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Byzantine Architecture Fanatic. Sober Husband, Father and Architect. Student of the Cappadocian Fathers. ICXC NIKA. #OrthodoxChurch circa 33AD ☧ ☦️☦︎

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Starting a list of Orthodox books I’ve read & recommend to others - a 🧵. After starting my journey from Protestantism to Orthodoxy in 2015, I began working my way through history, the canon, the fathers & theology. I still have a long way to go. So I’ll add chronologically…

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The thief on the crossed did many good works before his death: he confessed his sin, he repented, he defended Christ, he confessed his faith and he was baptized in blood. Why Protestants can’t see this is baffling.

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What not studying church history or the formation of the Biblical canon does to a fool.

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My favorite icon: Christ the Divine Architect. The compass is placed on Jerusalem, the center of Church history.

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Protestantism has gone so atheist/ materialist since its inception that they no longer believe God’s presence is in this world at all.

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The ridiculousness of Protestantism knows no bounds. Blurring out Christ’s face? Is that how he appeared to everyone on earth for 33 years? It’s a mockery of the incarnation.

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“Music is liquid architecture and Architecture is frozen music.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Paganism: taking L after L for 2,000 straight years.

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Is anyone going to tell him? We are the church who worked out the theology of the Trinity. We canonized the books in Bible he supposedly reads. We preserved every word of scripture for 16 centuries before his religion existed. We have been celebrating the Eucharist all this time.

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Christ walking on water with St. Peter. Wall fresco from the Dura-Europos Church, Syria. Circa 230 AD

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The Orthodox Church Is real.

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Has a single person, in the entire history of Christianity, ever claimed Israel was “venerating” the golden calf? It’s difficult to comprehend this level of pure ignorance.

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Number of verses in the NT or OT telling us the Apocrypha isn’t part of the canon: Zero.

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I love it when they post this meme. It completely refutes his own doctrine.

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They call icons idolatry unless they need the most accurate representations of the saints that we have.

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Breaking news! The church who wrote the Bible, authenticated the Bible & preserved it meticulously for 2,000 years, the church who still speaks & writes in the original language of scripture… Has NEVER interpreted these verses the way your modern heterodox group does.

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The Bible: here, let me show you that not all images are graven by commanding you to make images for your holy places. Then, let me show you in dozens of places in the OT where veneration is acceptable and not considered worship.

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Says the Protestant who asks his friends, family and clergy to pray for them.

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When you don’t have the Church, the pillar and ground of Truth, to check your comprehension of Holy Scripture. Who needs correct Triadology & Christology?

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These people would’ve literally turned their back on Jesus when he walked the earth as *gasp* fully man & fully God incarnate.

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Warning: be prepared for the coming backlash against Fr. Seraphim Rose as he’s set to be made a saint in 2024. As more people actually read what he wrote, they aren’t going to be very happy with what he says on many topics.

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The Christians who have been practicing Christianity in that very spot, in an unbroken lineage for 2,000 straight years, speaking & writing in the same language as Christ, is false and should look like the strip malls & business suits in America.

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Just watched a video on the Orthodox Church and there was a man interviewed who could trace his ancestry through the records of baptism, ordination and bishops back to Zacheus the tax collector in the Bible. 2,000 years of his family in the Orthodox Church. Impressive.

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This was a common refrain when I was Protestant. Everyone I disagreed with wasn’t “reading their Bible enough.” This even included the thousands of other “Bible believing” sects within Protestantism. This mindset rests upon a staggering amount of pride & self delusion.

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Many aren’t taught the difference between veneration & worship. Yet, Holy Scripture shows us there is clearly a difference. These are just a few examples from the Old Testament of acceptable veneration:

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If Apostolic Succession is true, then Protestantism can’t be true. Here’s the kicker, you don’t find anyone, anywhere, at any time, challenging the validity of Apostolic Succession in the first several centuries of the Church. And the Church argued about almost everything.

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We just believe the Bible.

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It’s always fun when Prots will pull out the “well it says in Greek” card to defend heterodox theology. Like, why did the entire Greek speaking church, raised in Greek culture, directly descended from the Apostles themselves, not interpret Greek scripture the way you do?

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A great first step towards freeing yourself from modern heresy, is to read church history, and learn you are just regurgitating earlier heresies.

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A sure sign someone’s never looked into Orthodox Christianity, is when they say: -worship Mary -pagan idolaters -worship saints -worship pix -which church? -salvation by works -don’t read Bible

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Christ is King.

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The Orthodox Church Is real.

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On Reformation Day, we Orthodox like to celebrate the fact that we never needed nor had a Reformation. The Orthodox Church. Establish in 33AD. Still the same, 2 millennia later. We are the sources the Reformers dreamed of returning to.

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🚨🚨Orthodox Church Inquirers🚨🚨 Pascha Services this weekend! Come and see!

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Sola Scriptura was such an important and vital teaching of the Apostles that it survived nowhere, in the East, West, North or South within a hundred years of them teaching day and night all through the known world. Gone. Like tears in the rain.

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I recently learned there are Rabbis who take their students to see Orthodox churches so they can see what early temple worship looked like. Orthodox Divine Liturgy is the church the Apostles established in Acts, and their successors carried on.

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This is what happens when your theology starts with soteriology and ends with Christology.

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Read the OT account of how the Ark of the Covenant was built. Read each and every detail. Then read how it was to be treated by God’s people. Then read what happened to those who treated it as “just another vessel.” The Theotokos housed the incarnated God-man himself!

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Contra the Evangelical notion of a suburban living room, the actual Biblical House Churches were estates with large rooms converted into places of worship: complete with an altar, baptismal font and iconography. Dura Europos, circa 233 AD

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The church who established the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed and recited that creed while partaking of the Eucharist every single Lord’s day for the past 2,000 years… is being called Trinitarian heretics by someone whose church probably isn’t even a hundred years old. Rich.

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“If we learn to build with local materials, we have a future.” ~ Francis Kere Orthodox Church ice sculpture at Vasaloppet China Ski Festival, Jingyuetan Park in Changchun, China

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Essential reading for anyone who is Orthodox, and for anyone needing a concise breakdown of our faith.

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A short list of acceptable names to call Orthodox who don’t affirm Calvinism: Semi Pelagian Neo Pelagian Post Pelagian Nü-Pelagian Hardcore Pelagian Pre Pelagian Pelagiancore Goth Pelagian The Pelagian Sea Bubonic Pelagius Darth Pelagius PelagiaStation 5 2 Fast 2 Pelagius

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When did God actually declare Abraham righteous according to St. Paul in Romans 4? It was 4 chapters AFTER he was called by God. When did Christ actually tell the thief on the cross he’d be with him in paradise? After he repented, confessed his faith, confessed Christ as God.

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Might as well celebrate Reformation Day in typical Reformation fashion: completely ignore and/ or distort a millennium and a half of history they were never a part of.

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Just hit the 78th month of sobriety. 6 years and 6 months off the sauce, the dragon and everything else. Without the uncreated grace, mercy & power of God, I’d have been dead years ago. Holy Martyr St. Ephraim of Nea Makri, pray for those of us in recovery!

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I just finished reading Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God by St. John Maximovich. Less than 100 pages & easy to read in an afternoon. I recommend reading it as one of the best refutations I’ve seen of the Latin dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

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“Practice no magic, sorcery, abortion or infanticide.” The Didache, Part 1, late 1st century AD.

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Prot: Faith Alone! Ortho: False dialectic. Prot: Chapter & verse! Ortho: “Faith without works is useless.” ~ James 2:20. St. Paul: “Faith, which works through love.” ~ Gal. 5:6. Etc… Prot: not those chapters or verses!

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An eye-opening thing to me about early church history, was finding out who the successors to the Apostles were. Men that followed & listened to the Apostles preaching day & night for years. These men were ordained directly by the Apostles.

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So how do “Christians” respond to being called out for having atheist/ materialist paradigms when it comes to miracles? Copy and paste r/Atheist responses to any Biblical claim.

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“The essence-energies doctrine is Eastern woo-woo mystical pagan nonsense!” No. The energies doctrine is Biblical. The Greek translation of the Bible speaks of God’s energies in terms of work, virtue, operation, etc… Here is a thread of scripture references:

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Not many things make me laugh harder than the Protestant, armed with a couple years of Greek studies & his lexicon, telling the Orthodox Church, which has spoken & written in Greek for 2,000 straight years, that we got our own language wrong. It’s staggering pride & ignorance.

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According to a couple of 20 year old recent converts & laypeople, we are not supposed to listen to: St. Dumitru Stăniloae St. Justin Popovich St. John Maximovich St. Seraphim Rose Fr. Pomazansky Fr. Meyendorff Bp. Kallistos Ware Vladimir Lossky Fr. Romanides Fr. Florovsky

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A question that vexed me as I was inquiring into Orthodoxy as the good little iconoclastic Evangelical: Is it idolatry to bow, make the sign of the cross and kiss the Gospels?

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It’s amazing how all doubts & questions I had about Trinitarian theology melted away & everything fell into place once I understood the E/E distinction taught by the Cappadocian’s, Sts. Dionysius Areopagite, Maximos, John Damascus, Photios and Gregory Palamas. This book is gold.

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The scriptures are clear. The church fathers and all of Christianity was clear for 16 centuries after Christ. Our faith in God must be in love & humility. Not some lowest common denominator modernist heresy from the 16th century.

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Thanksgiving with my Protestant family: all staunch iconoclasts. In the afternoon, one of the kids open their Sunday School book and **gasp** religious images of Christ, the Apostles, OT saints, etc…

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I know others have posted this before, but it feels pretty good knowing the Orthodox Church can trace our bishops all the way back through 2,000 years of history to the original churches Christ & His Apostles set up.

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These books are very helpful for anyone looking into the continuity between OT worship and NT/ Early Church worship. Liturgy, hymnography, vestments, sacraments, etc…

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Modern West false dialectics.

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@AS_Protestant As was St. Paul.

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We don’t need traditions of men, all we need is the Bible… so please like & subscribe to my YouTube Channel, read my blog and buy my books that tell you what the Bible says.

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@anqlican Typical: you want to reduce Christianity to the lowest common denominator. Faith without works is dead. His faith was not dead. End of story.

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Do you go to the gravestone of a loved one and place flowers on it? Have you pledged allegiance to the flag? Have you kissed a picture of a loved one? Have you bowed before royalty? Congrats, you now know veneration of images & people isn’t worship!

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We don’t need Church Fathers, we got ACADEMIA!

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St. Gregory Palamas is one of the “3 Pillars of Orthodoxy.” The other two being Sts. Photios & Mark of Ephesus. While it’s good to read any & all saints, when it comes to Orthodox theology, these names critical.

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The Orthodox Church is Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern.

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American Architect Andrew Gould’s firm, New World Byzantine, designed the beautiful Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia. This ROCOR church serves a predominantly English-speaking community that fell in love with the traditional towering Russian cathedrals.

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Bro needs to read what pre-incarnate Christ told His people to build in the Old Testament.

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Orthodox Architecture is an extension of the incarnation… Truth, structured in kairos, is a liturgical sanctuary for the bride of Christ. Within His divine body, heaven and earth are united.

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Would Christ have told the thief he’d be with him in paradise if he did not repent and confess Christ as God? The demons believe in God. Faith without works (love, humility & obedience) is dead… even for the thief… the prime example Prots use for Sola Fide.

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The saints are dead and can’t hear our prayer? Where is Jesus Christ right now? Where did Jesus Christ tell the thief on the cross he’d be that very day?

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So there was no accurate representation of Christianity for 1,500 years after Christ… the delusions are beyond comprehension with these Enlightenment Era Humanist’s.

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“The church fathers didn’t agree on everything! Ooooh your church is debunked!” Yes. Guess who else disagreed on matters of the church? The original Apostles themselves. Good thing they set up a conciliatory way to resolve those matters via councils.

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For anyone new or considering the Orthodox Church, here is a lesson I had to learn the hard way: Don’t try to cram it all in immediately. Salvation is worked out before God in His Church… not in how many fathers or theology books you read. Take your time. Have patience.

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Like most Prot math problems, this equals your misunderstanding of worship.

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If we are considered idolaters for venerating iconography, then Evangelical/ Baptists are idolaters for venerating bread and wine. That’s why St. John of Damascus says iconoclasm is a rejection of the incarnation. No way around it.

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This week marks 6 years of sobriety from every illegal substance known to man. It was at this time I discovered the Orthodox Church, the best hospital. By the grace of God, here I am today. You end up filling the void of addiction & for me it was the Scriptures & Fathers.

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Apparently, the word “consensus” means 100% agreement in the school this account attended. Must be American public school.

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Seems like this needs to be repeated often: The Ecumenical Councils were NOT held to establish new doctrine. They were affirming & defending what was taught everywhere, always and by all against all manner of heresies. The history of doctrine is clarified under this lens.

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Also, all these cross references are cool, but there are zero verses teaching the Protestant doctrine of either faith alone or scripture alone.

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I can’t stress this enough: during the first 16 centuries of Christianity, 99% of all Christians only heard the scriptures read to them in the liturgy of the One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic Church. The personal devotional Bible did not exist.

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“Those stupid Apostolic Christians think there is a difference between veneration & worship!” says the proud Evangelical as he solemnly stands, removes his cap, puts his hand over his heart, and sings a hymn to the image of the secular state before the ball game.

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St. Justin Popovich says there have been 3 Principal Falls: 1. Adam 2. Judas 3. The Pope From “Orthodox Faith & Life in Christ.”

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Not gonna lie, when I first sat down to read the church fathers, starting with Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, etc.., the men directly trained by the Apostles, I expected to find all sorts of lost Protestantism. I mean, how could the men ordained by the Apostles NOT be Protestants?

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Nothing kills social media engagement quicker than posting church father quotes from the first millennium in full context.

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Folsom Prison has produced some of my favorite art:

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Some of the best Ortho arguments: 1. Dr. Beau Branson - Trinitarian Logic. 2. Jay Dyer - Orthodox Conception of TAG. 3. Perry Robinson - Sola Scriptura Entails DRPI. 4. Dr. Tikhon Pino - E/E distinction. 5. Dr. Bradshaw - Eastern Conception of Aristotelian Metaphysics.

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We need the Orthodox Study Bible in a soft leather bound edition. The hardcover falls apart within a year or two. Can I get an AMEN?

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First Australia and now Canada… Orthodoxy is growing while the rest of Christianity regresses. Slow but steady. Praise God!

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

1 year

The reason no iconoclast has been able to overcome the Orthodox Church for the last thousand years is because it’s impossible to refute the theology behind iconography without destroying the incarnation itself. We’ve seen all the arguments… and seen them all fail miserably.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

1 year

Well, you had a good run. You lasted for a quarter of the time that Orthodoxy has.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

2 months

This is what you say when you haven’t read a lick of church history or your own scriptural canon scholars. This was me ten years ago. Blissfully and arrogantly naive.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

1 month

As every priest I know explains OS by analogy: We are born to an alcoholic mother. We are not guilty of the sins the mother committed. We are born having not committed a sin of our own will. But we are born with a susceptibility to committing the same sin. Simple.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

6 months

Many have asked: why not Rome or Coptic Churches if I wanted the church of the first millennium? To me, Christology sealed it. After reading Sts. Athanasius, Gregory Nyssa & Nazianzen, Cyril, Dionysius Areopagite, Maximus Confessor, Photios & Palamas, the Orthodox Church won.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

2 years

One of the great joys of being Orthodox is that we aren’t Calvinists.

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Byzarchi☦︎ec☦︎

1 year

Daily reminder: Ecumenical Councils were NOT held to establish doctrine. They were held to defend the faith that was once delivered and passed down orally AND by written word.

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