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I’ve recently come to the Orthodox Church from evangelicalism. Will pray for you.

I've seen you around around the Orthodox KZfaq Sphere move from evangelical Christianity to Orthodox Christianity. Seeing your growth is inspiring, may God bless you. 🙏🏾☦

@@olubunmiolumuyiwa thanks so much for the comment. Yes my family and I have been on a journey to the Orthodox faith. Coming from our evangelical paradigm has been quite the transition and it has definitely required sacrifice and surrender. Maybe someday after we’re a bit further along I’ll write about it or make a video. Not that I am anyone special, but I’ve certainly benefited and been encouraged by the testimonies of others who came into the Church after being in other Christian groups.

Yes, but it's risky to assume you will have a deathbed.

It’s tragic to see an Orthodox parish used for such “philanthropy.” I heard things in the Greek parishes in Australia were especially dreadful. However, the bishops of the Serbian and ROCOR Churches in Australia held the line with COVID restrictions far, far better. It looks like there are parishes in both jurisdictions in your city. Here are links to their parish directories: Serbian Orthodox: soc.org.au/en/directory/parishes/45-victoria ROCOR: www.rocor.org.au/?page_id=2 Let me know if this helps.

Thank you, I will see which one is closest to me. I look forward to more content.

Agus tusa féin!!! Cén fagh go bhfuil Tom Crean le taispeáint ar do profíle? Gabh le mo scéal ó mo bhotúin in ar theanga dhúchais. Beannacht Dé ort

Have you asked God to help you understand? This kind of literature is common in Orthodoxy, at least among the saints. As Elder Ephraim, a man many felt had great joy in his heart, said, “The memory of death should flourish in the soul of a Christian.” Remembrance of death awakens us to reality, sobers our passionate heart, and make us run to our sweet Savior because we sense what we often ignore: our great need for Him.

You also might find this text helpful Keep Thy Mind In Hell and Despair Not - St. Silouan and St. Sophrony kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJZzdtt32q6ZeWg.htmlsi=-QuqgHQZPRY_v7Of

Not at all doomed, Brother! Begin with prayer and seek out an online community to start: there are many. Ask around to see what can be done, because something can be.

You can always listen somewhere else, brother

You said it right... that Lord is Lord of the living... and those people whose skulls are handled are not dead either. They are alive and well with he Lord. We call them Saints. And we love our Saints as Lord dwells in them, according to the Scriptures, and we Love our Lord who trampled down death by death and to those in the tombs bestowed life.! BTW: Adoration of the relics is not a worship. Pagans like you think it is while in Christianity it is not.

@@johnnyd2383 ''and those people whose skulls are handled are not dead either. They are alive and well with he Lord. We call them Saints.'' No, they are not alive. Nobody looks at the spirit of grandma and says 'Oh, look, there's grandma, alive and well.'' They say, 'oh look there's the spirit of our deceased grandma'. The human being is only alive when he/she is flesh and blood with an intact, conscious brain. Even the Almighty Himself says 'man is but flesh'. ''Adoration of the relics is not a worship. Pagans like you think it is while in Christianity it is not.'' We can solve this dilemma right now. Show me an example of any Godly bible character adoring any relic and I'll throw in the towel right now. Surely Paul or Peter give us examples of this or maybe you have their personal endorsement of relics in a bible text. I'll wait.

@@johnnyd2383 ''we Love our Lord who trampled down death by death and to those in the tombs bestowed life.! '' According to Paul, this will only be experienced AT THE RESURRECTION, when we can gladly proclaim, ''Oh death where is thy sting, oh grave, where is they victory''. Sorry to burst your bubble, Johnny but there are no ghosts of saints roaming about the throne room of the Almighty in heaven above. ''And we love our Saints as Lord dwells in them, according to the Scriptures'' God does not dwell with the deceased spirits of dead people. He is God. He's not in the business of cutting corners. He RESURRECTS THE DEAD TO LIFE. He doesn't entertain ghosts. This is pure pagan, papist foolishness.

@@danielcristancho3524 In your paganistic perversion of the Bible, you seems to think that Lord's death and Resurrection achieved nothing when it comes to the state of the departed people. For your information, Lord, after dying on the Holy Cross, went down into the Hades and liberated souls that were held in it. Change was evident to all as described in (Matthew 27,51-53). Following are the details... Lord's descent into hades ---------------------------------------------- "He went and preached to the spirits in prison" (1 Pet 3,19), "gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." (1 Pet 4,6), (Eph 4,9), (Ps 16, 10), (Acts 2, 27). Lord's victory over Hades and death --------------------------------------------------------------- "And I have the keys of Hades and of Death" (Rev 1,18), (Acts 2,31), (Acts 2,24), etc. Liberation of the souls from Hades --------------------------------------------------------------------- It was prophesized in (Hosea 13,14), (Ps 106,16). He is the first one, others are to follow: (Col 1,18). (Rev 20,5) speaks about "...first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power," where first resurrection is accepting of the souls to be with the Lord in His Kingdom as (Rev 6,9) attests: "I saw under the altar the souls". (Rev 5, 8-14) depicts angels and elders - Saints worshipping God. St. Paul in his dilemma reveals to us that souls of the righteous are with the Lord and NOT somewhere else awaiting general resurrection: (Philippians 1) "23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST, which is far better. 24 Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you." Did St. Paul mean to depart and his soul to wait until general resurrection.? Nope. He clearly stated: "DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST". In (Hebrews 12, 1) we see Lord's Church being "surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses". Who are these witnesses.? It is revealed in the same chapter, verses (22 - 24) where entire Church Triumphant is revealed to us: 1. company of angels, 2. firstborn, 3. spirits of just men. And it is not a depiction of some future assembly, as it is clearly stated: "But YOU HAVE COME to Mount Zion" (present tense). ------------------------------------------ You will remain pagan unless you repent and come to your senses, get Baptized in ancient Lord's Eastern Orthodox Church and believe in sound doctrines as they were delivered to us from the Apostles. Why an I wasting my time with you.? I am not. I wrote this for those who may come around, so that they may read the original Christianity faith and realize how foolish virgins have no future with the Lord (Matthew 25, 12).

​@@johnnyd2383++ thanks for taking the effort!