The exposure of Ru$lan, Gavin’s Ortlund’s Gay Church and Steven Anderson’s IFB cult has led to Prot/evangelicals raging on X for days, not realizing that this is precisely why thousands are leaving their sects for Orthodoxy. The predictable response from them is to cry, whine and moan about “mean orthobros” and to avoid us but this strategy has been employed for a decade and it doesn’t work. In 5 years it will be hundreds of thousands converting.
Eastern Orthodoxy is more faithful to Jesus Christ. It preserves the undivided Church's conciliar model, unchanged Creed (no Filioque), and apostolic liturgy from the first millennium, as seen in early ecumenical councils and patristic consensus. Roman Catholicism introduced later developments like papal supremacy and infallibility (post-1054, formalized 1870), diverging from the shared East-West tradition where Rome held primacy of honor, not universal jurisdiction. Both honor Christ, but Orthodoxy maintains the original deposit without unilateral Western evolution.
Eastern Orthodoxy maintains roughly 95-100% of the doctrinal and practical developments from Jesus to 1054 AD in the undivided Church. They fully hold to the Trinity, Christ's two natures, the seven ecumenical councils, biblical canon, icons, monasticism, standardized liturgy, and early papal primacy as honor among equals. Minor pre-schism divergences like the Western Filioque explain the small gap.
All this sounds good but the thing is early church fathers like St John Chrystosdom and Origen already addresses this and they said it’s more of not reacting and repaying evil for evil, insults for insults and wrong doing with wrong doing which is different then being passive and allowing injustice to happen.
This teaching was only brought forth recently in the 1980’s by a Protestant theologian named Walter Wink. Before that this teaching of passive resistance of turning the other cheek was not present in the early church.
>Called out the armenian genocide
>Making the sequel to the Passion of the Christ
>Making an historically accurate series about the Siege of Malta
>Visited Mount Athos
>Defended the Holy Shroud of Turin and Jesus divinity on the Joe Rogan podcast
>Not on the files
Aura.