Well I could not decide between Catholicism and Orthodoxy at first. Catholicism was logical and rational, but Orthodoxy had the emotional/spiritual edge. I ended up as Byzantine Catholic, very happy about this decision.

As an Orthodox Christian (unworthy of the title I carry) I feel some of the same things sometimes and it is not easy. I greatly appreciate Erick's response, and I feel that it eased my anxiety a bit as well. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you all!

Small towns in Texas still have Cathollics. Some have to travel 30 miles or more to attend mass, but they are there and are part of the community.

I had been worrying about this topic, spending hours in prayer, and received a dream, in which Jesus' hands were braiding various colored ribbons into one strong rope; after that dream, I no longer had anxiety about whether other denominations would be saved.

This short clip was such a blessing. I am coming out of a time of anxiety and frustration digging through all of this and I am still finding a peace within it. It was good to hear this dialogue

I watched a load of orthodoxkyle videos on Catholicism and It’s made me start leaning towards orthodoxy.

Erick's disposition of being able to admit the perhaps he has some intellectual blinders is very laudable. His perspective has become the same as mine after completing my own long and difficult discernment into Orthodoxy vs. Catholicism. Ultimately one has to make a leap of faith. Our intellectual capacity, certainty, and conclusions are not what saves. It's very tempting to end up implicitly trusting more in ourselves than in Christ in the game of intellectual wrestling with Catholicism vs Eastern Orthdoxy vs Oriental Orthodoxy. It was a hard lesson I had to learn (i.e. to let go of absolute intellectual certainty).

"I wish I had the faith of my grandmother who just didn't care" I think I was like that before I became more educated in my faith, which social media, especially podcasts and youtube has allowed me to do. I listen to theologians, lay people, priests, and then have another stack of books to read. I don't know if I would have done that if I didn't have so much information at my fingertips.

Wow, this is exactly what I'm struggling with. Not Catholic, not Orthodox, ex-Protestant. Searching for the true church. This was sent from the Spirit. My rabbit hole is literally at the bottom and apart from letting go all together, I'm fully more convinced that when asking what church is true, I'm reminded that Jesus said he is Truth. Like Pontius Pilate asked, what is truth, and it was staring him right in the face. Thank you for this. It was helpful.

Ybarra is a great resource, wonderful guest!

Only Catholicism requires me to learn to submit my intellect and will so completely, to trust so completely. I want to have acquired this virtue before I die. I'm Catholic, therefore, until then.

This made more sense then a lot of them…God bless you…+Fr.James

Love watching your videos from Perth Australia. I wish my adult children would turn back to Jesus and their Catholic faith.

As a non Catholic brother whose channel is all about coming together in the unity Messiah prayed for I love this. As I have been studying the divisions of our history and how we got to where we are now I realized that every camp and denomination in the faith has both correct and incorrect. This has also been true in my own doctrine and how I walked out my faith. The longer I have been a believer the more my prayer has become " Lord show me your ways and give me the strength to walk them out. More of You and less of me is what I desire". More of God's ways and less of men's.

I truly think there are things we can learn from each denomination of Christianity. Jesus knew that leaving the Church in human hands would eventually lead to conflict. Thankfully he paid the price for all and not for few.

Praise God for you both.

Oh thank you so much for this video… a big release for me right now….

This is a very foundational clip. Super important. The fact a person has a thirst for the Truth is an act of the Holy Spirit in and of itself. All roads lead to Rome

This is a very wholesome clip. Thanks guys

Couldn't have said it better! This man is 💯.

I really, really needed to hear this right now.

I am converting to Orthodoxy, but I respect you guys

Thank you, Matt, for having Erick on, great discussion! Fr. Ripperger says God has mercy on two types of people: the clueless and the contrite. But most of us aren’t much of either. Chesterton says that the human intellect is free to destroy itself. If I’m minutes away from death, like the good thief, it’s very simple. But most of us aren’t literally hanging on a cross, we have the much scarier cross of time, time to blow it! I can think my way to perdition just as well as I can to holiness. I think that’s why we can easily imagine our Lord having mercy on anyone who sincerely cared about the truth through life and actively sought to deepen their knowledge and understanding of Him who is Truth. If they/we don’t get it spot-on perfect, there’s purgatory. But ultimately what we believe about Him does matter. That’s why, regardless of the scandals that have sullied the Church every day since Judas, the Church’s intellectual tradition is the one that has gotten into the ring, if you will, with human rationalism as the opponent and sophistry as the opponent’s tactic, and come out the champion. What other tradition has withstood the kind of scrutiny the Church of Rome has? If faith and reason are happily married in eternity, Catholic faith and teaching give our Lord the most benefit of any doubt, doubt as a normal gut sensation, not as a position to be defended.

Thanks for sharing. As someone who has been attempting to get closer to God. I was literally just thinking last night on my present view. I don’t think it matters which avenue (denomination) of Christianity you end up on as long as it, and the church, lead you to God. I figure that should be the point, yea? Trying to decipher which route is the best and ultimate is exhausting. That said, I suppose it’s natural to ponder on “but is there a right RIGHT way?” But I think either way, and I may be wrong, I’m experienced. However, young in the faith. Grew up in it. Stepped away from it for a decade, now have catching up to do. But my view is that Christianity is Christianity. I like to think as long as I’m trying to meet God that he will meet me where and as I am. That whatever avenue(s) I’m meant to take he will lead me on. That he’ll show me the right way(s) to go about things.

I appreciate talks like this. I agree. God bless.

Excellent. Convinced Protestant here, but appreciate the charity of Erick and Matt.

I've always said, looking at the world and those whom we know have spoken for God, it seems clear that we are not condemned or saved on account of errors in history or theology.

I studied intensely for years until I felt pretty sure my only options were either orthodox Anglicanism or confessional Lutheranism. Then one Sunday I went to the nearest church, returned the next week and the next, and just kept doing that until it became my church. My ears and mind are still open, but I’m no longer losing sleep due to ecclesiastical anxiety.

I was in the same boat. For every denomination there seems to be an apologist debunking or refuting each other. I went to a Catholic church and I felt the Holy Spirit there, yet when I went with my family to a Dutch Reformed church for Good Friday and Holy Communion, I felt that same presence that the Holy Spirit is here too. Which was good, because as excited as I was about becoming Catholic, all that excitement died out instantly when I was told I must do 2 years of RCIA. I've never went to Divine Liturgy at a Orthodox church but I would like to attend one, and who knows maybe that would become my permanent home.

I have a feeling God will instantly blow all our minds with how simple the truth of all our disagreements is, and we'll think "oh of course, that was so obvious all along". I'm a relatively new Christian and as a scientist I had to learn not to depend on my analysis. I am sure that God has led me to my local Greek Orthodox Church and I have found myself agreeing with Orthodox theology but I know there are people who know much more about church history and theology than I probably ever will on all sides of every debate. So the way I see it, bearing Romans 2 in mind, God will be more interested in whether I sought to be obedient to Him than what my opinions on mysteries only He fully understands are. I am satisfied that I am in a church being healed sacramentally in the same manner as Christ and His Apostles prescribed. Whether everyone else is, is for God to judge. I would not be surprised if sheep come from all parts when our good shepherd calls us. And if goats are found everywhere too. Maybe in time I will know more but hopefully only if it actually matters. Apologetics can give us intellectual permission to seek God but that's just the beginning of life in the Kingdom so it has limited worth and we shouldn't be afraid to move on once we're satisfied.

Finally, someone who understands. Did Catholics die for you, did Eastern Orthodox, did Coptic, did Protestants? Are you'll still carnal and still drinking milk. The foolishness of God is wiser than man and weakness of God is stronger than man. Whatever God called you in, as long as it is true according to the Spirit, the word, and the faith, trust the Lord that He is leading you.

I’m a Lutheran and really liked this video. I’ve had many Catholics worship in my church and say “Wow, you guys are more Catholic than we are!” I don’t say this in a boastful way, but to point out that I like those moments when it feels like the distance between us is not as large as we sometimes make it out to be.

This is why protestantism makes no sense. If the Catholic Church is true, you don't need to be a scholar to be a good Christian, you can have simple faith, trust, and obey the teachings of God through scripture, Tradition, and the Church. But if protestantism is true, you are expected to know the truth for yourself, which means you need to have a scholarly level of knowledge and understanding to truly be saved or you may end up in the wrong beliefs. Every protestant knows from their pastor, I never had a pastor that said otherwise, that we are to not trust anyone but need to seek the truth for ourselves. The level of knowledge it takes to really know for yourself is more than you can expect from the average person, and that's just speaking of today where the average person can read and has access to more knowledge than any generation in history for free at the click of a button and stroke of a few keys, just imagine how unrealistic God expecting us to know for ourselves the truth or burn would be in ages past where knowledge was less available, people had less free time to study, and people were less able to read and understand. This is one of the major problems that led me out of protestantism and home to the Catholic Church. If you really take protestantism seriously, it will either drive you insane trying to find the full truth on your own or drive you home to the Catholic faith.

I think it matters, but God already gives us so much grace. I think that things like this are something that he holds teachers to account for more than the average Christian.

I love this guy. He’s completely correct. Just these last few years as a Protestant I really wanted to learn the history of the church. What exactly do these 3 main sides believe. They all have things I agree with and all have things I disagree with. I genuinely believe that the two biggest take aways from the Bible - for me - are John 3:16 and then the thief on the cross only asked. That’s it. All he did was ask Jesus to please let him go home with HIM and Jesus accepted him.

Great conversation

Matt's intro speech reminds me of my favorite scene from Lord of the Rings: Frodo: "I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo (boomers) was meant to find the ring (postmodernism), in which case you (millennials) also were meant to have it - and that is an encouraging thought! ;)

I am neither but respect any view within the scripture ... And I am a fan of this show.

I think it can come down to an individuals honest attempt. if you believe something you know is false, of course God will hold you to a higher degree of responsibility than one who was deceived.

Thank you for this. It's been one of my stumbling blocks to joining any type of church at all. This "my dad can beat up your dad" thing. There's a whole lot of "stuff" that goes with being Catholic that sometimes make my eyes cross. I see some of these conversations with Latin words, names of saints, historic events being thrown about and I just get lost! Perhaps the pluralism of the Protestant branches are gifts from God to bring as many people to Christ as possible. Not everyone learns the same.

Many many thanks

Lol! You spent a good amount of time in our Coptic parishes to know our vocations 😂.

Oh my goodness, of course it matters. Protestants don't believe in the Blessed Mother, that in and of itself is blasphemous to our sweet Lord. The Catholic faith is the one true faith, period, please don't wobble on this.

I came to this same conclusion as I decided to convert to Orthodoxy from Catholicism.

Beautiful

I go to my local church for it is the church of my neighbors. I am puzzled by people who drive for hours to reach the "perfect" church when the teachings of our Lord call us to love our neighbors. "Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church." - Saint Ignatius of Antioch -

Me too a simple narrative, just BE in Christ. Envy yes.

I truly don't know but... I think that there is a perfectly correct path to follow. Just cause our culture, society, and/or traditions completely ignores it for generations until its lost doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This path to perfection where u meet more and more temptations or sins, (Presbyterian, orthodox, sspx... etc.), gives u more to choose from making ur decisions that much more meaningful. So yea, it's all gud (problems and solutions), cause God never gives us more than we can handle Gb 🤙

Peter is quoted in the Apostolic Constitutions as saying that Linus was the first bishop of Rome and ordained by Paul. Peter and Paul also founded Antioch and Peter WAS a bishop (resident overseer) of the Antiochian Church.

It certainly matters.

This scriptures says this-That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows. But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required. Marino Restrepo, who had a mystical experience and was taught by Jesus, said that each person will be judged by what he knew. If he is an Lutheran, he will be judged by Lutheranism, he is Catholic, he will be judged by Catholicism.

I needed up going Anglican but I can’t shame anyone for their choices either. Especially while the Body of Christ is divided in our era.

Theological escape room, great metaphor.

Erick is exactly my sentiments. Im convinced of Christ and the Bible is absolutely correct. 100%. Every other religion is wrong. BUT the denomation I do not know. Born as orthodox but considering catholic or protestant.

Amen. I was raised in a Catholic family, my grandmother was an Orthodox Christian who influenced me greatly, I had a life changing encounter with Jesus and am a born-again evangelical. What is most important, to believe in Jesus and have a relationship with him to the best of your ability. Comparing different Christian traditions can become a stumbling block. All of mankind falls short of the glory of God. All Christian traditions are imperfect because sinful people are involved. Whether Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant look unto Christ and surrender to Him. The rest leave it to God, He will guide you to where He wants you. Everyone is unique and is at different stages on their journey in life and with God. Let's respect each other and encourage one another to be the best followers of Christ that we can be. We need to build each other up and not tear each other down. God bless you my brothers and sister in Christ. Jesus is Lord.

I’m reminded how on a few occasions, Jesus says to the Jewish people “if you are willing to accept it...” (that John the Baptist was Elijah, etc...) I wonder if that same principle applies to aspects of Christianity. Sometimes there are teachings that for whatever reason, a person is unable to accept. They may even WANT to believe but find themselves unable at the moment. Does God exclude them from the faith entirely? Perhaps he allows a lesser way - according to what a man is capable of believing.

If one was right vs the other.. how can we explain the documented miracles across orthodoxy and catholicism and other denominations of Christianity..🤔 that's what I've been thinking lately..

Our number one main goal should be to love God Our Father with All our strength. Loving him in every person we see. The Holy Spirit takes care of the rest If we rest in Our Father. Jesus Christ our Lord will take us by the hand, to Our Father. The moment you realize you are His baby, that’s all you need. God is number 1 number All in our lives. It doesn’t matter if anyone takes our eyes away and we can’t see, if we can’t read, if we can’t hear, if we can’t touch. God will take care of it because we have His heart. Believe like a child, Be that child. Be God’s child. The moment you realize who you are, there’s nothing else to know. His babies. We are His. The moment you Love Our Father like the Father He is there’s no more struggle. The moment you feel and understand his Love there’s no more questions. If anyone doesn’t feel God’s Love my advice would be to practice loving people. Practice, practice, practice loving as strongly as you possibly can. Practice God’s language. If anyone doesn’t hear God, practice praying, practice, practice, practice praying. God should be the one and only person you should be talking too mainly. So If you as yourself, Who do I talk to the most? And the answer isn’t God, practice. If you ask yourself who do you love the most? If the answer isn’t God, practice. Father, Father, Father, My Love, My Father. We’re here and I love you. Amen

Blind Faith as a child's is real peace;)

Of course it matters, and I'm really put off by this Protestant way of thinking that so-called Catholics have adopted. We have always taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.

Heal the Schism

Guys, I was a missionary for years in Africa. (I am a Christian) There is only one church. We are in it. In Africa many lovely christians I know have never met a catholic, or an orthodox christian..they would have no idea of the difference. Stop being so complicated. The nicene creed about does it as far as I am concerned.

Pluralism in every sense of the word. I'd rather agree to disagree than fall into relativism.

I find myself believing in Cathicism in theory - in her infallible, integrated, Magisterial single-source teaching and as the means for Christian unity, but believing more in Orthodoxy in practice.

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Absolutely beautiful

Jesus suffered and sacrificed for hours for my soul I’m his. Amén 🙏🏼

Ok good this one

Our Lord on the breakaway branches , John 15 " .. I am the Vine and you are the branches . as long as you remain in me and I in you , you bear much fruit , but apart from me you can do nothing . Whoever does not remain in me , is like a withered branch that is thrown way and withered branches are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned.." But Our Lord also said : Whosoever believes in me, will not perish .. All is not lost for them who are Not Roman Catholics. It can be described in form of concentric circles around the Lords throne. The innermost circle belongs to the Lords Bride , the Catholic church and then comes the rest of the circles on the fringes I am guessing the "Jehovah witness". Still incensed over sabbath and Our Lord I am the Lord of the sabbath" hush!!

Jesus is the perfect unifying figure. As the church, we bow to him and everything else will gets worked out.

I was Orthodox for 16 years. It might have a valid communion, but the historical contradictions led me to leave for Rome.

Jesus is the Truth. Hystory of his Church is a Mistery only him known. The Body of Christ-Church on this World is his Body on the Croos! The Spirit of God giuds us to the Truth… and then to the Church. We serve the Church with Christ the Head! and then the Church servs us!

Christianity is a love affair before it can be anything else. The Person of Christ has to be embraced above all things. But Jesus also declared himself The Way which means there are other paths that can lead one astray. The travelers on the Emmaus road were instructed about the Scriptures and their need to understand God’s plan and it’s fulfillment in Christ. So there is a fundamental importance of understanding our proper relationship with God and the necessity of Christ’s life and death. Having said all that, I will not condemn any man, women or child who honestly and heartily seeks Jesus and desires to love, know and serve Him.

God is just - I have faith in His absolute justice. It’s heresy as well as absolute ridiculousness to think that mankind is *more* just and *more* merciful than the Father.

I don't think I will ever trust the papacy, but I sincerely believe no salvation outside of Christ and that the responsibility to be in the true church (the body of Christ) only rests on scholars of Christianity. Only once you know the truth can you truly reject it. Thus I am about to become an orthodox catecumen.

Not just that is matters, but is rather question of life & death.! No wonder we Orthodox have a slogan: Orthodoxy or Death (Orthodoxia e Thanatos). Every heresy separates from God, as heresy is a lie and thus negation of God, Who is The Truth. Negating the God by believing in heresies puts one away from God.

In my estimation answer lacks clarity. This is why. True Christian Faith can't be reductionist or boiled down. Not even C S Lewis does in his 'Mere Christianity'. Question should have been dealt in two ways. Objectively and Subjectively. Objectively speaking Christ has founded His Church plus Sacraments. Subjectively speaking every Christian may not arrive at the objective Truth. According the answer provided the deposit of True Faith should be confined to 'only' a faith in the divine Person of Christ and not more than that. Thanks to Catholic Church, we all have Christological Truths preserved. As there's One Person in Christ, there's Only One True Church, the Sacrament of Salvation. So in my estimation speaker doesn't deal with it

Eric Ybarra is wrong on his position. I literally heard him say in another video on 'Pints with Aquinas' that he recommended that someone leave the church and check out Eastern Orthodox because "from his experience, people came back to him and accepted Catholicism". My question would be, what if they didn't come back? Either way, you literally aided in sin of schism. He identifies as a "persuaded Catholic" which simply means he is still on the fence. How can you fully accept the Holy Catholic And apostolic church, as put in the apostles creed, while simultaneously on the fence regarding the validity of the church?

Anyone who want to understand God's Word (scriptures) has to be in the guidance of the Holy Ghost. God the Holy Spirit only guide people that search and humble themselves before God the Father. God the Father will only please and show His mercy to those who accept His Word (Lord Jesus Christ).

I look at it this way ...we can overestimate Jesus's justice and underestimate His mercy....at the same time we definatley should not take Him for granted with respect to His mercy. Jesus said that not all who say Lord Lord will be saved....He wished we become one as He and the Father is one....He founded one holy Catholic and apostollic Church. There is no salavation outside the Church...Jesus is the way, the Truth and the Life. Nuance....you must be sincerely seeking Christ and have invincible ignorance to have the chance to be saved....it is possible but do you want to take that chance versus knowing His true Church....this doesn't mean all Catholics will be saved just as anyone else...nonCatholics, atheists, Jews, agnostics, Protestants etc. will be. Remember it is harder for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle to get to heaven...something like that :). It may be possible with the truth folks do know and the sacraments they have not all 7 for protestants etc only thru God's grace and mercy that they could be saved...but at least a Catholic knows they have all the means to get to heaven if they seek and act on it....go to confession often....and hopefully before and on your deathbed then you will know you will make it...otherwise taking that chance on faith and mercy....we should beleive in God's mercy....it is wishful and comforting thinking that we may be being to legalistic and scrupulous but being too lax and having a lax soul is dangerous as well...better to take the hard path and do all Jesus commanded and be pleasantly surprised when we meet Him that maybe we were harder on oursleves than He as hopefully we walk thru the gates of heaven than not to find and search Truth in His Church and overestimate His mercy and then oh no! Another way for Catholics would be if I was dying and was not able to get to a priest to hear my last confession...better make that Act of Contrition fast....especially if u knew you had a mortal sin.....but it has to be a perfect Contrition...if not you are goofed objectively speaking because it is hard to make a perfect act of contrition (yes have faith....God is merciful) ...but we know we are weak....why wait so long and take a fateful chance versus going to confession earlier and seeking to be holy then if you dropped dead out of the confesional you would objectively go tp heaven. There is no such thing as assured salvation...once saved always saved but we can have some certitude that if we are doing these things we will get there because God knows our heart and He is merciful...but don't ever take your salavation for granted...that is the point of my rambling..... The Orthodox are the second ling they have valid priests and sacraments the sticking issue is authority and the Pope...so they have the means of salvation yet if they discovered the Pope was true and rejected it that objectively puts them in peril just as anyone else who found out the Catholic Church is true and rejected it...this goes back to what is invincible ignorance? It means thru no fault of their own ......but if you find Truth and reject it then you are culpable...Jesus said to his apostles those who reject you reject me....remember that.

I'm Protestant while I disagree with tons of the Catholic Church I do believe that we are all Brothers and sisters in Christ as long as we believe in Christ and follow the laws of God if you don't then you're not a brother or sister in Christ and you are in danger of hell but I do believe that Catholics and Protestants will both go to God and go beyond the pearl Gates.

Is there a spiderman meme of a catholic, orthodox, and… eastern Catholic.

Honorius, Liberius, Vigilius...Francis? Time will tell.

Mr. Fradd, a honest concern about the video: As far as I know, Catechism of Catholic Church is clear about the issue (catholic church is the most perfect one and should, therefore, be a church everyone (ideally) chooses; it is the church Christ created, wanted and still wants). Since councils of bishops are infallable in teaching, I believe that CCC will not teach something outside the Truth. I understand the longing for simplicity and charity but even "good intentions" can sometimes be nothing else than well masked bad/rebellious/egoistic activity inside of us. Plus, the only "simplicity" that we need to seek is carrying the cross; every day until our "end", believing Christ that our church will not fall and that it is guided by the Holy Spirit. So, what about inviting to our church instead of trying to focus on the negatives and neighbour's fabled greener grass? No one said our faith/our life would be easy... do you thing being tortured, stripped of clothing and good name, hanging on the cross, suffocating for hours, was easy? And He is perfect... so who are we, sinners, to complain? Have faith that God will not put something too heavy on you; He knows what's best for you, for every single one of us. Omnia ad maiorem Dei gloriam

Is there anywhere we can go and not worship God? We can be in a prison cell and worship Christ. It is when we play the tribalism game that we forget that Christ opened the door for us to enter, not given us a door that we can shut on others if they don't meet our criteria. Remember,it was, "while we were still sinners that Christ died for us." If we are humble and come to God with a repentant heart, it doesnt matter what denomination we subscribe to. The desert fathers worshiped God in a cave. Remember that.

Yes, it does matter. Until, at least, the Catholic Church erase the "Filioque" from the Creed. It seems to me that the catholic answers just don't add in this regard. Very probably, I don't understand correctly.

Sorry, I don’t buy the idea that a person just believes in Jesus and goes straight to heaven. Much more is needed to reach heaven, such as actually stop sinning, always repenting, always apologizing to Jesus for all sins with an honest and genuine determination to stop sinning. The church issue is simple: Which church helps and makes you to stop sinning, to help you to repent and everyday to be a follower of Jesus teachings and fulfill those teachings to your best ability.

So first there was the Catholic church then the Orthodox split .....it's not the other way around .

Yes, it matters! It matters! The catechism is very clear there is no salvation outside Mother Church. This is not an opinion of mine, but is a traditional Catholic teaching. Eric and Matt are very nice, but niceness doesn't mean they are teaching Catholic truth 100%.

Of course it matters we have the Patriarchate of Rome pope Leo IX who left the Church that Jesus built and went on their own ways with the Grand Schism of 1053 AD and took the name Roman Catholic then the other 4 Patriarchates had to take a name because from one church after 1053 we have 2 Churches. the other 4 patriarchates are still together until today Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch, and Alexandria and took the Name Orthodox=Correct Doctrine. Rome has heresies and inventions, Orthodoxy still Unchanged for the past 2000 years.

Orthodoxy is the ORIGINAL/TRUE/APOSTOLIC faith...starting with Christ! ☦ This is just basics, you can find in any theological book. THE ROOT, the unaltered christian faith! Do your own research and also attend the services...but please pay attention to everything! Read the 'Lives of Saints', for me was the best reading! May Jesus Christ illuminate you and show you the true way! 🙏☦

PELAGIAN

John Paul, Benedict and Francis have all said that Orthodox Laity and Priests should remain obedient to their local bishops and that Orthodox/Roman relations come down to a jurisdictional disagreement. Benedict said that the Pope never had jurisdiction over the Eastern Patriarchates. The bishop of Rome never ordained every bishop in the world prior to the schism.

The difference is contraception and divorce & remarriage. Yes, it matters.

There are many lovely flowers in Christ’s garden, such as Catholi Lily, Eastern Orchidox, Mainlinaria, Church of Christanthemum, Latter Day Salvia, Non-Decarnational, Zinnianic Jews, etc.

"YHWH. He is an outsider, a foreign god-no, a foreign entity who appeared out of nowhere alongside El and Asherah, who claimed he was a "dear friend and brother", before raising up the heavenly hierarchy and became one of the top-tier gods. I supposed it doesn't matter now. He has practically abandoned our pantheon in all but name, especially seeing that he's now the God of the Jews, Lord of Israel, and Mr. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". -HADAD.

You do not listen. Listening to each of you leaves me wondering, why do you not listen to JESUS. JESUS - Thou Art Peter And Upon This Rock I Will Build MY Church" Peter became JESUS' FIRST Pope. JESUS TALKED of NO OTHER CHURCH. If you are not able to comprehend that - you should not have a Platform on You Tube.