The Eastern ORTHODOX Church is the ONLY TRUE and Apostolic CHURCH. part 1 of 3 - American documentary: "The Ancient Church"
How old is the ORTHODOX faith?
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 VIII 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 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
1,000 years old.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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http://www.oca.org/
SITE The ORTHODOX Church of
America
http://www.orthodox.net/articles/against-ecumenism
.html
AGAINGST ECUMENISM
and a ROMANIAN site about ORTHODOXY in
English:
http://www.sfaturiortodoxe.ro/orthodox/index
.htm
ORTHODOX
FAITH:
Concerning the
Holy Trinity
I believe, confess and worship the Holy Trinity. I worship the One,
Holy,
Indivisible, Consubstantial, Life-Creating and
Most Holy Trinity. In the Trinity I worship three persons -- three hypostases -- that of the
Father, that of the Son and that of the
Holy Spirit. I do not confuse the persons of the Most Holy Trinity. I do not believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are, as it were, three masks of a single person.
None of the persons is alienated from the others, but each has the fulness of the Three together.
Concerning Immortality
I believe that only God is eternal and immortal by nature and in essence. The angels and the souls of men are immortal only because God bestows this immortality upon them by grace. If if were not for the immortality which God bestows by His divine will, neither the angels nor the souls of men would be immortal of themselves
.
Men's souls have no pre-existence. The how of the soul's birth, as well as separation from the body at the moment of the latter's biological death that it might be reunited to the body when the dead are raised at the
Second and glorious Coming of our
Saviour is a mystery which has not been revealed to us.
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