TOP 130.
Church plus State Oppression.
121) Christendom: the historical Orthodox concept of Christendom, closely linked with its almost twin heresy "Christian Empire" is one based in tyranny, bloodshed, and imprisonment and no real freedom, ( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny )
( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
122) Serfdom : the social / economic sins by a church that "cannot err"
( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny ) ( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
123) Churchianity - (derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that are viewed as placing a larger emphasis on the habits of church life, rites, rituals, and man made traditions, rather than on biblical theology and spiritual teachings and example of Jesus. ( churchianity )
124) Crypto-converts: their enforced pseudo "conversion" by threats. what kind of religion threatens people with prison, death or persecution if they do not pretend to convert? Huge numbers forced under their phony "saints equal to the apostles", Emperor Charlemagne etc
( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny )
( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
125) They are spiritual drunkards (Rev 17). INDOCTRINATION of children helps produce this. ( churchianity ) ( children ) Thus a low score on the "Corruption Perception Index".
126) Orthodoxy is an Anachronistic Faith (see 162): the sinister use of uniforms in the faith, and crowns and miters, is based on anachronistic comparisons with the old Roman Empire's clothing. Same with architecture and artifacts. They draw pseudo authority from an Empire that was from the start always evil. (conceptual)
( hypocrisy )
127) Ethno-Phyletism issues: this is a tricky issue as some churches where this "sin" goes on are in war torn areas where they wish to avoid people like shooters and suicide bombers and thus wish only to fellowship with people of the same ethnicity. (racism) ( murder )
128) Movable doctrines - "Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them." Proverbs 5:6. Orthodoxy give far less specific answers than Catholic scholars. If it became an embarrassment to them that their doctrine Jesus earned the resurrection for all means he died to burn people in Hell, I guarantee they would change it and say that they were misunderstood.
(conceptual) ( hypocrisy )
129) "All your sins will be forgiven if you go out on The Crusade" - I have yet to find out if the Orthodox Titular Head made the same promise in the Crusades in which the Byzantine half of the Empire participated. Remember that Orthodoxy makes the oxymoronic claim of being pacifist, which is more like in real terms the clergy don't fight, the "laity" must fight. If the Byzantine Orthodox were really pacifist and said so either the Catholics or Arabs would simply walk in and take over the Eastern part of the Empire unopposed. The Orthodox doctrine on this is an insult to the intelligence of their own church goers.
130) The persecution. imprisonment, murder, torture and banishment of real Christians. ( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny ) ( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
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TOP 140 .
131) Canonization in Orthodoxy is called "Glorification to sainthood" - the form of - but Romans 1 tells us all believers are saints. ( saints ) ( churchianity )
132)
133) Changing the meaning of the Greek expressions "believe on" and "believe in" - this means in Greek "to trust in" or "rely on" Jesus for salvation, obviously this is changed by Orthodoxy, just as the word grace is changed.
( salvation )
134) The Three hierarchs (three heretics actually). refers to
1) Basil the Great (also known as Basil of Caesarea), 329 - 379 AD,
sins: rules for monastic life (unbiblical), contributions to heretical canon law, and contribution to liturgies. (for centuries the Orthodox told the uneducated public he wrote the Liturgy of St. Basil now they try to retract that.
2) Gregory the Theologian (also known as Gregory of Nazianzus) . 330-389 AD,
sins: propagated the heretic Origen, Gregory seems to have been an early sacerdotalist (if so he was one of the most evil men who ever lived), his friend Gregory of Nyssa, may have supported some form of the doctrine of apocatastasis,
3) John Chrysostom. (researching) ( saints ) ( bogus saints )
135: Mortification: this topic has some biblical credibility, but not when it is used as a religious deception device, especially in the sense of it achieving purity or the forgiveness of sin, or connected with the hesychasm or monasticism.
( monks ) ( Catholic ) ( mystics )
136) Oversimplification of the character of God:
the Orthodox oversimplify God's character by saying that if God is love (a scripture) he cannot have wrath. It is a puerile oversimplification of God's character, (do we not also naturally and rightly feel angry about many of the worst crimes we hear of?)
They will even compare a God who has wrath with with demons like Baal and Moloch, in other words they say if God has wrath (he does) he is a sinner!!! Do not forget by saying these things they are talking also about the Holy Spirit.
This is involved in 2 other heresies
1) No wrath of God means no fires of Hell (loving them tortures them in Orthodox theology)
2) Jesus never saved us from the wrath of God when he died and rose again, as if he did he achieved salvation for us all on his own, a truth that destroys Orthodox pretensions about a process of salvation that is a synergy. ( God ) ( Hell )
137) Forgiveness of sin through Calvary denied - absurdly Orthodoxy argues that as Jesus forgave individual sin before the cross and resurrection. the gospel does not bring forgiveness to mankind (as if it did their junk priestcraft/works gospel falls apart). The fact that the gospel is not necessarily the only way God can forgive sin does not stop the fact that sin was and is washed away by his blood. One must remember the resurrection adds justification (to be made just in God's sight) as well as his crucifixion dealing with sin. ( salvation ) ( gospel)
138) Reconciliation
and the Hypostatic Union -
(notice they do not say salvation) In Orthodoxy reconciliation happens in the hypostatic union when Christ is conceived or some say born (the combination of divine and human natures in the single person of Christ.) when the perfection of God and "humankind in its totality" (that is human nature as a collective) are inseparably united in Jesus, (all that is Creator and all that is created) so God reconciles humanity to himself in the person of Christ.
The cross - in Orthodoxy is Christ entering into death to destroy the power of death, not to forgive sin (>>>) wow heresy. Jesus did not die to earn hell for those who would not be otherwise resurrected.
Eastern Church tends towards a therapeutic model of which sees sin as illness,
( salvation ) ( gospel)
139) Renunciation of Errors (in Chrismation ceremonies) - renounce in public the Reformation and the Protestant / Evangelical gospel as false. Laughably they then later on masquerade as Evangelicals as the simple Evangelical gospel is too powerful to oppose. ( salvation ) ( gospel)
140) Denial of "the works of the flesh". The Orthodox are very tricky about this issue. They deny the doctrine of Catholicism of "venial sin and mortal sin" but avoid the more directly biblical issue that certain sins are put in the special classification of "works of the flesh". ( sin ) ( LAW )
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141) A cherry-picking form of The Judaizing heresy - they cherry pick the old law now quote "done away" as if the old testament is there for them to pick and choose laws, and create a new syncretic faith (which is exactly what they have done). What is different about Orthodoxy is (unlike most Judaizing cults) the laws they cherry pick from Mosaic Law are blended with traditions that are entirely anti Mosaic Law (like leavended wine and bread in communion) and even aspects of antisemitism. They do not seem to understand old law was done away, was draconian ("that neither we nor our fathers could bear" - Peter) we do not pick, choose and reinvent bits to keep now, like "holy beards" or golden artefacts in the temple.
note: It is indeed a paradox that Eastern Orthodoxy is on the one hand strongly resists the Judaizing heresy of the so called "Hebrew Roots Movement" yet they have invented a syncretic religion that involves cherry picking old testament concepts and laws and mixing them with the new testament law. ( salvation ) (LAW)
142) They deny the character of the new covenant which is freedom - the new covenant is characterised by freedom in Christ, they adopt the most draconian concepts of the old Mosaic Covenant (described as done away) in order to bring believers in the new covenant era into religious bondage to clockwork religious concepts like keeping a plethora of feasts. In Christ we have freedom about days (Rom 16) and we have freedom in food (Col 2:21) what is more the imposed fast days and food regulations break another of Christs teachings - to keep your fasting a secret. ( salvation ) (LAW)
143) They deny the Millennium Kingdom - as far as my studies go so far, the Eastern Orthodox religion are amillennialist in their theology, probably because they cannot stand the thought Jesus will return, reign here, sweep away the fake sacerdotalist ministry, and rule with those who would not take the mark of the beast. In other words the Eastern Orthodox fake ministry will be swept away.
( Eschatology ) ( authority )
144) Candle lighting - are considered sacrifices to Mary and saints. Mentioned in Rev 18 as sins of the Whore of Babylon. More ritualism and churchianity practices instead of an ongoing relationship with God. They simply discovered people love to light candles, and used this human fascination to destroy human souls. Candles are often used in witchcraft. ( witchcraft ) ( prayer )
145) The liturgical year - the cycle of liturgical seasons, feast days, including celebrations of saints, to be observed in a display of foolish clockwork religiosity, having portions of Scripture to be read out like robots either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years. ( salvation ) ( liturgy ) ( forgery )
( spirituality)
146) Canon Law - an admixture of truth and heresy that to the Orthodox has more authority than the new testament. (LAW)
147) Cathedrals - God's Cathedral in Acts was to be in nature by a river. Building big church buildings is largely an insult to the poor. ( churchianity )
( religious hypnotism )
148) Leavened Bread & alcoholic wine in the eucharist - the evidence of scripture would suggest the wine and bread were both unleavened. ( the mass )
149) Nepsis linked with Catharsis: Parallels could likely be made between nepsis and Jewish devekut. showing yet another Talmudic type root of Orthodox whoredom with religions. Both nepsis and catharsis have elements of truth but were systematized in links with monastic religious pretentions. ( monks ) ( gurus ) (Catholic)
150) Forbidding to interpret and have doctrines on the Book of Revelation - a clear attempt to hide from the Orthodox the evidence that Orthodoxy is a daughter of the Mother of Harlots. note... when Orthodoxy itself does interpret Revelation they seem to make one heresy after another - the woman in Rev 12 is Mary instead of Israel, they are amillennial, they claim the presence of incense in heaven means it is a divine directive to intoxicate church goers with clouds of it. ( eschatology )
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TOP 160.
151) The Canons of the Council of Nicea, and Nicene Creed (325) (and other Creeds) contain much heresy, yet are treated as if on a par with scripture.
( authority ) (LAW)
152) The church tradition (and thus infallible) that Cremation destroys the soul.
that any should could be annihilated is heresy, but this also denies Hitler (if he was cremated) escapes eternal punishment. ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult )
( burials )
153) Orthodox Christian (or Christian) should or must be buried in consecrated ground - and that the definition of that is that it is consecrated by all their Babylonian rituals. ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
154) False man made burial rites of no importance - according to the Orthodox rites and service of burial (Nekrosimos). (anything about funerals is an emotive issue). ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
155) The (so called) Church may deny a burial on Orthodox land to those who have committed a sin such as blasphemy, suicide, denial of their faith etc. In other words refusing to bury a person if he became a real Christian (for instance). Pure heresy and manipulation. What is more - if they deny mortal sin or "works of the flesh" and all sin is the same, why forbid burial in this way? ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
156) The ovum of Mary must definitely have been used in Christ's conception - so far as I understand Orthodoxy insists that you must believe that the actual ovum of Mary was used in the conception of Christ ( the prophecy quoting thy "seed" does not necessarily mean "her ovum") and not that his conception was entirely miraculous but in her womb without the ovum used. I am not denying her ovum was used, but I do question forcing young believers to form a definite doctrine on this. To them it is an essential or more central issue as to them the hypostatic union heals corporate human nature. The belief that Mary's ovum must be used is of less controversy as they do not believe in original sin, (Catholics believe the conception of Mary herself was miraculous). ( Mary ) ( salvation )
157) Beards and the clergy - so what are they actually saying? Only the clergy should have beards, or all Orthodox men? And is the old covenant law on beards still here, including not trimming the edges? It might be interesting to find out how many bishops of Rome had beards before the 1054 split. It is part of Messianic Judaism to keep these beard laws when the new testament calls the old law done away (2 Cor 3), and an emphasis on how the Orthodox have never understood the covenants of God. ( gurus ) ( LAW ) ( inverse Babylonization )
158) Ordination gives Authority to teach - Holy Spirit as our personal guide and teacher (Protestant / Evangelical) versus ordination. ( authority ) ( LAW )
159) Mystification of doctrine: - bible says to be clear. ( mystery babylon ) ( LAW ) ( inverse Babylonization )
160) The "laity" - Jesus says "you are all brethren". This is the root of Scofield's interpretation of Nicolaitan heresy which contains Nico - lording / power over - laitan (laos) - the laity, The Orthodox often say this was a sex cult started by the Nicholas of the bible (more forgery of history by them). ( inverse Babylonization )
( early cults - Laodicean ) ( authority )
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TOP 170.
161) The 7 Sins of Rome (Rev 18:1-24):
1) "The fruits that thy soul lusted after" - world wide trade in artefacts, and dainty and goodly things.
2) pretentious religious music, in the case of Orthodoxy (a daughter of Rome) this takes the form of chanting not singing. Chanting heresy is supposed to fool you into thinking it is holy. etc.
3) craftsman - idols, church finery etc
4) millstone - the mass bread
5) candle burning rituals
6) bride and groom - marriage falsely termed a sacrament
7) thy sorceries - the witchcraft of her heresies and practices.
162) It is an oxymoronic religion - (perhaps more than any other sect claiming to be Christian)
163) No work on Sunday?? - Catholics say you should not work on Sunday, except for a few exceptions they make, like perhaps doctors on call, or workers in an electrical power-plant etc. The Orthodox are more cagey on this and I have yet to extract a definitive answer. The (erroneous) doctrine is in effect treating Sunday as a "new sabbath" but less draconian. The Christian sabbath is eternal (Hebrews 4) earned for believers by Christ.
164) The Anathemas - (eg of the synod Constantinople): the heresy of declaring people anathema over calendar issues, but themselves bringing on themselves the anathema of God promised in Galatians 1:6-9 by preaching their false gospel of works and sacerdotalism.
165) Religious Colonialism by land buying.
LAND GRABBING
The church is the second-largest landowner in Greece, after the state, with about 130,000 hectares.
166) Infallible traditions of the church in general - be honest with yourself..... if just one of the criticisms I make on this website about Orthodoxy and traditions is true, then their entire "infallible church traditions" idea drops to pieces. It is an "infallible heresy".
167) Churches being autocephalous and non autocephalous - (of an Eastern Christian Church) appointing its own head, not subject to the authority of an external patriarch or archbishop. The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) for instance is not recognized as an autocephalous church. In Evangelicalism there is ONE church, that is the body of Christ. A bishop is not an overseer anywhere in the new testament of one or several countries. The Apostles were church planters and had special authority from God and Orthodoxy does not claim they are apostles.
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Angel heresies: x3.
168) That angels are superior in nature and intelligence to man - wrong as we are the sons of God, they are not.
169) Unprovable Angelic order (tagmata):
170) In the Orthodox worship, every Monday is dedicated to the angels.
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TOP 180.
171) Hank Hanegraaff and the Fifty Fifty Cult:
he preaches a mongrel Faith and is not put in his place. because of the sin of respect of persons
Hank Hanegraaff's apostasy from the Protestant Faith into Eastern Orthodoxy is of significance more because he is highlighting a new wave of heresy in the Orthodox religion, that might be best called "the fifty fifty cult" were the Orthodox do not exercise the discipline that is supposed to characterize their church, and allow people like Hank to preach a shape shifting new potpourri religion that is neither Evangelical, nor Orthodox. So just remember - every time you hear him preaching he is living proof of a lack of discipline in the Orthodoxy Faith (proof they are not in the Spirit in itself), and that they allow their novice proselytes to preach what amounts to a new fifty fifty cult that is neither Protestantism nor Eastern Orthodoxy just contradictory nonsense.
172) Mysticism. quote: "The premise of all mysticism is that experiential knowledge of God takes preference over doctrinal understanding of the character and being of God because of the transcendent nature of God. One of the ways mysticism gained a foothold in Eastern Orthodoxy was by the emphasis of certain Orthodox “Church Fathers” upon the “way of negation” also known as “apophatic”1 theology."
173) The strange tradition of "Crowning" in their marriage ceremony was probably introduced into their religion to let them say "Are we not all crowned when we marry" in order to justify their absurdly proud practice of putting crowns on bishop's heads.
174) Female deacons, nuns, abbesses etc, justified partly by their false believe several females they see as saints were "equal to the apostles". Women were anointed by the Spirit at Pentecost. that does not however mean they are to be deacons.
175) Liturgy and restriction of languages - Liturgies and "services" prior to the 9th century were in Greek only, the Catholics claim Latin (perhaps a division in the Empire halves, or.... someone among them is lying) only later other specific languages were introduced. This is worth researching as if its true two distinct languages were used it almost inevitably was a sign a rift would occur by 1054.
176) Sycophancy to political figures, kings and queens.
This sin has pervaded their faith to saturation level, from the days of the mass murderer Emperor Constantine, to the fawning of modern day Russians toward President Vladimir Putin. It is deadly heresy, as it is not the fulfilment of Romans 13 in that it does not so much recognize figures like Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar etc can be used by God just as the Assyrian were in Isaiah 10, but rather exalts these political figures to the level of David, Samson, Gideon or Joshua, which they never are.
177) Evolutionism is taught by many (under pressure from the state) they are cowards in the face of secular persecution. They are not put in their place for this and repudiated and disciplined. Chi;dren are being indoctrinated with illogical pseudoscience.
178) Homosexuality is accepted by many as "biblical" (under pressure from the state ) some of their bishops are cowards in the face of secular persecution, and are not being reprimanded and put in their place.
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179)
180) Giving babies and children alcohol.
132) +
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TOP 70.
Contentious Issues:
61) They deny Christ died as a substitute sacrifice .
The Evangelical and Protestant gospel is found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and Luke 24:44-48, and is belief in Christ crucified, buried and resurrected for salvation, repentance always being present to distinguish the belief as genuine. not some "mouthed prayer" or vain acceptance of the gift of salvation in Christ. it at no time includes the concept of "a substitute sacrifice". As the issue is therefore neutral to salvation (that is a person can choose to have no doctrine on it and be in a condition of salvation) is not an Orthodox heresy or error therefore to chose not to accept it, but what is an error and a heresy is their outright statement that salvation is not a gift earned solely by Jesus, and their technique of always presenting that theme of the Protestant gospel as inexorably connected to the theme of a substitute sacrifice (which it is not). ( salvation )
Hebrews tells us that "the blood of bulls and of goats cannot take away sin". Thus all the temple sacrifices of the old testament in the temple, and the yearly sacrifice for sins, could not take sin away in themselves other than by the mercy of Christ. The sacrifice of Christ himself however can take away sins, and REPLACES (or SUBSTITUTES) the clearly symbolic sacrifices of the old covenant that centre in the forgiving power of the blood of Jesus.
62) They deny Jesus was a ransom sacrifice .
Once again the Orthodox say the concept of "a ransom sacrifice" is inextricably linked with the Protestant / Evangelical "Jesus Saves Gospel", when as we have seen "the simplicity of the gospel of Christ" in I Cor 15:1-4, Luke 24:44-48, makes not mention of it, thus a doctrine on it is not necessary for salvation. This is tactic is adopted by Orthodoxy in order to cause confusion over the two diametric beliefs about this, that is
1) The ransom was paid to God.
2) The ransom was paid to Satan (as symbolically represented in the book "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"?)
And whether it is ever wise to add it to the gospel message at all. ( salvation )
note: The Orthodox falsely add both the "The substitute sacrifice" and "The ransom sacrifice" themes to the Protestant Gospel in order to cloud the central issue, that in Orthodoxy Jesus did not secure salvation for the believer in his death and resurrection, but it was only part of a synergy or "process of salvation". whereas in Protestantism he did secure our actual salvation, presented as "the gift of God" to the believer on belief.
63) They deny the imputation of the righteousness of Christ to the believer, and the concept of "The Lord our righteousness."
Again, this is not specifically mention in the "Jesus Saves Gospel". A new believer or "babe in Christ" does not have to specify a doctrine on this issue, to be in a present state of salvation through belief in (to "trust in" and "rely upon") Christ. Do I believe the only righteousness I have is that given me as a gift through Christ? And that his righteousness "exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees"? Yes. But I do not believe it is a specific doctrine to be believed or professed to be in a state of salvation, that is if you died then and there you would be saved by Christ because of his finished work on Calvary and his resurrection.
( salvation )
64) The descent into Hell of Christ, between his burial and resurrection (superfluous add on doctrine).
To keep the so called Catholic Faith and be saved, you must believe their view of the "descent into Hell." It seem to me they are actually adding this into their "process of salvation" but it needs more clarification about how many of them would say that. This difficult and convoluted subject is definitely (stress definitely) not to be added into the simplicity of the "Jesus Saves Gospel" though it occurs between the death and resurrection periods.
In the Protestant Faith there are references to this, but several entirely different interpretations about what "he descended into Hell" means. It includes sometimes the concept that Christ supposedly preached the gospel (before it was even completed) to those who died in the time of Noah, as if it was a "second chance for salvation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell (salvation )
Notably on the topic it is believed by many Protestants Jesus did not preach in Hell to those who died at the time of Noah, but, rather, that Jesus anointed Noah to preach at the time the Ark was being prepared.
65) 40 Day "Churching" of a baby - a mother is forced (via tradition) into bringing her child to church on the 40th Day after birth, to force the baby into attending their bogus religious services. in a warping of now "done away" law such as Luke 2:22-40 . This is connected with the indoctrination process described in Revelation 17. ( indoctrination ) ( salvation )
66) Economy, Economia - discretionary deviation from the letter of the law in order to adhere to the spirit of the law. Only bishops have such discretion,
It is an exceptionally, staggeringly serious doctrinal issue as the concept is used for instance:
1) to justify remarriage against the criteria of Matthew 5:32.
2) It may be used on the occasion of a conversion to Orthodoxy, in order to grant recognition to a baptism previously administered in a so called heterodox or schismatic church.
3) It may also be used to grant recognition to an ordination administered in a Roman Catholic or Anglican church if the convert comes from either of those communions.
A priestly form of this is in fact the basis of many controversial priest's decisions.
( doctrine ) ( sin )
67) Symphonia heresy - what this means in real terms. is that the church sees it as practical to compromise with the state in order to survive. Two modern examples of this are that huge numbers of Orthodox bishops compromise with the state (and police force) on the issues of homosexuality and evolutionism, and the so called hierarchy of Orthodoxy, including the Titular Head, turn a blind eye to this. (note - Catholic theologians hypothesise that this is how Orthodoxy was defiled by adulterous second marriage doctrines and practices)
( doctrine ) ( sin )
68) Many modern Orthodox consider the Pope "a bishop". Sorry but if it was not such a serious issue that would be a joke. The Pope is entirely an heretic.
( people ) ( salvation - suddenly not only Orthodoxy saves )
69) Graded churches -
In real terms the Orthodox Church splits churches into about 10 kind, with various attitudes to where the word "church" should be replaced by cult or sect, when in reality they are entirely a cult in themselves.
1) Grade A quality - Patriarchal Church (eg Constantinople)
2) Grade B quality - Autocephalous Church (Gr. "appointing its own leader") (eg Mount Athos) a church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop.
3) Grade C quality - Autonomous Church (Gr. "self-rule"). (eg Finland) governed by its prelate, who is chosen by a superior jurisdiction, usually by a patriarchate.
It appears to me both types of churches often claim to be self governed, but as autocephalous churches appoint their own head, and autonomous do not, the true higher ranking church would be logically autocephalous, within the perimeters of their own unbiblical extraneous criteria?
4) Grade D quality - Eparchy Churches non self-governing (eg. Philippines)
5) Grade E quality - Unrecognized Churches (eg Orthodox Church in America)
6) Grade F quality - Schismatic churches - (eg. Roman Catholic - to some)
7) Grade G quality - Schismatic isolationist churches -
8) Grade H quality - Heretic churches - (eg Roman Catholic - to others)
9) Grade I quality - Heretic isolationist churches -
10) Grade J quality - Lunatic fringe Orthodox cults . ( church )
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Some of the sins shared between the Orthodox and the Catholics:
71) Heathen Calendars are part of the Faith (worse than Catholics on this):
( doctrine ) ( sin )
72)
73) A Personal relationship Mary and saints ......with skeletons (dead unresurrected "people") spiritism. ( idolatry ) ( sin ) ( spiritism )
74) They kept the bible from the people for over 1,000 years - even after the Reformation presses started rolling, the Orthodox like the Catholics never gave bibles to the people in order to indoctrinate them instead. ( bible )
75) Idolizing or worshipping of the Nicene Creed : The creed is not fit for purpose, as it does not contain a specific gospel by which we are saved (however a "process of salvation" involving works and priestcraft is not present either - whereas the elements of the Protestant gospel are mentioned). ( idolatry ) ( sin )
76) Icons, statues and other idols . ( idolatry ) ( sin )
77) Shrines ( a separate issue proving their connection to eastern religions - thus Eastern Orthodoxy in their name) . ( idolatry ) ( sin )
78) That heresy is to contradict their fake church and man made traditions, not the bible and new covenant law . ( church ) ( sin ) ( bible ) ( doctrine )
79) Holy Orders - the issue of sacraments. ( sacraments ) ( doctrine )
80) Call no man father . ( people ) ( idolatry ) ( sin
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Churchianity errors :
81)
82) Calendarization of lifestyle by a plethora of "days".
( church ) ( worship ) ( churchianity ) ( sin )
83) Uniforms, crowns, mitres . one answer I was given by an Orthodox believer is that you can buy these crowns second hand on Ebay, and that they are only moderately expensive, and sometimes amount to only "bling" golden artifacts and crowns, not always real gold, only sometimes. I am not sure how the Orthodoxy faithful would react if they knew "the holy artifacts" are in fact often a chintzy show of tacky cheap imitations. ( churchianity ) ( authority ) ( sin )
84) Ritual / rite ridden . ( idolatry ) ( salvation ) ( churchianity ) ( sin )
( sorcery ) . (separate issue to Traditions - but part of it)
85) Fasting before men : So much fasting they are borderline vegan for about half the year! This really does fit in with the commandment not to say "Touch not! Taste not!" . Fast Wednesday and Friday just about all year, so they can disobey Christs commandment to fast in secret. ( churchianity ) ( hypocrisy )
86) Extraneous baptismal requirements / doctrines : (must believe heresy, and an avalanche of more insignificant doctrines "what doth now prevent me?") eg harrowing of hell and deny filioque . ( doctrine ) ( salvation )
87) Godparent indoctrinators . The parents are assigned the duty of indoctrinating their children, but so called "godparents" (found nowhere in scripture) are people assigned the same sinful task. This perhaps also serves as a way to fish outsiders into Orthodoxy by using babies and children to inveigle them into learning Orthodox doctrine. ( indoctrination ) ( people ) ( salvation )
88) Baby exorcisms - it is jaw dropping that anyone baptized into Orthodoxy goes through a plethora of rites amounting to witchcraft ceremonies, including casting Satan out of babies and children. Adult exorcism - where they will even stand on top of people "crushing satan under their feet" like something out the middle ages.
( abuse ) ( salvation - part of baptism and chrismation ceremony )
89) False new identity . when triple baptized into Orthodoxy the person is given a new name, and is given a personal patron saint, so they can calendarize your life on a personal level. A name day is the day on which an Orthodox Christian celebrates the feast of his patron saint. ( indoctrination ) ( sin )
90) Holy water power - the Orthodox believe so called holy water has powers to spiritually clean people and places, and cast out demons. They even do it to their own churches before a person is baptized to increase the impression of their bogus priestly powers. ( ritualism ) ( churchianity ) ( sin - fakery ) ( sorcery )
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TOP 100.
(being reorganized into salvation errors area - a more important topic)
Prayer heresies x10.
91) Praying for the dead . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
92) The dead can pray for you ! ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
93) Praying to the dead . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
94) Vain repetitions in prayer . the primary example is The Jesus Prayer,
( prayer ) ( meditation )
95) The Cycle of Prayer . ( prayer ) ( churchianity )
96) Mary as Co-Mediator, Co-Redemptrix, hears/answers millions .
( idolatry ) ( salvation )
97) Prayer Books - automated, manmade, pseudo Christian, systematized tomes of wayward religion. ( churchianity ) ( prayer ) ( salvation )
98) Hesychasm - the equivalent of Buddhist meditation. interesting also the Buddhist idea of becoming "at one" has similarities to theosis. ( spiritism ) ( meditation )
( salvation )
99) The prayer rope - the Orthodox answer to the rosary. ( prayer ) ( salvation )
100) Aerial Toll House prayers - to help dead souls be delivered from demonic attack, in the 40 decision period as to whether you go to "Abraham's Bosom" or torment part of "Hades", these prayers are connected to the 8 Day and the 40 Day memorial services. ( spiritism ) ( prayer ) ( salvation )
**) Men praying with head covered? = long hair breaks this (priest and monks have long hair to imitate gurus and bring "eastern" peoples into the faith, but the new covenant law forbids long hair, calling it a "shame"
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More prayer heresies.
101) All saints day - (spiritism) The Eastern Orthodox Church and associated Eastern Catholic Churches and Byzantine Lutheran Churches celebrate it on the first Sunday after Pentecost. ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
( churchianity )
102) The Communion of Saints . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
( churchianity )
103) The Repose of souls of the dead ? (Memorial.) ( sorcery ) ( spiritism )
( salvation ) ( churchianity )
104) Priests, Bishops and monks having long hair - this is also technically a prayer error (head covering issues), but is an example of a sin that is not "a work of the flesh" that is to which damnation is promised. Priest and monks have long hair to imitate gurus and bring "eastern" peoples into the faith, but the new covenant law forbids long hair on men, calling it a "shame". Having long hair is not a work of the flesh, but the church strategy to imitate gurus to spiritually seduce Eastern converts into their religion is. Their hair is tied back to stop them looking like the vain creatures they really are.
105) They are wizards/witches performing witchcraft. ( sorcery ) ( spiritism )
Top 3 witches in the world according to Orthodoxy? :
( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation ) ( churchianity )
1) Number 1 Witch (top witch / wizard:) - Dimitrios Arhondonis
fake name - Bartholomew 1
title: Titular Head of Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Constantinople . primus inter pares (first among equals) called Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church (or Head of the Church - as they claim to be the only church).
2) Number 2 Witch - Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev
fake name - Kirill
title: Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, the Bishop of Moscow, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
3) Number 3 Witch - Jorge Mario Bergoglio
fake name: Pope Francis
title:- His Holiness, Francis, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God. called "Head of the Church" by Catholics.(pretender to being Head of the Church, according to Orthodoxy)
note: huge numbers of the Orthodox now see the Pope as a bishop, so he is one of the top witches / wizards because of the sheer numbers he lords it over and deceives.
106) Deliberately Clouding "The Weightier matters of the Law" - there is such a thing as "the law of the new covenant' (Gal 6:2) in opposition to the old (done away) Law of Moses. The new law has its centerpiece the "Two Commandments" and the old law had for its centerpiece the 10 Commandments. To hide their heresy the Pharisees of the Eastern Orthodox Church deliberately cloud the issue of what the weightier matters of the Law are, more minor issues like the position of the hand in the bogus sign of the cross, and The Filioque are relatively minor in comparison to adulterous remarriage, war (murder) and adding works to actual salvation as a root not a fruit. One should still teach "the least of these commandments" (Matthew 5:19) but they are not on the same level as "the fruit of the Spirit" (positive) or "the works of the flesh" (negative).
note: this heresy is inextricably linked to the heresy of denying the existence of "the works of the flesh" from more minor issues like eating black pudding, men with long hair, etc, but is distinctly a diverse heresy of subterfuge in itself.
( doctrine ) ( conceptual )
107) Spiritual Whoredom - calling the mass bread "God" and bowing to it is idolatry, idolatry with icons, shrines. Theosis etc. ( idolatry ) ( sacerdotalism)
108) Two gospels save. - Evangelicals do not say two gospels save, but the Orthodox do not have the courage to stick properly to their emphatic statement "salvation is found only in Orthodoxy" they then tell everyone they don't want to judge as to whether other people are saved or not. It is yet another oxymoron of theirs. The bible says there is only ONE salvation gospel, and anyone teaching another is anathema, under God's curse! The Orthodox synergy of salvation or process of salvation isn't it.
109) Council of Ephesus 430 Canon 6 decreed deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees.
110) Massive numbers of Traditions - ( forgery )
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various (authority issues).
111) Orthodoxy is the most oxymoronic faith in the world - I intend to complete a long list of dozens of their oxymoronic doctrines, including that they are pacifist killers, and believe in salvation by grace and works etc. ( doctrine )
112) Heresy of swearing oaths . ( doctrine ) ( sin )
113) Ruled over by Pharisees . ( people )
114) The Forgery of History - forgery includes liturgies, traditional stories of peoples lives, historians making things up, : ( forgery )
115) Incense thuribles - (giddy) ( churchianity ) ( sorcery ) ( sorcery item )
116) Fake miracles - holy fire is just one, myrrh dripping icons etc. Only a gullible person who passes of credulity for faith would believe in them.
( forgery / fakery / sorcery ) ( sin ) ( fraud )
117) Bogus hierarchy / pyramid system : - ( churchianity ) ( people )
118) Orthodox false prophets (as well as teachers) - ( people ) ( bible )
( Pentecostalism )
119) Ecumenicalism - (division over this) The moment millions of the Orthodox turned to being Ecumenical, the moment they accepted another "process of salvation saves". in other words they have two gospels, and if all the Popes were not "anathema" before that as they declared, their profession their church is infallible failed. ( salvation )
( people ) ( church )
120) Their version of the Talmud = the giant tomes of irrelevant dumb writings by a plethora of pillarists, hermits, bogus saints and the like, whose unimportant writings they exalt to being on a par with holy writ, including such as prayer books. ( bible ) ( forgery / fakery)
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Orthodox Church America .com
Refuting the heresies of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
3) A Fake Bible
A fake bible . ( bible ) .
if Orthodoxy and Catholics were once one unified religion, how did they finish up with a different canon of scripture each? Then they chide Protestant for making decision by Faith. Many of them even accept Psalm 151, the Book of Odes, Psalms of Solomon, etc. They are one long contradiction.
see link for the two different canons of Catholics and Orthodox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon
Bel and the Dragon is such bunk it would settle the Protestant versus Orthodox canon. I mean Tobit even has Voodoo done with fish entrails in it. But translating the OT from the LXX means they corrupt not only the books of the canon, but the text as well, as Jesus said in Matt 4:4 the Hebrew Text would be preserved by God word for word, quote "every word". Thus the Catholics and the Orthodox have never even had a bible for 5 minutes. The Catholic Vulgate even erases half of Romans 11:6 because it refutes their theology, yet the Greeks and Orthodox leave it in.
The Holy Spirit reveals - both sides agree.
Protestants say "ask the Holy Spirit" about canon (relationship)
Orthodox say their bishops were inspired by the Holy Spirit to choose their Books (funny as the Orthodox add 4 extra Books more than Catholics).
So.... someone is not listening to the Holy Spirit, you must decide who.
The Catholics and Orthodox say they knew what was scripture "because their bishops were inspired by the Holy Ghost". I believe they were all witches, so far from God the Catholics have never had a bible, and they never will. Protestants too say we were led to recognize the canon by the Holy Spirit, it is just we believe he is our permanent teacher, we don't need Orthodox and Catholic wizards and witches who do hocus pocus magic tricks to teach us anything.
The Orthodox and Catholics do no examine what is scripture by Faith, they say their own coven of witches must tell them what it is. However the Catholic canon of scripture is different from the Orthodox canon. Not only that as in both religions some accept other books like Psalm 151, the Book of Odes, Psalms of Solomon, etc. even within their own sorcery religion (Rev 18:23) they have different canons, but in all 4 canons they accept bogus books like Bel and the Dragon, never accepted by the Jews as scripture.
The fake Orthodox bible :
They translate the old Testament from the LXX Greek, and add clearly bogus books such as "Bel and the Dragon" to their canon of scripture, in fact "Bel and the Dragon" is so clearly fake it proves the Protestants chose the correct canon not them or the Popes.
The Eastern Orthodox bible is heretical as it translates the Old testament from the Greek LXX, which in effect calls Matthew 4:4 a lie, as the Hebrew OT has been perfectly preserved and they deny that by absurdly translating out of the corrupted Greek. By choosing these OT corrupted ms to translate and use, they have also added heretical books to the OT canon, such as the clearly bogus book "Bel and the Dragon". Thus they also have a fake canon of scripture.as well as a fake text of scripture. Can you imagine how stupid it is to translate the Old Testament from Greek? Absurd!
(Another more modern heresy is that some Orthodox websites in order to be "more trendy and modern" have started to use and quote the corrupt Alexandrian modern bibles such as the NIV.)
The early church (who know the canon) was persecuted and hid under the Ichthus symbol. Then the sacerdotalist heretic movement gained strength under the murderer Emperor Constantine, who later split to become Catholics and Orthodox. This forced the true church into hiding again. The sacerdotalists created a fake canon of scripture based on the old LXX Greek, and injected bogus books into the bible, like the idiotic forgery "Bel and the Dragon" still in your bible today added to Daniel. So Catholics and the Orthodox always had a fake bible. the text was fake (written from Greek in the old testament) and the canon was fake adding bogus books never accepted by the Jews ever. Catholics then did in their bible further by translating it into Latin and using primarily that, missing things out like half of Romans 11:6.
The real bible was re-compiled by William Tyndale, and a man God converted from the Catholic Faith through Tyndale called John Rogers.
A FAKE BIBLE - SYNOPSIS:
1) The text is corrupt. The Orthodox have a heresy to translate from the LXX Greek copy of the old testament, so at best their bible would be a translation of a copy not a translation, however the text of the LXX Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) contradicts the Jewish Masoretic Text, and so the TEXT and the CANON is corrupt.
The LXX includes:
The LXX additional canon beyond the deuterocanon :
4) the Epistle of Jeremiah, (which later became chapter six of Baruch in the Vulgate)
5) the Book of Odes,
6) the Prayer of Manasseh
are included in some copies of the Septuagint,[23]
There is schism in Orthodoxy and Catholicism over accepting these books in their canon.
The deuterocanon or Anagignoskomena :
(not in the Jewish canon)
1) They shorten the Book of Jeremiah.2
2) 1 Maccabees;
3) 2 Maccabees
4) Tobit; a voodoo book.
5) Judith;
6) Wisdom of Solomon;
7) Sirach;
8) Baruch,
9) The Letter of Jeremiah;
10) additions to Esther;
11) additions to Daniel
a) Bel and the Dragon: (outstanding proof they have a fake canon)
b) Susanna and the Elders: (I think the Vulgate may add chapter 13?)
d) Song of the Three Holy Children:
The addition of these "books" to the canon, not found in Jewish canon, prove to Protestants the writers of the LXX Greek Old Testament were an heretic Jewish Cult, and that cult are the basis of the fake Orthodox Bible.
All of these latter books are considered by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church as canonical books, and some of the former ; to Protestantism, they are the Apocrypha. The Septuagint version of some Biblical books, like Daniel and Esther, are longer than those in the Masoretic Text.
Pseudepigraphical .
Technically, a pseudepigraphon is a book written in a biblical style and ascribed to an author who did not write it. In common usage, however, the term pseudepigrapha is often used by way of distinction to refer to apocryphal writings that do not appear in printed editions of the Bible, as opposed to the texts listed above. Examples[51] include:
Often included among the pseudepigrapha are 3 and 4 Maccabees because they are not traditionally found in western Bibles, although they are in the Septuagint. Similarly, the Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees and 4 Baruch are often listed with the pseudepigrapha although they are commonly included in Ethiopian Bibles. The Psalms of Solomon are found in some editions of the Septuagint.
How do they differentiate from Deuterocanonical from Pseudepigraphical?
In addition, two books considered canonical in the Orthodox Tewahedo churches, viz. Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees, are categorized as pseudepigrapha from the point of view of Chalcedonian Christianity .
eg The Testament of Solomon .
This contains female demons like Abyzou, quote "A.A. Barb argues that in essence the Sumerian Abzu is the "grandmother" of the Christian Devil.[5]"
links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Solomon .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyzou .
As an Evangelical / Protestant I hasten to say I deny altogether the existence of female demons.
Protestant versus Orthodox versus Catholic Apocrypha :
It is important to note that the Orthodox have a far wider list of books considered "New Testament Apocrypha"
see link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha
The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox religions thrive on diverting people away from real holy scripture into reading anything and everything else, and thus they present to people a far wider range of writings that acts like quicksand to dirvert and trap them in studies outside of the word of God.
When was the canon realised?
The first Christians had the bible and canon (obviously) but Roman persecution made them hide under the Ichthus symbol. At the time of Constantine they had to hide again, as the new sacerdotalist heretics (who became Catholics and Orthodox in 1054) were killing them (notice before the Nicene Creed there were "riots where Christians were killing Christians" to quote historians). This meant that the bible only visibly emerged when John Rogers (a Roman Catholic convert who William Tyndale witnessed to) finally compiled the new and old testaments in English translated qt last from Greek and Hebrew. Like Tyndale he was then burnt alive this time by the Catholics.
Tobit.
A man fell asleep on the floor, and birds had a poo in his eyes, and he went blind. And that is holy scripture. St Paul had scales on his eyes, but apparently the Catholics and the Orthodox have so much bird poo in their eyes they cannot tell what holy scripture is.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
includes 86 books, including all the books in the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles, plus Jubilees, Enoch, Synodicon, Diddascalia Apostolorum, Testament of the Lord, Qalementus, and 4 Baruch.
quote:
The reason it is tricky is that the number of books is actually misleading. Much of the actual text is present in both canons, but it’s distributed differently. Esdras in particular is picked to pieces; there is a ‘3 Esdras’ book that is very similar to 1 Esdras that is in Greek Bibles but not (most) Catholic Bibles, and yet some Latin Bibles contain up to 4 Esdras, which is chaos considering how very much of it is repeated material. Most of the actual differences are like this, such as the ‘Epistle of Jeremiah’ which is its own book in the Orthodox Bible but is appended to Baruch in the Roman Catholic. The only really unique material is the Prayer of Mannaseh, 3 Maccabees, and the 151st Psalm.
Tobit :
The prophet the Jews don't even know they had.
Sinaiticus contained a longer and older Greek edition of Tobit, which is used in modern translations. Five fragments of Tobit were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: one in Hebrew, four in Aramaic. The fragments confirm the Sinaiticus edition and suggest an Aramaic original.
Preposterous :
Tobit is made blind by birds having a poo in his eyes.
(It is interesting that in the different versions it is sparrow poo in the RSV but it is "hot dung out of a swallow's nest" in the Douay version.)
wildly Idiotic :
Sarah has been married seven times but a demon killed each of her husbands before the marriage could be consummated (3:8).
The angel Raphael is disguised as an Israelite named Azariah.
hilarious :
Raphael convinces Tobiah to marry Sarah, despite her track record of dead husbands.
Voodoo :
Tobiah uses parts of the fish to ward off the murderous demon and he survives the wedding night (8:2).
never knew angels were into money :
Raphael retrieves the money
Quackery :
Finally, Tobiah uses the fish's gall to cure Tobit's blindness (11:11).
it figures....
The story draws on themes from a few Mesopotamian myths from the same time period,
fiction is not God's word, Catholic quote:
"Tobit is very different from most biblical books because of its fiction"
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The Apocrypha .
The Apocrypha proper then would be classified as follows:
Palestinian Jewish Literature
Historical
1 Esdras (i.e. Greek Ezra).
1 Maccabees.
Legendary
Book of Baruch
Book of Judith
Apocalyptic
2 Esdras (see also Apocalyptic literature)
Didactic
Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus)
Tobit
Hellenistic Jewish Literature:
Historical and Legendary
Additions to Daniel
Additions to Esther
Epistle of Jeremiah
2 Maccabees
Prayer of Manasseh
Didactic
Book of Wisdom , ,
The Fake Orthodox Bible:
Their fake canon came from their racist decision to translate the OT out of the Greek LXX, introducing the LXX fake books never accepted by the Jews.
No official Bible???
Orthodox Christians tell me the bible they use has the NKJV of the new testament in it, but the old testament is based on the LXX. How can they have a Protestant new testament? The mind boggles! And then they make the mistake of choosing the corrupted NKJV over the KJV. That they have not ratified bible by the hierarchy they claim has such authority. or one they say is the most accurate and good for reading, is amazing. And what was the new testament then they were using for 1,000 years before the Reformation? Apparently they never bothered to compile one. It shows how the bible to them historically is nothing to their man made traditions.
After discussing this with the Orthodox there maybe an EOB in Greek, that uses a Koine Greek basis that is not Textus Receptus, but even if there is why should I go to the trouble to do massive analysis on possible differences between the Greek if its not their official bible, in some way ratified by their top wizards (bishops)?
The Ancient Faith edition- research :
I met an Amish woman who told me she used the Greek Orthodox Greek new testament text not Textus Receptus, but I was never able to locate such an ms (and we departed as facebook friends over Amish Rumspringa and Shunning doctrines). So the Orthodox Religion has no official ratified Bible? Fact is in Greece the Orthodox church is really two separate churches split over the calendar and other issues. Would have been interesting to compare their new testament Greek and translation of them, but apparently neither exist and they both use the Protestant KJV. So in GREEK in GREECE surely they d not use a Greek translation of the NKJV ???
So let us get this straight...... God gave a promise in Matthew 4:4 (Deuteronomy 8:3) that every word of God will be perfectly preserved word for word. You say this was fulfilled by translating the entire OT into Greek, then the Hebrew was corrupted, and only the Greek LXX remains pure? When the Greek LXX is not word for word anyway? Absurd....... And then God preserved with it bunk books like the portion of Daniel called "Bel and the Dragoon" an obvious forgery. Oh...... and as your church is infallible but not your Titular Head, that makes your church practice on this "infallible". Wake up thou that sleepest - and Christ will give thee light! That would potentially require that the men who translated the LXX to have done so under inspiration - that is quite some serious doctrine to hold!
ok show us that in the canons or the fathers, so you can show your own bible is not to you "heterodox".
If the LXX was a copy of a perfect old Hebrew Text
1) Why did God preserve the LXX but not the Hebrew text it was taken from (in your theology)
2) Did this original Hebrew the LXX was copied from have Bel and the Dragon in it? And why if the Jews have never said it was scripture?
The Eastern Orthodox do not publish their bible online, perhaps in case you find out how corrupted it is - like how they falsely insert the word "priest" over and over again.
The Septuagint (LXX) used to translate the Old Testament.
1) The LXX contradicts the Hebrew - giving an underlying heretical basis that the prophecy of Matthew 4:4 that "every word" will be perfectly preserved by God is supposedly fulfilled in the LXX (heresy).
2) Translating from a translation into multiple languages is a corruption of text and a concoction.
3) The LXX contains Books not in the Hebrew
The official Orthodox bible is a fake from the very start, because they translate the old testament out of the Greek Septuagint, making it at very best a translation of a translation. What is more they did this for racist reasons, just as the modern Judaizing movement translate the new testament from absurdly corrupt and late Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, as the inspired Textus Receptus Greek new testament (or any other come to that) blows apart the who fake premise of their cult by never calling God Yahweh once, or Jesus Yeshua once.
Orthodoxy also add clearly bogus books to the old testament canon, like the absurd book "Bel and the Dragon", with the hero stuffing pitch into a dragon's mouth until it explodes (ridiculous). This is why they try not to discuss "the canon" but the new testament canon only, so they can fantasize that they "gave it to us". It was given to us by God through the Apostles and disciples, and we simply recognize it, as the spiritual discern all things spiritually, just as we reject the absurd counterclaims of Orthodoxy and Catholicism - that they both represent the model of the early church, yet are both massively different in hugely important doctrinal areas, such as the Pope, the nature of Hell, and divorce, to name but a few. They both claim all the history scrolls prove beyond all doubt they are the real deal, but both are radically different. Full well the Evangelicals and the Protestants trust the bible instead.
The bible of the Eastern Orthodox is utterly corrupted by racism from the start, and even the Russians, and other countries, not just the Greeks, have bought into the Hell sent lie the old testament should be translated from the Greek. Maybe Asians think you should translate it from Chinese. The Orthodox are ridiculous, but the Catholics that translate it out of Latin are even worse.
So just how accurate is the septuagint? The old testament should be translated from the Hebrew. Full stop. Period. Using the version of the 70 introduced fake apocryphal books, and made the old testament text itself fake.
Death by inhaling ashes.
2 Maccabees Chapter 13
this was a heathen king, thus criticisms are invalid.
WHY THE PATRIARCHAL N.T. GREEK IS FAKE
AND THUS THE EASTERN ORTHODOX BIBLE (EOB) IS FAKE:
The same technique of deception is used in the Eastern Orthodox Bible (EOB) as was used in the modern versions of the bible, like the NIV, and it is basically very similar to a Jehovah's Witness fake new testament, except the word Jehovah has not been falsely inserted into it, as it has been in the JW modern Greek version (how dim Greek Jehovah's Witnesses must be not to notice the deliberate replacement of Theos and Kurios with Jehovah).
WE GAVE YOU THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE:
that's as dumb as saying Orthodox or the Pope gave us "One God Father Son and Spirit". Both are simply divine truths. Rather it is their false churches that tried to give us Bel and the Dragon etc.
Modern version fakes:
When the modern versions of the bible came out, they relegated scriptures like the end of Mark 16, and John 8:1-11 to footnotes, just as the Watch Tower version does now. This meant the English speaking public largely rejected these versions, and so the sales tactic was used to put the huge number of missing verses in the text of these fake new testaments, instead of as footnotes, thus the public was tricked into reading fake bibles.
Eastern Orthodox Bible (EOB) fakes:
The Eastern Orthodox Bible (EOB) is based on the bogus Greek "Patriarchal Text" (PT ).
Quote: "The Patriarchal Text ( PT ) was selected on Mount Athos from among a large number of reliable ecclesiastical manuscripts, the text underpinning the official ecclesiastical text published in 1904 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople." and also, quote: "The manuscripts they selected were from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, and were largely from lectionaries (that is, from texts that were actually used in the worship of the Church)." Preposterous, using ms from the 9th to 16th centuries only!
As time went by he Authorized Bible defenders, also known as The King James Bible, began to so thoroughly prove that the Alexandrian School of Manuscripts is corrupted, that a number of crafty tactics are now being adopted in the Eastern Orthodox New Testament to hide how totally corrupt their own "Patriarchal Text" is, in a similar, but perhaps in an even more cunning way as is seen in modern versions like the NIV and the ESV.
If the EOB stuck to its bogus Greek called "The Patriarchal Text", which was based on shallow research by green scholars, who lacked the Faith to discern the true word of God, then in just the same way as the English and American public at first shunned the modern versions, the Greeks and Russian Orthodox believers (etc) would probably dump the EOB. Therefore an even more clever way of hiding the corruptions of the Patriarchal text was found. The tactic used is to not translate only the PT (Patriarchal Text) in the OEB, and leave everything else as footnotes, but to include all the verses that are missing into the body of the actual bible text itself, and then to either
a) use angled brackets and section it off from the Patriarchal Text translated verses, example:
<For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory, now and unto ages of ages. Amen> Matthew 6:13
with a footnotes stating quote "CT omits this" etc. Angled brackets like this infer it is not scripture.
b) simply omit to say "PT omits" or "TR adds" and give no footnote. example:
Matthew 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
c) Instead of writing PT misses out a verse, or a lot of text, they state instead far more frequently TR adds it, not PT omits it, deceiving you yet again. Example:
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. Where it adds in a footnote quote: "TR adds "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:". This might be done with or without an asterisk.
d) And finally, and perhaps most craftily of all, brackets off part of the text, and then states it is in the Patriarchal Text ( PT ). This infers their precious Patriarchal Text is wrong after all. When? Confusingly sometimes when it is in fact plainly accurate and correct, for instance when PT includes the longer ending of Mark 16, as the Alexandrian Text has no resurrection, or ascension, in the Gospel of Mark, which would mean it is not a synoptic gospel if that was true, which of course it is not, the long ending of Mark 16 is the inspired word of God. example:
Mark 16: verses 9 - 20 are put in double brackets from <<Mark 16:9 Now after Jesus* had risen early.......to......Mark 16:20 the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied [them]. Amen.>> and then the footnote tells you quote:
16:9-20, are not present in some ancient manuscripts, including the fourth century Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although the omission has unusual features that make the absence of the longer ending less than decisive. Mark 16:9-20 is preserved in its traditional form in about a dozen uncials (the earliest being Codex Alexandrinus) and in all undamaged minuscules. The longer ending is generally not considered to have undisputable canonical authority but it is part of the Patriarchal Text (PT) and is attested by ancient and widespread liturgical use. It is therefore included in the main EOB text as being part of the received text of the Gospel of Mark. See print version's Appendix F for a full discussion.
The question is...... why does the EOB section off with angled brackets huge amount of scripture, (if it is really in the Patriarchal Text?) yet add others often omitted from the NIV etc and add footnotes. What is special about the angled bracketed verses that get omitted from the NIV? And why are they giving any credibility to manuscripts like the Alexandrian text if they really believe it is corrupt?
CONCLUSION *** edit:
I contend that if the Orthodox believers in the USA, Europe and the UK, had been given an EOB bible version that stuck only to the Patriarchal Text, it would have been rejected in the same way the modern versions were at first rejected. Instead both the EOB and the NIV and other modern versions used a deliberate deception tactic. With the NIV it is Bible verses the general public regard as the definite word of God, like the Lord's Prayer, Mark 16 (or you have no resurrection) and John 8:1-11 (or the preposterous theory must be believed someone made up the story and it was inserted - when it is one of the strongest pacifist stories in the bible, and neither Catholics nor Orthodox are pacifists).
AN ANALYSIS OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW:
will be given on this page to show how these deceptions were used to cover up the absolutely staggering amount of the new testament that is either MISSING or CHANGED in the Patriarchal Text ( PT ). For a comprehensive list of almost all the corruptions found in the Patriarch Text and the modern bible versions see this link:
The Authorised Bible defended:
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SO CALLED "TOUGH" QUESTIONS:
under construction........
I do not believe in patronising people by leaving out so called "tough questions" meant to refute sola scriptura. One question is a question Hebrew Roots heretics and Judaising heretics love to ask, namely "If scripture is sufficient what did the church do in the years before any new testament scripture was given?" This is meant to imply that the early church for a short period relied solely on tradition and word of mouth.
1) First Jesus directly stated in Luke 24:44-48, when first defining the Evangelical Gospel (later repeated in 1 Cor15:1-4) that the new covenant (Jer 31) and the gospel (Is 53, Psalm 22, Malachi 4:2, etc) and was predicted in the old testament.
You need to study the Adamic, Edenic, Noahic, Abrahamic, covenants. The Law was given by Jesus immediately in the new covenant, as did Moses Earlier, but the many other books of scripture where given to the Jews over several thousand years, such as Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Malachi, etc. The new testament was thus given FAR quicker. Which books are inspired to form a canon was discerned, but was totally misunderstood by the Orthodox, who on a racist basis chose to translate the Old Testament from ancient Greek, a foolish mistake, leading them to OK heretical Books like "Bel and the Dragon".
People act as if once Moses Law was given, everyone in Israel was given their own copy of the 4 Books of the Law (yes 4!!) and Genesis and Job. The word Deuteronomy means "a second law" and was only written later on, and it is therefore impossible that it was placed next to the Arc of the Covenant at first with the rest of the books ( actually singular) of the law. Thus from the very beginning even after the law was written down and carried with the arc the people were taught SCRIPTURE verbally. Therefore the thousands of people who heard Jesus preaching sharing what he said, is not in contradiction to it being later written down. It was still his inspired words. It was still not man made traditions.
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If the men guiding the Eastern Orthodox Church are so anointed and godly, why do they keep the online version of the bible away from their own flock? Obviously they do not want their followers to read it, and instead want them to concentrate on things other than the bible. Or perhaps it is because their new testament is a fake. That is right!
The manuscripts they selected were from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, and were largely from lectionaries (that is, from texts that were actually used in the worship of the Church).
Then where is the promise fulfilled both in the old testament and the new "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."? The EOB gives the impression the scholars who put it together used the Patriarchal Text ( PT ) but were ashamed of it in places, and were apologetic is sound, as if their minds were a hodge podge of different theologies, as if they actually believed the corrupt Alexandrian ms are in fact more accurate.
The incredible fact is that not only has the Greek nation failed to preach the true gospel of Jesus (except a remnant of Evangelicals there today) but they have failed to defend the new testament that is written by inspiration of the Holy Spirit in their own language, as the following comparisons will show.
Where is the indignation from the Greek people that their bible is not put online properly by their so called church? Where is the outrage! Where is the protest? Where is the demand it should be? Why can the Greek and Russian people not plainly see, that these Pharisees are hiding the bible from you! As it is written "ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." Luke 11:52.
I cannot presently obtain these verses. Be diligent and go check them out for yourself? What have they REMOVED and CHANGED in the word of God?
REMOVED VERSES - are in RED (put in brackets)
CHANGED VERSES - are in green (different translation than KJV) sometimes it is different Greek words in different texts.
The following link is the only one I can find (not from their church), and it has whole pages missing:
Eastern Greek Orthodox Bible
THE PATRIARCHAL TEXT:
Quote: "The Patriarchal Greek New Testament (PATr) was published by the Patriarchal Press of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on February 22, 1904. It was published as: The New Testament, Approved by the Great Church of Christ, with the intention of being the most authoritative text of the Greek New Testament available. As more critical or eclectic editions of the NT became the norm by the nineteenth century (replacing the Byzantine Text), the Patriarchate of Constantinople assembled a committee of scholars for the purposes of studying various manuscripts of the NT at both Constantinople and Mount Athos. Their goal was to provide “the best reconstruction of the most ancient text of ecclesiastical tradition and, more specifically, of the Church of Constantinople” (from the preface to the 1904 text). The manuscripts they selected were from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, and were largely from lectionaries (that is, from texts that were actually used in the worship of the Church). After the Patriarchal Greek New Testament’s initial publication in 1904, Professor Vasileios Antoniades of the Theological School of Chalki made some minor corrections to the text in 1912."
"RPT, RPTE - Revised Patriarchal Text. This Greek New Testament text is based on the public domain Greek Orthodox Church text (GOC in Bible Works). The text has been revised in a little over 100 places to bring it into conformity with the 350AD Byzantine Gothic text of Wulfilas. The English version is RPTE. Provided by Wayne Mitchell."
What the Orthodox Church is not telling you is that their so called "original church" was so unconcerned about the bible itself, so preoccupied steering the people to read dusty tomes written by spurious so called saints, hermits and pillarists etc, hey had not bothered to put together a proper new testament for 1900 years! And even after the Reformation they did not bother to do it, all they had was regional inaccurate versions, missing out and changing scriptures. Is such an attitude to the word of God representing a holy and zealous and godly view of the importance of the Holy Scriptures? The fact is the Orthodox religion has spent over a thousand years directing people away from the bible into reading the warped and heretical writings of their pseudo sages and saints, just as the Pharisees in Judaism used the same kind of diversion tactic with volume after volume after volume of the Talmud. Orthodox priests and Jewish Pharisees look identical down to the fuzzy beards and uniforms that are worn to receive the glory of men, and use the same diversion tactic away from reading the Word of God himself.
ADULTERY:
Make no mistake about it, one of the most devastating changes occurs in changing the interpretation of the Greek word "porneia" in Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:9, and other changes to those verses! The changes are catastrophic!
Orthodox defence:
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"Your New Testament canon comes from St. Athanasius' paschal letter and the syndo's of Hippo and Carthage"
Insertion of the word "priest".
The word priest is falsely inserted into the EO new testament by the Orthodox .
Fake Book of Revelation Author .
Fake Epistles of John Author/s .
In a cave on Patmos the authorship of the Book of Revelation is sometimes attributed by the Orthodox to another author other than the St John who wrote the Gospel of John, variously called and " John the Presbyter" or " John the Elder" . The same with the epistles of John. Can you imagine how serious this is? To invent a spurious Orthodox / Catholic invented person who never even existed, and then say part of the bible, even several books, were written by him, even the sacrosanct Book of Revelation! (see Rev 22: 19-20 and the threat to those who change that book!) Why is it they their traditions do not get it clear? They have so many strange traditions they insist are true, but they cannot get this right, leaving many Orthodox teaching that the bible was partly written by one of their fake religious figures!! Did Jesus not plainly say at the end of the Gospel of John:
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20Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
21Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
22Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
24This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
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this indicates it is John who wrote the Book of Revelation, revealed t him later by Jesus.
footnote:
Saint Thecla is said by the Orthodox to be a "saint equal to the Apostles". It seems very likely none of the Apostles knew such a woman or her life. She appears in The Acts of Paul and Thecla ia 2nd-century text (circa AD 180) which forms part of the Acts of Paul but also circulated separately.
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What they followed is what I follow now. People say this and that is scripture. To whom do I turn? God. The Holy Ghost is my teacher. He has led me to totally reject your canon for reasons given. I studied The Book of Enoch (as it is supposedly quoted in Jude) and prayed if its scripture and got a clear NO. That is how they did it then and now. You accept the Popes canon, which is very different from the Orthodox canon.
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What I am saying is your canon is proven BOGUS. So you have therefore never ever ever let the people read it, as u=your cann is false. The Catholics burnt people alive anyway who printed bibles for people. Making your whole premise false from the start. Ironically the first person to give the complete bible to the people in more modern times was the converted Catholic John Rogers, who you then BURNT ALIVE for doing it.