🚨IT’S OFFICIAL: 40 shot, 8 dead and one mass shooting with 13 shot including children over this Juneteenth weekend across Chicago.
Every victim was black. Not one shooter was white. Police Officers didn’t kill anyone either.
@ChicagosMayor & @GovPritzker are to blame.
@JoelWebbon@LostMyHats As an Orthodox Christian, I sincerely appreciated @LostMyHats words. I pray more Protestant eyes are open to the lies of dispensationalism and Zionism. ☦️
If Christ truly became man, then Christ can be depicted
If Christ can be depicted, His image can be venerated
If you reject the veneration of His image as idolatry, you are implicitly attacking the Incarnation
You are not a Christian.
Steven, the King James Bible you read was translated from the Greek Orthodox Manuscript Textus Receptus. You have the King James Bible because of the Greek Orthodox Church. Greeks gave it to you, they understand the Bible better than you ever will
Today we welcomed His Eminence Met. Myron of New Zealand. His grandfather attended our parish in Wheeling,WV in the early 1900s. Our wonderful Bishop, Met. Savas was also in attendance and gave a beautiful homily. Today’s Divine Liturgy was lit 🔥
Historically Protestant countries were among the first to become aggressively secular. The nations that once championed the Reformation are now some of the least religious societies on earth. When private interpretation becomes the norm and ecclesial authority is weakened, religion is reduced to personal preference rather than public truth. The result is a society untethered from its Christian foundations, where Christianity gives way to post Christian secularism.
"God desires our salvation & devises it in a way incomprehensible to us. Entrust yourself to the will of God, & you will find peace for your sorrowing soul & heart." - Elder Nikon of Optina
If Protestantism is true, then the Bible lied and Christianity is false:
Protestants hold to Sola Scriptura “The Bible Alone” as their sole infallible authority for matters of faith, and claim no tradition or interpretation is infallible.
If no infallible tradition or interpretation is possible, then there is no objective truth in matters of interpretation of the scripture.
If this is the case the Bible lied when it declared “The Church is the ground and pillar of truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15)
If the scripture lied, the author is a false prophet according to the standards of scripture. (Deuteronomy 18:22)
Which would disprove Christianity itself.
"Anybody who thinks he is something great, even before God, is rightly abandoned by God, as one who thinks that he does not need His help. Anybody who despises himself, on the other hand, and relies on mercy from above, wins God’s sympathy, help and grace." St. Gregory Palamas
"The lot of all who wish to be saved is to suffer. Therefore, if we suffer, let us rejoice, for our salvation is being accomplished." - Elder Nikon of Optina
By what standard can they even speak of orthodoxy, as they are broken into thousands of pieces and competing interpretations of Scripture?
We look forward to hear them first lay down what is orthodoxy, what it has been since the beginning, with quotations from the Oecumenical Councils and Church Fathers.
It seems unavoidable for them that the non-ecclesiology, invisible church heresy of Protesantism will be on full display in their critique. We will happily provide them with the perennial, diachronic patristic ecclesiology.