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). Basil the Great, liturgies andmass attributed to him, 2) St. Gregory the Theologian, a theology dunce if he agreed with Orthodoxy. margin-right: 20px; In this article we shall focus on key elements of Eastern Orthodox theology and practice. 11/23/2019 Fr. 6/25/2018 Fr. font-family: Verdana; {margin-top:0in; 21) Relics, artefacts, including "death cult" worship. margin: 12px 80px; 83) Defining the true church as Heterodoxy. .reference_entry { There are over 3.5 million Orthodox church members in the U.S. If not, wherein lies their non-adherence to Scripture in their beliefs and practices? The lies the Eastern Orthodox tell about evangelicals and Protestants is that "they think thathaving believed they can do anything they want to, never repent, and they are still so called saved." 10/7/2019 St. Ambrose of Optina (1812-1891), Blasphemy and Open Rebellion by Nik Jovcic-Sas the Orthodox Provocateur Yesterday, I interviewed a former Southern Baptist who has converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. It has been a money spinning dogma for many years, by bleeding the Greek people dry by threats of exhuming bodies if yearly payments on graves are not paid. Like Romanism, Eastern Orthodoxy rejects the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone as heresy. .numbered_bulleted_text_1 { The ordination of an individual to priesthood through the sacrament of Holy Orders. Michael Courey: Orthodox Church Must be More Inclusive, Welcome Same-Sex Couples Those who remain faithful to the church and who trust in Christ for salvation? I press him further. line-height:200%; What about pious Orthodox Christians? .numbered_bulleted_text_2 { 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). font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; Though this is an extreme example they do practice penances. 7/21/2022 OCA Synod, Met. John explains how he quickly left behind former Orthodox doctrines that he had been taught in church. Dear Editors: The ranks of the false teachers include academics who openly promote the homosexualist agenda and oppose the Orthodox Church sacred Tradition. 5/3/2018 Fr. 8/3/2021 Fr. That said, it becomes perplexing to me that, for example, an atheist woman minister of the United Church of Canada (located in Toronto) would demand a canonical hearing in order to stay incorporated in the United Church and not move on to, let us say, the Unitarians, or better yet, the Humanist Society? We live in one of the freest times of religion in the West a blessing which comes with great responsibility. [refuting Aristotle Papanikolaou false teaching] Another Orthodox person reading this would be justified in pointing out it is a good idea to pray to saints, but if that's not where you are at, then that's not where you are at. Ioannes Apiarius, Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk), On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 1) On the Holy Fathers and Holy Tradition line-height: 150%; 9) Idols (see shrines below): statues and images were not banned underthe old Mosaic covenant, Good examples are the cherubim over the ark of the covenant, statues of four oxen in the temple, pomegranates carved into the walls, the serpent Moses lifted in the wilderness. The Creed is heretical by omission in that it has no salvation gospel. margin-right:15pt; 82) God-parents marriage ban. Zechariah Lynch, The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality font-size: 10pt; Please go to original post in Orthodox Observer for photos. {margin-top:0in; 8/21/2017 Fr. The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament [Refutes Lazar Puhalo Heretical Views] Authentic Christianity, in marked contrast, declares the priesthood of Christ alone, who has made full and final atonement for sin: For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time (1 Timothy 2:5-6), For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. .normal_text { p.summary_text Help train Christians to boldly share the good news of Jesus Christ in a way that clearly communicates to this secular age. (an heretical definition, remarriage is bigamy in the new testament -post marital adultery, or desertion etc are no cause for remarriage). p.numbered_bulleted_text_1 7/8/2019 Fr. font-weight: bold; 60) Christendom: Contrary to the pacifist directive of Galatians 4, where we are said to be pilgrims (Book of Hebrews) toward the Jerusalem above, not defending the Physical borders of physical Jerusalem below, both the Catholics and Orthodox ignored this directive (asserted again in John 18:36) and created an Empire concept of Christendom, where physical Jerusalem was to always be captured by the military. Lawrence Farley, Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk), On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 2) The Church and Modernity 4) the obnoxious practice of exorcisms that go along with baptism services. 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. The difference between the two is the difference between Heaven and Hell for a lost sinner. 56) Priesthood offering up physical sacrifices: 57) A heathen calendar as part of the Faith: Christmas: the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, held on 25 December in the CatholicChurch and Modern Eastern Orthodox, and 6th January by the Old Calendarists. 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. 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. Heresy has been and will be a problem for the church until Christ returns. I am of the opinion that it has a lot to do with what is called a/the messianic-complex. 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. I preach only one gospel that saves, not two. 4/10/2014 Fr. font-size:10.0pt; "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. 10/31/2015 Fr. Their bible is false because: 1) The racist error of translating the old testament from Greek. 4/26/2021 Metropolitan Joanikii of Sliven, Lazar Puhalo: Ten Commandments Not Terribly Significant or Unique 75)Chrismation. margin-right:24.0pt; text-align:justify; John Whiteford, Sr. Vassa: Theres no ontological impediment to priestesses 3) Thereinafter mankind's will wasweakened. etc. 7/27/2021 Orthodox Reflections, Compassionate Denial: A Paradigm of Abuse? 53) Cunning and crafty mystification of doctrine: (Eph 4:14). 2) pretentious religious music, in the case of Orthodoxy (a daughter of Rome) this takes the form of chanting heresyetc. .article_id { This is often linked to the chanting of many heretical teachings, chiefly that of the "holy eucharist" or their version of the blasphemy of the mass. Zechariah Lynch, Ukraine Schism: What is a Layman To Do? 6/28/2017 Fr. } true Christians? text-indent:0px; Josiah Trenham, ROCOR Synod of Bishops responds to Sr. Vassas letter Romanian Orthodoxy is the state religion, meaning that almost everyone born in Romania is already considered a member of the Orthodox church, regardless of devotion or belief. He was born into a family of Orthodox Christians, in a society where church and state often mix in unhealthy ways. Orthodoxy believes that the Christian Faith and the Church are inseparable. The orthodox teaching on . 2/1/2021 Monomakhos Blog, Wheres the clerical consistency? font-size: 10pt; I had no intention of converting to evangelicalism, he says. 1/23/2018 OrthodoxChristian.com, 2017 1) There is no definition of quote "the gospel by which we are saved" in it, and thus it is not fit for purpose. From this heretical view of lifting old law into the new covenant, in effect trying to put old wine into new bottles, we see all manner of old laws and concepts poisoning their faith, from huge things like fancifully imagining an old style priesthood now, down to trivia like insisting the clergy have beards Lev 19:27 & Lev 21:5) and long hair (Numbers 6:5 etc). Gabriel (Hieromonk), Morality and Truth in a Secular Age I realized that the Orthodox church was a societal organization that had taught me nothing. So John decided to follow Jesus and turn away from his sinful past. .quotation_text_1 { 11/13/2017 Fr. 7/25/2017 by Fr. 3) And that the scriptures, unlike Orthodox traditions, are inspired word for word, and in Matthew 4:4 Jesus promises those scriptures will be preserved word for word. His false teaching, coming as it did in the church's infancy, truly did represent a grave threat. If so, if they and Roman Catholicism were supposedly one church at one point in history, whenwas it dropped by the Catholics. 9/17/2019 Orthodox Christianity, Transgender Ideology is Anti-Christian, Anti-Science, & Marxist John Whiteford, A Provocation by a Provocateur 3) St. John Chrysostom. 11/1/2019 Fr. The Orthodox Church believes that all the people of God-members of the Church, either the living on earth or the departed in heaven-are in constant communion and fellowship with each other in faith, grace, and prayers, since they constitute one Body in Christ-the Church. font-size:10.0pt; The principal church of a bishop's jurisdiction, the chief church in every diocese. (Gr. 36) Denial of Works of the flesh, that came about by the specific Catholic vocabulary (instead of biblical vocabulary) of "venial" and "mortal" sin. The "false teaching' of the Russian World . A picture paints a thousand wordsremember when we used to smash idols? 67) heretical definition ofBlasphemy. text-align: right; 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. The title ofPrimus inter pares was also taken by Constantine, a murderer the Orthodox have chosen to follow instead of the example of Christ. Lawrence Farley, Progressives Use the Terms Dialogue and Fundamentalism to Attack and Subvert Orthodox Tradition text-align:justify; Accordingly witnesses are a priori considered to be of the Orthodox Christian faith.". 7/21/2021 Teena Blackburn, Sin Cannot Be Blessed by the Church However when shrines are made and people kneel in frontof collections of so called "icons" not of gods or god but of men, pray to saints (an act of worship - see the Lord's Prayer)and burn incense to them, they become idols. margin-left: 20px; 8) Ruled over by Pharisees - Nicolaitane heresy (no laity) uniforms, beards. His wife thought he had gone crazy. So I began to ask myself, How can a dead person do good works?'. This subject is muddied by there being so many definitions of sola scriptura. } Johannes Jacobse, A Response to A Response: Sanfilippos Latest Broadside Boiled wheat is used as a symbol of the resurrection of everyone at the Second Coming of Christ. 6/13/2018 Fr. incense is used ritualistically as if swinging it at artefacts in church, or people, in some way "cleanses" them. 6/16/2021 Orthodox Christianity, From New York To Istanbul With Love: From Green To Rainbow Patriarch margin-left:15pt; Johannes Jacobse, OCA Wonder blog: Change and the Church 8/23/2019 OrthodoxChristian.com, What Modern Churches Are Missing [on Sister Vassas confusion of St. Pauls teaching] Worse as other churches don't do it, how could anyone else be saved? line-height:200%; 5/1/2017 Fr. Even now in their shops they sell more idols than they do bibles. However Orthodoxy links anointing the sick with chrism/oil linked with confession to their priests and the blasphemy of the mass, The Roman Catholics were so determined to falsify penances in the bible in theirDouay Bible they mistranslated Matt 4:17to say, quote "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." line-height: 200%; } This article may be reproduced in its entirety only, Evangelicals and Protestants in actual fact say "Every tree is KNOWN by his fruit, not SAVED by his fruit" and thus they do not deny that real Christians will bring forth spiritualfruit. My baptism when I was 6 weeks old was not a true baptism. 1/10/2020 Fr. 69) Man made Rites: atotal and complete avalanche of them! Joseph Birthisel, The Defence of the New Deaconesses and the Rest of the Story margin-left: 20px; font-family: Verdana; 6/16/2018 Fr. John Whiteford, 2015 John Whiteford, The Living Church 2.0 Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. Orthodoxy recognizes the supreme majesty of God, as well as the limitations of the human mind. p.section_header In no manner am I publicly promoting the Branch Theory of Christianity, nor am I proposing that all Christian-named communities or Communions are Churches. Apocrypha may have different meanings depending on how it is applied to the Old or New Testaments and whether it is being used by Catholics, Protestants or Orthodox Christians. font-size: 10pt; Lawrence Farley, The Deep Melancholy of David Bentley Hart Thats all I knew anyway. He acknowledges that Orthodox doctrine might contradict Orthodox practice in some places, but for John, its in practice that one shows what is truly believed. It is clear that he sees his youth as a wasted part of his life, and he is upset that the priest never taught him the truth about God. 6/16/2021 Jennifer Davis, GOARCH, OCA hierarchs celebrate Patriarch Bartholomews names day at pro-LGBTQ Episcopal church & Holy Orders. font-family: Verdana; 70) Heathen Calendars: as part of the Faith. for non-commercial purposes, provided that this copyright notice is included. color: #930000; } p.textTitle{ 8/30/2019 Fr. margin-bottom: 12px; For the most part, the term apocrypha refers to any collection of scriptural texts that falls outside the canon.Since most English language bibles are from non-Orthodox sources, they sometimes are subtitled with . 66) heretical definition ofBigamy. The Church is truly, in Paul's words, "the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim. (Gr. 1/22/2022 Jackie Morfesis, 2021 Robert Arida: Why Dont You Become Episcopalian? margin-bottom: 6px; Pelagius believed that man had not been entirely corrupted by Adam's fall and that he could, by his own free will, do works that pleased God, and thus be saved. ", A reader asks, "Are Eastern Orthodox practitioners (Russian, Serbian, Greek, Antiochian, Ethiopian, etc.) 1/24/2018 George Michalopulos, Fordham Universitys Orthodox Center receives grant to study LGBTQ rights text-align: justify; Kallistos Ware on the Ordination of Women and Blessing of Same-Sex Marriages Why? Evangelicals unashamedly profess and believe in having a relationship with God, were the Holy Spirit is our teacher. Orthodoxy and LGBT Inclusiveness 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. How sure are you that you made the right decision? I ask. John Guy Winfrey, Response to Orthodox Fundamentalism by George Demacopoulos 72)The Canon Liturgical, which refers to all liturgical material, including the Creed, used for the Liturgy and the consecration of the Eucharist (see also kanon and Typikon). 5/9/2022 Fr. 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. /Rudder. this heresy includesinfant communion. text-align: left; [refuting Aristotle Papanikolaous false claims] I am writing as someone formally trained in Orthodox and Western psychology. text-align: justify; Demacopoulos vs. the Russians again Theophan the Recluse, Nektarios of Aegina, the Aboriginals of Alaska, and almost every Fool-for-Christ the Orthodox Church has ever witnessed); and the current more dramatic past times of killing priests or kneecapping monks or fomenting book-burnings. You may not be interested in Culture Wars, but Culture Wars are interested in you Ministriesmmmmmwww.teachingtheword.org. Three Harms that Come from Redefining Marriage. Gabriel (Hieromonk), Sister Vassa on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood 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. John Whiteford, 2012 2/21/2020 Orthodox Christianity, When People of God Fall, They Behave Worse Than Pagans 91)Mitre. We also suggest that you include a direct hyperlink to this article for the convenience of your readers. 88) Leavened Bread & alcoholic wine in the eucharist. Ironically, the very assumption John despises in the Orthodox Church (that there is no salvation outside the Orthodox Church) is the same assumption he has made regarding evangelicalism. $('.divSocialShareCustom').jsocial(); TeachingtheWord Gabriel (Hieromonk), Dishonest Dialogue of Orthodox Liberals and Deconstructionists It signifies the sacrifice of Christ on the cross for man's salvation. But when I heard the Word of God preached for the first time, and the concept of repentance and being born again, I was touched. Joseph Birthisel, Sister Vassa on Homosexuality 87)Liturgical Languages. 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. But the free gift is not like the offense. 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. It seems the Orthodox chose to emphasise the use of chrism on babies, and the Catholics oil anointing on he dying, as if the process somehow cleanses the soul. Johannes L. Jacobse, The Abnormal Cannot Dictate Whats Normal This is opposite to the teaching of Orthodoxy with their hand-me-down long list of false doctrines, by a pseudochurch full of man-made rituals, rites,religious trappings and devotionby rote. A catalogue of martyrs and other saints arranged according to the calendar. Celibacy. margin: 12px 60px; 81)Equal to the Apostles. John Whiteford, 2014 4/13/2018 Rod Dreher, Fighting the Wrong Battles 8/24/2018 Pillar and Ground of the Truth, On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 3) Tradition, Fundamentalism, and Modernity In other words refusing to bury a person if he became a real Christian (for instance). 2) The dead can pray for you! Isapostolos). Different, alien, and presumably false belief or teaching. This is mentioned as the Eastern Orthodox Churches, such as those in Greece and Russia, believe they are rooted to what they call the Apostolic Catholic Church pre-schism of 1054, and this can cause confusion in the mind of some people in that a member of the EOC might say they are "Catholic" but mean it in a pre-schism sense, not in the modern sense of being under the Pope's authority. I thank John for his time, and then ask him to sum up the biggest difference between Orthodox Christians and Baptists. text-align:justify; 80)Epiklesis. John Whiteford, The Pro-Abortion Orthodox (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 1) font-family: Verdana; Whereas Orthodoxy makes salvation an ongoing "process" that includes works and priestcraft, but, quote "by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified" Romans 3:20. Though not as bad as quote "The Holy Mother Church" of Rome, the murders committed by the Orthodox Faith are still extremely bad, and this website givesa long list of such murders. - certain sinner Patron Saints, instead of a birthday party. Like the Roman Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox also reject the doctrine of the authority of Scripture alone, declaring it to be the great heresy of the Reformation. Modalism, ruled out by the Nicene Creed, teaches that God's names (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) change with his roles or "modes of being" (like a chameleon). 5) Orthodoxy themselves compare themselves with Romanism, thus they are logically her daughters. 11/5/2014 Fr. 7/2/2022 Rachel Wilson, Review: Between Heaven and Russia, by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz Johns family was considered devout and religious by the priest and the rest of the community. Unlike almost every other church the Eastern Orthodox religion does not have any marriage vows. 6/25/2019 Fr. 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