O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏☦️
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏
Become ungovernable. 
They definitely seem worse than over the ear bose headphones, as an example
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏
Same
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏
Every Saturday I am going to post a video on the life of an Orthodox Christian Saint using the hashtag #SaintSaturday
Today’s video is about St Paisios, a contemporary saint (1924-1994)
Many people are completely unaware that such incredible men and women of God are living among us during the modern era, and even performing miracles!
God bless 🙏 ☦️
#orthodoxstr
Who is going to vespers tonight? #orthodoxstr ☦️
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏
Feel free to verify what I’ve already stated. The Filioque came way later, and was rejected by many in the historic church as a Trinitarian heresy.
If you want to do a deep dive, read St. Gregory Palamas’ Apodictic Treatise on the Procession of the Holy Spirit
If you ever get the chance to, consider visiting an Orthodox monastery and chat with a monk there about some issues you have had with the claims of Orthodoxy. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Worst case scenario, you will just meet some of really nice people and visit what will likely be a beautiful area. Best case scenario, it is a very edifying experience.
Conceptually, the Filioque heresy was a hard fork, as it changed dogma (like going from a hard cap supply of 21M to 84M). Thus, it created a new chain. That chain can become wildly successful amongst other people (Ethereum?), but the original chain remains unaffected.
I understand your perspective, as I was a Prot for 20+ years and held the same opinion.
A couple really helpful books for me that provided insight into the history of the church and how it relates to Protestantism were “Becoming Orthodox” and “Rock and Sand”
Both written by ex-Protestants that found their way back to Christ’s Church.
If you are able to, I would recommend reading these books. One of them you can get as a free ebook here:
https://store.ancientfaith.com/becoming-orthodox-ebook-special-offer/
Becoming Orthodox was written by Peter Gillquist, who was a part of campus crusades decades ago and eventually with a group of others decided to create a church that matched the historical church as much as possible, and unintentionally created an Evangelical Orthodox Church.
It’s an amazing story, highly recommend checking it out.
May God bless you, sir 🙏
I agree. These folks are the modern day equivalent of the Pharisees, which knew the correct law but were hypocrites and did not live by the law.
The would be correct in stating that other Christians are not part of the Church Christ established. But they’re also not loving to others as Christians are called to be. Pride is a hell of a drug. A sin in which I myself am guilty of.
Lord have mercy.
What you are thinking of is not at all the case. It’s not as though the Church declares a council to be ecumenical as it is happening. This video will shed some light on how a council is deemed ecumenical. Ultimately it’s through a complex decentralized consensus mechanism, akin to bitcoin.
Don’t trust, verify.
This is verifiably a lie, the Roman Catholic Church was created because they added the Filoque heresy to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.
In the 3rd Ecumenical Council (431 AD), the church forbade and anathematized ANY additions to the Creed)
Since the western church inserted a heresy into the Creed several hundred years later, they indeed broke off from the only church that existed in the first 1000 years, the Orthodox Church.
They then added new innovative dogmas along the way, like papal infallibility.
What gives you the best chance at knowing who is right and wrong, is to see who is closest to the early church teachings. Study the early church fathers writings to see what the early church believed, and see which modern churches have the same faith as them.
Hint: it’s the Orthodox Church, not the southern Baptist church that was founded 100 years ago
The Orthodox Church was founded in the first century. Roman Catholic Church 1054. Protestant churches 1600+
Keep seeking and you shall find the Truth.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner 🙏