I didnt have a Bible, but no one encouraged me to read one anyway.. http://www.teachingtheword.org/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=6435&view=post&articleid=81482&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0, The writings and decisions of the first seven ecumenical councils, which took place between the 4th and 8th centuries, The writing and decisions of later church councils through the centuries (which have often conflicted with each other as well as Scripture). line-height: 200%; Sponsors at Baptism and Chrismation - the baptized and the God=parents are forbidden to marry (see affinity) something not found in scripture. All rights reserved. The mitre derives from the crown of the Byzantine emperor. John Whiteford, Mattingly: Two clashing Orthodox takes on doctrine past and future The Orthodox do not view sin in a legalistic manner. I have pleaded for the past thirty years with my Orthodox friends to come to Christ and know Him personally, John says, with tears in his eyes. p.reference_entry There are 3 views of mans corrupt state: Elpidophoros Radical Leftist Views] Though this is an extreme example they do practice penances. 6/25/2018 Fr. What would you say if someone were to convert from evangelicalism to Eastern Orthodoxy? I challenge. In real baptism, such as that of the Ethiopianeunuch in Acts 8, do you really think the underlying theologyof the wordhomoousioshad to first be expressed by him? John Guy Winfrey, Response to Orthodox Fundamentalism by George Demacopoulos According to them Hitler has escaped the day of judgement in this manner, and multi millions of people across the globe are supposed to believe their loved ones are annihilated out of eternity. John Whiteford, 2014 When I visited Greece I found the priests there to be quite incredibly vain, and only after discovering the doctrine of Theosis did I properly understand why. 7/2/2019 Multiple Senior OCA Priests (six priests and one bishop, authored July 2018), Protodeacon Feldmans Old Testament 8/22/2020 Jennifer Davis, Orthodox MD Argues the Communion Spoon is Safe p.numbered_bulleted_text_2 So here they seem to say the contradiction Traditions are on a level with scripture then say canon on law is not inspired). font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; note: The First Crusade was also inspired by the idea of protecting people "On pilgrimage to the Holy Land" when pilgrimages (especially as penances) are also unbiblical. Eastern Orthodox theology falsely claims that no one can be saved unless he is baptized with water. I realized that I had never truly repented of my sins. He has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College and has lectured on Christianity and culture at Oxford University. 1) They are superior in nature and intelligence to man;note: (born again human beings are superior, as are sons and daughters of God, angels are not, and there is no evidence they are of superior intelligence). (Gr. /Horologion. .section_header { The principal church of a bishop's jurisdiction, the chief church in every diocese. Priest on Homosexual Orientation Zechariah Lynch, The Antiochians Dont Disappoint (The Fr. 98) ChrismationRenunciation of Errors: The confirmation service of a new adult convert to Eastern Orthodox has "the renunciation" ceremony in it. margin-bottom: 15px; The false teaching of ethno-phyletism is the basis for "Russian world" ideology. Joseph Birthisel, Not Gay or Homosexual, but Men and Women Created in the Image and Likeness of God Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. Lawrence Farley, Part One: Of Gay Sex and Leaven color:black; Jesus saves, and nothing else! He should be guided in studying what the Church has in its written (Bible) and unwritten (Sacred Tradition) teaching. False Teaching. Before an arm-chair theologian (Orthodox sense of the word theologian) or a religious scholar (Orthodox sense of the word scholar) puts a dox-knife to my throat, my choice of words in quotation marks is for the inability to italicize them. 11/11/2017 Fr. (Gr. By saying that two Christians can divorce and remarry for post marital adultery, either party (the guilty or innocent), the Eastern Orthodox religion, unlike Roman Catholicism, preaches adultery. As Quoheleth says, Nothing is new under the sun. And the Apostle writes, Jesus..the Same yesterday, today and forever. They simply cannot see beyond their delusions and narcissism and their need not only to move the furniture around in the room, but to introduce new furniture, and to deny the removed furniture was ever removed. (Gr. {margin-top:0in; Gabriel (Hieromonk), On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 1) On the Holy Fathers and Holy Tradition p.summary_text Joseph Birthisel, Ashley Purpura: Orthodox Church Needs Women Priests and Bishops The common and official name used by the Greek Christians and Eastern Christian Church. 6/25/2018 Fr. 2/7/2022 Orthodox Christianity, What Happens When Scholars Fail to Address Arguments and Evidence Presented to Them [Refuting Public Orthodoxy Defamatory Attacks] The spirits of Babylon have now transmigrated across the Earth from the country of Iraq to Italy, in the especially the City of Rome, and dwell in any country where Catholicism thrives. font-family:Verdana; In my own situation, over time it became evident to me that while I may have used words that Romans used, when I did use them I often found myself not employing them in the same fashion; that what I understood as hesychasm and negative theology many refused to accept as valid contemplation; that I had a propensity to iconography over statues; and then when I came across an imprimatured book published in Rome that said that everything necessary for salvation could be found in the Orthodox Church, many things became a house of cards for me: purgatory, papal primacy, papal infallibility, the filioque etc. Gabriel (Hieromonk), Sister Vassa on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood Lawrence Farley, St. Vladimirs Seminary Reacts to Amsterdam Conference, OCA Bishops Remain Silent margin-right:24.0pt; Like the Roman Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox church insists that it is the one true church of Christ on earth. Basically, it was to combat the many false teachings that the Roman Catholic Church had adopted through the centuries. Orthodoxy and LGBT Inclusiveness with which he, the serpent, deceived Eve "your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." A second heresy is to think that their clergy can allow marriages that are adultery (as stated above) on the grounds of compassion. Some are women "married" to other women. (Gr. He tells me how his family could deny his new beliefs, but none could deny the visible change in his lifestyle. The outward and visible part of religion, consisting of various ceremonies, words, and symbolisms, producing an invisible action by the Holy Spirit that confers grace on an individual. (to many Evangelicals and ProtestantsEpiklesis would be seen as one of the most blasphemous words on Earth.). 1) Calvinism = man is totally depraved (heresy) It also puts burdens on mens back grievous to be born who, unlike the parasite priests and bishops of the Orthodox religion, often have to do a hard days work and need energy. $('.divSocialShareCustom').jsocial(); TeachingtheWord } Yes, the New Testament speaks of false teachers whose doctrine denies core elements of the apostolic gospel. The operative word describing salvation in Eastern Orthodox theology is theosis - "becoming God". John Whiteford, The Pro-Abortion Orthodox (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 1) 8) Ruled over by Pharisees - Nicolaitane heresy (no laity) uniforms, beards. Christopher Calin Endorses Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBTQ, Anti-Christian Biden-Harris Candidacy } I did not stay to impose myself upon the Romans. Ioannes Apiarius } margin-right:0in; 10/18/2019 Fr. 5/5/2017 Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers, Sanfilippos Conjugal Friendship color: #333333; margin-right: 20px; 2/22/2021 Dissident Mama, Petition for Bishops to Denounce Blasphemous Orthodoxy in Dialogue Website 74) Cathedrals. As the encroachments of false teaching and division multiplied in early Christian times, threatening to obscure the identity and purity of the Church, the term "Orthodox" quite logically came to be applied to it. 8/24/2018 Pillar and Ground of the Truth, On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 3) Tradition, Fundamentalism, and Modernity Also, refer to the article on theDogmatic Tradition of the Orthodox Church. Monastic prisons predated and made a case for the Atheist Experiment and their infamous gulag. The Eastern Orthodox Church officially and explicitly denies the everlasting Lake of Fire (commonly called Hell)inphysical bodies, tormented by physical fire, sulphur, and smoke "where their worm never dies", and preachinstead a watered down version of God's eternal retribution, that is so attenuated and diluted it encourages men to do evil, as the judgement described is soenfeebled. } A special service held in the Orthodox Church for the repose of the souls of the dead. There are over 3.5 million Orthodox church members in the U.S. {margin-top:0in; It then became obligatory to listed to the Holy Spirit poking my conscience and to knock on the door of Orthodoxy and continue to knock until Christ forced the door opened for myself and my Nun-mother. The official sites like to miss it out their dictionaries as it is an immediate reminder the two dates for it refute that =Tradition is on a par with holy scripture. Sarakosti). 5/1/2017 Fr. All Sacraments were instituted by Christ for the salvation of the believer. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Like Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy denies the distinction between justification (God's unilateral act in declaring a sinner righteous based on faith in the merits of Christ alone - Romans 5) and sanctification (the indwelling Spirit of God conforming the regenerated individual more and more to the image of Christ, a work consummated in the believer's glorification - Romans 8). line-height:200%; 4) the obnoxious practice of exorcisms that go along with baptism services. font-size: 10pt; As I began reading Scripture, I understood Jesus to be the only way to God. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. font-weight: bold; 11/5/2017 Fr. According to . John Whiteford, When A Bishop Does Right Tomorrow, we will look at the parallels between the two accounts and hopefully better understand these two traditions and why people are converting from one to the other. The true gospel that saves (1 Cor 15:1-4 & Luke 24:44-48) makes no mention of our works (Eph 2:8-9 & Rom 11:6) or sacerdotalism, that is priestcraft adding to salvation, such as baptism (1 Cor 1:17) or the mass (Rev 17:4). Unlike the Roman Church, Orthodoxy permits a clergyman to be married; however, his marriage must occur before his ordination to be a deacon or presbyter. 11/5/2014 Fr. The Eastern Orthodox church deviates from authentic Biblical Christianity in many other respects, but the foregoing are adequate to demonstrate that a great gulf exists between that which God requires according to Scripture, and that which Eastern Orthodoxy requires according to its man-made doctrines. Lawrence Farley, Public Schools and Antichristianity Some were deposed by the Orthodox Church, openly declare and celebrate their gayness, and publicly promote the LGBT ideology. Heirotonia). font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; They believe in Apostolic Succession. 6/7/2015 George Michalopulos, The Strange Theology of David Bentley Hart [and Univeralism Heresy of Fr. The Communist party began to put pressure on him to give up his newfound faith and continue to be involved in their atheistic agenda. 11/23/2019 Fr. font-size:10.0pt; Puhalo rants again on Transgenderism and Intersexuality Unlike almost every other church the Eastern Orthodox religion does not have any marriage vows. 1/24/2018 George Michalopulos, Fordham Universitys Orthodox Center receives grant to study LGBTQ rights In all my years, Ive never heard of such a thing. I begin to explain what it is like in other countries, where Eastern Orthodoxy is a minority and the evangelical tradition dominates. (Gr. It is nonsense that you must be buried in ground sanctified byincense swinging, holy water splashing. Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of war, considered to be the daughter of Zeus. His false teaching, coming as it did in the church's infancy, truly did represent a grave threat. As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 99) Chrismation: They actually say this is a sacrament, and that the Holy Spirit is imparted through it. I stopped getting drunk, stopped smoking, stopped cursing. The Orthodox Church describes as such all other Christian denominations. font-weight:bold He lived in Asia Minor and was deemed heretical by early church fathers (e.g., Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 1.26.1; Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation 7.21; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.28-35, 7.25.3). 7/7/2017 Fr. 6/12/2018 Fr. It is different from sacrilege. 84)Ancestral sin: (notice they do not define this on the eoca site.) 70) Heathen Calendars: as part of the Faith. 6/28/2018 Fr. But this had no effect on me. 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