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as false. 59) Crypto-converts: their enforced pseudo "conversion" by threats. As to the first they blaspheme the Holy Spirit; as to the second they seek to quench Him. They represent Orthodox metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, priests, archpriests, hieromonks, seminary professors, and two deans of Orthodox Christian Seminaries. But can there be true believers who decide to remain within the Orthodox church? I ask, pointing to the Romanian renewal movement Army of God within the Orthodox Church that emphasized many of the same doctrines as evangelicalism. He and his wife Corina have three children. The Communist party began to put pressure on him to give up his newfound faith and continue to be involved in their atheistic agenda. Thysia; Sl. The unmarried state of life. note: as the Mother of Harlots is not marriage to God, the word fornication in Rev 17:4 can only be interpreted as fornication, whereas the two kingdoms ofIsrael and Judah in the OT were married to God and idolatry was called adultery then. Scripture teaches that the one who believes is the one who should be baptized., Johns view of salvation changed dramatically as well. 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. All Rights Reserved. 1/3/2020 Rod Dreher, 2019 Unlike almost every other church the Eastern Orthodox religion does not have any marriage vows. }, It has been well said that Eastern Orthodoxy is "Roman Catholicism without its papacy and Mariolatry. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever. What would you say if someone were to convert from evangelicalism to Eastern Orthodoxy? I challenge. Ill be sure to steer clear of the authors, their writings and any parish that has one of the contributors as a priest. I interviewed a former Southern Baptist who has converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, Tradition, the Bible, and Americas Debate over Slavery, From Wretched to Needy: Changing a Classic Hymn, Preachers Should Measure Twice and Cut Once. /Rudder. The Catholics tend to answer more specifically and clearly than the Orthodox in certain areas. 99) Chrismation: They actually say this is a sacrament, and that the Holy Spirit is imparted through it. text-align:justify;
4/13/2018 Rod Dreher, Fighting the Wrong Battles 7/21/2021 Teena Blackburn, Sin Cannot Be Blessed by the Church 2)It was initiated by, or at very least was involved with,the mass murderer Constantine. A second heresy is to think that their clergy can allow marriages that are adultery (as stated above) on the grounds of compassion. I thank John for his time, and then ask him to sum up the biggest difference between Orthodox Christians and Baptists. 50) Their definition of heresy is heresy!!! line-height: 200%;
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", A reader asks, "Are Eastern Orthodox practitioners (Russian, Serbian, Greek, Antiochian, Ethiopian, etc.) Later, he and his wife were married in the Orthodox Church. Joseph Birthisel, Sr. Vassa not retracting, rejoices in increased attention and money with which he, the serpent, deceived Eve "your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." If Orthodox believers would read Scripture without it being interpreted for them by the Church, they would discover the truth, he adds. Alexander F.C. (man made junk laws. Joseph Birthisel, Ashley Purpura: Orthodox Church Needs Women Priests and Bishops }
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And coming closer to home, why the theological terrorism in our own home? 5/3/2017 Fr. Some people wrongly believe that the Eastern Orthodox Church is false? Thomas Hopko (book excerpt), Gay Iconoclasm: Holding the Line Against the Radical LGBT Agenda Zhertva). font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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Some of these individuals openly and proudly self-identify as "homosexual" or "LGBT." Many are not Orthodox Christians. I accept there are many forms of blasphemous attitude and speech, and the word has wider usage, howeverIt is because Orthodoxy attributes powers to Mary that belong to God alone, and invent so many church artefacts outside of holy writ this becomes heretical. 6/25/2018 Fr. color:930000;
According to the Eastern Orthodox tradition the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is traced back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles.The Apostles appointed successors, known as bishops, and they in turn appointed other bishops in a process known as Apostolic . Sarakosti). 2/1/2021 Monomakhos Blog, Wheres the clerical consistency? Joseph Birthisel, Met. Greek Orthodox churches consider themselves the one true church going back to the days of Peter and Jesus, and that Rome erred when it split from the Greek Orthodox Church in 1054. Within months, his wife, parents, and even his 80-year-old grandmother who had been a mainstay of the village Orthodox church, had all converted, as a direct result of his testimony. 4/28/2018 Fr. font-weight:bold;
The Orthodox, but also the popes say this too. Ioannes Apiarius 6/24/2019 Fr. There are over 3.5 million Orthodox church members in the U.S. 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. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. The intercession of the saints and Mary on behalf of Christians on earth was easily rejected. 83) Defining the true church as Heterodoxy. I realized I did not need the Orthodox church or even a priest to be my mediator, for Jesus was the mediator between me and the Father., Though John does not use the term, it is clear from his testimony that he had acquired an unshakable belief in the Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura. 71) Candles: are considered sacrifices to Mary and saints. font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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Here are some passages of Scripture that should be taken into account when considering the subject of false teaching: I Peter 3:15 (KJV) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Ephesians 5:11-13 (KJV) And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but . 53) Cunning and crafty mystification of doctrine, 56) Priesthood offering up physical sacrifices, 57) A heathen calendar as part of the Faith, 62) The heresy of directly instructing the Orthodox "laity" to avoid trying to understand the symbolism of the Book of Revelation. It is just another example of the theme that the more "powers" you invent for their pseudo priests and bishops, the tighter their grip in lording it over the laity. note: their sinister indoctrination process. Isapostolos). 8/29/2017 Fr. 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. Mark 7:7, and such traditions and writings that they have are similar to the Jewish Talmud, massive tomes of bogus writings designed as a diversion of the soulaway from the word of God. 2/19/2021 Michael Sisco, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Russophobia text-align: justify;
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see 2 Kings 18:4. 36) Denial of Works of the flesh, that came about by the specific Catholic vocabulary (instead of biblical vocabulary) of "venial" and "mortal" sin. Joseph Birthisel, The Defence of the New Deaconesses and the Rest of the Story Mortification can simply lead to "psychologically snapping" and being even more fleshly. 6/18/2018 Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers, Met. Johns family was considered devout and religious by the priest and the rest of the community. (this sounds like the cult called Spiritism! 7/7/2017 Fr. I usually went to the midnight Easter vigil, he recalls. Jesus knew that false teachers were a real threat to the church, and based on two thousand years of combatting heretics, it seems he was on to something. 81)Equal to the Apostles. The Faith I Loved. (Gr. 6) It makes you part of the church. What about pious Orthodox Christians? Josephs Directive On So-called Same-Sex Marriage including Byzantine rites. Lawrence Farley, On Ecclesiology, Humility, and Love Think of all those murdering,sinful, cruel, warped, twisted, evil, crusading, holy inquisition popes. Well, it's a false dichotomy: that you can either have enchantment, or modern dentistry. 5/4/2020 Fr. (bogus man made rites of no importance). margin-bottom:6.0pt;
12/10/2014 Fr. Some church historians make much of what is termed the "Great Schism" that occurred in the 11th century between the Western church (centered in Rome) and the Eastern church (centered in Constantinople). "the main chair"). 8/3/2021 Fr. One addresses a Greek Orthodox Priest as Father. Others are men married to other men. 6/3/2017 Russian Orthodox Academic, Soft-Pedaling Christian Morality: A Review of a Curious Review [on Fr. Memorial services are held on the third, ninth, and fortieth day; after six months; and one or three years after death. 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. font-family: Verdana;
48) Call men "Father": Jesus specifically said "call nomanyour father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." 7/12/2022 Metropolitan Antonios of Glyfada, Abp. Jesus saves, and nothing else! Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 69) Man made Rites: atotal and complete avalanche of them! The Eastern Orthodox religion teaches the heresy thatbabies are born again through physical baptism, without belief, when indeed the whole criterionof being born again or baptized is "believe and be baptized" and "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved". font-size: 10pt;
http://www.jesusandbible.com/list-of-orthodox-heresies. 7/2/2019 Multiple Senior OCA Priests (six priests and one bishop, authored July 2018), Protodeacon Feldmans Old Testament Unity becomes intrinsically impossible. 11/11/2017 Fr. 8/6/2019 Fr. Evangelicals unashamedly profess and believe in having a relationship with God, were the Holy Spirit is our teacher. }
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8/21/2017 Fr. The Eastern Orthodox depart from the safety,sureness, and authority of God's holy word, and define heresy instead as that which contradicts their church and its plethora ofwritings of so called fathers, liturgies, creeds, canons, and councils, which for the most part amount to "Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teachingfordoctrines the commandments of men." font-size:14pt;
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5) Orthodoxy themselves compare themselves with Romanism, thus they are logically her daughters. 7/11/2022 Orthodox Christianity, Elpidophoros Baptizes Surrogate Children of Married Homosexuals John Whiteford, Part Two: Of Homosexual Christians and their Struggle 7/8/2017 Fr. 4) As they say the water in John 3:5 is baptism, and you cannot enter or see the kingdom of God without it, this act of priestcraft has a man involved in your actual salvation, a co-saviour. Zechariah Lynch, Moral Heresy? note: incredibly revealing! Pure heresy and manipulation. It differs from Calvinist ideas by (quite rightly) saying that the doctrine that mankind became "totally depraved" in nature is too extreme, but they believe also the Arminiandefinition of man being "depraved" but not "totally" goes too far too, and that man is essentially good in nature, the closest idea in western theology being the term Semi-Pelagianism, in that where Arminians say man cannot make the first steps toward goodness without God, the Eastern Orthodox believe man, and fallen Adam, only had a weakened will after the Fall, and is essentially still good (most all agree Adam had a nature tending toward Good before the Fall). Cheers. 2/22/2021 Dissident Mama, Petition for Bishops to Denounce Blasphemous Orthodoxy in Dialogue Website (Gr. 98) ChrismationRenunciation of Errors: The confirmation service of a new adult convert to Eastern Orthodox has "the renunciation" ceremony in it. Nor do we view it as a guilty stain on the soul in desperate need of cleansing. Woke Academics Promoting Homosexuality and Subverting Orthodox Christianity, Parable of the Wheat and the Tares Why Priests Must Vigilantly Keep Watch, How to Know When God is Calling Tuning in to the Call of God, https://russian-faith.com/greek-american-bishop-feels-proud-about-golden-idol-of-athena, Sermon on the Nativity of Christ by St John of Kronstadt, The Nativity of Christ as Our Joy and Judgment, Christians Cannot Watch Indifferently and Allow Evil to Abuse Good and Destroy Innocence, Woke Academics Promoting Homosexuality and Subverting Orthodox Christianity in US, Male and Female The Only Two Genders and Sexes, Theres No Spectrum, Gender Identity is the Great Lie of Transgender Ideology, Lazar Puhalo is Not a Canonical Orthodox Bishop, Hes a Deposed Deacon, Hidden Source of Heresy is the Pride of the Human Mind, George Demacopoulos: Christian Moral Teaching isnt Black and White, We Are Called to Proclaim the Good News of the Truth. This is, in fact, not a single source of "revelation" but an amalgamation of many alleged sources. .reference_entry {
Yes, the New Testament speaks of false teachers whose doctrine denies core elements of the apostolic gospel. This is not a sacrament in Eastern Orthodoxy as it is in Catholicism. In Slavic churches, some archimandrites are allowed to wear the mitre as a recognition of their service to the church (mitrateormitrophoros). I was born Orthodox, in an orthodox country, in a family that is generally pretty faithful. Also, I appreciate the attached articles. font-family: Verdana;
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Acts 12:22-23. The book containing the rules and regulations /. (Colossians 2:4-10). 1) That salvation is in faith in Christ alone. 7/11/2018 Fr. John Whiteford, Contrary to Nature: A Response to Would the True Nature Please Stand Up? [refuting Public Orthodoxy false teaching] It signifies the sacrifice of Christ on the cross for man's salvation. Lawrence Farley, St. Vladimirs Seminary Reacts to Amsterdam Conference, OCA Bishops Remain Silent As far as the Church before the Bible, the Church and the Scriptures are a unified whole. (Romans 5:12-19). }
the word inserted in the Western (Pope's) version of the Nicene Creed to assert the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son as well as from the Father, which is not admitted by the Eastern Church. The main liturgical languages in the Orthodox Church are Greek, the various descendants of old Church Slavonic, and Arabic.
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perhaps the best western theological term that expresses the Eastern Orthodox Churches view on the nature of human free will, in combination with "ancestral sin", versus the human nature of free will in combination with "original sin" as expressed in the most common Evangelical and Protestant belief calledArminianism. Puhalo rants again on Transgenderism and Intersexuality Are you saying that the Orthodox Church preaches salvation by good works? I ask. Like the Roman Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox church insists that it is the one true church of Christ on earth. Gabriel (Hieromonk), Dishonest Dialogue of Orthodox Liberals and Deconstructionists 8/22/2020 Jennifer Davis, Orthodox MD Argues the Communion Spoon is Safe 7/2/2022 Rachel Wilson, Review: Between Heaven and Russia, by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz text-align:justify;
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wherethe new proselyte must renounce in public the Reformation and the Protestant / Evangelical gospelas false. 5/5/2022 Fr. John Whiteford, Mattingly: Two clashing Orthodox takes on doctrine past and future John Whiteford, Headscarves, Modesty, and Scolding Modern Orthodox Women 6) It asserts the heresy of "hand-me-down" powers via their use of the theological idea of their definition of "Apostolic". The ranks of the false teachers include academics who openly promote the homosexualist agenda and oppose the Orthodox Church sacred Tradition. - by divorce and remarriage. ", It has been said that Eastern Orthodoxy is "Roman Catholicism without its papacy and Mariolatry," and that is indeed an apt summary of its theology and practice. 2/7/2022 Orthodox Christianity, What Happens When Scholars Fail to Address Arguments and Evidence Presented to Them [Refuting Public Orthodoxy Defamatory Attacks] Robert Arida: Why Dont You Become Episcopalian? 4/17/2017 Fr. 5/27/2022 Orthodox Reflections, Christians Must Have Courage in the Face of Deceitful Compromise 12/29/2017 Fr. Brian Patrick Mitchell, Lazar Puhalo spouts blatant heresy again Lawrence Farley, Bourgeois Conjugal Friendship and American Ethnophyletism 11/27/2018 Fr. 3/17/2017 Fr. 10/31/2015 Fr. Juvenaly Repass, Anatomy of a Foreword: Metr. (Gr. Joseph Birthisel, Not Gay or Homosexual, but Men and Women Created in the Image and Likeness of God Ioannes Apiarius, Met. The catechetical or Sunday school of each parish is responsible for such "instruction" of children or other faithful. And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died." 7/4/2019 Fr. 1/10/2019 William E. Porter, Jr., M.Div. making shrines is a step further than just having idols. Therefore the Eastern Orthodox church also rejects the doctrine of the imputed guilt of all mankind, having sinned in Adam. 5/21/2018 Fr. 93)Mysticism. font-family: Verdana;
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Scripture itself qualifies the exceptions, by its own use, your physical father on earth, the "fathers" as important historical figures in scripture itself, but never as a spiritual title for a living person, and certainly not for a gaggle of historical Orthodox heretics. All rights reserved. When Martin Luther compared Catholicism to Scripture, the result was his nailing the 95 theses to the Wittenberg door. As he delved into Pauls epistles, primarily to the Romans and Ephesians, John came to understand salvation as a gift from God through faith alone, not through good deeds. Martyrs (bloody or psychologically tormented) are supposed to be created by exterior enemies, not by ones own household; even though Christ-God warns us about that very peculiarity But with this said why provacateurs and agitators simply dont move along when we live in an age in which many have the ability to move on? 6/19/2017 Fr. 7)thy sorceries- the witchcraft of her heresies and practices. 4/26/2021 Metropolitan Joanikii of Sliven, Lazar Puhalo: Ten Commandments Not Terribly Significant or Unique This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. example:Lent. Lawrence Farley, Inga Leonova: Criminal Stupidity for Bishops and Priests to Give Holy Communion and Spread the Virus Their words align with Scriptures and exemplify the true and universal teaching, theology, and practices of the Holy Orthodox Church across two millennia. 1) The racist error of translating the old testamentfrom Greek. 6/16/2018 Fr. The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics helps Christians show unbelievers the truth, goodness, and beauty of the gospel as the only hope that fulfills our deepest longings. Only when the fundamental truths of the Faith are seriously threatened by false teachings does the Church act to define dogmatically an article of faith. 7/12/2018 Fr. line-height: 200%;
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