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starting at 35:48 and going up to 1:29:20 we see a long list of things that apparently must be "renounced" publically as in "I renounce this teaching" -- to join certain Orthodox churches. (Which suprised me somewhat). And a lot of those things are specifically stated to be Roman Catholic - that the these Orthodox groups say must be renounced as heresy.
38:20 begins a section on specifically renouncing certain doctrines of the Lutheran church.
43:43 A Roman Catholic priest converting - and must renounce certain Catholic doctrines
43:53-- "fake dogma that the Holy Spirit proceeds from ..."
46:50 -- "renounce the wrong doctrine that instead of Jesus Christ - the Pope is the head of the universal church"?
<Just a few short examples of the list to be renounced to illustrate that this is not merely about "politics" >
more examples:
47:05 - renounce the Apostle Peter being above the other apostles and above apostles in Antioch, Russia - and that all those other Apostles are not equal to Rome's Bishop.
47:37 - renounce the teaching that Rome's pope has authority above Ecumenical Councils and that Rome's Pope is infallible in matters of the faith
47:49 - renounce all other Roman-Catholic teachings that are against the teachings of the Holy Scripture, Holy Traditions of the church and Ecumenical Councils.
Now normally I would say "fine we expect some differences like that since they are different denominations" (Though I find it very unusual to have "I renounce this-or-that" in the actual liturgy of a christening or baptism or profession-of-faith vote into membership - for other denominations).
The reason I bring this up is that now and then in the General Theology forum we see complaints about "sola scriptura generates all those Protestant Denominations" as if there is no denominational difference in doctrine between Catholic groups and Orthodox groups - while claiming the "sola scriptura" doctrine is what creates differences and so Catholics supposedly have no such difference with the Orthodox groups as one might find between certain Protestant or Evangelical groups.
BTW - check out this post for a further point on SS vs tradition.
But the video in this OP appears to "shed more light" on that detail than one normally hears about in the General Theology forum.
From the video evidence here it appears their differences are as significant as any other difference between lets say Baptist and Presbyterian etc. In fact the Orthodox/vs/Roman Catholic list of "I renounce" may be much larger than one would find between Presbyterian and Baptist.
38:20 begins a section on specifically renouncing certain doctrines of the Lutheran church.
43:43 A Roman Catholic priest converting - and must renounce certain Catholic doctrines
43:53-- "fake dogma that the Holy Spirit proceeds from ..."
46:50 -- "renounce the wrong doctrine that instead of Jesus Christ - the Pope is the head of the universal church"?
<Just a few short examples of the list to be renounced to illustrate that this is not merely about "politics" >
more examples:
47:05 - renounce the Apostle Peter being above the other apostles and above apostles in Antioch, Russia - and that all those other Apostles are not equal to Rome's Bishop.
47:37 - renounce the teaching that Rome's pope has authority above Ecumenical Councils and that Rome's Pope is infallible in matters of the faith
47:49 - renounce all other Roman-Catholic teachings that are against the teachings of the Holy Scripture, Holy Traditions of the church and Ecumenical Councils.
Now normally I would say "fine we expect some differences like that since they are different denominations" (Though I find it very unusual to have "I renounce this-or-that" in the actual liturgy of a christening or baptism or profession-of-faith vote into membership - for other denominations).
The reason I bring this up is that now and then in the General Theology forum we see complaints about "sola scriptura generates all those Protestant Denominations" as if there is no denominational difference in doctrine between Catholic groups and Orthodox groups - while claiming the "sola scriptura" doctrine is what creates differences and so Catholics supposedly have no such difference with the Orthodox groups as one might find between certain Protestant or Evangelical groups.
BTW - check out this post for a further point on SS vs tradition.
I can't think of a single orthodox, Catholic, Protestant or Evangelical denomination that claims "yes that is right - we are teaching error as if it were truth". None of them point to even one doctrine saying "yes we teach this - but in this case we are teaching error".
So some members may say that about their own Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical group - but the leaders and traditions of that group never claim such a thing.
Imagine if they all admitted to their error and were accurate in that regard - and all one has to do is keep reading each group's "statement about our errors" section of their dogma/teaching/doctrines until they find one that lists no errors in that section... then choose that one.
That was not happening in the NT with Jews vs Christians and it does not happen today either. So we need to use an external objective method for deciding the matter - and that is SS. By definition it has an objective element to it - and by definition the other method does not.
The fact that one can also "bend wrench" the SS method to eliminate its objective element does not delete the fact that it is the only one of the two options that has that objective to it should one choose to take advantage of it.
But the video in this OP appears to "shed more light" on that detail than one normally hears about in the General Theology forum.
From the video evidence here it appears their differences are as significant as any other difference between lets say Baptist and Presbyterian etc. In fact the Orthodox/vs/Roman Catholic list of "I renounce" may be much larger than one would find between Presbyterian and Baptist.
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