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Full Armor Apologetics
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Full Armor Apologetics is to serve as resource, to deepen one's wisdom, formation, and devotion in Christian Theology. For the relentless defense, and vindication of the All Holy Trinity, and catechetical supplication for Apostolic Orthodox Christians.
May The Holy Trinity be pleased, with all the works that are done under “Full Armor Apologetics”, to contribute to the strengthening of one's faith, one's Christ-centered devotion, and the confidence in the rigorous demonstration of Christ, to the world.
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#Orthodox #Christianity #Apologetics DR. PAUL COPAN | THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, MORAL RELATIVISM, JUSTIFICATION, HUMAN CONDITION, GODS JUSTICE
May 22, 202200:49:47Tap to summarizeDr. Paul Copan is an Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. He is currently a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics. He has written and edited over 40 books in the area of philosophy of religion, apologetics, theology, and ethics in the Bible. He has contributed a great number of articles to various professional journals and has written many essays for edited books. For six years he served as the president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
Transcribe →DR. BENJAMIN D. SOMMER | THE PLURITARIAN AND FLUID GOD OF ISRAEL | JEWISH MONOTHEISM | THE TRINITY!!
May 22, 202201:12:21Tap to summarizeBenjamin D. Sommer (Hebrew: בנימין זומר; born July 6, 1964) is an American biblical scholar and Jewish theologian. He is a Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a former director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. Sommer's research encompass areas of biblical theology, history of Israelite religion, and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, and Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition. Sommer was elected to membership in the Biblical Colloquium in 2014 and to membership in the American Academy for Jewish Research in 2017. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 How Dr. Sommers book came to be 00:16:19 "Fluidity of Divine Self-Hood" 00:23:10 What constitutes "Monotheism"? 00:28:57 Exodus 23:20-22 as Example 00:33:13 God appears as "Human" 00:37:30 Are these Jewish "fringe groups"? 00:42:02 What is "Intra-Deical Dynamism"? 00:52:20 Unknowability & Allegories 01:01:00 Continuity of the Old and New Testament! 01:07:03 Thoughts on "Progressive Revelation" 01:10:40 Jewish background of N.T. Authors.
Transcribe →DR. BEAU BRANSON | THE MONARCHIA OF THE FATHER, EXEGESIS, MODELS, HERMENEUTICS
May 22, 202201:37:58Tap to summarizeDr. Beau Branson is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brescia University in Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Notre Dame, directed by Richard Cross, where he specialized in Philosophical Theology, Metaphysics, and Ancient and Hellenistic Philosophy. His dissertation, "The Logical Problem of the Trinity", can be found on his Research page. His research focuses on the philosophy of the early Church Fathers. By bringing the rigor of contemporary logic and analytic metaphysics to bear on deep historical questions in patristics scholarship, He hopes to show how both analytic theology and historical theology can benefit from a deeper engagement with one another.
Transcribe →SAM SHAMOUN | APOSTLE PAUL, REFUTING COMMON OBJECTIONS, SCHOLARS & HISTORIANS, JESUS' HIS CHURCH !
May 22, 202201:21:11Tap to summarizeFor well over 2 decades my guest Sam Shamoun has been writing articles, doing sessions, interviews, debates, discussions, defending the Christian faith, and like a shepard, weaponizing the flock to defend themselves spiritually against everything that is anti-Christian. Me, being the benificiary of his teachings for the past 1,5 years, it had to happen that i would have him on my Full Armour Channel. Our subject is about The Apostle Paul, with 13 Epistles in the New Testament. One of THE most influential figure of Christianity. Whose writings and influence have touched the hearts and minds of billions of people (Christians and non-Christians). God using him as an extension to Himself, for the Gentiles (rest of the world) is something that should not be neglected! The legitimacy, historicity, teachings and influence of the beloved Apostle Paul is what we are looking at today. 00:00:00 Intro 00:06:00 The Significance of Paul 00:12:00 Liberal Scholars 00:19:50 The Historical Jesus 00:24:11 Pauls Conversion 00:26:30 The Crucifixion 00:28:51 Nonsense Theories 00:32:05 Birth of the Church 00:34:38 The Dead Are Alive 00:36:22 Paul Didn't Make It Up 00:38:40 4:157 00:45:50 Did Paul Oppose The Others? 00:53:36 Being Biased 00:56:24 Pauls Usage of The O.T. Into N.T. 01:02:36 Jews Affirming the Trinity 01:05:38 Continuity 01:07:30 Pauls Plagiarism? 01:10:45 Best Attestest Fact of History 01:13:07 Jews and Eschatology 01:18:23 The Apostolic Churches
Transcribe →THEODORE SHOEBAT | ANTI-CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION, ARMENIA, GLOBALISM, GEO-POLITICS, JIHADISM.
May 22, 202201:38:59Tap to summarizeMy Guest today is in my estimation absolute “sanctified beast” if it comes to History, Geo-politics, Globalism, Spiritual and Psychological Warfare, Mass-Psychology, Christianity and everything that is “Anti-Christian” His understand on what happens on global and historical level is second to none. He is the son of Walid Shoebat; an former Islamic jihadist, turned Christian, turned speaker and author and Warrior for Christ. He himself being an prolific author, has written books like; “For God or For Tyranny – When Nations Deny Gods Natural Law” (Co-written allongside his father) “In Satans Footsteps - The Source and Interconnections of All Evil” “Christianity at War – The Manifesto for Christian Militancy”. He has written countless articles. Running his website www.Shoebat.com. Running his own YouTube Channel, making you second-guess what you think you know about the world. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:30 Why it is that you do what you do? 00:18:30 Pan-Turkic Ottoman threat 00:36:15 Armenian Genocide by Turks 00:44:08 Armenia vs. Azeri, Turkey, ISIS, Pakistan 00:49:40 World War 3 00:53:00 What to do against Anti-Christianity? 00:56:57 Catching a "Predator Priest" 01:10:20 The problem is "The People" 01:12:00 Not clinging to the "worldly" 01:14:20 "The Islamic Jihadist Mindset" 01:18:45 Naieve, Ineffective & Dumb Atheists 01:24:38 To be "respectfull" is to be "effective" 01:30:40 Secular Atheist Turks
Transcribe →DR. DAVID BRADSHAW | ESSENSE-ENERGY DISTINCTION, METAPHYSICS, DIVINE SIMPLICITY, SYNERGY, THE LOGOS
May 22, 202201:11:23Tap to summarizeMy guest is Dr. David Bradshaw, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Today we had a conversation about his book "Aristotle East and West" This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:39 Becoming and Orthodox Christian Professor 00:07:27 What is The "Essence & Energies Distinction"? 00:15:02 What is "Divine Simplicity"? 00:26:27 What did Aristotle mean with "The Prime Mover"? 00:33:30 Difference "Logos" & "logoi" 00:41:12 Uncreated Energies & Creatures 00:47:28 Exodus 33:23 & The Glory of God 00:53:30 Apophaticism & Empiricism 00:55:38 Is the Thomistic "Actus Purus" faulty? 01:01:09 Pre-Nicaeane views on Gods Energies 01:08:06 Importance of Etymology
Transcribe →DAVID PATRICK HARRY (CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL LOGOS) | THEOSIS, GLORIFICATION, METAPHYSICS, DEIFICATION
May 22, 202201:52:09Tap to summarizeDavid Patrick Harry has his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union where his research focuses on New Religious Movements and trends within America. In addition to his research into the occult, the New Age, and psychedelic spirituality, He is also a Christian apologist from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Born and raised in Indiana, it was at IUPUI (Indianapolis University Purdue University Indianapolis) where he completed his undergraduate studies with a major in Religious Studies, minor in Biology, and academic certificate in Mandarin Chinese. He received my Master’s degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Religious Studies. He has almost 10.000 subscribers in his YouTube Channel called "Church of The Eternal Logos". We he in "an online classroom" Explicated the Orthodox Faith! 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:28 Why you do what you do? 00:17:15 Psychedelics 00:19:15 What is "Theosis"?! 00:22:09 What is "Essence"? 00:30:47 Why is it so neglected? 00:37:20 "Absence of Gods energies" is death! 00:46:48 "Levels of Holiness" 00:50:28 Complete until the Incarnation of Christ 00:52:00 Worshipping "The Word" Incarnate 00:57:25 Changing the paradigm of Orthodoxy 01:04:50 "TheOs is PaGAn" accusation 01:11:50 Be humble enough to study and love Orthodoxy 01:17:00 Online discussions & identity 01:21:20 What does it mean to be "Human in Christ"? 01:24:00 Getting Armenians to become Orthodox again! 01:26:00 Armenian Spiritual history, suffering & war 01:36:20 Isolated culture of Armenians 01:42:30 Specializing and "building bridges" 01:47:50 Armenia in a hard place
Transcribe →DAVID THE REAL MEDWHITE | THE HYPOSTATIC UNION, JESUS AS THE GOD-MAN, ORIENTAL & EASTERN ORTHODOXY.
May 22, 202201:44:36Tap to summarizeMy guest David the Real MedWhite is an absolute theological fanatic, specialized in Orthodox theology and specifically more in the "Hypostatic Union". Jesus being aswell "God" as "Man", being both divine and human has a profound effect in Christian theology. It is one of the most mysterious aspects of Christian soteriology and Christology. A lot rests upon this doctrine. And i brought David to further educate me/us on this beautifull and fun subject.
Transcribe →JAY DYER | OBJECTIVE DOGMATISM, REFUTING ATHEISTS & ANTI-CHRISTIANS, EPISTEMOLOGY, ORTHODOX CHURCH
May 22, 202201:19:39Tap to summarizeJay Dyer is an author, comedian, TV presenter, known for his deep analysis of Hollywood, geopolitics, culture, and theology. His graduate work focused on psychological warfare and film and he is the author of 2 books of Esoteric Hollywood 1 & 2. Co-creator and co-host of the television show Hollywood Decoded. Also on his channel, he has countless film reviews where he extrapolates the subliminal messages that are hidden in movies. He has been featured on numerous popular shows and podcasts and in debates with some of the world’s top debaters. Defending, explicating, intellectualizing, and disambiguating The Christian Orthodox Church. Putting the best of what atheism and Islam have to offer... to shame in a formidable fashion. While most of us are spending time on Netflix.. he is in his books, sharpening his mind… edifying Christians throughout the world. All for the veneration and glorification of our Triune God on the public stage. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:05:00 Epistomological mistakes of the empiricists atheists 00:08:50 Bad argumentations and fallacies from atheists 00:17:52 Trancendental argument for God 00:29:27 General revelation & special revelation 00:31:40 How is atheism destroying civilization? 00:39:03 Why are most atheists from protestant background? 00:45:54 Why i became an orthodox and why be one. 00:49:33 Are you saved when you are an orthodox? 00:52:50 Schismatic moments in Orthodoxy? 00:55:43 Presuppositional apologetics with Orthodoxy 01:02:28 Dialogues between Islam & Christianity 01:07:30 Why is the anti-christian spirit so prevelant? 01:11:23 Being influenced by anti-christianity. 01:14:08 Terrified by the reality of Christ
Transcribe →DR. LYDIA MCGREW | UNDESIGNED COINCIDENCES, LEGITIMACY AND HISTORICITY OF THE NT, BIBLICAL INERRANCY
May 22, 202201:30:24Tap to summarizeDr. Lydia McGrew is an a.analytical philosopher, a housewife, homeschooling mother, and blogger from Michigan. Her books; "The Eye of the Beholder", "Hidden in Plain View" & "The Mirror or The Mask" have been blessings to make the historical cases for the New Testament. She received her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University in 1995. Since then she has published extensively in analytic philosophy, specializing in probability theory and epistemology. Her articles in epistemology and probability theory have appeared in such journals as Philosophical Studies, Acta Analytica, and the Journal of Philosophical Research. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:03 Why are "undesigned coincidences" so effective? 00:07:48 Can we trust the writers? 00:08:36 Was Jesus the Mouthpiece of the Apostles? 00:22:56 What are your thoughts about "Biblical Inerrancy"? 00:33:28 What do we learn about the writers as person? 00:39:04 Thoughts on the Apostle Paul? 00:44:09 The Synoptics and John complimenting eachother. 00:50:13 Higher Christology in John? 00:52:50 Dishonest and overrated Bart Erhman? 00:58:02 Why did God come in an age where there were no printing presses or cameras? 01:07:44 Why are the Acts & letters of Paul so significant? 01:13:06 What would be "the best way" to read the New Testament? 01:16:15 Falling for "Parralellomania" 01:18:12 Jordan Peterson terrified of Christ. 01:24:53 Thoughts on "Sola Scriptura" ?
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