Both Ortlund and Wood just did streams where they imply or outright deny Orthodox are even Christians or “saved,” yet claim Orthodox are bad for “exclusivism.” All the mainline Prot apologists are being exposed as massive hypocrites who can’t even say what the Church is or where it is, unless it’s actually the historic Church lol.
@T4Peace You attacked a fellow orthodox who has lead 10s of thousands to the church. Its not a good look to piety signal jay like the protties and papists.
“Of course, the Orthodox view is that it is not the guilt as such, but the effects of sin. A child, a baby, is not born guilty, but inherits the effects—the impact of our sin”
- Fr. Spyridon Bailey
🇬🇷 was Christian for 1600 years before your 17th century Baptist sect was founded. The Orthodox liturgy is full of scriptural recitation. The books of the NT began as liturgical documents of apostolic churches; this is how they became canonical. Christ founded a Church not a book
At peak, 3,800 American slave owners were black.
Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves.
Africans had been holding slave auctions for 1000 years when the Europeans showed up.
The French and English had to go back to Africa after banning the slave trade just to free the slaves from the African kings.
There are 7 million active slaves in Africa TODAY.
Muslims enslaved more people than any other demographic in history.
Don't believe me? Screenshot this and fact check it.
A court hearing has been scheduled with the aim of abolishing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) under Metropolitan Onufriy of Kiev.
According to the lawyer of the UOC, Mykita Chekman:
"On July 2 at 10:00, in the courtroom of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal, the hearing will take place in case no. 855/11/25, following a lawsuit filed by the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS), with the aim of terminating the activities of the Kyiv Metropolis under Onufriy and, by extension, the entire Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the UOC."
If the court upholds the lawsuit, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine will face legal elimination, losing its status as a legal entity, its bank accounts, as well as its legal rights to administer churches and monasteries.
This biased persecution is a blatant violation of the religious freedom of the vast majority of the Ukrainian faithful. Ukraine today is the most characteristic case of violation of believers’ rights in the world. We see attacks against priests in Ukraine, criminal prosecutions against them, as well as seizures of churches. The Ukrainian authorities have unleashed the largest wave of persecution in the country’s modern history against what constitutes the largest religious community in the country.
When churches and shinto temples are burned down, the perpetrator is always a mystery
But the moment an illegal mosque is burned down, we know who did it right away
Yeah ok
>be white woman
>save black from overdosing
>he immediately grabs you and tries forcing himself on you
No stereotypes were harmed in the making of this video.
A ten-year-old pianist lost two fingers. Three weeks later, they grew back.
They had not been reattached, nor had they been sewn back on. They simply grew back.
The bone, the nail—everything.
The doctor stood in front of the dressing table and repeated the same thing out loud:"I don't understand. I don't understand what's going on.
A bone cannot grow back. Things like that just don't happen!"But the bone had grown. This is the most powerful miracle of St. Luke of Crimea that I have ever heard of.
Here is how it all happened.
In 2001, in Theodosia, lived ten-year-old Nazar Stodnicenko.
He had been playing the piano since he was five years old, devoting all his time and talent to music.
One summer, while running to play at his grandmother's house, he slammed a door and an accident happened. His fingers were crushed by an iron lock.
I will not relay all the details, but it was a true tragedy for the family.
They arrived at the hospital, where the doctors stitched up what remained of his fingers.
After the surgery, the first thought on the minds of both the child and his parents was the same:"How will he play the piano now?"For the boy, music was his whole life. His mother began to pray for her son to St. Luke of Crimea, an archbishop, surgeon, and saint of the 20th century. She placed an icon on the child's bandaged hand.
One day, she took Nazar to the relics of the saint in Simferopol.
Nazar himself prayed as much as he could, with the simple sincerity of a child.
He said, "Saint Luke, I don't know what you're going to do, but I want to play the piano."It was a simple and heartfelt prayer.
During the third dressing change, the doctor stood there with his eyes wide open, watching and saying:"His bone is starting to grow. This can't be happening.
I can't explain it."But the miracle happened right before his eyes.
Three weeks later, his fingers were completely restored.
They were flawless.
The doctor still could not believe it, continuously trying to explain it from a scientific perspective. He kept repeating:
"I know this should be impossible... And I realize that I don't understand anything."
But the bone continued to grow. Less than a year later, Nazar won second place in a piano competition.
Today, all the medical documents, certificates, X-rays, and competition diplomas are kept in the Museum of St. Luke of Crimea at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Simferopol.
There are two exhibits there dedicated to this story.
You can go and see it all with your own eyes. Nazar himself speaks about it whenever he is asked.
Saint Luke heard a child's prayer.
He heard a mother's prayer, and he came to the rescue.
That is why, when great trouble comes, let us pray to St. Luke of Crimea.
He will surely help.
— Orthodox Chernihiv
A gay couple adopted a baby. The baby likely died while having his adoptive father James Varley's penis stuck in his throat, an "upper airways obstruction".
His partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley also sexually abused the child. The baby was abused for months and suffered torn insides, a perforated bowel and bite marks.
The couple pretended that the baby had drowned in a bathtub.
Adoptions by gay couples should be banned. In fact, they should never have been allowed to begin with. The politicians responsible for this deserve jail.
Communism is anti-Christian and it was an ideology set to destroy Christianity.
One can't be Orthodox and claim to be a Communist. Its a contradiction.
No wonder @LizzieMarbach and crew wont hop onto spaces that arent their own. Cause if this is their position they are utterly out of their depth. No reason they think Orthodox are mean...apparently being consistent is mean.