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Title: ‘You Are All One’? Eastern Orthodoxy and the Struggle of Ethnic Christianity
Source: The Lutheran Witness
URL Source: https://witness.lcms.org/2023/you-a ... ruggle-of-ethnic-christianity/
Published: May 9, 2023
Author: Stacey Egger
Post Date: 2023-05-09 19:02:23 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 4865
Comments: 45

In mid-January, a large cohort of Eastern Orthodox theologians — nearly 400, from 44 countries — gathered in Volos, Greece. It was the largest conference of Orthodox theologians in modern history.

At the center of discussion were theological questions stirred up by the Russia-Ukraine War.

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#1. To: Charles_Byrd (#0)

that our ultimate identity, that the church, rests not in Germany, not in America, not in our heritage, our songs, our liturgy, our history or our piety, as salutary as any of these things may be — but in Jesus Christ, in whom “there is neither Jew nor Greek,” in whom “you are all one” (Gal. 3:28).

Orthodoxy is trending here in the U.S.

Evangelicals are abandoning their clown show churches for a different experience and I can't say that I blame them entirely (even though they are entirely wrong before God).

"When Sarah Riccardi-Swartz moved from New York City to a small Appalachian town in West Virginia in the fall of 2017, she was searching for an answer to a puzzling question. Why had a group of conservative American Christians converted to Russian Orthodoxy...Riccardi-Swartz learned that many of these converts had grown disillusioned with social and demographic change in the United States". https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1096741988/orthodox-christian-churches- are-drawing-in-far-right-american-converts

My take is this: it's always easier to move to another church than it is to diagnose and fix the problem. Moving to Orthodoxy is not the answer. They're just going to find the same problem, but dressed in robes and dead tradition.

Orthodox churches are just as vomited out of the Lord's mouth as the dead evangelical churches in America, or any other country.

Stick a fork in us...we're done. Come quickly, Lord!

watchman  posted on  2023-05-09   20:16:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: watchman (#1)

LOL, people are flooding to the Orthodox Church, especially the Russian Orthodox Church, because world events have made it clear that Protestantism is just a made-up religion used to justify literally anything, including being faggots and pedophiles.

youtu.be/WCfeRdCM21Y?si=Zk7h_jeGx7s27V-Y

As Orthodoxy grows in Russia, they will arrest homos and pedophiles, while American Protestant Churches are at the front of having gay "marriages" and promoting every perversion imaginable.

Orthodox Russia castrates pedophiles while Protestant America castrates little boys and tells them that they are really little girls. People see this and they see the end-result of Protestantism.

So thanks be to God, they abandon these dead man-made "churches" of the Protestant world and return home to the original Church founded by Jesus Christ through His Apostles, the Orthodox Church.

Orthodoxa  posted on  2023-10-23   13:10:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Orthodoxa (#10)

Protestantism is just a made-up religion

You say funny stuff.

I will give you this...the churches are fallen away and have been for decades. They are vomited out of the Lord's mouth, and they are sickening to behold. And you are quite right about the knee-jerk worship of Israel, especially by evangelicals (I am dispensational, evangelical btw). Their error is going to cost them dearly, namely the pale horse rider and following judgements of Revelation.

But know this: the orthodox church, like the catholic church, is dead state religion. Will the orthodox join with the beast system to behead true Christians? Probably.

watchman  posted on  2023-10-23   16:01:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: watchman, A K A Stone (#13)

Here's another PERFECT example.

Even in AMERICA, when parents protest against the faggots, it almost always turns out that the parents are Orthodox, because Protestants are all in for the homo pedophiles.

Here's a protest from Glendale California where some real Christian men beat up some Protestant homos. They were all Armenian Orthodox Christians, because even in America it's almost always just the Orthodox standing up for what is right while the Protestants just stick their fingers in the wind to see which way it's blowing today.

Does your man-made denomination already perform gay "marriages" or is that still somewhere in the near future for it?

x.com/MrOlmos/status/1666255971453390849?s=20

Orthodoxa  posted on  2023-10-23   18:36:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Orthodoxa (#16)

the Orthodox standing up for what is right

This is an article from orthochristiandotcom:

CLERGY, SCHOLARS, LGBT ACTIVISTS, DRAG SHOW HOST GATHER TO DISCUSS OPINIONS ON ORTHODOXY, SEX, GENDER, SEXUALITY

The conference featured many of the same participants who had gathered at the conference in Amsterdam in June 2017, including Drs. George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou of Fordham and Dr. Brendan Gallaher of Exeter University.

Also participating were several figures who have caused public scandals, such as Sister Vassa Larin, who was censured by ROCOR for giving advice to a mother that would lead her to believe that her son's interest in a homosexual relationship is acceptable, and Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, who called the Church’s teachings on matters of sexuality into question in a foreword he wrote for an issue of the pro- homosexual journal The Wheel.

Also present were Dr. Ashley Purpura, who argues that Byzantine hymnography “reflects gender fluidity,” Gregory Tucker, who is in a homosexual relationship with a former hieromonk who abandoned his priesthood and repentance, and Nik Jov i-Sas, a Serbian man who openly mocks the Church and goes by the name of “Orthodox Provocateur” online and whose social media pages are filled with photos and videos of drag queens, including from drag shows he has hosted. There were also several others who either publicly or privately, often in their university classes, agitate for the Church to change its teachings on LGBT issues.

I didn't notice anybody getting beaten up at this orthodox fag gathering.

watchman  posted on  2023-10-23   19:14:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: watchman (#17)

"Gregory Tucker, who is in a homosexual relationship with a former hieromonk who abandoned his priesthood and repentance"

Why is he no longer a Priest?

Because the Orthodox Church excommunicates homos.

Try harder. In your made-up denomination it probably gets them a church promotion if they announce that they're faggots and want to recruit children.

Orthodoxa  posted on  2023-10-23   21:13:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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