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Wait a minute. The OP doesn't actually say what the EP has done in order to ruin the dialogue with the Catholics. Instead it says that the MP left the meeting in protest against the presence of representatives of the re-established autonomous Estonian Orthodox Church under the EP. This is not...

Well yes, at least the Septuagint OT uses the word presbyter to refer to the Jewish elders. But this doesn't mean that the christian priesthood has evolved from the Jewish eldership. For clarity it's good to keep the two terms separate.

As far as I can tell, Acts 14:23 refers to the ordination of presbyters (or elders, in the vocabulary used by most protestant translations that shun anything Catholic-sounding) in the churches. It doesn't say how many presbyters per church there were. A "team of elders" isn't actually in the...

Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Asinner again.

No it doesn't. The prefix deutero- means "second". Deuterocanonical means "of the second (or secondary) canon".

In order to understand what Tradition is, you have to understand what the Church is. There exists no Holy Tradition outside the Church that Christ founded, just as that same Church would not be in existence today if it weren't for Holy Tradition. Tradition is the life of the Church. If you fail...

Have you ever tried finding out when "the Roman Catholic Denomination" was first mentioned? My guess is you won't find any records of someone being "Roman Catholic" before the protestant reformation. Before the split in the western church there was no need to point out the obvious. I don't see...

"and rose up on the third day in accordance with the scriptures" does not refer to the NT scriptures but to the OT prophets, who had foretold the resurrection of Christ (cf. Matt 12:39-40).

Not regularly, but if there is no RC priest to turn to, a Roman Catholic may approach an Orthodox priest for confession and eucharist, and vice versa. At least this is the official position of the Moscow Patriarchate, and I believe Rome has a similar position. Who is permitted to partake is...

Sounds to me like you can't see the wood for the trees. How many "denominations" did Christ found? How many "denominations" were there around when the books of the NT were written? Don't let yourself be fooled by the fact that there are so many "denominations" and sects around today. Just...

Now, as we all know, Christ himself didn't leave any writings behind. What he taught, his apostles passed on. Hence, in the decades following the resurrection of Christ, all doctrinal authority was with the apostles (under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, of course) and with those whom the...

What groups of believers and what Evangelical beliefs are you referring to here? There were (and still are) large Christian populations in the parts of the world that you mentioned: The Roman Catholics, The Byzantine (Greek) Orthodox, The Syriac Orthodox, The Coptic Chruch, The Ethiopian...

True. Christians worship on the first day of the week, which is the day of the resurrection of Christ and the beginning of the new creation in Him (incidentally it is the day of the beginning of the OT creation as well). On this day we celebrate the Eucharist and meet our resurrected Lord...

And yet, if it weren't for those Ecumenical Councils, there wouldn't be a NT. There wouldn't be any scriptures for you to have faith in...

Aha. Thanks for correcting me.

Yes it does. In the countries of the reformers (Luther lived in Germany and Calvin in France and Switzerland) the Church was one and united right up until the reformation. Earlier schisms within the Christian Church did not affect Western Europe at all. I take it "ECFs" means "Eastern Church...

Sorry if my answer was unclear. I'm not an American, so you probably know a lot more about the US government and constitution than I do. However, I do agree that the relationship between the Church and the Book in some ways resembles the relationship between the State and the Constitution...

Well, in that case they don't know what they're talking about.

The Church is not a book. Neither is America.