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EPISODE · May 7, 2024 · 16 MIN

Origen Was a Monster

from The Bible as Literature · host The Ephesus School

Imagine a monster whose primary interest is to embrace philosophy and then power—Roman power, Greco-Roman power, and Greek philosophy, in other words, human power.Origen. You know what he loved. The ugliest, most vile, sinister, and self-serving sin, zealously and passionately preached by everyone I know.The worship of state, ethnicity, family, religion, but especially philosophy—for example, your blood-soaked liberal values—embedded in your “Greekdom.”Profoundly and inexorably disgusting. Likewise, the human clan, the family, the irredeemable evil character that the gospel itself presents as the arch-enemy of Jesus Christ. Peter: Equally revolting and unworthy of God.Origen, who learned Hebrew, not to teach Scripture but to increase his importance in order to undermine the Rabbis.Alexandria: Self-involved academics and money-grubbing politicians. A marriage made in Hell. Don’t believe me? Ask your kids. “All you need,” Fr. Paul thunders, “is to read Galatians 2 fifteen times in a row.”As if.He who has ears to hear, let him hear. (Episode 323) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Imagine a monster whose primary interest is to embrace philosophy and then power—Roman power, Greco-Roman power, and Greek philosophy, in other words, human power.Origen. You know what he loved. The ugliest, most vile, sinister, and self-serving sin, zealously and passionately preached by everyone I know.The worship of state, ethnicity, family, religion, but especially philosophy—for example, your blood-soaked liberal values—embedded in your “Greekdom.”Profoundly and inexorably disgusting. Likewise, the human clan, the family, the irredeemable evil character that the gospel itself presents as the arch-enemy of Jesus Christ. Peter: Equally revolting and unworthy of God.Origen, who learned Hebrew, not to teach Scripture but to increase his importance in order to undermine the Rabbis.Alexandria: Self-involved academics and money-grubbing politicians. A marriage made in Hell. Don’t believe me? Ask your kids. “All you need,” Fr. Paul thunders, “is to read Galatians 2 fifteen times in a row.”As if.He who has ears to hear, let him hear. (Episode 323) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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