86) The heresy of Masquerading as Evangelicals. 2) pretentious religious music, in the case of Orthodoxy (a daughter of Rome) this takes the form of chanting heresyetc. font-size: 8pt; color:black; 3) In the Orthodox worship, every Monday is dedicated to the angels. 7/10/2022 Nick Stamatakis, How Big Foundation Money Is Subverting Traditional Christianity Lawrence Farley, Theodore Feldman: Scriptures, Orthodox Church, and Holy Tradition are Wrong on Homosexuality and LGBTQ Issues margin-bottom: 6px; 9/17/2019 Orthodox Christianity, Transgender Ideology is Anti-Christian, Anti-Science, & Marxist Ill be sure to steer clear of the authors, their writings and any parish that has one of the contributors as a priest. 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. When the era of Communist rule began in Russia in 1917, religion was seen as a hindrance to a thriving . 9/28/2022 Global Orthodox, Lazar Puhalo is Not a Canonical Orthodox Bishop, Hes a Deposed Deacon Lawrence Farley, Fr. text-align:justify; 7/12/2019 Fr. Orthodoxy and LGBT Inclusiveness 6/25/2018 Fr. The number of autocephalous churches has varied in history. Isapostolos). So I began to ask myself, How can a dead person do good works?'. 7/21/2022 OCA Synod, Met. Others are men "married" to other men. Joseph Birthisel, Orthodox Fundamentalism Discussion on Ancient Faith Today Accordingly witnesses are a priori considered to be of the Orthodox Christian faith.". 1/23/2018 OrthodoxChristian.com, 2017 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). ), Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. margin-right:20pt; Nor for that matter have I written a triumphalistic book about how evil Romans are, particularly when I have found heresy in Orthodoxy the difference being, that in Orthodoxy the heresy is tolerated not infallibly declared, even while we have a very long and ugly history of persecuting the sainted-innocent (e.g. margin-left:40pt; they choose old testament laws, like beards and incense, like a religious potpourri, and yetthey throw out music, that the new and old testament both encourage. Joseph Birthisel, Sister Vassa on Homosexuality The fifty day fast preceding Easter for the spiritual preparation of the faithful to observe the feast of the Resurrection. font-weight:bold; The Bible says their Mother is the Whore of Babylon! The difference between the two is the difference between Heaven and Hell for a lost sinner. 11/1/2019 Fr. font-weight: bold; This led Pelagius to deny the doctrines of original sin and predestination, and to deny the need for special grace to be saved. Commemorated on September 9. 91)Mitre. } 11/15/2019 Fr. 41) NEPSIS linked with CATHARSIS: when linked with Monastic practices is an oxymoronic concept. Michael Courey: Orthodox Church Must be More Inclusive, Welcome Same-Sex Couples John Whiteford, David Bentley Hart and the Toll Houses Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. Others are men married to other men. Johns family was considered devout and religious by the priest and the rest of the community. 11/1/2017 Fr. Are you saying that the Orthodox Church preaches salvation by good works? I ask. 6/18/2018 Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers, Met. 6/2/2019 Fr. } Josiah Trenham, 2016 } Lawrence Farley, Public Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, The Wheel = Wolves in Sheeps Clothing 2/16/2022 Orthodox Reflections, Morality Not Black and White, Fordhams George Demacopooulos Says in Abortion Article A Look at the Church of England, The Burning Question from Asbury Isnt About Asbury, Why I Dont Say Passed Away When Someone Dies. Following Apostolic Tradition, Orthodoxy teaches that the original apostles appointed bishops, who in turn appointed bishops, and on and on through a laying on of the hands that touched the hands that touched the hands of Christ. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. False Teaching. In other words they deny John 3:16 is true. etc. } (Hebrews 7:26-28). 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. margin-right:70pt; 7/27/2021 Orthodox Reflections, Compassionate Denial: A Paradigm of Abuse? Notify me of follow-up comments by email. text-align: justify; Link: 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. 98) ChrismationRenunciation of Errors: The confirmation service of a new adult convert to Eastern Orthodox has "the renunciation" ceremony in it. margin-left:15pt; 11/11/2017 Fr. The church is all the born again believers. 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." People can be sincere and still be sincerely wrong. line-height: 150%; & Holy Orders. Puhalo rants again on Transgenderism and Intersexuality 3) Eastern Orthodox = ancestral sin has aless corruptedconcept of mans nature than Arminianism (based on original sin instead). The Orthodox do not view sin in a legalistic manner. - certain sinner Patron Saints, instead of a birthday party. The main liturgical languages in the Orthodox Church are Greek, the various descendants of old Church Slavonic, and Arabic. Thanks for naming these sites & people we should stay away from. 6/16/2018 Fr. "new and personal belief or idea"). 12/29/2017 Fr. 6)bride and groom- marriage falsely termed a sacrament 2/1/2022 Rod Dreher, Double-faced AB Elpidophoros Delivers Pro-Abortion Message at March for Life 1/15/2012 Fr. I usually went to the midnight Easter vigil, he recalls. Joseph Birthisel, Demonic Autonomy and Divine Obedience The Anthropology of Antichristianity (Part 8) color:#930000; The Catholics tend to answer more specifically and clearly than the Orthodox in certain areas. He is in reality "the first among heretics" taking on for himself a more terrible day of judgement in respect of his boasting, just as the Pope has. color:black; margin-left:50pt; Gabriel (Hieromonk), The Church and Homosexuality: A Meditation 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. 9) Hesychasm, 10) The Orthodox for of the rosary. p.references_header Robert Arida: Why Dont You Become Episcopalian? 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. 11/14/2014 Terry Mattingly, Texas Orthodox Priests Reject Fr. Or he must confess a belief about the underpinning theology ofMonophysitism,Dyophysitism, orMiaphysitism??? Zechariah Lynch. 9/15/2019 Fr. If so, if they and Roman Catholicism were supposedly one church at one point in history, whenwas it dropped by the Catholics. 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. 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. } margin-right:0in; 5/8/2017 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). For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. A liturgical book containing the lives of the saints and the special hymns (stichera) for the feast-days of the Orthodox Saints. 77)Consecration. font-size:10.0pt; All want to radically change the Orthodox Church teaching and Tradition to accommodate distorted and corrupt ideas. Contrary to the lies of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Evangelicals and Protestantsin general believe there is ONE church, that is all those who are born again, denominations emphasizing doctrinal choices made after becoming born again. line-height:200%; Josiah Trenham 21) Relics, artefacts, including "death cult" worship. line-height: 200%; 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. Capital punishment was banned in new covenant law by Jesus - John 8:7. Cyril Hovorun: Mistake to Believe Eucharist Cannot Transmit Virus Yes, the New Testament speaks of false teachers whose doctrine denies core elements of the apostolic gospel. 80)Epiklesis. Though this is an extreme example they do practice penances. John smiles and begins to get visibly excited. 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. So let me contrarywise make aplain statement: The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic gospel of pseudo salvation is anathema, accursed, bogus, and a ticket to Hell. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. This subject is muddied by there being so many definitions of sola scriptura. I would have caved had I not begun reading the Bible the Baptists had given me, John says with a smile. Worse as other churches don't do it, how could anyone else be saved? text-indent:0px; 4/13/2018 Rod Dreher, Fighting the Wrong Battles margin-left: 26px; Why God is He, Not She font-size: 10pt; Certainly it is heresy to put Orthodox traditions practiced by their false church on a par with holy writ. {margin-top:12.0pt; 11/21/2017 Fr. 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. color:#0F4679; 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. 12/11/2013 George Michalopulos, Being Frank Exposing Schaeffers Hatred of Russias Laws Against Public Displays of Homosexuality font-size:10.0pt; Basil the Great, liturgies andmass attributed to him, 2) St. Gregory the Theologian, a theology dunce if he agreed with Orthodoxy. His parents told him he was bringing shame upon the whole family. (many of them sinner saints). It is nonsense that you must be buried in ground sanctified byincense swinging, holy water splashing. 6/17/2020 Orthodox Reflections, Archbishop Many Spoons Elpidophoros Heresy to the Nth Degree? This reverent but bold work offers the necessary insight and inspiration to create a community that welcomes all its . 7/12/2022 Metropolitan Antonios of Glyfada, Abp. 62) The heresy of directly instructing the Orthodox "laity" to avoid trying to understand the symbolism of the Book of Revelation: 3) It cannot be only ancient Rome (the light of a candle shall not shine). John Whiteford, When A Bishop Does Right The reality is Eastern Orthodox Christians and clergy are often pretentiously magnanimous, and say "We say Evangelicals and Protestants are saved too!" Ioannes Apiarius, Orthodox Episcopal Aloofness with a Side of Cake [Abp. Angels are grouped in nine orders (tagmata) as follows: Angels; Archangels; Principalities; Powers; Virtues; Dominations; Thrones; Cherubim; Seraphim. 6/13/2018 Fr. 10/2/2012 Dn. All throughout the interview, John has been backing up his statements with verses he has committed to memory. 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. Together with the pseudepigrapha, there also appeared the false teachings of Gnosticism, a group of related heresies which sought to transform Christianity into a kind of spiritualistic, dualistic, and intellectualistic philosophy (see Scripture). John Whiteford, Sin is Nothing to Be Proud Of 6/22/2017 Byzantine, TX, The Amsterdam Symposium: An Abuse of Authority? Why? John Whiteford, 2011 margin-top: 0; font-family: Verdana; All scriptureisgiven by inspiration of God, andisprofitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" 1 Tim 3:15-16. It is impossible to know Christ, to share in the life of the Holy Trinity, or to be considered a Christian, apart from the Church. 16) Churches and ritualism - Churchianity, 17) Fake miracles - holy fire, myrrh dripping icons, 18) Liturgical worship, and calendarization of lifestyle. Tainstvo). John Whiteford, 2015 36) Denial of Works of the flesh, that came about by the specific Catholic vocabulary (instead of biblical vocabulary) of "venial" and "mortal" sin. John Whiteford, Missteps in the Churchs response to the LGBT movement [on Fr. c. 50-100) in the late first and early second century. {margin-top:0in; But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; 10/18/2019 Fr. 7/18/2019 Fr. Zechariah Lynch, The Antiochians Dont Disappoint (The Fr. (Gr. Essentially Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism, are unbiblical pyramid systems where the so called "laity" are in effect the lowest of the low, almost like a lower caste, with the Pope or thePrimus inter pares at the top, and Catholic and Orthodox laity at the bottom like a doormat. 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. 5/20/2018 Dr. David C. Ford, The New Christianity Joseph Stalin led a uniquely brutal campaign against religion and religious leaders. Aaron Warwick Affair) 2/12/2018 Fr. Nor do we view it as a guilty stain on the soul in desperate need of cleansing. .quotation_text_2 { 3:15). 1) The racist error of translating the old testamentfrom Greek. font-weight: normal; 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. Like Romanism, Eastern Orthodoxy rejects the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone as heresy. 6/28/2018 Fr. The Orthodox Church considers in particular three bishops (hierarchs) of the Church as Her most important Teachers and Fathers, who contributed to the development and the spiritual growth of the Church. 95)Ousia: the complex subject of the expression of the essence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and how to explicitly state this. Subsequently there will always be a culture of denials about any division on it. 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. Real Heresy is caustic serious false doctrine, against the law and teachings of the new and better covenant (Gal 6:2 & Matt 7:24)that usually attacks one of two things: 1) Teachings fundamental to the Faith (Jude 1:3) such as the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the resurrection of Jesus, the virgin birth, the definition of the good news (Gal 1:6-9) or specifically "the gospel by which we are saved" etc. The Church is content to accept the element of mystery in its approach to God. The orthodox teaching on . 5) That baptism is put forward as a sacerdotalrite that is part of an ongoing "process of salvation" (their expression not mine)when God specifically tells us it is not part of the gospel (1 Cor 1:17). 6/20/2022 Fr. margin-top: 24px; 4/20/2018 Fr. Demacopoulos vs. the Russians again Elpidophoros Radical Leftist Views] 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. Thomas Hopko, Shepherd, Know Your Sheep Open Letter to Archbishop Sotirios [False Teaching on Single Communion Spoon] Monastic prisons predated and made a case for the Atheist Experiment and their infamous gulag. That isnt in the Bible, he says, without further elaboration. He tells me how his family could deny his new beliefs, but none could deny the visible change in his lifestyle. I thank John for his time, and then ask him to sum up the biggest difference between Orthodox Christians and Baptists. Pedalion). There are 3 views of mans corrupt state: Blasphemy is essentially against 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. We also suggest that you include a direct hyperlink to this article for the convenience of your readers. margin-bottom: 6px; They believe church authority to teach is given by the laying-on of hands from one religious spiritual dwarf to another. margin-left: 28px; 100) Deceiving their own family into Hell. 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. The ordination of an individual to priesthood through the sacrament of Holy Orders. 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. The Orthodox Church doesn't have a pope 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. Unity becomes intrinsically impossible. 2/21/2020 Orthodox Christianity, When People of God Fall, They Behave Worse Than Pagans The Mother of Harlotstherefore has daughters, which are the various Orthodox churches, who themselves describe their own similarity to Romanism. 7/20/2018 Fr. font-size: 8pt; font-size: 10pt; 10/5/2019 Jennifer Davis, Request To All Orthodox Bishops In America To Take Action Against False Teachings p.section_header I preach only one gospel that saves, not two. {margin-top:0in; A similar view was espoused by a false teacher named Cerinthus (fl. Like Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy teaches that man is able to cooperate with God in bringing about his salvation, and that regeneration is the product of a synergistic effort of God and man. 1/13/2019 Fr. (Colossians 2:4-10). Johannes Jacobse, 2013 Lawrence Farley, Public Schools and Antichristianity 5/1/2017 Fr. They speak with the authority of the Church, the Apostles, Fathers, Theologians, and Saints. 10/3/2017 Fr. margin-left: 20px; 10/7/2013 Nun Cornelia (Rees), Fr. Kallistos Clearly Implies that the Church Should Bless Committed Same-Sex Relationships Name-day. (Gr. note: their sinister indoctrination process. 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. .references_header { Alexander F.C. 50) Their definition of heresy is heresy!!! He rarely gives me an answer without a Scriptural reference or justification. 8/30/2019 Fr. font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 18px; } note: this concept of "Jerusalem must be captured it is the site of holy churches" shows the knock-on effect of believing in building huge elaborate churches - not found in the new covenant.". (Gr. text-align: right; John Whiteford, Mattingly: Two clashing Orthodox takes on doctrine past and future 52: Mortification:the action of subduing one's bodily desires: fine. but self torture and torment, like the cilice, is probably what led to the concept of torturing other people "for the good of their own soul". true Christians? 6/16/2018 Rod Dreher, The Rise of Antichristianity The Mystery of Lawlessness 4/28/2018 Fr. 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