Submit to Semitic Functionality

The one, holy, universal, and apostolic church had three main sees (apostolic thrones / seats of authority). Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome. The Greco-Semitic worldview was seen as the proper thing to emerge, but this is dangerous in that the Greco (Greek) was only their to maximize the spreading of the Semitic heart (mindset) to peoples who had felt the sword of Alexander the Greak (topdown imposer of Greek culture worldwide) who was the student of Aristotle who was the student of Plato.
Bethlehem Abate shot this stunning video.
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[@hilinabirhane7201]

Finding out there're young people like you in our church has really filled me with hope. I have been so worried about the situation our country and church is facing right now. Please pray for us and our youth here in Ethiopia. God bless you.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

amen. እኛንም በጸሎትሽ አትርሽን።

[@edaleme7880]

Dcn Henok Elias, you are a gift to EOTC. I wish there were many of you.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

thank you and amen.

[@cme1713]

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[@tsehaiwoubu3685]

You are a gift of God!!

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

thank you aunty tsehayé

[@junicornplays980]

I really appreciate that attention is finally being paid to the Semitic school of thought. This is something that I am investigating by myself, though I notice some pushback when I talk about "Semitic Christianity" online. Acknowledging the Greeek and Latin schools of thought seem fine, but there seems to be a reluctance to even acknowledge that there is a Semitic thought. I'm a Roman Catholic, exploring Orthodoxy, but moreso Antiochian and Alexandrian Orthodoxy.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

yes. the 'intellectuals' don't view semitic christianity as worthy due to its plainspoken homiletical character. we're not here to debate till dawn. we're here to teach hymnody and scripture.

[@blessedlove2113]

Very interesting title. I am intrigued by it
Really good preaching.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

thank you

[@XereNak]

It's hard to exaggerate the depth and the impact of your words Dcn. Henok. Truly we need a series of lectures on this topic. Perhaps a lengthy post on the Sub Stack?

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

thanks, brotha! i do try to mention this as often as possible. inspired by fr. paul nadim tarazi and the entire ephesus school podcast network. ephesusschool.org/

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

and the related orthodox center for the advancement of biblical studies www.ocabspress.org/

[@XereNak]

@@PhilosophyofArtandScience how about a take on the Semitic primacy of relationship over theory? I heard you mention this in passing.

[@joshvarges9230]

good video. i see this play in scripture. would there be any other materials that expand upon this?

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

hundreds of episodes on this over at ephesusschool.org/

[@joshvarges9230]

@@PhilosophyofArtandScience thanks

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

@@joshvarges9230 my pleasure. thanks for watching... or rather hearing with ears that hear.

[@robrog73]

I have doctoral training in biblical and classical languages and literature. Paul did not change his name because he became a Christian. That is a common, pious myth not based on how names worked in antiquity. The Hebrew name given him by his parents was Saul, but, because his father was a Roman citizen (and therefore Saul inherited Roman citizenship), Saul also had the Latin name Paul (Acts 16:37, 22:25-28)--the custom of dual names being common in those days. Since he grew up in a strict Pharisee environment, the name Saul was by far the more appropriate name to go by. But after his conversion Saul determined to bring the gospel to the Gentiles, so he used his Roman name and became known as Paul, a name Gentiles were accustomed to.
Furthermore, Roman families name Paulus or Paullus, from the Latin meaning "small", "humble", "least" or "little" were used during the Classical Age in order to distinguish the minor of two people of the same family bearing the same name. Thus the name-change one sees in Acts is not because of his conversion but because of his apostleship--the apostle to the Gentiles, which denotes the theme of the book of Acts: from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
Lastly, In Acts 13:1-2, we see both the narrator (Luke) and the Holy Spirit called Paul "Saul" in his apostolic commission to his ministry. The name "Saul" is picked up again in Acts 13:7, which implies that Saul/Paul was known by both names, probably depending in which context he ministered, whether Jewish or Greco-Roman.
Another thing. There is no such thing as a dichotomy between the Greek and Semitic mindset. Diaspora Judaism was quite Hellenized (think of the LXX and Philo the Alexandrian Jew), and even Israel/Palestine was somewhat Hellenized (See first-century Jewish historian, Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews).
By the way, God's covenantal name is not YWH, it is YHWH.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

There is no evidence for your specific claim about Paul and Saul. It may be a practice of the time, but that's pure conjecture to impose this upon him. The Greco-Semitic dichotomy is well documented and has nothing to do with a few diasporic people, but rather the elites who wrote and edited holy writ from a city critiquing the city based on eons of life in the greater syrian desert. haven't watched this video in awhile, but i doubt i said anything but yhwh. btw there are no capital letters in biblical hebrew.