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Roman Catholic. Strict Observance Thomist. Kabab Enjoyer. “Cognitio enim Trinitatis in unitate est fructus et finis totius vitae nostrae.” D. Thomae Aquinatis
Jul 4 11 tweets 4 min read
🧵 Do Jews and Muslims worship the true God as Christians? Catholic theologians answer.

This thread is going to be a collection of quotations from scholastic theologians (1600-1750 AD) whom, affirming Muslims & Jews to follow a false religion, still admitted this proposition. Image First evidence is from João da Silveira, a 17th century Catholic biblical commentator. He wrote a great and detailed commentary on the Sacred Scriptures. In his exposition of John 4:22 where Christ says to the Samaritan woman: "You worship what you do not know.", He says: Image
Feb 21 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵 Is submission to the Roman Church and her visible head, the Roman Pontiff, necessary for salvation in the post-Vatican II Church? A thread.

The response is affirmative, as clearly expressed in Paul VI's Credo, which will be presented below. Image But before presenting the evidence, I want to show how Abp. Marcel Lefebvre reacted to Paul VI's Profession of Faith, promulgated in 1968. Frustrated with Vatican II, he wrote a letter to Catholics criticizing the Council. Image
Jan 14 16 tweets 5 min read
🧵 Pope Leo XIII and Sedevacantism

Satis Cognitum is one of the most important encyclicals written by Leo XIII in 1896 where he lays out the Catholic doctrine on the unity of the church. Image
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Upon a careful examination of the encyclical, I noticed that it contains inherently incompatible views with those of Sedevacantists, regardless of the theory they hold to. I will post some of the texts where I see it as irreconcilable with the Sedevacantist claims.
Sep 16, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵 Eastern Orthodoxy refuted on the Filioque by Blessed John Duns Scotus

Scotus' argument is found in his commentary on the Sentences of Lombard and defended by his disciples which destroys the Eastern "Orthodox" who accept that the processions are based on intellect and will.
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There is no way to escape this argument and taken to its logical conclusion, and assuming the Eastern "Orthodox" modal, it is reduced to two fundamental points.
Sep 8, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵 St. Gregory of Nyssa refuted the blasphemies of demonically-inspired heretic, Gregory of Cyprus, who said that eternal manifestation was something distinct from the hypostatic production of the persons. For Nyssa, there is no such distinction between the two. Image Notice how Nyssa equates "shining forth" with hypostatic production, when he says that when we consider the unbegotten Sun, we immediately perceive a second Sun shining out. So for him, shining forth is nothing but the very hypostatic production of the person.
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Aug 31, 2024 24 tweets 5 min read
🧵 On the various kinds of distinctions in Thomism

First, we need to define what a 'distinction' is. A distinction, simply speaking, is just a lack of identity between two or more than two things.
Image Now for a Thomist, the divisions of distinctions correspond to the divisions of beings. Since, then, there are two kinds of beings, namely, being of reason and real being, there must be two kinds of distinctions corresponding thereto: Real distinctions and logical distinctions.
Aug 9, 2024 14 tweets 5 min read
🧵 The Downfall of Catholic E-Girls

Ever since my last tweet, E-Girls have been vindicating my point: They are not here to promote Catholicism but to showcase their whorish and sluttish behavior, while encouraging their husbands to promote cuckoldry among men.
As you can see in the video, she clearly knows that men want to see her and want to give her attention, but she still does it (while being married). Following him, a couple of other E-Girls started posting the same caption with their own pictures, some of which were almost naked.

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Jul 26, 2024 19 tweets 7 min read
🧵 Eastern "Orthodoxy" is the modern-day Pelagianism heresy!

The Eastern "Orthodox Church" officially anathematized the Gospel of Jesus Christ and taught Pelagian heresy in 1672 Council of Jerusalem under Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem. Image First, let us summarize the Pelagian heresy according to St. Augustine in his work "On the Predestination of the Saints". He says (Summary of chapters 36 to 38): Image
Jul 23, 2024 22 tweets 6 min read
🧵 Eastern "Orthodoxy" refuted by St. Augustine

Craig Truglia being dishonest once again. I am not surprised at all, since the guy is obviously a fraud who shamelessly corrupts the meaning of the text. Let's examine St. Augustine's thought.
Image First off, St. Augustine is explaining how the word "principium" is applied to the divine persons. He first explains how principium is said of the three persons in relation to creatures, and yet it is not multiplied. Image
Jul 18, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
This is why you're all composite sky daddy worshippers. There is absolutely no state in God where the person is produced and [then] he receives the essence, rather, the very communication of essence by two modes just is the very production of the person. Refutation down below 1/6
Image Neo-Palamite, Palamite, blah blah is all COPIUM. If the very communication of essence isn't the hypostatic production, then we require a subject which is acted upon by something else and receives it. Unfortunately, you don't know natural philosophy to understand any of this. 2/6
Jan 23, 2024 8 tweets 2 min read
🧵 The differences between Thomistic and Suarist approaches to the Trinity by Fr. Norberto del Prado, O.P.

This is taken from Fr. del Prado's De veritate fundamentali philosophiae christianae, which is a comparison St. Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez philosophical thought. Image "The difference between Suarez and St. Thomas in their explanation of the mystery of the Trinity arises from a difference in their view of primary philosophy.
Jan 12, 2024 18 tweets 5 min read
🧵 A thread responding to Mullins.

Ok I listened to this and I'm literally convinced that you're clueless. You quoted St. Thomas' Sentences D. 2 & D. 22 saying that the difference is also on God's part. That's literally true, that's called a VIRTUAL distinction. (1/2)
Image Distinction is either purely logical, which means it's only on the part of the one reasoning, or it has a foundation in the thing itself, which provides the basis for the mind, as imposing itself. The former is called a distinction of reason REASONING.
Jan 3, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵 Yes, the Bible does teach the divine simplicity!

The Sacred Scriptures clearly teach that God’s essence and attributes are really identical. The proof will be provided below.
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Proof is derived from the words of Christ Himself who says in John 14:6 that: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Image
Nov 30, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
🧵 On the Superiority of the Augustinian-Scholastic Model of the Holy Trinity

Following the teaching of St. Augustine, Scholastics teach in common that the productions of the divine persons are by way of the internal actions in God, that is, intellection and volition.
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The reasoning is that since procession presupposes some action, the persons can either proceed by way of internal actions or external ones. But they cannot proceed by way of external actions, since external action's terminus is outside the agent.
Nov 24, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
🧵 On Three Kinds of the Distinctions of Reason

The following text is taken from Antoine Goudin, O.P. (1639-1695), one of the greatest Thomist philosophers and theologians of Baroque Scholasticism and all time. Image “The distinction of reason is threefold, namely, major, minor, and minimal. The major distinction of reason occurs when our reason virtually multiplies a singular entity into various perfectly distinct concepts, where one is in no way included in the other.
Nov 19, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
🧵 St. Bonaventure’s Arguments for Divine Simplicity

The following text is taken from his commentary on the sentences of Peter Lombard, bk. i, d. 8, p. 2, art. ii, q. 1. where St. Bonaventure presents four arguments in favor of God’s absolute and supreme simplicity. Image 1. Everything which is first is the most simple, since to the extent something is prior it is also simpler. Now God is first in the order of beings, because nothing can be nor be thought to be prior to him.
Oct 14, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
🧵 My Response to Modal Collapse Argument Contra Leithart:

Despite his claims, he has actually not read any classical sources on this. Because there you find a response to this. (Cf. Billuart, Poinsot, Gotti, et al. on q. 19, a. 3). The short response to this "argument" is...
Image The divine act of willing is specified by none other than the divine essence, as its primary object, just like the divine act of knowing, secondary objects are not necessarily required for God's act of willing himself...
Aug 18, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
🧵 A Brief Refutation of the "LPT" or the Logical Problem of the Trinity

Aristotelian maxim: "Things that are identical to a third thing are [also] identical to each other." Now let's apply it to the Trinity: Image The Father is the divine essence. The Son is the divine essence. Therefore, the Father is the Son.

The reasoning seems to be valid, right? Well, no. Because this is only true if the persons were both materially and formally identical with the divine essence. Explanation:
Jul 9, 2023 17 tweets 4 min read
🧵 Exposing errors of a man who bears the name of Great St. Augustine

This guy said that according to Florence, there are two principles and causes of the Spirit, now whether he said it because of ignorance or because he's a liar, I don't care. But it needs to be addressed, So: https://t.co/Vs2kP8AYIG
Image 1. According to the Council of Florence, the Father and the Son are one principle and one cause of the Holy Spirit's eternal procession. There are no two principles and two causes, that is, in fact, polytheism. Hence the Holy Fathers at Florence anathematized this view: Council of Florence, Bull of the union with the Greeks
Mar 24, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
🧵A Helpful, Handy and Simple Explanation of the Holy Trinity in Its Order of Subsisting and Operating

Terminology:

— a se: from himself, understood as a negation, that is, from no one.

— per se: by himself or through himself

— in se: in himself

(1/4) The Holy Trinity in the Order of Subsisting:

— the Father subsists from himself—i.e., from no one.

— the Son subsists from the Father.

— the Holy Spirit subsists from the Father and the Son.

(2/4)
Feb 19, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
🧵Jean Baptiste Gonet (1616-1681) ✝️ destroying the objection of so-called theologians (William Lane Craig, Ryan Mullins, Dale Tuggy, etc.) who attack and deny the orthodox doctrine of Eternal Generation of the Son (1/7) Image It is often objected by the non-orthodox "Christians" that no procession can take place in numerically one and the same nature, so they deny the orthodox doctrine and propose different heretical models, all of which fall either into tritheism or modalism. (2/7)