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March 2021 Q&A (3W_PRlG8yrw)

Apr 27, 202416 min read

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All right, everybody. Here we go. We are live. And so March Q&A. There’s a lot of people who are already sent some super chats. So all right. So for people who haven’t been here before, the way we do this is people who are subscribed to me at 20 have you read Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae and if you have would you think of it no I have not I haven’t read it I probably will at some point just haven’t gotten to it it’s not like my priority to read it but I probably will to kind of understand because she seems to really be at the crux and the origin of all the all the madness in terms of gender that we’re seeing happening so it could be interesting to to get a sense of this of the because she’s also reacting to it so it’s like she was the spark she was one of the people who sparked this it’s kind of gender revolution but she’s also reacting so there’s something interesting to understand there and so Louis Durand says how did the story of Samson tie into the gospel story so you watch my last Q&A I said that and I said that Samson and Christ are very close there are so many ways I can’t go into every single aspect of the story of Samson and so a way to understand is that Samson is like is like an attempted Christ that doesn’t succeed a lot of the stories in the Old Testament are kind of like that either like they’re an attempted Christ it doesn’t succeed so why do I say that because just like Christ Samson tries to join himself with the foreign woman and so Christ does that too but Christ succeeds in a way that doesn’t compromise him so you could say that Samson is trying to find honey in the dead lion that’s what Samson is trying to do and he succeed but then it turns against him and then he is he has his his hair is taken right his his extension his strength is taken by the foreign woman right which is what Solomon warned about which is what Solomon warns about later that that that’s what happened when you give yourself to the outside is that you you get dissipated into the outside that’s the problem of the inside and the outside talked about this in the last Q&A too in terms of the story of of of Jacob’s daughter and and Hamor and his sons and so so but but but Samson does a bunch of stuff like he he takes this the door of the city and he brings it to the top of the hill right so that’s what Samson does Samson tries to join the inside and the outside together he tries to find a way to join to join the the periphery in the center but he does it in an awkward kind of almost funny way like it like a kind of absurd absurd way whereas Christ does it in a successful way right Christ does exactly that Christ crucified outside the city while being declared as king he ripped he he’s crucified up outside the city while entering into the Holy of Holies he does all of these these he unites these extremes together but Samson does it but doesn’t he just doesn’t succeed and so he kind of points to Christ and there are a whole bunch of other places where he does it does as well and he also so Samson also kind of uses the power of the foreigner against the foreigner right that’s one of the things that Samson does so he uses the jaw of the ass to defeat his enemies right and so you know this image of sorry the image of Balaam who is sitting on the ass right so Balaam this prophet in the Old Testament is sitting on his donkey and he’s he’s going to curse Israel and the donkey is moving off of this he’s moving off the road like so the donkey is moving off the path to save him and and the donkey ends up saving Balaam and so this is and he speaks right the donkey speaks so the speaking donkey the idea of using the donkey to defeat your enemy all of this all of this gets resolved in Jesus’s story and like when Jesus rides on the donkey and to enter into Jerusalem that’s what’s going on right that’s what’s going on is that is that he is going to join himself to the to the to the to the to Hamor like Christ is gonna join himself to Hamor in a proper way but not in an improper way not in the way that that the daughter of Hamor that his sons raped the daughter of Jacob and then Jacob you know there’s this whole revenge sequence that goes about but Christ is is by dying at the hands of the Romans and the Jews and and as the and also because the Romans destroyed Jerusalem which is a tragic thing but part of the story then Christ nonetheless in secret you know manages to climb the hierarchy hidden and take power and then become you know the one who’s thrown in heaven and then the Emperor converts and Rome converts so is that enough symbolic symbolic interpretation for you I just straying about like seven stories together in in in scripture hopefully that that helps all right so V2 Zui for five CHF says the Catholic argument gets Orthodox is you can’t know which council is infallible without the Pope and receptionism is circular logic what say you um I don’t know I don’t know what to answer to that besides that it’s it’s like it’s one of those things where you could say the same like the same thing is that that the circularity of the Pope declaring himself infallible I mean well how’s that not circular how is one circular but not the other I don’t I don’t know I don’t know how you how you come to that interpretation so yeah all right so Martha Emmer says why is Jesus crowned with thorns specifically is that he is cloaked in death or is it a division of the sacred inside and outside so I’ve talked about this several times it has to do with taking the result of the fall which is thorns you’re right God said when you leave the garden you will you will face thorns and then turning that into glory he’s turning death into glory he’s making the result of the fall into his crown so yeah and that’s also why that’s also why Rome converts guys the same thing the donkey right so the donkey converts it’s the it’s the impure he turns the impure into his glory that’s what Christ does all right so Stephen Anderson for 1270 USD what is your opinion on stained glass icons I like stained glass images in there in their proper place they look weird and they look weird definitely in in in Orthodox churches where all the walls are painted and where you have our you have like mosaics I feel like the stained glass doesn’t work there because the color is coming from the walls and so if you’re gonna have stained glass you shouldn’t have like painted walls because then the images and the color is coming from the glass but I mean yeah those those those windows at shacht you know or at Notre Dame where all the great Gothic French Gothic cathedrals especially are just completely are you could spend your life looking at those and interpreting you know the the iconography there so Isaac Cheatham for ten dollars says hi Jonathan I had never heard of theosis before but the tradition came up under taught victory over sin and attaining divine nature while on earth have you heard this language before cheers I mean I don’t know yeah obviously theosis is is is participation it’s not attaining divine nature which is not really possible or like participation in divine nature participation is the key right we become God by participation in the life of God and so yes it does involve it involves an aspect which is beyond even our own virtue in the sense that by participating in the sacraments by taking communion by being involved in this this mesh of love in the church that I talked about then we are already undergoing theosis to a certain extent but then it ends up being crowned in this in this victory over a sin victory over passions victory over our distractions and our capacity to to see the uncreated light or to see the glory of God and participate in that glory so it has to do with it does have to do with this like and it coming together right shedding the garments of skin the way that it’s described in the in the fathers and then you know coming into the Holy of Holies entering into that secret place it’s a transformation of the person it’s not just a moral change it’s not just a forensic declaration it’s an actual transformation of the person and all all their thoughts their being their you know their sense of themselves into into the person of God into the into the life of the Trinity you could say all right so Brian York for five dollars to the New Testament if this still seems like a commentary on the symbolic Gospels is this right if so why do the Gospels need commentary can they not stand alone I mean why do they need commentary can they not stand alone I understand what you’re saying it’s it’s but that’s the wrong way of understanding reality it’s like you could say I could go one one more I could say why do we need the Gospels can’t we just have Christ right why do we need four Gospels couldn’t we just have the direct words of Christ in one thing why do we need four and so it’s like the reason why we not only need or not need why we rejoice in the commentary and why we rejoice in the commentary of the commentaries that is the father’s commenting on the commentary and the Gospels and then other fathers commenting on those fathers who are commenting on the gospel and the and you know and the Old Testament and all of this commenting let’s say and this this participation in each other’s works is part of what the church is in a sense that it is this this this this joyful multiplicity right it’s not like there’s some like to imply for example like why does the gospel need the commentary is almost really is misunderstanding what is this fullness that Christ is calling us into and and wanting to see it like also in a Puritan way right way it’s only just about removing the garments of skin rather than thinking that yes there is an aspect of that but there’s also this idea that Christ fills up the saints fills up the world and fills up fills things up and so yeah all right so Mike Mike for 279 Cedric says I live in Darval wish we could meet I mean maybe after COVID you know it’s like for sure like our church has started again and so I’ve been going pretty regularly to church and and and now because because there was only ten people so I was going like every other week but now that it’s it’s up now to we’re allowed to be more then I’ll probably be there a lot and so if you guys want to go to same been what do you see which is my parish you know and see an Orthodox liturgy on but you have to reserve the way that’s complicated so I probably shouldn’t say that because you’re supposed to reserve your place so sorry about that but anyways once hopefully if this COVID thing ever ends then you can always come to church and I’ll be happy to greet you in Montreal alright so Carlos Vaga for U.S.D. says thanks Jonathan for all the content you bring you seem like you’re on top of things all the time the advice on overcoming the spiritual sin of acidia and so I think I answered that didn’t I answer that about acidia I mean I would say for sure at least being aware of it is important and and distinct you know and kind of recognizing in us that feeling like irascible feeling like like you need to change like you need to change the channel you know like you need to to move on to the next thing to just be aware of it and maybe kind of take a moment of stillness and for sure developing a a practice of prayer for sure that’s that helps that’s for sure alright so Brandon Samuel for 5 USD said Jordan Peterson talks about a triad of culture and nature mediated by the individual is this a microcosm of the pattern of heaven earth and man yeah that’s a good it’s not it’s not a bad way to understand that if you understand culture as let’s say the patterns of of how society exists together and nature as this potentiality and then man yeah that’s not bad alright guys I probably need to end this alright alright I’m gonna I’m gonna I’m gonna skip to a few because it’s getting it’s getting way too late so the golden thread for 25 sorry for those that I have to skip the golden thread for 25 USD David Cayley has a great book out on Yvonne Ilik who he covered on his CBC radio show Ilik ideas about life as an idol and the corruption of Christianity especially through its relationship to images are worthy of an interview I mean yeah I guess I could see that I don’t know about that I probably would obviously disagree with that alright so easy for $5 USD says can you have Jay Dyer on your channel man that’s a big question it’s like right now I would say Jay and I I think we’re on good terms at least I’m on good terms with him um I don’t have a problem with him and you know I think that I think that I kind of thank God for all the things that he’s doing I’m seeing people convert and I’m seeing that he really has he really has a voice in a certain let’s say area of the internet or an area of culture and so I really appreciate that and and I like I said I thank God for that and once in a while like I’ll drop him a note if I see something I find interesting like I’ll share his tweets once in a while as well but at the same time like I’m not I don’t know like I don’t we still did have this massive thing and he and and so I it’s like it’s like I don’t I haven’t I don’t know it’s for me it’s just kind of there and I’m I’m happy for what he’s doing and I’m happy to see people kind of talk about Christianity but I also don’t have the same approach as him and the way that I talk about the faith is very different like he’s more polemical and looking at very technical questions of theology which is not I don’t do that and so and that even some of the things that he talks about to be honest I don’t totally understand like I’m not gonna hide it there I think he really does have a grasp on very technical aspects of Trinitarian theology and you know the distinction between nature and energies and stuff and so and so I’m not sure like I don’t know it’s like I just I’m not sure that it would be that our worlds need to really fit together like in terms of YouTube I think that in prayer like I pray for him and I and I pray for the people that that that that that he talks to that they come to to Christ but I maybe I think I always had this idea that it’s gonna happen one day but I’m not in a hurry let’s say because because you know you know I things did get intense between us and I doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to necessarily have to kind of to come together on YouTube you know I don’t know I’m sure that and we’ll see like just me saying that let’s see what happens like let’s see what happens with a lot of the people following him like if it’s going to bring about what it’s gonna bring about let’s just even watch right now and watch what’s going to come out of just what I said now and see what happens so alright guys so I think I think I have to stop because it’s like 1130 so sorry for the few people that I missed in the super chats thank you for your time everybody thank you for for your attention and yeah and pay attention if people who are interested in learning icon carving like I said it’s coming out probably next week you’ll you’ll see me I might do a like a live stream of me carving wood carving and then talk about what I’m gonna do in the in the training so look forward to that everybody thank you for your attention don’t forget to sign up to my to my website as well and I will talk to everybody next month so bye everybody

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