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Title: Are we experiencing a Triumph of Orthodoxy?
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URL Source: https://youtu.be/Tg13beGm-WY?si=U-hqv62E7uSMrHjf
Published: Mar 14, 2025
Author: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Post Date: 2025-03-14 19:31:02 by Orthodoxa
Keywords: Orthodox Church, growth surge
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youtu.be/Tg13beGm-WY?si=U-hqv62E7uSMrHjf Poster Comment: The Orthodox Church has been experiencing massive growth in the USA and other countries as most Protestant Churches continue to shrink and die.
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While both Protestants and Orthodox Christians share core Christian beliefs, they differ in areas like authority, salvation, and liturgical practices, with Protestants emphasizing the Bible as the sole source of authority and salvation by grace through faith alone, while Orthodox Christians value tradition and the Church's teachings alongside the Bible. from the internet The Bible > Orthodox church teachings. Not even close.
The Bible, which was written by the Church and for the Church, itself declares what the source of authority is: 1 Timothy 3:15 "But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." Note that even in this verse, St. Paul, who is Timothy's Bishop and ordained Timothy as a Bishop, tells him that he'll give him much more detailed instructions in person (oral tradition) and this letter is just to help out a little before St. Paul arrives in person. And the Church isn't just some guy picking up a Bible and announcing that he's in charge of a Church now. In all of Paul's epistles, it is pretty clear that he expects to be obeyed by the congregations that are under him, because he's their Bishop. He was ordained, using the system that Jesus Christ instituted - Jesus founded a Church, not a free-for- all bookclub where everyone is free to interpret and misinterpret scriptures however they wish. You can read in Acts 13 about how the Elders of the Church (Bishops) laid hands upon St. Paul and St. Barnabas and ordained them. My Orthodox Church can show detailed lists of who ordained who all the way back to the Apostles. Most of the Protestant denominations in the USA don't go back even farther than a century, and none of them have a line of ordinations going back to Jesus like the Orthodox Church does. The Church, the pillar and ground of the truth, is the body which can correctly interpret the Scriptures. The Protestant approach is the same thing Joseph Smith and the Mormons did, just make up a bogus "church" and tell everyone that it really is the church even though he just made it up.
Here's the line of succession for the Patriarchs of the Church of Antioch mentioned in the Book of Acts and which still exists today: Peter I (c. 37/47–c. 53/54)[4][a] Evodius (c. 53/54–c. 68/83)[b] Ignatius (c. 68–c. 107 or c. 83–115)[c] Heron I (c. 107/116–c. 127/128)[d] Cornelius (c. 127/128–c. 142/154)[e] Heron II (c. 142–c. 169 or c. 154–c. 164)[f] vacant (c. 164–c. 169)[g] Theophilus (c. 169–182)[h] Maximus I (182–190/191)[i] Serapion (190/191–211/212)[j] Asclepiades (211–220)[k] Philetus (220–231)[l] Zebinnus (231–237)[m] Babylas (237–250/251)[n] Fabius (250/251–253/256)[o] Demetrius (253/256–260/261)[p] Paul (260–268)[q] Domnus I (268–273)[r] Timaeus (273–279/280)[s] Cyril (279/280–303)[t] Tyrannion (304–314) Vitalis (314–320)[u] Philogonius (320–324) Patriarchs of Antioch from 324 to 360 Eustathius (324–330) Paulinus I (330)[v] Eulalius (331–332) Euphronius (332–333) Flacillus (333–342)[w] Stephen I (342–344) Leontius (344–357)[x] Eudoxius (358–359) Annanius (359) Paulinus II (362–388) Evagrius (388–392/393) Alexander (414–417)[aa] Theodotus (417–428)[ab] John I (429–441)[ac] Domnus II (441–449)[ad] Chalcedonian line Maximus II (450–455)[ae] Basil (456–458)[af] Acacius (458–459)[ag] Martyrius (459–471)[ah] Peter II (471)[ai] Julian (471–475)[aj] Peter II (475–477)[ak] John II Codonatus (477)[al] Stephen II (477–479)[am] Calendion (479–484)[ao] Peter II (485–488)[ap] Palladius (488–498)[aq] Flavian II (498–512) Severus (512–518) Paul the Jew (518–521) Euphrasius (521–526) Ephraim of Amid (526–546) Domnus III (546–561) Anastasius I of Antioch (561–571) Gregory (571–594) Anastasius I of Antioch (restored) (594–599) Anastasius II (599–610) Gregory II (610–620) Anastasius III (620–628) Macedonius (639–662) George I (662–669) Macarius (669–681) Theophanes (681–684) Sebastian (687–690) George II (691–702) Stephen IV (743–744) Theophylact (744–750) Theodore I (750–773) Theodoret (781–812) Job (813–844) Nicholas (846–868) Theodosius I (870–890) Simeon (892–907) Elias (907–934) Theodosius II (936–943) Theocharistus (944–948) Agapius I (953–959) Christopher (960–967) Eustratius (969) Seal of Theodore II (Theodore of Koloneia) Theodore II (970–976) Agapius II (978–996) John III (996–1021) Nicholas II (1025–1030) Elias II (1032–1033) Theodore III (1034–1042) Seal of Basil II Basil II (?-?) Peter III (1052–1056) John IV (1056–1057) Theodosius III (1057–1059) Aemilian (1074–1078) Nicephorus (1079–?) John V (or IV) (1091–1100) John VI (or V) (1106–1134) Soterichos Panteugenos (elect, 1156–1157) Euthymius (1159–1164) Macarius II (1164–1166) Athanasius I (1166–1170) Theodosius III (1180–1182) Elias III (1182–1184) Christopher II (1184–1185) Theodore IV (Balsamon) (1185–1199) Joachim (1199–1219) Dorotheus (1219–1245) Simeon II (1245–1268) Euthymius (1268–1269) Theodosius IV (1269–1276) Theodosius V Villehardouin (1276–1285) Arsenius (1285–1293) Dionysius (1293–1308) Mark (1308–1342) Ignatius II (1342–1386) Pachomius (1386–1393) Nilus (1393–1401) Michael III (1401–1410) Pachomius II (1410–1411) Joachim II (1411–1426) Mark III (1426–1436) Dorotheus II (1436–1454) Michael IV (1454–1476) Mark IV (1476) Joachim III (1476–1483) Gregory III (1483–1497) Dorotheus III (1497–1523) Michael V (1523–1541) Dorotheus IV (1541–1543) Joachim IV (Ibn Juma) (1543–1576) Michael VI (Sabbagh) (1577–1581) Joachim V (1581–1592) Joachim VI (1593–1604) Dorotheus IV (or V) Ibn Al-Ahmar (1604–1611) Athanasius II (or III) Dabbas (1611–1619) Ignatius III Atiyah (1619–1634) Cyril IV Dabbas (1619–1627) Euthymius II (or III) Karmah (1634–1635) Euthymius III (or IV) of Chios (1635–1647) Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im (1647–1672) Neophytos of Chios (1673–1682) Athanasius III Dabbas (first, reign) (1685–1694) Cyril V (or III) Zaim ( 1672–1694, 1694–1720) Athanasius III Dabbas (second reign) (1720–1724) Sylvester (Dabbas) (1724–1766) ] Philemon (1766–1767) Daniel (1767–1791) Anthemius (1791–1813) Seraphim (1813–1823) Methodius (1823–1850) Hierotheos (1850–1885) Gerasimos (1885–1891) Spyridon (1891–1898) Meletius II (Doumani) (1899–1906) Gregory IV (Haddad) (1906–1928) vacant (1928–1931) Alexander III (Tahhan) (1931–1958) Theodosius VI (Abou Rjaileh) (1958–1970) Elias IV (Mouawwad) (1970–1979) Ignatius IV (Hazim) (1979–2012) John X (Yazigi) (2012–) So which Apostle ordained the first Bishop of your Church? If there wasn't one, then the leadership claims of your Church's Bishop's, Elders, Pastors, whatever title they might use - is bogus. My Church was founded by Jesus Christ with St. Peter being the very first Bishop of Antioch. If your Church can't trace it's history back to the original Church, then it is a modern made-up fake "church". People in it might still do things pleasing to God, but they aren't in the Church that Jesus founded.
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God
Are we saved by works or faith?
Luke 24: 13-35 "Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?” Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?” And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.” Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread." They talked to Jesus for hours, with Him even personally explaining what the Scriptures meant, and they did not even recognize Him. Sola Scriptura left them utterly blind. Only in the Eucharist, when Jesus blessed and broke the bread, were their blind eyes opened.
That is a false dichotomy. James 2:20 "But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" What other sort of person does Jesus Himself tell us is dead? John 6:53 "Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you."
Once again like during the 1980s, entire Protestant Evangelical congregations are all converting to the Orthodox Christian Church together, their former Protestant pastors being ordained as Orthodox Christian Priests and bringing the entire flock back home to the original pre-denominational Orthodox Christian Church.
And incidentally, that is the real reason why the globohomos hate Russia so much. Prince Vladimir of Russia converted his entire nation to Christianity, beginning with mass baptisms in the Dnieper River in what is now called the Ukraine. That is why the AntiChrist Jew Zelensky banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and is promoting "gay rights" and other abominations.
So what who cares. Means nothing.
James 2:20 "But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" No it is not commie worshipper. Not of works, lest any man should boast. If you have faith you will have some works. But you wont have all the works. You are a boaster by the way. It isn't the works that get you there it is the faith. You don't have the works anyway. None of us do.
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
That statement proves you to be a dumb person. A leader doesn't make his people Christian. Individual faith makes persona Christian.
He's not a prince. He is an evil man. Someone who murders to try and get his way. You are not smart. You boast. You are ignorant of what makes a person a christian, since you think Putin makes his people Christians. You think it comes of works. But Putins works are theft murder pride etc. Most Orthodox hate Jews it seems to me.
Yeah he sucks too. That doesn't mean your cult leader Putin can come in and murder everyone he wants to. You seem to get an erection for Putin.
I guess you think that someone could just try to board Air Force One and when the Secret Service arrests them protest: "Wait a minute! I have a copy of the Constitution, I've read it and believe it, and according to my interpretation of the Constitution I am the President of the United States, so you cannot arrest me!!" That's how lots of Protestants will sound at the Last Judgement when Jesus Christ asks them why they created fake Churches to compete with the one real Church that He founded.
The falling away was the Great Schism when Rome fell away from the Orthodox Church and then spawned thousands of Protestant denominations, all claiming to "just believe the Bible" while teaching completely different things, including many Protestants who now have women "pastors" in direct violation of Scripture, gay "marriages" and all sorts of made-up Protestant innovations.
So do you believe that people like Billy Graham did nothing but waste their time talking instead of just handing out Bibles?
You are once again betraying an ignorance of history. I was not talking about Vladimir Putin, I said Prince Vladimir. Prince Vladimir was the ruler of all of the Russians in the 10th century. When he heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ he declared that he wanted to become a Christian and sent for an Orthodox Christian Priest to baptize him. By God's providence, during the year in which he was waiting for an Orthodox Priest to arrive in his city, he became sick and was physically blinded. When the Priest arrived, he prophesied that the waters of baptism would both wash away Vladimir's sins but also his blindness, and by a miracle of God his sight was completely restored, amazing all of his people. St. Vladimir then preached to his subjects and told them the Gospel. He ordered his soldiers to destroy every false pagan idol in the Russian lands and to build Christian Churches over the sites where the pagan altars had stood. The people were joyous to hear the Gospel and begged to all be baptized into the Orthodox Christian faith. And to quote from a translation of the Russian Primary Chronicle: ”On the morrow, the Prince went forth to the Dnieper with the priests of the Princess and those from Kherson, and a countless multitude assembled. They all went into the water: some stood up to their necks, others to their breasts, and the younger near the bank, some of them holding children in their arms, while the adults waded farther out. The priests stood by and offered prayers. There was joy in heaven and upon earth to behold so many souls saved. But the devil groaned, lamenting, “Woe is me! how am I driven out hence! For I thought to have my dwelling-place here, since the apostolic teachings did not abide in this land. Nor did this people know God, but I rejoiced in the service they rendered unto me. But now I am vanquished by the ignorant, not by apostles and martyrs, and my reign in these regions is at an end.” When the people were baptized, they returned each to his own abode. Vladimir, rejoicing that he and his subjects now knew God himself, looked up to heaven and said, “Oh God, who has created heaven and earth, look down, I beseech thee, on this thy new people, and grant them, oh Lord, to know thee as the true God, even as the other Christian nations have known thee. Confirm in them the true and inalterable faith, and aid me, oh Lord, against the hostile adversary, so that, hoping in thee and in thy might, I may overcome his malice.” Having spoken thus, he ordained that wooden churches should be built and established where pagan idols had previously stood. He thus founded the Church of St. Basil on the hill where the idol of Perun and the other images had been set, and where the Prince and the people had offered their sacrifices. He began to found churches and to assign priests throughout the cities, and to invite the people to accept baptism in all the cities and towns." This happened over 600 years before the very first false Protestant Church was founded. There was no political state of Israel, so the people worshipped Jesus Christ instead of the God-hating Jews like modern Zionists do. The evil Khazar Jews (and Zelensky is a modern Khazar Jew) in rage tried to destroy Christian Russia, but Prince Vladimir and other Orthodox Christian rulers of Russia defeated the evil Jews over and over again. Glory to God! Slava Christos!
Getting baptized doesn't save you. Especially if some nutjob is ordering it.
Speaking what is in the Bible is different then contradicting the Bible and following some tradition, of say hating the Jews. Or other things. Not saying Billy Graham got everything right.
So in your imagination every Protestant is going to hell and everyone who claims to be Orthodox is going to Heaven.
Romans 11:26 plainly says, “All Israel will be saved.”
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My Orthodox Church can show detailed lists of who ordained who all the way back to the Apostles.
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That is a false dichotomy.
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Once again like during the 1980s, entire Protestant Evangelical congregations are all converting to the Orthodox Christian Church together,
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Prince Vladimir of Russia converted his entire nation to Christianity,
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Prince Vladimir
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Zelensky
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So what who cares. Means nothing.
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That statement proves you to be a dumb person. A leader doesn't make his people Christian. Individual faith makes persona Christian.
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When the people were baptized,
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So do you believe that people like Billy Graham did nothing but waste their time talking instead of just handing out Bibles?
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