Thursday, November 5, 2026
Protestantism Doesn't Fit Matthew 28:16—20
Does Orthodox Devotion to Mary Go Too Far? (Yes)
Testify | 4 Nov 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsy-l_tTCk
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @hglundahl
- Here is my objection which you didn't answer.
Catholicism overdoes Mariology.
Orthodoxy overdoes Mariology.
What about Copts, Armenians, Assyrians (Monophysites and Nestorians, except Monophysites are two different groups, Armenians aren't in communion with Jacobites)?
So, if you find that these too overdo Mariology ... where was the Church that stayed correct?
Matthew 28:16 to 20 says there had to be one. EVERY day and therefore obviously EVERY Century.
If there isn't one, you have two options. Christ failed to keep His promise or maybe one of above actually didn't overdo Mariology.
I'm a Christian, so I'm Catholic.
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- Jin
- @jin8982
- Jin
- Don't put a blanket over literally everyone. Not everyone wants to build statues of Mary and call her ""Queen of heaven"" even when heaven heaven doesn't have a Queen.
And no, Christ didn't fail. He kept his word but the Church didn't. As usual. And the Church in NT mentions the Church being the believers all across the world and not one particular institution or a special club filled with proud believers.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @jin8982 If the Church is teaching all the nations, it has to be visible.
- II
- Crossroads
- @Crossroads-inri
- Crossroads
- I think the issue is what catholics mean by church and what protestants mean. From my point of view Catholics tend to mean an institution, whereas Protestants tend to mean the universal body of people, which could include multiple institutions including the Catholic Church.
So from the Protestant viewpoint it doesn’t matter that there are all these churches in the pre-medieval era overdoing Mariology; the true believers who have faith in Christ and are faithful to him are still there.
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- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @Crossroads-inri "the true believers who have faith in Christ and are faithful to him are still there."
Where they so back then?
Can you document it.
- Crossroads
- @hglundahl I can’t provide a list of every faithful Christian who ever lived, no. But I don’t have to. The burden of proof of the Catholic Church being the “one true church” is on the Catholic Church
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @Crossroads-inri The burden of proof for their being a non-Catholic, equally non-Orthodox, equally non-Coptic, equally non-Armenian-Apostolic, and equally non-Assyrian remnant is on those needing such a thing.
- Crossroads
- @hglundahl But historical protestants and modern evangelicals aren’t making the claim that their church is the “One True Church.” Why would I be a part of a church that has been around for a long time but teaches unbiblical doctrine? I’d rather hold to the more ancient traditions that are found in Scripture and taught by the apostles, which rejects unbiblical Mariology doctrine and other such errors, as laid out by Testify.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @Crossroads-inri "the more ancient traditions that are found in Scripture"
But are they found AFTER the Bible books were written and BEFORE The Reformation?
If not, considering them Apostolic Traditions is Unbiblical, Antibiblical, against Matthew 28:16 to 20.
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- Thad of all Trades
- @thadofalltrades
- Thad of all Trades
- @Crossroads-inri which is the example in Scripture, God always preserved a remnant even among his chosen people when they fell away.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @thadofalltrades Elijas and the 7000 or King Joas raised by the High Priest are documented in the Bible.
Also, the Old Covenant didn't involve a guarantee against all of the people falling away, as the New Covenant does.
Compare the mentioned verses in Matthew 28 with Deuteronomy 28.
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- Bill Cynic
- @billcynic1815
- Bill Cynic
- I'm Orthodox, but I know our Protestant friends like to appeal to a righteous remnant existing durimg this time, so I have a similar challenge to them, except an even easier challenge than a body: name one person who lived from the years 325-1054 that wouldn't call you a heretic. Not just "they don't explicitly say what I believe" but "they actively teach the opposite as heresy". Forget the body for a moment, if you can't even identify one person, how can you say the Church stayed correct? Especially for those who like historical evidentialism, where is any evidence of that remnant, the "true believers" they appeal to?
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- Thad of all Trades
- there's always a remnant that remains true to God, when his people go after idols. The Bible shows us over and over again that the natural tendency of humanity is to go after idols, even images which God initially endorsed, like the bronze serpent. So, it makes perfect sense that the church could largely apostatize and only a small remnant remain. This is shown in Revelation 2&3. Of the 7 churches mentioned the majority are in trouble.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @thadofalltrades "So, it makes perfect sense that the church could largely apostatize and only a small remnant remain."
For the end times, this is nearly a promise.
Luke 18:8
As we (or someone after us) are or will be living through that time, we don't need historic documentation to prove the existence of this remnant.
However, for most of the history between the first and second coming, the Church was supposed to teach the nations, the one Who gave the task promising His help and reminding of His omnipotence.
The remnant in the past, like before the Reformation, needs to be documented.
- Thad of all Trades
- @hglundahl The Papacy is the little horn of Daniel 7, we're already in the end times, we've been there for centuries. Jesus started opening the seals on the scroll when he ascended.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- SHOW the Remnant for centuries concerned, don't just affirm there was one!
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
// You actually have to demonstrate that the Pharisees seem to think that their teaching on Corban, for example, was something that was very ancient, maybe even went back to Moses, //
Do they?
Does "tradition of the ancients" mean "tradition from Moses on Mt Sinai"?
- InitialPC
- @InitialPC
- The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
Matthew 23:2-3
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @InitialPC Sitting in Moses' seat and having everything you say being a tradition from Moses are two different things.
- InitialPC
- @hglundahl Hear that? That's the sound of the shifting of the goal posts.
- Thad of all Trades
- @hglundahl they interpreted the law, so everything had to have a basis in the law to be practiced.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @InitialPC The one shifting the goal posts is you.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @thadofalltrades Having a basis in the law and being explicitly part of it by oral tradition since the beginning are two different things.
Friday abstinence has a basis in Apostolic tradition, but is not identic to fasting to 18:30 from all food and after that avoiding meat, dairy and eggs, which is probably how it was done in their day.
- Thad of all Trades
- @hglundahl there's no evidence that it has been a part of oral tradition from the beginning. That is a baseless claim you guys make and the evidence is actually against there being an oral tradition from the beginning.
- InitialPC
- @hglundahl "You actually have to demonstrate that the Pharisees seem to think that their teaching on Corban, for example, was something that was very ancient, maybe even went back to Moses"
Now it's "prove they actually do come from Moses"
That is by definition, shifting the goal posts. And pointing out what you are doing, is not the same thing as doing that thing.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @InitialPC I'm not the one asking whether Pharisees come from Moses (via Ezra), they did.
I'm just asking whether they believed, even themselves, that their ruling on Corban is one that went back to Moses himself.
So, not shifting the goal posts.
- InitialPC
- @hglundahl You are shifting. And judging from the ratios its looking like others are seeing it to.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- @InitialPC Be disingenious if you like ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Holdsworth and Me as Apologists
The following video is mainly on the Sacrifice of Abraham.
Here is Holdsworth's solution:
1. A test can benefit the person being tested and those who learn from the test, even if the examiner already knows the outcome.
2. Abraham’s test teaches Abraham and the reader about his faith, and points forward to Christ’s sacrifice.
3. Therefore, God’s test of Abraham can serve a meaningful purpose even if God already knows how Abraham will respond.
I'm not against that, just have something to add, and also comment on his intro.
Defending the Worst Thing in the Bible
Brian Holdsworth | 4 Nov. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmSbcZpU7HA
0:49 My background as an Apologist.
At fifteen minus a month, I arrived at a boarding school. I tend to say, on HP, whatever the pros and cons of fictional magic, it's still a boarding school story. Noting that Rowling never went to one.
I was at the time believing roughly like an Evangelical, minus the anti-Catholicism you find in some neighbourhoods, but tending to Lutheranism, since Lutheranism allowed Christians to resist Communist Revolutions and wasn't Pacifist.
I spent four years in two houses of that school. When I left, I was in the Swedish back then version of OCIA. Yes, I have a pre-Trad Catholic life too.
Part of the reason was, the strategy some had to push me away from the faith was pointing to Evangelicals owing the Bible to Catholics. "Oh, don't you say so? Well, I should probably be Catholic, then!" ... that's a very sunny résumé of dialogues that were often pretty grim, back and forth between debate and personal harrassment, like calling me a jerk or threatening me, or calling me a faggot, if I said sth they considered too right wing.
I had arrived a nearly sympathiser with Hitler. As I have part Jewish ancestry, you can guess what the not quite was about. I left a pretty solid sympathiser with Franco. You bet my saying right wing things wasn't a rarity. The second house was more quiet, but I already had Apologetics in my system. And there was one guy who had smoked weed in the Catacombs of Paris, before being sent up. So, more quiet, doesn't mean no occasions.
For some reason, the Sacrifice of Abraham didn't come up very often.
In recent months, I made a calculation on when the Arabian desert ceased to be green and lush. I concluded that Abraham might have blundered and nearly killed Ishmael, except for the miracle, while sending him to a place he thought was still liveable.
When Isaac later met Ishmael, perhaps it saved Isaac's life that Abraham had nearly killed him too.
Some bring up people who have certain mental conditions and kill their own, I think Hercules is a better butt of that rebuttal ... he actually did kill wife and more than one child with her, prior to precisely the twelve labours.
5:33 The initiation, it isn't into something like Freemasonry?
Including Catholic approved parallels. Knights of Columbus or things ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Monday, November 2, 2026
BantuCityDiaries Said Something
He might of course be right about the main topic of the video, mercenaries.*
Is Russia Actively Baiting Africans to Join Its Military and Fight in Ukraine
BantuCityDiaries | 2 Nov. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh28fp-Gzjc
While we do not support Russia's failed invasion of Ukraine, most people when forced to take a side would lean towards Russia in Africa.
So, French "far right" as they are often called are often pro-Putin, pro-Russia.
In the case of a civil war in France, they might hope Russia helped out.
Meanwhile, quite a lot of troublemakers are either Black African or North African, and like people in their home countries (or home countries of parents and grandparents) would be pro-Russia ... and Russia knows that.
Could Russia be playing both sides against each other?
I'm a Swede, born in Austria, grew up parts of my childhood in Germany. I'm pro-Ukraine. Like, Swedes were allied to Mazepa against Peter the Great.
Why should African soldiers have to die for Ukraine's hatred of Russia? Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are only functioning as countries today because of Russian support. We value the partnership with Russia in Africa.
Noted.
I should think Ukraine could need their men on their own ground ....
* A counterpoint:
Lured by Russia, African soldiers end up on deadly front lines of Ukraine war
Jul 3, 2026 6:45 PM EST | By — Simon Ostrovsky, By — Katia Patin | PBS News Hour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/lured-by-russia-african-soldiers-end-up-on-deadly-front-lines-of-ukraine-war
Francis Ndung'u Ndarua from Kenya is mentioned there, and also here:
CNN : ‘You escape, or you die’: African men say Russia duped them into fighting in Ukraine
By Larry Madowo, Katharina Krebs | Published, Updated Feb 4, 2026
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/africa/russia-african-recruits-military-ukraine-intl-cmd
"Our Divine Lord in His Human Nature Is a Jew" (Mgr Williamson is Right)
(OK, I find two quibbles, being by temperament a quibbler.)
The Seven Ages of the World - Bishop Williamson
Fidei Promotor | 21 Jan. 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-4XYg3trY
1:42 Four thousand years ... based on the Vulgate.
Does it totally trump Martyrologium Romanum which for the distance from Creation to Flood, Flood to Abraham is based on a version of the LXX?
If so, why was the reading kept all the way up to the change of liturgy, which obviously as Trads we refused?
Five thousand years BC, Adam was alive. 500 years old according to Syncellus, 200 years old according to the Roman Martyrology for Christmas Day.
19:13 "one Pagan and one Jew" [Henoch and Elijah]
No doubt, one Gentile and one Jew ... if one can speak of pre-Flood people as Gentiles, when they were before this division.
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