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Yes! Well holy fathers always tolerated small differences, if such was case then the schism due to quartodecimanism is justifiable? Then we have holy father St Gregory of Nazianzus teaching; Others, mutually divided, drive East and West into confusion, and God has abandoned them to their flesh...

Constantine, Maybe, but they didn't tampered original creed as we know that in West they were many creeds in existence that were used for confession of faith other than Oecumenical defined creeds (like Apostle and Athanasius). Filioque too can be found in patristics, but the worst argument I...

Thank you! Yea..I shall wait and most probably discern God's will. Beautiful advice, friend. Yes! I'm certain that by theology or history alone we can't determine the true church but through Spirit intervention. It was my thirst for truth that landed me to Christianity, I can't extinguish it or...

My my, seems like I'm late..I will try to reply you all! Peace and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all~Amen. S.k

Thank you so much for sharing this with me! I loved your explanation to her, yeah it does clarified everything but if understood in respective sense. Nde's are ambiguous at least but there is one thing in common in most of testimonies--that they see light well many see jesus, heaven and hell...

I would love to visit Orthodox church but place where I live there is no church nearby, I love orthodoxy but hate tradox attitude and hyper anti western rhetoric but beauty of divine liturgy overshadow me just desire to experience beauty in reality. Please pray for me!!

We have arrived at the heart of complexity, friend. Actually the whole controversy is more semantics than basic doctrinal differences as noted by Met. Kallistos ware. Latin and Greek are two different languages and it's absolutely necessary to understand fathers in their context, as fathers of...

Thank you, friend! Blessings, S.k

Here from Life of Pi; if anything is hard to believe doesn't mean it's false but it means we need Grace. I'm Christian convert, I struggle and sometimes i feel to renounce but how could I deny the Historicity of Jesus appearance to Apostles? Their heroic martyrdom? Our faith is above all on...

Peace! Great to meet you as well, Thank you! Blessings, S.k

Maximus the Confessor: "By nature the Holy Spirit in his being takes substantially his origin from the Father through the Son who is begotten (Questions to Thalassium 63 [A.D. 254]). Gregory the Wonderworker: "[There is] one Holy Spirit, having substance from God, and who is manifested through...

Because early church is most similar in ecclesiology and doctrines to catholic and orthodox Churches then protestant churches. Eucharist, prayers of dead, invocation of saints, status of Bishops as Vicar of God the Father( as said by St ignatius disciple of Apostle John) and etc. But It doesn't...

Thank you! Yeah most of the teachers explain and regard it either metaphorically or spritual myth for edifying. In few groups online I came across people who insisted in literal toll houses and critized the non literal sense as modernist leaning.. No, MET Timothy ware or Fr Thomas hopko always...

You aren't alone, I too suffer from social anxiety. I've hard time communicating with people, unable to remember words while having conversation with people and after long time I realize what could have said better but it's usually late. Imperfections are key to perfections and you have...

Peace! Well many theologians indeed do believe in concept of Ariel toll houses like Timothy Ware and Fr. Thomas Hopko. It's mostly famous among lay members who passionately defend it even some of them go far to take it literally and call those who regard it as allegory-- a modernist. If Aeriel...

Peace and Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all~Amen! I'm considering Catholicism or Orthodoxy, but I'm perplexed little bit concerning filioque issue. Some orthodox zealously defends the Aeriel toll houses as doctrine of the church because of few patristics attestation but in honest...

Thank you! God bless you both! :crossrc:

Thank you so much! I learnt that greeting from Apostle Paul :) Amen!! :amen: thanks again, friend! I think, it is I who should be thankful to have fellowship with believers. Blessings, S.k

Papa francisco is unpredictable, he acts according to his vision. Universal salvation is appealing and tempting, it says all can be saved--who doesn't like that so let's dare we hope? Nay But to regard it as doctrine is too dangerous due to silence of Holy writ and also there's no much...

Thank you! Blessings to you as well! :) S.k