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#Persecuted_Church #Evil #Last_Days #Fear_Not
Invading squatters squatting and invading.
Come Lord Jesus. Come quickly
A Catholic monk at Mar Elias pleads for calm as Israelis carried out several days of Zionist attacks and intimidation at the monastery in Haifa
Invading squatters squatting and invading.
Come Lord Jesus. Come quickly
A Catholic monk at Mar Elias pleads for calm as Israelis carried out several days of Zionist attacks and intimidation at the monastery in Haifa
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (Sami Tafesh)
☦️🕯️“HERESY ” IS AN ERROR IN THEOLOGICAL TEACHINGS , A TURNING AWAY FROM THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION ☦️
A "heretic" is simply one who maintains a "heretical doctrine." The sincerity and good will of the "heretic" is not in question. Nevertheless, "heresy" is evil, because it is a powerful means by which the Devil seeks to "prevail" against the Church—something he will not do, according to the Lord's promise (Matt. 16: 18). It must be distinguished from "splitting" (echiamos), "factions" (eritheiai), and "disputes" (dichostasai) which occur within the Church (Gal. 5:20). Heresy, at first, is a "leaving" or "falling away" from the Church (apostasia) and eventually hardens into a "sect" (hairesis). One may also be expelled from the community of believers on account of false teachings. The Scriptures call "heretics" "false teachers," "denying the Master," "deceivers."
Listen to what Saint Ambrose of Milan says about "heresy" and "heretics":
"Or, like same dread and monstrous Scylla, divided
A "heretic" is simply one who maintains a "heretical doctrine." The sincerity and good will of the "heretic" is not in question. Nevertheless, "heresy" is evil, because it is a powerful means by which the Devil seeks to "prevail" against the Church—something he will not do, according to the Lord's promise (Matt. 16: 18). It must be distinguished from "splitting" (echiamos), "factions" (eritheiai), and "disputes" (dichostasai) which occur within the Church (Gal. 5:20). Heresy, at first, is a "leaving" or "falling away" from the Church (apostasia) and eventually hardens into a "sect" (hairesis). One may also be expelled from the community of believers on account of false teachings. The Scriptures call "heretics" "false teachers," "denying the Master," "deceivers."
Listen to what Saint Ambrose of Milan says about "heresy" and "heretics":
"Or, like same dread and monstrous Scylla, divided
#Reflection #Millstone #Original_Faith #Evil #Dont_Conform
“Nothing created by God is evil. It is not food that is evil but gluttony, not the begetting of children but unchastity, not material things but avarice, not esteem but self-esteem. It is only the misuse of things that is evil, not the things themselves.”
- St. Maximus the Confessor
“Nothing created by God is evil. It is not food that is evil but gluttony, not the begetting of children but unchastity, not material things but avarice, not esteem but self-esteem. It is only the misuse of things that is evil, not the things themselves.”
- St. Maximus the Confessor
#Millstone #Last_Days #Evil
Guardian Angel crying at the cradle of the aborted child he was to guard.
Note: source and context unverified
Guardian Angel crying at the cradle of the aborted child he was to guard.
Note: source and context unverified
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (Orthodox Christian)
🌟☦️ Thy Resurrection, O Christ Savior, the angels hymn in the heavens; vouchsafe us on earth, with pure heart, to glorify Thee.
☦️ Knowing Jesus Today (& The Next Generation won't Stumble)
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Good one on #Family marriage etc..
#Knowing_Jesus #Original_Faith
1Cor 2:12-13
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
1Cor 2:12-13
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
#Apologetics #History #Reflection #Knowing_Jesus #Original_Faith
History, summary of heretical "Christian" churches. Then there is Orthodoxy
If you are a Lutheran,
your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.
If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIIl in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to re-marry.
If you are a Presbyterian,
your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.
If you are a Congregationalist,
your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.
If you are Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by Samuel Senbury in the American colonies in the 17th century.
If you are a Baptist,
you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1606.
If you are of the Dutch Reformed Church,
you recognize Michelis Jones as founder because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1774.
If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are Christian Scientist,
you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
If you belong to the International Churches of Christ,
your church was founded in 1993 when Kip McKean’s “Crossroads/Boston Movement” formally broke away from the mainline Churches of Christ.
If you belong to the mainline Churches of Christ,
your church arose from the Restoration Movement in the United States in the 19th Century.
If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as "Church of the Nazarene", "Pentecostal Gospel", "Holiness Church", or "Jehovah's Witnesses", your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past hundred years.
If you are Roman Catholic,
your church shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history, since during the first millennium they were one and the same Church. Lamentably, in 1054, the Pope of Rome broke away from the other four Apostolic Patriarchates (which include Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem), by tampering with the Original Creed of the Church, and considering himself to be infallible. Thus your church is nearly 1,000 years old.
If you are ORTHODOX Christian,
your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that time. Our church is now almost 2,000 years old, and doesn’t need to be restored by any “Restoration Movement” because it’s still right here; it never disappeared, fell into heresy, or went dormant. And it is for this reason, that Orthodoxy, the Church of the Apostles and the Fathers is considered the true "one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church." This is the greatest legacy that we can pass on to the young people of the new millennium.
History, summary of heretical "Christian" churches. Then there is Orthodoxy
If you are a Lutheran,
your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.
If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIIl in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to re-marry.
If you are a Presbyterian,
your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.
If you are a Congregationalist,
your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.
If you are Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by Samuel Senbury in the American colonies in the 17th century.
If you are a Baptist,
you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1606.
If you are of the Dutch Reformed Church,
you recognize Michelis Jones as founder because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1774.
If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are Christian Scientist,
you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
If you belong to the International Churches of Christ,
your church was founded in 1993 when Kip McKean’s “Crossroads/Boston Movement” formally broke away from the mainline Churches of Christ.
If you belong to the mainline Churches of Christ,
your church arose from the Restoration Movement in the United States in the 19th Century.
If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as "Church of the Nazarene", "Pentecostal Gospel", "Holiness Church", or "Jehovah's Witnesses", your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past hundred years.
If you are Roman Catholic,
your church shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history, since during the first millennium they were one and the same Church. Lamentably, in 1054, the Pope of Rome broke away from the other four Apostolic Patriarchates (which include Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem), by tampering with the Original Creed of the Church, and considering himself to be infallible. Thus your church is nearly 1,000 years old.
If you are ORTHODOX Christian,
your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that time. Our church is now almost 2,000 years old, and doesn’t need to be restored by any “Restoration Movement” because it’s still right here; it never disappeared, fell into heresy, or went dormant. And it is for this reason, that Orthodoxy, the Church of the Apostles and the Fathers is considered the true "one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church." This is the greatest legacy that we can pass on to the young people of the new millennium.
1Cor 2:14-16
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Forwarded from The Orthodox Ethos