Jay Dyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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If things don't have essences, well, then they don't actually have
genders, right, objectively, because everything is just a name.
So I can just name myself E-Him-Zer-Z-It, right?
I'm not trying to go too fast or too far in the sense of like technology, but I'm saying there is an ideological sort of progression that you can get from nominalism to where we are now with postmodernism and then with essentially... It's interesting that an adult could believe in something like that.
What's that saying that you have to be an academic to be really stupid?
Yeah, I guess that's right.
Yeah, to be indoctrinated into believing some sort.
I remember Terence McKenna, do you remember the Psychonaut Terence McKenna?
I remember reading it one time and he said something like,
He would actually chase the devil away with farts, which I think is great.
quite a robust man and a happy family life and everything about him i like but that is impossible to defend on just flies in the face of reality yeah and even modern scholarship in the protestant world is a great book by uh alistair mcgrath out of england uh i think he's anglican it's called eusticia day and his book was kind of a landmark in protestants coming to the table and saying okay look
luther's doctrine of salvation is not in the first 1500 years unfortunately so so this the understanding of salvation that preceded the reformation was that people had to be changed on in their essence in order to be safe so there's an actual participation in what orthodox theology calls the uncreated energies so we believe that god
has infinite divine energies and operations attributes as it's called in the west um and for orthodox theology and this is the patristic teaching as well we participate in that so we're not just changing a legal status we're actually participating in the life of god himself which when you go back and you read the new testament you're like oh actually that makes more sense because jesus says in john 17 that he came to give us a share in the glory that he had with the father before the foundation of the world so divine glory can't be a creature
And so Jesus is equating grace with divine glory.
So unless you think God has created parts, which would be polytheism or some form of idolatry, uncreated grace has to be a reality that's a participable thing.
And that happens.
And the Spirit's not a creature, because then you would be anti-Trinitarian.
So absolutely, this is why Peter says in his epistle, right, that we become partakers of the divine nature.
very strong language in the New Testament and the epistles for what we call theosis in the Orthodox Church.
Paul says, for example, in Thessalonians, that it is the dunamis or the power of God that is at work in him.
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