this is a nice thread
Shared Ground of the Apostolic Churches
Jackson Johnson
Leo Carter
SEETHING
Levi Morris
Firstly in regards to the John Wesley bit, it is not a legend. Check the links. It is in fact my Orthodox priest who told me about John Wesley being ordained by an Orthodox bishop to begin with. He said there was a book on it, this Sunday I will try to ask him about the name of it for you.
As for the anathemas on Copt. Saint Severus, if you look up any list of the anathemas said at Pentecost for any of the Orthodox Churches, you will not find the Coptic Saints being anathema'd anymore. My own church does not announce the anathemas against them. If you could find me something to the contrary I would like to see it though, if they are still in effect I will edit my stance in regards to that.
Also the RCC has lifted communion and baptism bans against the Oriental Orthodox and the ACOE as well. See here:
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The Orthodox Church, at the very least in some jurisdictions, too allows OO and ACOE to take communion with them. My priest has told me many such cases and I have witnessed them myself among Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox who attend our parish.
The Russian Orthodox Church allows Roman Catholics to take communion in their parishes. See related image.
Let us also not forget the Melkites were considered in dual communion with the Antiochian Eastern Orthodox over 700 years after the Schism which only came to an end when the Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch around the 1700s tried to force the Melkites to all become fully Orthodox and the Melkites went fully Eastern Catholic instead: phoenicia.org
Let us also not forget Saint Constantine XI (at least superficially) ending the Schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox bishops and how during his last days, both the RCC and the EO finally shared a Church together and prayed together up until his demise at the hands of the Ottomans. Meanwhile both the RCC and the EO have dozens of Saints who have prophecied that there will be a Great Catholic Monarch who will rise up again to reunite Christendom and destroy Islam. Many point to that Monarch being the revived Saint Constantine XI, which would be very fitting given he was the one who forced an end to the Schism, if only briefly, to begin with.
I said this is an ecumenism thread for Apostolics and Protestants. You Baptists claim to be neither of these things, so why are you here?
Lincoln Thompson
not seething, just realistic. you don't think that Jews would let their greatest enimeies actaully reband and becoming a supreme powerhouse without at the very least subversion?
Nathan Adams
Sources? He seemed a cool bro.
Lucas Morgan
Well then, it MUST be true
And ecumenism is an evil heresy from Satan that damns souls to hell.
A bit presumptive, don't you think? Tell me, how many quotes from which reformers would you like me to dump that completely shatter this false ecumenist narrative you're trying to construct? Maybe ones calling the pope the Antichrist, or perhaps ones declaring the Romish doctrine of salvation to be a false gospel that no man can be saved in, or perhaps ones that condemn your piety as idolatrous?
Noah Edwards
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Note the name of the book that the original poster references, "Crossing the Threshold of Hope."
I cannot actually find a link to the letter now from Ven. Pope Pius XII, but it was in an address around the time he canonized the Orthodox Saint Sergius of Radonezh in . Try looking into that. I hope knowing the book St. Pope John Paul II refers to him as a Saint in will help however.
Luke Davis
The Mahdi and Massiah will be the opposite of our Lord.
Jose Bailey
I actually cited sources, unlike you who are simply foaming at the mouth at the idea that the Churches can actually get along. I would suggest reading them. If you aren't Baptist, you're at the very least acting like a typical IFB.
Jaxson Robinson
nay, i would say just the opposite. He will be everything the Christains In Name Only and Hethans think a messiah should be, minus anything that would be "offensive". so close, "…that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."