I was going to become eastern orthodox but I found out thru research that they are pro- letting people get married 4 times, pro contraception and they verge on having the same average political liberalism as Jews. I was actually pretty serous and planning to convert to orthodoxy until I found out they weren't actually traditional.
Do you have any advice of what to do ? go orthodox any way? Join pastor anderson? I am extremely lost.
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Basically nobody is traditional in practice anymore, and there is no point in judging the wheat by how much chalf there is in it's company, it's always too much. That being said, there is only one church who's dogma on sexual morality has not been comprimised.
Just don't go Mainline Protestant.
I know what I must do then, sensei.
Ask yourself this one question: Why do I want to become Christian ?
Don't let yourself get blinded by ideology or aesthetics. I'm Catholic, I of course tell you to become Catholic (because we're the actual one true Church - but orthos, too, have Apostolic Succession and their political shenanigans didn't change that fact) - but ultimately it's a matter of your own conscience. If you find the orthodox aesthetics appealing (we have that too in the Greek Catholic churches btw), then go to Divine Liturgy, practice the faith, pray daily and align your heart to Christ. In your prayer ask God to guide you the way and grant you the Grace of having deep faith that you're able to root deeply in your heart.
The divorce stuff is a tricky one, because .. the orthodox "way" of interpreting Scripture/guiding their flock(s) is oikonomia, which is that of a very pastoral exegesis, that tries to suit the needs of the people "irl" and not just theoretically so to speak. Now, as I said, I'm not orthodox so I have no thorough knowledge on that, but .. you know … no memes, sorry.
Matter of fact, if you have a problem with the divorce stuff etc., then become Eastern Catholic. But you need to make that out between you and God, not what people on the internet tell you with their shitty memes or anything.
And if you already accepted that the "2" apostolic churches (i.e., Catholic and Eastern orthodox) are the way for their ultimate origin in Christ, then decide between them, don't stray to the protestants.
Protip: Go to (a) priest(s), mainly an orthodox one (although a Catholic perspective can't hurt), and talk to him about your concerns.
the highest authority in the Orthodox Church is the bishop, as each bishop represents a full and complete church of Christ; if your local bishop isn't teaching heretical beliefs, there is nothing to be concerned over
further, you should base your beliefs on faith, not the other way around
also, americans are retarded and don't know what orthodox means
Stay in your denom and stop making larp threads for a start
What ?
What do you mean the bible seems crystal clear on it's opinion about divorce am I missing a part where it says get divorced if you feel like it or something that only the orthodox know about?
KJV only IFB
also this
Verses proving salvation to anyone that believes and not of works.
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John
1:12
3:15-16/18/36
4:14(John 6:35)
5:24
6:28-29/35/38-40/44-45/47
7:38-39
8:24
10:27-29
11:25-27/40
12:46
14:1-3
16:27
20:31
Matthew
5:19
7:21-23(John 6:38-40)
8:10-13
9:2
12:37
21:31-32
Mark
1:15
2:5
10:24-25
16:16
Luke
3:3(Acts 19:4)
5:20
7:48-50
8:12
18:10-14/42
19:42
23:40-43
Acts
2:21
3:19
10:43
11:16-17
13:38-39/48
15:7-9
16:30-31
19:4(Luke 3:3)
26:18
Romans
1:16-17
3:20/22/24-28/30
4:2-14/16/24
5:1/15-18
6:14/23
8:31-33
9:30-33
10:3-4/9-10/13
11:6
1 Corinthians
1:14/17/21
3:14-15
15:1-2
2 Corinthians
4:13-14
1 Thessalonians
4:14
2 Thessalonians
1:10
2:12
Ephesians
1:13-14
2:8-9
4:7
Galatians
2:16/21
3:6-11/14/21-22/24/26
5:3-6
Philippians
3:3/9
Titus
3:5
1 Timothy
1:16
2 Timothy
1:9
3:15
Hebrews
4:3
10:38-39
11:7
1 Peter
1:3-5/8-9
2:6
3:21(Colossians 2:12)
1 John
4:2-3/15
5:1/4-5/10-11/13
Revelation
2:11
3:5
21:7