Lord of Spirits - Millennium: Bug or Feature? [Ep. 69]

[@zita-lein]

I absolutely love how you use extra-Biblical literature to build out the history and context. Fascinating!

[@angiec9599]

Come for the spiritual insight,, stay for the Gen X pop culture references. 👍🏼 I always look forward to hearing a new podcast. This one did not disappoint. Thank you.

[@setsappa1540]

..what an evening this was! Thank you.

[@danb3657]

I'm a member of a Christian and Missionary Alliance church and I love the Lord of Spirits podcast!!! Shalom aleichem y'all.

[@crazygab50]

NEW LONGEST EPISODE!

[@thedreadtyger]

1 αιων long 😅

[@thedreadtyger]

Brought to you by MILLENNIUM CHILI _brace yourself for a Chiliasm_

[@tombsandtemples]

1:55:00 I am "Mandela Effected". When you encounter one (or a few) that is so powerful and impossible for you to deny has changed at some point from what you remember... this is called an "anchor effect". It would be as if your mother's name had changed. For me it's Haas/Hass Avocados. Thankfully, easing the crazy I feel...im mot alone. Gentlemen, I was suddenly gripped by fear as the subject came up. Happy you didn't hang on the subject. It is happening. No idea how, why...i.personally am partial to the theory that it's all connected. Not sure why religious leaders won't recognize it, but I am confident that soon no one will have any choice

[@viravirakti]

3:16:39 "the world is a very different place" and "where would I be without Christ?". Maybe a good reference would be Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto"

[@viravirakti]

3:09:21 That's a good point, the Muslims are trying to worship God, because they're also worshipping the black stone of Mecca, which is a remain or continuation of the local pagan practices, and one of the pillars of Islam.

[@ChristisKing4Ever_]

Is there a book on this subject I can read?

[@todddavidmoore]

Minor correction: the father of Dispensationalism was JN "John Nelson" Darby (not "Thomas" as mentioned @1:29:50).

[@jaymullinix7425]

Also Darby was not a Presbyterian. He was originally an Anglican priest - though he left that behind around age 27 when he became involved with (and later became the most prominent leader within) what came to be called the Plymouth Brethren movement. The PB were a restorationist movement (ie, an attempt to “get back to” and “restore” the original church) and dispensationalism developed within the Brethren movement with Darby (though not Darby exclusively) as the prime formulator of it. Though Darbys dispensational scheme was a bit different than what most people today understand when they think of dispensationalism (that’s more the tweaking of Darby by Scofield, Chafer, and Ryrie). Long time LoS listener and love the show guys. But as a former Plymouth Brethren and Dallas Seminary alum who’s now Orthodox I wanted to throw that clarification out there.

[@williamwhite5960]

Listen, I’m not even sure how much these guys know about the Bible or Christianity. But you have to respect anyone busting out Paul Simon “Boy in the Bubble” references in mid-conversation.

[@StoaoftheSouth]

I wonder what LOS's opinion of St. Augustine is? Seems generally critical.

[@andrewmattiewalter]

It should be to some degree

[@StoaoftheSouth]

​​@andrewmattiewalterE h, I suppose no more than any other Church Father. My point is that there seems to be a peculiar dislike for Saint Augustine, not only in LOS but among many others. (Many varieties of Protestant dislike Saint Augustine for a bunch of different reasons, too.)

[@campomambo]

As far as I'm aware even the most pro-augustinian orthodox have some things they reject about St Augustine's teachings. In fact St Augustine even wrote a book at the end of his life correcting some of his former teachings. But much of the criticism of St Augustine on this podcast is not actually a criticism of St Augustine and his teachings but rather about how people in the west interpreted him.

[@StoaoftheSouth]

​@gabrielcampos4982 I'm open to being wrong. This is only my observation. But there does seem to be a lot of Orthodox dislike for Saint Augustine (usually, he's blamed for being the source of Latin Christian "corruptions.")

[@Cthuski]

​@Quedije St Augustine is my patron Saint. I am particularly fond of some of his writings and the story of his life. That said, no church father gets everything right and St Augustine is a particularly consequential figure in history, especially within western thought. Some people go so far to call him the first Calvinist. This is completely undeserved, but it comes from how much of an influence he was on John Calvin's ideas. A lot of ideas that divide the east and the west can find their origin in St Augustine. Not necessarily the ideas themselves (though that is the case sometimes) but how they informed the ideas of later thinkers. There have been episodes in the past where they actually affirm and defend him, because you are correct in identifying a certain stigma present in how some orthodox Christians regard him. Some going as far as not calling him Saint Augustine, but "Blessed" Augustine. Make no mistake though, St Augustine is indeed a Saint and Church Father.

[@viravirakti]

1:22:00 But if the old covenant is not abolished, but it becomes internal, in our hearts, then why we don't keep the sabbath, the seventh day, Saturday, as it is not only one of the ten commandments, but is one of the commandments God, through the prophets, is very insistent about, speaking about the importance and the sanctity of this day and about the obligation to keep it, and condemning the habit of not keeping it.

[@Subeffulgent]

So the first 19 minutes or a whole lot of words to say a whole little of anything.