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Against Pews and their Lies
Levi Gonzalez
Xavier Cruz
Every Romanian and Russian parish I've gone to had no pews.
But every Greek and Antiochian parish I've gone to had pews.
Ryder Mitchell
Liturgy means "work of the people", it's not a show the priest puts on for you to watch.
I mean, even Catholics spend a significant part of the Mass just standing. I don't know what you have in mind.
Logan Kelly
Well I'm romanian and ive mostly gone to russian churches. I'm not used to seeing pews or people in flip flops
Christian Jones
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Blake Cooper
I'd say only Greek and Antiochian, and not even all of them
Brayden Martinez
There are women who can't grow hair longer, the African females for example. The ones you see with long hair have weaves.
Blake Gonzalez
People like (((you))) are the reason, why Orthodoxy is viewed as LARPing on this board
Nicholas Evans
You mean the word that God has spoken according to John 12:48. Well it turns out we have that. So here you are just trying to redefine things in a way they were never meant to be. And you have no right to, considering you admit no authority whatsoever to do so. I don't even understand what makes you think you have the right to post here, and contradict and speak against what Scripture actually says. By posting at all, you are acting inconsistent to your own ideology. As you admit you have no understanding of these things.
Where does Paul say that? You're making stuff up now, and what gives you the right to do this. There is no gnostic oral tradition passed down under orders not to be written. That's not what it means. That's not what he's talking about. It's satanic I tell you, the whole concept.
He is talking about the fact the word of God can be spoken or written, thereby proving that we have always had it even before anyone compiled it into a physical book. It's the same whether written or spoken, that's the distinction. Not that there is some doctrine that is not allowed to be written. So then it wasn't like the first time someone put all scripture into a single book at that moment it magically became true, no, it always was true from the moment it was first spoken or written— either one. Always true and never changed, unlike someone who I'm replying to. And if anyone gives a gospel contrary to what we know they wrote, let them be accursed, that's what it says in Galatians 1. You go against scripture, so I know this applies.
See now you're just making desperate accusations. All tradition has been safeguarded and conserved by the churches in the word of God. Your innovations have never made it in, because they are manmade. Just admit the fact you're in a modernist church that reinterprets itself and changes doctrine with the political winds because you don't use Scripture. You simply make the word of God of none effect through your tradition which YOU have delivered. And by your own admission you shouldn't even be here since you yourself lack understanding of these things.
Joshua Walker
Yes very interesting. Let me break it down for you.
Christ started a Church.
The apostles grew that Church.
Paul told his disciples to hold onto the traditions they learned orally and by epistle.
This is what the Orthodox Church has been doing, scripture and tradition are in harmony.
You can omit it and do whatever you like, you think the Holy Spirit makes you the final authority on scripture, okay cool, go and omit 2 Thess 2:15, or butcher it with your strange interpretation. But I come from a different perspective. So we're just talking past each other.