Recent content by Justin-H.S.

It also demonstrates the monarchia of the Father, as the other two persons look to the one person on the left.

Memory Eternal! This video specifically is what convinced me to become Orthodox:

I say this as someone starting to lean away from "corrective baptisms" (not that I held that position in the first place), and more towards Chrism/Holy Spirit-respecter, but....this is standard atheist/materialist fare. "You're not being physically persecuted?? Then, you're not actually being...

My only comment is this: 2023 is the year American Calvinists noticed Orthodoxy is growing in numbers, and are racing to plug the gaps through a reviving of its historical tradition of iconoclasm. Thankfully, God's peoples have experience surviving iconoclasts, par excellence, through Muslims...

This was around the time New Atheism was really gaining traction and a reactionary movement against Westboro Baptists and Creation vs. Evolution in public schools, so this could be seen as treading that fine line of "don't lump us in with those crazy Protestants," but that's just speculation on...

This also goes into why God is referred to as He - a masculine pronoun, and why the Church is a She - the feminine. Feminine nature is to receive from the masculine, as a seed is planted into the fertile ground. But some ground can be rocky and unstable, so the teachings won't grow.

Sounds pretty Corinthian.

Bishop Jonah addresses the issue of "Infallibility" in this catechesis class: @13:28

Because the many GOA around the world are basically subsidizing "Constantinople." And it keeps calling itself the "Ecumenical Patriarchate" when there no longer is a Roman emperor.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. God grant all of us the wisdom to make a U-turn if it turns out we were wrong in our respective beliefs. Inshallah

I say Inshallah and I'm not even Arabic.

"We should just accept the council of Florence because the bishops did." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clericalism

I'm more curious what it is that is considered "worship music" or CCM. Like...would a praise band be able to do a Lecrae song as worship music? How about a Kanye song? What are the parameters of worship music? Does it have to be a rock band? Why is CCM rap disqualified as worship music?

It's the same as the "Christians" in America who identify as one, but don't actively practice/attend. Or who wear a cross because 2pac did.