margin-top: 18px; 2/13/2020 Fr. note: their sinister indoctrination process. The Communist party began to put pressure on him to give up his newfound faith and continue to be involved in their atheistic agenda. (Gr. note: a marriage vow is not the same as a legal oath in court, banned by Jesus in Matthew 5. this also includes witch murders, superstitious murders, imprisonments etc. But this had no effect on me. They believe church authority to teach is given by the laying-on of hands from one religious spiritual dwarf to another. 6/18/2018 Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers, Met. Gabriel (Hieromonk), Silence [progressive death march desires to silence all opposition] However in the eastern lands Eastern Orthodoxy moved into these type of shrines to false gods were common. If so, if they and Roman Catholicism were supposedly one church at one point in history, whenwas it dropped by the Catholics. 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." font-size:10.0pt; For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. Johns reliance on Scripture is evident. I would say it is obvious that "the filioque" issueis entirely unnecessary to profess anexact doctrine uponfor salvation, or baptism, and it amounts toyet another diversion tactic away from studying more important issues, and a factor in a process of indoctrination in regards to it and allowing baptism via so called "Catechumen" or the Catholic version "confirmation". margin-left: 26px; 50) Their definition of heresy is heresy!!! The ranks of the false teachers include academics who openly promote the homosexualist agenda and oppose the Orthodox Church sacred Tradition. 71) Candles: are considered sacrifices to Mary and saints. 8/6/2022 Fr. These things are good and profitable to men. Copyright 2023 The Gospel Coalition, INC. All Rights Reserved. 5/9/2018 Fr. He tells me how his family could deny his new beliefs, but none could deny the visible change in his lifestyle. margin-right:15pt; Lawrence Farley, Part One: Of Gay Sex and Leaven What really matters, as our reader's question rightly puts it, are not the differences between Rome and Constantinople, but between both of these visible bodies and Holy Scripture. /Rudder. An honorary title given to saints such as St. Constantine and St. Cyril and St. Methodios for their missionary work in the Church. Mitra). He should be guided in studying what the Church has in its written (Bible) and unwritten (Sacred Tradition) teaching. } Paul said we are dead in sins. } The old Orthodox tradition that cremating a person means they are not resurrected is absurd for multiple reasons. 6/16/2018 Fr. A similar view was espoused by a false teacher named Cerinthus (fl. 3/24/2020 Orthodox Editors, Greek Archbishop of America [Elpidophoros] declares open Communion for non-Orthodox spouses such as adultery, murderwitchcraft, theft, kidnapping, etc. 8/22/2020 Jennifer Davis, Orthodox MD Argues the Communion Spoon is Safe 1)The fruits that thy soul lusted after - world wide trade in artefacts, and dainty and goodly things. line-height:200%; (to many Evangelicals and ProtestantsEpiklesis would be seen as one of the most blasphemous words on Earth.). Thysia; Sl. margin-bottom: 12px; (bogus man made rites of no importance). font-size:10.0pt; People can be sincere and still be sincerely wrong. The Greeks have similar roots in the worship of gods and goddesses, but the Greeks are more famous for logic. The writings of so-called church fathers, especially those of the first four centuries A.D. Icons made of metal, stone, wood, and cloth which are set up as objects of worship by edict of the church, The official (and complex) Liturgy which governs the church's worship, The church's canon law, consisting of laws, regulations, and commentaries on the various elements of "holy tradition." Kallistos Ware Comes Out for Homosexual Marriage 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. The Orthodox Church describes as such all other Christian denominations. (Gr. color:black; 9/28/2022 Global Orthodox, Lazar Puhalo is Not a Canonical Orthodox Bishop, Hes a Deposed Deacon When a person repents and accepts the gospel (believes in Jesus) he not only receives the free gift of eternal life (unless you have believed in vain), but also one of the "new and better promises" (Heb 8:6 & Eze 36:26) is to be spiritually born again to become one of God's children, receiving a new nature that tends toward doing good, instead of evil, and crying Abba Father to God. The church is all the born again believers. margin-bottom: 6px; Ioannes Apiarius, Protodeacon Theodore Feldman boldly spouts nonsense - by divorce and remarriage. 2) That the scriptures alone, on their own, are enough to make a person wise unto that salvation. text-align: justify; line-height:200%; John Whiteford, Christian Pastors Must Stand for Truth, Righteousness, and Morality in the Public Arena 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. (Gr. John Whiteford, Puhalo Strikes Again .references_header { font-size: 10pt; 79)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. John Whiteford, When A Bishop Does Right The Gospel Coalition supports the church by providing resources that are trusted and timely, winsome and wise, and centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ. 66) heretical definition ofBigamy. Gabriel (Hieromonk), Lazar Puhalo Attacks Monasticism margin-left: 48px; 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. 5/5/2017 Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers, Sanfilippos Conjugal Friendship text-align: justify; The Bible says their Mother is the Whore of Babylon! 3)Let us make it clear it was only long after the Reformation that the Orthodox even compiled anofficial bible, or distributed itto the people. (true = moderate) see also -Meneon. 2/21/2020 Orthodox Christianity, When People of God Fall, They Behave Worse Than Pagans 8) Ruled over by Pharisees - Nicolaitane heresy (no laity) uniforms, beards. The Orthodox editors on this blog will continue to add more articles and links as they become available to warn the Church and the faithful about the false teachers who pridefully consider themselves wiser and smarter than the Apostles, Fathers, Theologians, and Saints of the Orthodox Church. 50) Their definition of heresy is heresy!!! margin-right:0in; } This subject is muddied by there being so many definitions of sola scriptura. } Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. p.normal_text line-height: 200%; text-align:justify; 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. John Whiteford, Orthodox Priests Joining the Fight Will Change Everything This is because, in the presence of all the paperwork for a divorce and a remarriage, Jesus declares a man to be continually committing adultery if he divorces his wife for no cause or some insignificant cause (as does Romans 7) and therefore this proves adultery does not break the marriage bond, God sees the marriage still intact. 11/27/2018 Fr. 87)Liturgical Languages. My Orthodox friends confess Christ with their mouths, but they do not know Him in their hearts. {margin-top:12.0pt; 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. .article_id { Joseph Birthisel, Ashley Purpura: Orthodox Church Needs Women Priests and Bishops Mnymosyno). "correct or true belief"). 5/3/2018 Fr. Exomologisis). text-indent:0px; 7/27/2021 Orthodox Reflections, Compassionate Denial: A Paradigm of Abuse? 5/14/2022 Fr. False teachings led me away from the Church I just wanted to share my story and, in a way, my frustrations, as someone who left the church for a while due to extremist teachings, even though luckily I have found my way back to the faith. Like Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy teaches the necessity of confession of sin to a human priestly mediator in order for the individual to maintain his salvation, and teaches that the Eucharist is a propitiatory sacrifice for confessed sins in addition to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. font-size: 10pt; The search through various prayers and practices to achieve unity with God in life (theosis) (see hesychasm). John admits he cannot conceive of Orthodoxy as a minority; neither can he come up with a reason why one would leave a life-giving relationship with God for a dead church.. font-family: Verdana; 3) Thereinafter mankind's will wasweakened. 8/30/2017 Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk), The Sin of Divorce Sts. 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. When I walked out of a church service, I was the same as before., John was baptized into the church when he was six weeks old. There are 3 views of mans corrupt state: text-align:justify; 4/17/2017 Fr. The fact is the entireMosaic Lawwasnailed to the cross and "done away" (2Cor 3) or (Col 2:14-17) "nailed to his cross" or "made old" (Heb 8:13) being replaced by new testament law based on the two commandments, not the old ten commandments as its centrepiece (Gal 6:2 & Matt 7:24). An Orthodox Christian that is truly born again would realize that the church is wrong and would turn to evangelicalism. For John, coming to Christ and joining an evangelical church are two sides of the same coin. Gabriel (Hieromonk), The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament [Rebuke of Lazar Puhalo Heretical Views] 92) TheMotherChurch. 1/23/2018 OrthodoxChristian.com, 2017 An individual who begins a heresy is a heretic and is excommunicated. There is entirely nothing stopping a Christian being buried in a secular graveyard. Webster, Fundamental Errors: A Response to Tradition Without Fundamentalism by George Demacopoulos 5/14/2015 Fr. Lawrence Farley, On Ecclesiology, Humility, and Love False Teaching. } Those groups were called "heterodox" or "heretics." Please note that "Orthodox Church" refers specifically to Eastern Orthodoxy, the Church of the Seven Great Ecumenical Councils. 1/14/2020 Fr. color: #0F4679; 11/23/2019 Fr. Why God is He, Not She font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; The Canon Liturgical /73)Canons (or Canon Law). The Orthodox Church maintains Her belief that She alone has kept the true Christian faith, complete and unaltered (dumb - infallible heresy). 11/8/2019 Fr. John Whiteford, The Problem With Fundamentalists [Refuting Fr John Jillions] But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 7/20/2018 Fr. The Church is truly, in Paul's words, "the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim. font-size: 8pt; Eastern Orthodox canon law is known as the, Copyright 1998-2023 TeachingTheWord Ministries. Authentic Christianity, in contrast, declares the doctrine of original sin and the guilt of all men in Adam, and the necessity of the person and work of Christ as the Second Adam who redeems them from that condemnation: Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned - (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. wherethe new proselyte must renounce in public the Reformation and the Protestant / Evangelical gospelas false. 4/13/2018 Rod Dreher, Fighting the Wrong Battles It is comparable to the blasphemous Mormon doctrine. 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, 2012 Please make sure all fields are filled out. It is in the Church that the Christian Faith is proclaimed and maintained. {color:#930000; I usually went to the midnight Easter vigil, he recalls. Some people wrongly believe that the Eastern Orthodox Church is false? Some of these individuals openly and proudly self-identify as homosexual or LGBT. Many are not Orthodox Christians. font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; Today I am interviewing a former Eastern Orthodox believer who has become Baptist. Three Harms that Come from Redefining Marriage. In other words they deny John 3:16 is true. (Matt 6:16). 5) Cycle of Prayer 6) Jesus Prayer 6) Mary as Mediator 7) Praying tothe dead 8) Prayer Books. margin-left:15pt; We should give Biblical reasons for holding popular trends up to the measuring rod of God's Word. He was born into a family of Orthodox Christians, in a society where church and state often mix in unhealthy ways. Commonly, the Orthodox consider as Mother Church theEcumenical Patriarchateas being the senior Church of the Orthodox World. The Orthodox Church is being attacked by false teachers and deceitful venues that question, challenge, mock, deconstruct, contradict, and distort Church teaching, practices, and theology. With help from the Orthodox editors, I have compiled a list of articles, essays, and petitions written by Orthodox Christian priests, deacons, professors, and writers warning the Church about false teachers and deceitful venues (especially Public Orthodoxy, The Wheel Journal, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, Fordham Universitys Orthodox Center, Lazar Puhalo, Sister Vassa) that question, challenge, mock, deconstruct, contradict, and distort Church teaching, practices, and theology. 6/16/2018 Fr. Joseph Birthisel, Met. The Orthodox bible is fake. However what was banned was any image, statue, or likeness, of God or a false god, whether it was like a man, a fish, a creeping thing, an animal, or a flying bird, Orthodoxy is therefore full of idols. Simply put, it is about 50 competing self-proclaimed Messiahs in Judaism contemporary with Christ Our Lord, down through history and contemporary with ourselves, which have plagued Judaism alone. They are, 1) St. http://www.jesusandbible.com/list-of-orthodox-heresies. {margin-top:0in; Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. John Guy Winfrey, Response to Orthodox Fundamentalism by George Demacopoulos Lawrence Farley, Theodore Feldman: Scriptures, Orthodox Church, and Holy Tradition are Wrong on Homosexuality and LGBTQ Issues 1/17/2017 Fr. to avoid the fact that when their good news that savesis compared to our good news that saves, they are both different, and the one that keeps looking bogus in debates is theirs. 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