"The one who prays is a theologian; the one who is a theologian, prays." With all due respect, I strongly doubt that Jay Dyer or the Dimonds have the most solid spiritual life. They certainly are lacking in humility and charity.
If you want to find modern theologians, begin with yourself. Remain in prayer, in humility, in fasting, in charity, in almsgiving, in recurrent reception of the Eucharist, study the Fathers prayerfully, and the way to theology will open itself for you.
Orthodox vs catholic
Carson Martin
Levi Clark
Amen. One can only talk about God by meeting with him.
Dyer is an interesting fellow, but I don't think he would claim to be a theologian anyways. He's an academic and very.. Catholic… actually in his approach. But this makes him very skillful. He knows about things of the Western world that Orthodox have sadly neglected to address enough (or simply didn't care and see the implications).
Christopher Gonzalez
Fair point. I sometimes wonder what is supposed to be the gain of all this time spent on youtube apologetics. Defending the faith is great, but when we stand before Christ at judgement will he really be that concerned with how well you defended theology online? If we do not act with charity and continue to pray and remain faithful to God by acting in the way Christ taught us then we are lost. It doesn't matter how many atheists we owned online. If you are a man of faith and truly believe for a fact that heaven and hell exist and you know that every action you take on Earth will be used to judge your worthiness to enter the Kingdom then I fail to see how you could waste your time on this stuff.
Parker Sanders
Can't people these days write? why use freaking youtube to tie people into google hivemindnet? also, 99.9% of youtube "discussion" or whatever rarely utilize the benefits of video form of media (visualization) but merely just talk. for that, you could just have podcast and write down the transcript. i am not going to "watch" 2 hrs of "talk" and waste my time. write it down.
inb4 "they have podcast"
also, wth is this vaticanocatholico.com yt? that channel is just full of boomer tier bs clickbait, and these people shit on boomer proddies?
Josiah Lewis
Try watching the actual videos. The Dimond Bros are very knowledgeable and their theology is spot on.
Evan Nelson
they mentioned that this was part of a longer video in the works
Benjamin Stewart
Are you ID-hopping?
Discernment is understanding the Will of God, what that user - you? - are doing is pure presumption.
Funny, the Orthodox have a term for that, "Prelest".
en.wikipedia.org
You condemn a huge swathe of Ancient Christendom.