these problems are. An all loving God would accept our sincerity and ignore our mistakes just as a decent human being can respect people who have different ideas of how to best solve problems.
I also argued that members of other religions are not necessarily mistaken, they could just be connecting with God in different moods and understanding different aspects of God.
#Debate #Christianity #theologyunleashed
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![The Eastern Orthodox Monks who were Persecuted for their Faith in the Holy Name
The Horrific Story of the Russian Orthodox Holy Name Controversy. In 1913, prior to the Soviet revolution, hundreds of Russian Orthodox monks were violently persecuted for their focus on chanting Gods holy names. The debate over the accusations of heresy on this topic has largely been ignored, and the horrific events which took place, are rarely spoken of.
The Name-Glorification [Imiaslavie (Russian) / Onomatodoxy (Greek)] controversy, over whether God’s Name is to be regarded as uncreated Divine Energy or merely a conventional designation, arose in Russian Orthodox monastic communities in the early 20th century.
It escalated to an actual military attack upon Name-Glorifying monks on Mt. Athos by the Russian Imperial Navy in 1913.
The persecution of Name-Glorifiers continues to this day in the Eastern Orthodox Church, even though the Church has yet to investigate and come to a doctrinal answer on the matter. Metropolitan Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, chairperson of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department of External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, states that “the Churchs final assessment of Name-worshipping remains an open question to this day.” [Note that opponents of the position regularly disparage the view by designating it as “Name-Worship” rather than what adherents call it, “Name-Glorification”.]
This highly mystical theological issue is contextualized within the tradition of Hesychasm, the contemplative praxis of “stillness” which centres upon the ‘Jesus Prayer’ as a means of union with God [See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... ].
On the Caucasus Mountains, the Russian book by Elder Hilarion which sparked this explosive theological controversy by promoting Name-Glorification as an integral component of Hesychasm, remained out of print for nearly a century. An computer generated translation is available for download here: https://onomatodoxa.wordpress.com/bib... .
References to my source materials and other materials you can read to learn more about these events are listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZ3ziyxOr0QG4-vaqaciD-ELrR7etvdTl_FDB9yWlDE/edit?usp=sharing
Link to the script https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lS0PZv5Rb5BxP8owmM-u_mmUPiDoa8lCR3n4q97hnLk/edit?usp=sharing
Big thanks to the narrators and everyone who helped me research for this project, gave me feedback and helped with editing
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