Is Gavin Ortlund Right About Icons: Evidence from Tertullian, Origen, and Methodius

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[NavelOrangeGazer]

Gavin's gonna have to move the goalposts to between 33 and 34ad now. 😂

[nicodemuseam]

Looking forward to this. God bless you, brother.

[rustybeltway]

Nice. I was unaware of this evidence in these sources. You do great research. May God bless you Mr Hamilton.

[ericcastleman]

Good job Garten! Glad Seraphim is giving you a platform.

[vincenzorutigliano]

Year 2123, during the canonization of Trent Horn, Pope Francis VI together with the Patriarch of Constantinople (since the schism ended in 2085) display an icon depicting the new Saint debating Gavin Ortlund and James White.

[rexlion]

Methodius mentions worshiping and adoring angels. This is explicitly contrary to Holy Scripture. Therefore we can conclude that Methodius was a fallible human who made mistakes and who wrote erroneous things. Thus is the witness undermined, and the witness may be excused from the stand of testimony in our courtroom of judging the question about iconography.

Tertullian likewise is dunned by the church for some of his better-known errors.

[frederickanderson]

Jesus is not known by reading bible or icons or pictures, you just recycling the same religious dogmas.