Continuation of the discussion here I'm a Protestant but recently I've been considering converting to Catholicism or Orthodoxy. I've been watching some Jay Dyer videos and he makes some specific claims about Roman Catholic theology, specifically with regards to Absolute Divine Simplicity. I'll try to summarize them as best I can:
1. The doctrine of Absolute Divine Simplicity (ADS) leads to monism. 2. Since God is only thought of as an /absolutely/ simple essence you can't distinguish between traits such as love, grace, etc. 3. Therefore, from an epistemic standpoint you can only know and interact with created effects and are fundamentally disconnected from God. 4. The Holy Spirit is subordinate in Catholic theology (v. filioque). 5. ADS, Thomism, and Catholic dogma and theology are the reason for the papacy, the corruption, and the way the church is ultimately structured. 6. The scholastic approach of "proving" God is the wrong approach. 7. All of this ultimately leads to absurdity and an incoherent world view and the only way to resolve it is with Orthodoxy and the Essence-Energy distinction.
I've seen him debate a few Catholic apologists, but he has owned them every single time. Now this doesn't mean Dyer is speaking the truth, and I suspect the biggest reason is because he's just better at debate in general. He seems to make a lot of sense with the way he argues it though, so I'm considering Orthodoxy more strongly.
>No you don't. You follow the reformers. You reject the Church that the Apostles actually belonged to. You think in a modern way. The way you conceptualize Scripture, Church, authority, theology is completely new and is foreign to the Early Church. There is no connection between your theology and that of the Apostles. You are more a follower of the Reformers than the Apostles.
>I don't know your exact state, and cannot judge you.
lmao catholicism doesn't make any sense god is three people jesus is made out of bread and you can do whatever you want as long as you apologize to a pedophile in a box who wears a dress and makes you call him daddy
