Good for you👍

Brother leave

Eastern or Coptic?

Before you decide look into the Traditional Latin Mass. Also, the Catholic Church has 22 other rites which are all eastern. After the schism in 1054 as word traveled, not all eastern bishops thought it acceptable to be out of communion with Rome. They returned. The Catholic Church looks almost identical to the Church before the schism. God bless you on your journey

@@richardounjian9270 except for filioque, papacy, clown mass, indulgences, etc

What you are missing is the truth of the Bible. The manmade cult of orthodoxy has nothing to do with the Bibles Christianity. It is an antigod/antibible/antichrist abomination.

​@@awatchman-um7vyAs a Catholic what are you going on about

@@StarsBarsAndCheese ,...Catholicism and orthodoxy are sisters, and both are 100% antigod/antibible/antichrist cults. They are the false manmade religions of the accursed of God. Repent!

Too many white people. Orthodox could very well be the true church though. I don't think I'd fit in well with a bunch of Ethiopians even if I did decide that Enoch was canonical etc. Seems weird.

@@Volleyball_Chess_and_Geoguessr ,...Orthodoxy/catholicism has nothing to do with the Christianity of the Bible. They are both 100% apostate, Godless, manmade, abominations. They are the religions of the accursed of God.

That's what I'm saying. The EO Church in America is "changing hands"-- from a mostly ethnic one to a mostly convert one.

@@letruweldonothsa2622 Is that inherently bad? Just asking out of curiosity

​@@wiktorhoffmar1984it's dangerous because many converts refuse to actually convert in the heart and learn the theology so they effectively keep all of their protestant presuppositions with an Orthodox paint job over the top of it, when this happens they are like a hidden tumor in the church only to be revealed during the next apostasy.

@@wiktorhoffmar1984 It's far from bad, it's good and necessary if we want Orthodoxy to thrive in America in the future.

I think I've begun to see some pushback against this. While many Slavic and even Greek parishes have declined in membership, the Greeks atleast have created a formula that maximizes youth involvement and prioritizes teaching them the language. For this reason, I think it'll be quite a long time before the Convert parishes can grow large enough to compete with the Greek presence which will likely survive as the predominant and largest American Orthodox group for quite some time.

Orthodoxy has nothing whatsoever to do with the Christianity of the Bible. It is the false manmade religion (cult) of the accursed of God. Repent!

* Bharat 🇮🇳

Amen.

@@Questioner6969 ,...You are all completely blind, lost, and deceived. As well as outside of the kingdom of God. Completely steeped in deception. Repent!

God bless you brother

It will. The stats for Eastern Orthodoxy don't paint the full picture. Ethnic parishes are declining, while english-speaking, "Americanized" parishes are growing rapidly. Weekly attendance at my parish has nearly doubled in 2 years. The ethnic parishes will die off, and what will be left is a growing and thriving brand of uniquely American Orthodoxy.

I blame the "1 hour of Chad Orthodox Chants to redeem your soul" video lol

@methodius--9405Same man, I just started going to this Antiochian western rite church called Saint Patrick’s Orthodox Church in Virginia. It is very nice, there is around 300 people who attend it and man, it’s just amazing. The priest said after three months of attending I can become a catechumen there :D

In the Coptic church there is a lot of immigration and many marry Americans who must be baptized first. This accounts I think for much of the growth. Growth from evangelism that I’ve seen seems to be most in the Antiochian churches.

​@rynun7620 No exaggeration my first exposure to Orthodoxy, now I'm a Catechumen 😅

You will not be proud on judgement day when Jesus casts you into the lake of fire. Repent!

You need some pride to keep moving forward in life, but not so much that you have a massive ego and care about nothing but yourself

sister church🥰🥰 from ET

​Are you a Muslim? Wdym repent. How do you know he never has? @@awatchman-um7vy

Thank you, Kidus!

So curious about Ethiopian orthodoxy. I would love to read the books you guys have that we don’t. But last I checked they’re not translated yet? Is that still the case?

@@jas9friend A lot, if not all of the books in our Bible have been translated already. The book of Enoch is a good example - it has many audiobooks on KZfaq as well. I agree that we have a ton of books that are yet to be translated. I'll try to make a list of the ones that have been translated.

​@@kidusadugna5425 is there an online English translation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible ? I would like to study the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible

Why didn't God just help the Eastern Orthodox not fall into it in the first place though?

@@jas9friendEnoch is translated

What's Appalachian Orthodoxy? I live there and know of one Orthodox Church in town but have heard this term before

@@anluisa9960 it's a term I only just recently started to hear, basically it's a collective of Orthodox churches throughout the Appalachian that were once associated heavily with the Russian Orthodox Church, but for whatever reason seem to be establishing their own American traditions and values within the church. I don't think they have any major theological differences, rather I believe it's just the birth of a true American Orthodox Church that could possibly get accepted by the Bishop of Constantinople, maintaining the Orthodox way while ingraining American culture, allowing people to feel more connected.

@@anluisa9960it’s a nomenclature given to certain Antiochian parishes in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina that uses Appalachian style plainchant instead traditional Byzantine chant during services.

@@KYRonDonTongLongSchlong it doesnt matter whether the Patriarch of Constantinople accepts it, he isnt a supreme pontiff, it just has be be accepted by God and the Church as a whole, America is a difficult one, personally i assume it will have adlest 2 to 4 Orthodox Cultures, that of Alaska which is already firmly established, that of Appalachia, which is being formed and growing, then i assume the coasts will either accept the Appalachian tradition, mould their own, and if they mould their own it will either be together or separate, and God Willing the OCA will get a Patriarch

@@amygdala9857 very well said, perhaps my original comment was a bit ignorant. I do believe those on the coasts will either associate with Alaska or Appalachia Orthodoxy at some point, at least it is my hope. Better to all be united than divided further. The Appalachian culture is so beautiful and in my opinion it's beautifully fit into Orthodox tradition, I just pray it becomes an American beacon and people travel for miles upon miles to find themselves in the mountains.

As a Catholic I hope the best for you brother.

We should wish for them to stop being schismatics and recommune with us.

@@oliveri9407 I do. But it’s not black and white. E.g. Being an Evangelical is better than being Mormon.

​@@oliveri9407you have things backwards. The RCC is not only schismatic, but also completely heretical. Come back to the true faith. ☦️

@@oliveri9407Who? The Orthodox? We are the true Church.

@@ByZHellas Which eastern “orthodox” church? They’re inter-excommunicated and ethnically divided

They are not the same as Orthodox Christians. They have a heretical christology that makes salvation impossible

I bet the disaster of David Platt's takeover of Mclean Bible Church has boosted Orthodox Christianity around D.C. or greatly harmed protestant churches around D.C. People have heard bad things from way out of D.C. about what happened to that mega church.

Orthodoxy: Schism and heresy. No salvation outside the catholic church. The holy spirit proceeds from the father and the son as shown by John 16.

@@DylanGames1000 John 16: “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when He (He? Is this The Same Spirit?) The Spirit Of Truth comes, He will guide you into all The Truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that He will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to The Father is mine. That is why I said The Spirit will receive from me what He will make known to you.” Where exactly does this “prove” the “”filioque””? “I said The Spirit will *receive* from me what He will make known to you.” Receive. Nicene creed’s context states: “Who *proceeds* from The Father” (alone). Procession is not the same as receiving. Procession in the Nicene creed’s *context* equals creation. Theres no excusing or denying this either, Because you arent part of The Church. Quite idiotic of you to call My Faith “”pagan”” while you worship a heart.

@@DylanGames1000Just stop. 😢

​@@DylanGames1000your own church now denies no salvation outside the church, btw. It even asserts, blasphemously I might add, that the jews and muslims worship the same God. And no, the filioque is heresy. And again, your own church even acknowledges that the creed was recited without the filioque clause for the first 800+ years.

You really believe if you're not Catholic, you won't be saved? ​@DylanGames1000

It's a cult

@@mikebastiat The word 'cult' is highly disparaged among scholars of religion for several reasons, including its origins in debunked european racial theories, its charged and pejorative nature, and its incredibly vague and subjective definition. We as a society would do well to avoid using it.

​@@mikebastiatit's the true church of Christ, how can you call it a cult?

@@LSSD1292 Catholics claim the same thing.

@@mikebastiat i know

Be careful with what you mean by that. We have closed communion for a reason

@@tnyw872621h8474h9 what are you trying to convey?

Welcome to the bride of Christ. May our great Lord Jesus Christ bless you and confirm you in the faith.

Welcome home

why

@@one_step_sideways Cause it is the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church founded by Christ and his disciples that remained pure and didn’t fell to heresy

Mashallah

Actually, it is an abomination! Repent!

I´m a Greek Orthodox in South America i really love the Greek cause the bible was written in Greek and Christ is a Greek word, but all my Orthodox brothers are also part of my hearth

@@andresgalindo7682 ,...All those snared into orthodoxy are those who are outside of the kingdom of God.

@@danvinsontrailor2339 ,...Says God (the Bible). Repent, and learn what the truth, the gospel, and the Christianity of the Bible actually is.

@@danvinsontrailor2339 You do not learn Biblical truth nor the Bibles Christianity in the orthodox church, nor in any church. Everything called and known as the church is apostate from God. What the world/church knows as "the church" is not the church of Jesus. Jesus's church is a spiritual church not a physical church. Again, everything known as the church is all made up of those who went out from the apostles who were not of the apostles. "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." 1 John 2:19 KJV All the actual Christians are outside of everything known as the church. They are taught the actual truth of Gods word by the Holy Spirit, and are not deceived by the churches phony priests, pastors, preachers, teachers. If anyone has anything to do with anything known as the church, they are outside of the kingdom of God. "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2:27 KJV

And if your parish had anything to do with the truth and Christianity of the Bible you would see a decrease of 100% instantly.

@@forthosewitheyestosee8183Protestants ☕️

Coming from an Episcopal background you might also look into the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter and look for a Parrish near you. The Masses of theirs that I’ve been to are extremely beautiful and valid!

Chalcedon is a red herring on balance I think, and I can foresee a reconciliation between the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox in our lifetimes.

Catechumen in a Greek Orthodox church here and have had the joy of attending the liturgy at the Coptic Orthodox Church near me. I have had a few people give me their weak theological arguments as to why the Copts aren't the complete Orthodox Church. Bunch of bologna to me. They are Orthodox! God willing we will reunite in our lifetime.

@@nickdavila94 the wound is 1600 years long, but not so deep. It can be done.

@@nickdavila94 I've looked into reconciliation efforts between the 2 churches and it seems like many think that the differences between the two are mostly cultural and differences in translation, however some "Eastern" Orthodox Authorities hold that the anathemas proclaimed in later ecumenical councils must be accepted by the "Oriental" Orthodox to reestablish communion. A difficult situation that I thankfully I don't have to play a role in as a catechumen. Glory to our God in all things.

@@microcolonel At the Coptic Church I attended the priests were all hopeful. My brother was baptized in a Greek church and his priests were likewise hopeful.

@eucharistangel4662you come from a background that has polluted the definition of faith. You treat faith as if it is something that is stated and sits there idly. St. Paul’s definition of faith is “faith working through love.” Indeed, St. James agreed with him and taught us that “faith without works is dead.” Faith is kinetic. In Christ’s parable of the talents, the wicked servant could’ve believed in compounding interest all day and night. It is the fact that he did NOT ACT that got him kicked out into the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. The church fathers are in agreement that faith is not merely a text message you send a megachurch while sitting cross legged sipping on a latte.

@eucharistangel4662 you continue to bang your head against a wall and misdefine faith. Show me ANY early church father quote and I’ll show you that their definition of faith is KINETIC. Let your cherry-picking quotes commence so that we can save you from the blindness. Throw out good works to your own peril! May the intercessions of St. Paul and St. James heal you of your corruption.

@eucharistangel4662 and no one said that our works were sin cleansing. No amount of works can give us salvation. It is entirely through the grace of our Lord. BUT we still have to do our part and have a FAITH WORKING (Kinetic) through LOVE in order to be considered “good and faithful servants.” Join the demons if you merely want to call Him “Christ”

I hope so too, but we do not agree on almost everything. Denial of the Hypostatic Union is a HUGE deal and should not be taken lightly ever.

The Monophysites must renounce their heretical “saints” that were condemned at Chalcedon before anything can happen

I didn't even realize that there were any ethnic Russians at my ROCOR church until like a month of attending haha

I'm happy just being a protestant, the orthodox church is fine for many people. But to close to catholicism for me.

@@PatriotSFV1The early Christians weren’t a bunch of Protestants running around with nothing but their Bible and conscience. They had a visible church structure with bishops and deacons, and an oral tradition. Just a thought

Whenever the Orientals want to give up their heretical views of Christ they are welcome to do so.

The only reconciliation of for the Orientals to repent and convert.

Eastern Orthodox is much more similar to Catholicism (with both being Chalcedonian) than to Oriental Orthodox (which is non-Chalcedonian). First the Eastern Orthodox and Catholics need to unite before even considering Orientals.

@@RunawayYe they can not unite unless ths catholics denounce their innovations and repent, the orthodox will not allow it, maybe the corrupt Bartholomew will bring his church, but then he would just be eastern catholic and would not be recognized by 80% of other orthodox .

@@RunawayYe not so; though on paper the Oriental churches are "non-Chalcedonian", both Eastern and Oriental have acknowledged officially that their differences at Chalcedon were entirely semantic, and the Orientals are not hostile to the remaining councils. As for the Romans, though in theory the theology is reconcilable, they have decided within themselves many things that Eastern Orthodox would see as heresies. On paper going just by councils, we are much closer; but in practice the political machinations that caused the schism of 1054 have new political machinations to replace them; will Orthodox accept Pope Francis, a communist activist, as Ecumenical Patriarch? Will we change the powers of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (jurisdiction over autocephaly, for example) just in time for Rome to take its seat again?

Yea terrible. The Holy St Mary and St Pishoy Coptic Church in Los Angeles is stunning.

@@reidmartin6209 I will

I'm not entirely sure, but I know that some Tewahedo churches in USA have english services for the youth (that were raised in USA)

As a convert to Coptic Orthodoxy, I have met many converts to Coptic orthodoxy both in real life, and online. I have also met many more who converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church aswell.

Grabar is a form of Armenian that was spoken a thousand years ago, so most Armenians who are fluent in modern Armenian dialects have trouble understanding it. I have a friend who was recently ordained a priest in the Armenian Catholic Church. He has started to deliver the mass in English once a month and says it is going well.

Thats amazing! Godbless him and his Church. Also understandable they are having trouble understanding the language, Godwilling it can be understood more properly.@@anthonystreeter7808

The Ethiopian and Eritrean churches are supposed to use the language of the people but for cultural reasons that has been very slow, recently our youth have been advocating for it and doing a lot of work in that area. The habesha people in the US and Canada have been pretty "isolationist" from what I've seen

Cuz they were mostly ruled by Byzantine (Rome)

only certain dialects of arabic say this, not too sure abt Amharic or Tigriniya or Armenian

Thats literally what the Melkites are.

That was the previous generation, those who were raised going to Greek school and in Greek culture tended to stay in the Church, but many of them did not like their Greek cultural education or, more to the point, they didn't like that it marked them as an outsider in American society, so they didn't force the same experience on their children. It's that generation that became thoroughly 'Americanized' and left the Church; it's not that they converted to another religion or sect, they just became irreligious like most of American society, left to the suburbs and stopped going to Church altogether. American culture has had a corrupting and corrosive effect on every people who have migrated here, it's sadly just a matter of time until their cultural identity is subsumed into the greater culture. There was a lot of criticism about those Greeks who seemed to want to be 'Eastern Rite Anglicans' 30 years ago, those Greeks did not raise their children to be Greek or even particularly Orthodox. We're seeing the impact of that today in the once large urban parishes that were built around Greek immigrant communities. Similar effects can be observed in the Russian emigre communities that were very strong in the 20's and 30's, but have declined over the decades as their children became more and more Americanized.

The Greek parishes I've been around appear to have found a way to maximize youth involvement and teach them the language, from where I'm sitting, it'll be a very very long time before the Converts, with less money, less infrastructure, and far less population, can even compete with the Greeks.

@@the_albanian_meme6041 compete in terms of money and stuff sure. But that doesn’t really matter as much as being faithful. I’m not dogging all Greeks by any means

"Tikhon...was pushing for a truly American Orthodox Church, to eventually be autocephalous." But that is what the OCA is, and it has been autocephalous since I think 1970.

@@treewalker1070But the OCA is typical highly suspect and tends towards heresy.

@@MrWesford Really? Please explain.

​@@MrWesfordplease explain

@@treewalker1070 not under its own patriarchate

Even if you say this, the OOs are in the wrong for denying a council with correct theology and splitting themselves off from the rest of the Church, are they not?

​@@randomguy1453maybe you should ask a OO priest with open ears

@@The_Ballo perhaps I should, but in my study of history this seems to be the case rather than anything else, I may if the opportunity arises nonetheless if you would do the same for EO

@@The_Ballo maybe he could explain the Coptic icons of Jesus holding up one finger, which symbolizes their claim of one nature of Christ. the doctrine of fully human and fully Devine really isn't subject to nuance.

The Holy Spirit wouldn't allow a schism to exist for 1500 years over a simple language barrier. Some prominent copts have even denounced theosis as demonic even though it is clearly exposited by Saint Athanasius.

exactly, perhaps a timely reminder to all those megachurches that apparently abound in America too

Sunni Islam isn't one united thing though

@@POTATOSOOPS if you are to use the theological schools of Sunmi Islam as a denial of their unity, then we must also consider the theological schools of Catholicism to be an example of division in that communion, and I'm certain no catholic would allow such an accusation to be considered a just one. Sunnis consider themselves united on the key doctrine of Islam, which is to accept Muhammad as prophet and Allah as the one god, and the Shia schism over viewing the hier of Muhammad to be an additional key point in their doctrine. The reality for the situation is that Islam doesn't have as strict bounds of unity as Chrsitianity does, and so Islam is united on different a basis than us, but is united nonetheless and so fits the requirements of this argument (and if not Islam then we can also use the Arian controversy in which it is an accepted historical fact that most Christians of both laity and clergy would have affirmed the incorrect view of Christ before the Council of Nicea I in its nearly unanimous decision, save for 2 bishops, rendered its authority over both the laity and clergy, saving large swaths of Christians with an Arian Christology from their heresy.)

Trying to dunk on Catholics with Sunni Islam is a bit telling and a bit ironic considering Eastern Orthodoxy is overrun by the Islamic world.

@@Rome_77 the fact you feel the need to run over to a separate comment of mine from the other discussion wherein I demonstrated that you are not worth speaking to about such things due to your internal biases is telling of your own insecurities (as well as you throwing the accusation back at me to no success, as I am not anti-western, I am in fact a proponent of Western Rite Orthodoxy and will be visiting a WR liturgy soon, for your information) and personal fufillment needs to point the flaws of people on the internet (ironic for your pointing to my views as a solely online affair, i do in fact attend church and do all my irl requirements of my faith, and can see the reality of the Faith, whereas you have demonstrated the opposite, being a terminally online trad cath who seeks nothing more than "gotcha" moments on those who disagree with you), as I said before, have a good day, and I will apply the same position of not throwing my pearls to swine who cannot see their value. God bless, please do not respond to any of my comments further as I will have to go through the trouble of explaining this yet again. (And also your lack of knowledge that I was in fact a westerner proves you didn't read or comprehend at least one of my responses in our earlier discussion, wherein i used my position as a westerner to prove a point, which further shows your dishonor in engaging, or rather refusing to engage, with the points I have made)

By LA are you saying Louisiana or Los Angeles? I’m curious about how and where it has spread within the US.

HRC? I’m a convert at St Mark’s in LA.

I also live in L.A. and I have yet to meet a protestant who has converted except for those who have become tired of the leftist woke garbage of some "mainline protestant" churches. Evangelical protestantantism is growing rapidly, if you are from L.A. you should know that.

The Southern COC diocese is growing too. Me and 3 other adult concerts were baptized and chrismated in in the last few months. It's awesome.

For an English speaker is it difficult to convert and participate in the services? I am very interested in learning more...Episcopalian all my life.

μια μέρα, μια μέρα…

As soon as the west abandons their Heresy And joins the true church

You'll be waiting forever. You're waiting for the Pope to say he's not infallible?

there are plenty of coptic churches you can commune with in your region

People probably should have just become Orthodox to get away from Catholicism, not started protestantism.

We are definitely not in communion with the Monophysites. They would not be allowed to commune with us and we would be excommunicated for communing with them.

​@@MrWesfordstop with the slander.! Get to know your facts right before becoming a troll!

No Oriental Orthodox Church is in communion with any Eastern Orthodox Church. You are likely misunderstanding the Patriarchate of Alexandria as the Coptic Church. Same nation, different churches.

I don’t think I’m mistaken. In Antiochian Orthodox we have official limited intercommunion. The dire circumstances of Christians in Syria have provoked great cooperation. They really were Copts that were openly communed at my parish before they got their own parish going. Look into the Orthodox joint commission. This might not apply as much to parishes in North America, I think it depends on the Bishop, but it definitely does apply in some places. orthodoxjointcommission.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/unity-in-antioch/

This nonsense right here is why I will forever firmly remain Catholic. The dissension right here breeds further separation and isolates rather than have one episcopally elected head helping to mend divisions. Orthodoxy has valid Sacraments and means well but is a victim of the blind leading the blind.

Former presbyterian here, God spoke to my heart and called me home the moment I stepped into a Greek Orthodox Church in Phoenix, AZ. The beauty, the engagement of every one of the senses, and the theology embedded into every action and detail is truly the life abundant that Christ promised us.

I think you make a good point but I’ll add that in the most simplistic sense, with no offense intended, the evangelicals are filtering out more and more history and bears zero tradition, it’s been diluted down to simple feel good entertainment with no substance and certainly no sacrifice and therefore no real worship. I’m RC, not EO, and still 100% believe the the RC is more valid but the distinction for me is something like 51%-49% so it’s a net positive when people find themselves in the presence of valid Sacraments.

Yes, the entire church is 100% apostate. Without Gods mercy, no one would be saved. Thankfully, God will save a few. And the few God saves have nothing to do with anything known as the church.

Many are converting from Catholicism as well.

and many, like me, reverting from ortho to the True Faith@@ryrocks9487

There are more protestants in the U.S than in any other country.

And there are plenty leaving to become protestants.

Praying matters more than convincing, and if you want to convert others work first on purification. You can help your brother and sister when you see clearly.

The Russian Orthodox churches are also there for 100 years. It's evident that it's not the same reason as with protestantism. And no, ROCOR is not exactly as widespread as it could have been, mostly because Russians didn't simply migrate to the US, they migrated everywhere outside the Russian Empire.

Better than the nestorianism preached at evangelical and baptist circles

I disagree with that comment NO nestorianism preached at our BAPTIST church Sir. Nestorianism: Originally, Nestorianism envisaged the divine Word as having associated with itself at the Incarnation a complete, independently existing man. From the orthodox point of view, Nestorianism therefore denied the reality of the Incarnation and represented Christ as a God-inspired man rather than as God-made-man. We do not teach this if a Baptist church is teaching this then it is not Baptist , may the Father , The Son and The Holy Spirit be with You!@@VincenzoRutiglianoDiaz

These are heretical and contradictory teachings. The Eastern Orthodox Church is the true Church of Christ and is theologically perfect ❤️☦️

Reformed theology certainly has a Nestorian problem with respect to their Calvinistic insistence on penal substitution theory, wherein either the Logos had to depart from Jesus on the cross or else the Trinity would've been divided. (On the other hand, Lutheranism might have a monophysite problem with some peculiar conclusions drawn from the communicatio idiomatum.) It goes too far to say the Evangelical aversion to Theotokos language is "Nestorian" in and of itself, but I understand why many Orthodox and Roman Catholics would raise an eyebrow.

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why? They are not Orthodox.

@@gregcoogan8270 I know they aren't orthodox, I want him to make a separate video about them

I think that’s a good idea! The eastern Catholic churches tend to get forgotten. Whenever I see the word Catholic as a denomination, it usually has “Roman” in front of it, so I guess most people don’t know about Eastern Catholics. 🙂

I'd like to see him do a video with Father Casey Cole @breakinginthehabit

@@johncastaldo8635 the ultimate collab

I am Evangelical and put off by their : lack of Christian love as they keep calling me a heretic! NO , Thanks!

Remember, Oriential Orthodox are less Eastern Orthodox than Roman Catholics are ;)

​@@wheatandtares-xk4lp which is true and very confusing

​@@wheatandtares-xk4lpwhile this may be true, holding even one heresy cuts you off from the body of christ.

@@levitatingpotato109 That's not true at all. Not sure who taught you that but that's totally wrong. Misunderstanding God through no fault of your own does not condemn by itself.

@@wheatandtares-xk4lp it is your fault if you are shown the truth and deny it.

There are many Armenian and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Texas

Please search on google map coptic or Greek orthodox church on google map it will pop out

Both orthodoxy and catholicism are just sisters of the same false, manmade, Godless religion of scientism. Orthodoxy, catholicism, protestantism, are all false manmade Godless cults (sisters) that all belong to the one world religion of scientism. The actual Christianity of the Bible has nothing whatsoever to do with anything called or known as the church.

I don’t even call them “non-denominational” anymore. I prefer to call then “neo baptist/pentecostal”, depending upon their pastor’s opinion about tongues.

Just go there ask anybody you meet and they will tell you where to get the headcloth, it's called 'netela' in Amharic. It is not mandatory for men. May God bless you.

@@biniam_hailu ο Θεός να ευλογεί

there is big difference between us. We are different by Dogma. So, please go to ask. Ethiopia/Eritreans church.

The main difference is in the nature of Christ but you've mentioned in believing in Miaphysitisim so its ok. Other than that there's going to be a language and cultural difference. Most parishes use Ge'ez, an ancient language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church so that might be difficult to understand. But there are some Ethiopian churches that give services in english. A recent one that was planted was the SPOT Church (Saint Paul Orthodox Tewahedo Church). They give services and Liturgy in English. You can look up the Church. Another thing that you might find diffrent is that the use of instruments mentioned in the old testament like drums, harp of David, flute.. during singing hymns. (Ethiopia accepted belief in one God and become jewish and later on converted to Christianity. So you'll find some jewish customs. You can read more about this if ur interested.) And aboit the white head covering, it is worn by both men and women. The difference is that the women cover their hair with it but the men don't. U can look at some Ethiopian Liturgy Videos to see how it's worn or u can ask an Ethiopian.

The main difference is in the nature of Christ but you've mentioned in believing in Miaphysitisim so its ok. Other than that there's going to be a language and cultural difference. Most parishes use Ge'ez, an ancient language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church so that might be difficult to understand. But there are some Ethiopian churches that give services in english. A recent one that was planted was the SPOT Church (Saint Paul Orthodox Tewahedo Church). They give services and Liturgy in English. You can look up the Church. Another thing that you might find diffrent is that the use of instruments mentioned in the old testament like drums, harp of David, flute.. during singing hymns. (Ethiopia accepted belief in one God and become jewish and later on converted to Christianity. So you'll find some jewish customs. You can read more about this if ur interested.) And aboit the white head covering, it is worn by both men and women. The difference is that the women cover their hair with it but the men don't. U can look at some Ethiopian Liturgy Videos to see how it's worn or u can ask an Ethiopian.

Unfortunately, Coptic Orthodox are not Orthodox. You can only pick one, either you're coptic (a monophysite) or you're Orthodox. So you should learn more about Orthodoxy and the church history, and read more of the teachings of the holy fathers.

What made you want join the Coptic church? I was raised Protestant but I’m currently not attending any church. The southern US is dominated by Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostals and some non denominational churches. I’ve always disliked how empty and bare their churches look and feel; and their Protestant church culture is more like a social club than being about worshipping God and following the example of Christ. Just mention Matthew 25: 31-46 to a Protestant and they will immediately quote “by grace are ye saved, through faith, not of works lest any man should boast” by Paul. That’s what so many Evangelicals don’t get, Paul did say that but he didn’t mean how Protestant preach it today. Paul completely lived for Christ after his conversion traveling the world spreading the gospel and telling the churches to follow the commands of Christ. They only preach salvation through faith but Christ himself said you have to back up your faith by following the commands of Christ or he will spew you out like lukewarm water on the day of judgement. I’ve not joined the Catholic Church and will not join any church that calls it’s ministers and preachers by the title Father because God and Jesus said not to call any man father because God is the Father. I won’t join any church that prays to saints because Jesus taught us to pray to God directly and to pray to God in the name of Jesus and to do the work of God in Jesus’s name like laying hands on the sick and casting out unclean spirits. He told his disciples “do this in my name.” I want to join a church but I’m not going to join a church that does anything against the direction of Jesus Christ, so I want to know your theological reason for joining the Coptic church.

@@one_step_sideways You need to catch up with Christology. According to *_The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica:_* The churches that until the mid-20th century had been traditionally classified as monophysite, those of the so-called Oriental Orthodox communion, have always disputed the label, preferring the term miaphysite (from the Greek mia, “single,” and physis, “nature”) to identify their shared view that both divinity and humanity are equally present within a single nature in the person of Christ and describing their traditions as “non-Chalcedonian.” These Oriental Orthodox churches-the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Syriac Orthodox Partriachate of Antioch and All the East, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church- *_have since resolved almost all of their Christological disputes with the Roman Catholic Church, the major Protestant churches, and Eastern Orthodoxy and have been generally accepted by those traditions as essentially orthodox in their doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ._*

@@dr.banoub9233 Encyclopedia Britannica? A secular source? Opinion discarded.

@@one_step_sideways You couldn’t be more wrong the Copts are Orthodox unlike the eastern heteredox who fell to heresy at Chalcedon

Why are you happy? They are schismatic?

Oriental Orthodoxy is not the Eastern lung Pope John Paul II described. They absolutely deny the Hypostatic Union which is absolutely essential to RC and EO. Their Christology is wildly different. I would argue that Oriental Orthodoxy is significantly further from Roman Catholicism than Eastern Orthodoxy is.

The Archdioceses and Patriarchates collected the statistics from their congregations and gave them to the census takers.

Welcome home,Brother

I am so gld to be home. Christ left the 99 and found me. Pray that rest of us here in America head God’s call to His one Holy Catholic Apostolic Orthodox Church!

I am so gld to be home. Christ left the 99 and found me. Pray that rest of us here in America head God’s call to His one Holy Catholic Apostolic Orthodox Church!

@@josephnugent3065the Lord richly bless you. I long for the day when we don’t have to be just called “Oriental” or “Coptic” but truly what is intended “Followers of Christ and Children of God.” Honestly, the OO preserved the One Faith and One Baptism with the blood of the martyrs, but it is not intended to be kept for the Egyptians or Syrians or Ethiopians or Malankara or Armenians only. It is for the whole world.

Atheism is a religion same as all other religions. Everything known as and called the church is all 100% apostate from God and from the truth and Christianity of the Bible. Everyone in every church is in reality an atheist just like you, this is why you are not too opposed to it (the churches fake christianity). You all in reality have the very same false manmade atheist religion of scientism as your real religion. Scientism is the one world religion. It is the religion of atheists like you, as well as the real religion of everything called and known as the church. The Bibles Christianity is completely outside of everything called and known as the/a church.

Dear brother this isn’t an issue between Ideologies but a battle between life vs Death. Salvation ✝️ vs Condemnation

@@HolaBruv ,....If anyone has anything to do with any church, they are an atheist and are under the condemnation of God. Do you understand this?

You LIKE religion? Can't get enough of those death threats, eh?

Lol, I don't like *those* sorts of religionists. XD

Hallelujah

nowhere?

You only when from one false church right into another much worse one. Repent!

@@LuciferisJesus-mv9hp thank you for your enlightening comment

@@Paisios77 ,...I presented you with the truth for your edification. I brought light into your darkness, just as Jesus (Lucifer) brought light (truth) into the Godless world/church/Israel. Orthodoxy is a 100% false, manmade, Godless abomination. Both it, and catholicism are the religions of the accursed of God. At least Protestantism has a couple of things correct.

​@@LuciferisJesus-mv9hpProtestants like Mormons have things correct?😅

Orthodox apologists destroy every one of your catholic champions though, so how are we the next best thing? We are correct and the Alexandria document proves it.

@@levitatingpotato109 Were you a pentacostal before?

@@Qwerty-jy9mj no, why?