Former Priest Critiques Orthodox Theology (with Joshua Schooping)

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  @slim316 · 3 years ago · pinned

  The interviews with Pastor Schooping (and his channel as well) helped break a 30 year stalemate in my soul that kept me from fully believing that I am a child of God because I wasn't in the true church. I couldn't decide between Rome or Constantinople. Canterbury was as far as I could go. Both Rome and Constantinople made exclusive claims. I so needed someone to push back and peel back the veneer. I'm free of that burden! Thank God!! I am truly free of that burden. I can breath. I can rest. I can trust in God's grace. Thank you.

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• HE

  @henrietta9549 · 3 years ago

  I'm very thankful for your channel and these conversations. I struggle with the ecclesiastical anxiety you have described and have found great value here.

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• DE

  @devinbrooks3927 · 4 years ago

  I'm in the middle of stressing myself out on these very questions... and I have been for awhile. This interview came at a good time

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• CH

  @charlesking9120 · 4 years ago

  That was an awfully short hour.  I had to check to see if I was running the video at normal speed.   Thanks for giving the Rev ample time to make his points without interrupting him.  It facilitates the formation of a clear memory in an old brain.

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• NA

  @Nathan-IdeasHaveConsequences · 4 months ago

  It’s still so shocking to me that anyone could read the Bible and think it’s okay to bow before an image or pray to a mere human. It’s so steeped in a wrong way of thinking, every conversation I’ve ever had about it just ends in an appeal to the authority of church tradition - their personal interpretation of it at least.

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• MA

  @marcuswilliams7448 · 4 years ago

  Look at all those Gerhard works and Book of Concord.

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• EL

  @elizabethburns1449 · 4 years ago

  So nice to see people being kind and accepting in the comment section. Finally...... normally there is so much anger towards people with opposing views. We as Christians just need to remember to speak the truth in love.

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• L.

  @l.elmo.di.scipio · 2 years ago

  Hi, Gavin, loving your channel, it's very erudite and respectful. I'm a Latin American Roman Catholic. I always had trouble with the same things you two discussed here. The thing is I always searched for the most simple way of living the Gospel. While the RCC has an amazing vault of spiritual and theological resources, it rings hollow to me because of obstacles like the bloated Mariology, for instance. This would make the delights of anthropologists and historians alike, but for a layman, this kills the joy of belonging to this very ancient church. I'm sort of 'drifting' away into Protestantism (not afraid), but it all gets a little anxiety- inducing. Please pray for me! Love from Argentina!

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• AR

  @arianarubytemple6008 · 2 years ago

  Since I live hundreds of miles from the  nearest orthodox church it would be distressing to think that I couldn't be saved outside of the orthodox church.

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• TI

  @Tiredhike · 4 years ago

  Bought the book, looking forward to reading it.

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• FO

  @forestantemesaris8447 · 4 years ago

  Wonderful interview. Great to hear his perspective. Thank you.

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• PE

  @petecaniglia · 9 months ago

  I'm super grateful for this video. I've been having unbelievable ecclesiastical anxiety after being bombarded with Catholic and EO content online both claiming the one true church and saying me as a evangelical protestant am basically not saved. Which is deeply concerning as I've spent the last 5 years dedicating my life to following Christ. I've spent hours consuming content and apologetics trying to get answers and trying to poke holes in both church's logic and this conversation made me realize I don't have to. There's no need to invalidate their tradition to validate my salvation. I'm not smart enough, nor have the time of day to do PHD level work to figure out who has the true church. Thank you both and God bless.

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