Lydia wrote:http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news ... orthodoxy/
Here is a link to a story about the "two Patriarchs" of Alexandria and a Finnish Archbishop.
Aren't the Copts Non-Chalcedonians, i.e. anathemetized heretics? How can they be part of the "fullness of The Church?"
The fact that there are two Patriarchs of Alexandria when there should only be one tells you something is wrong here.
It's like a blanket of insanity has fallen over the minds of many people; I am ceaselessly baffled, going bald from scratching my head...
The current WO position is that the Copts are Orthodox, since they allegedly accept that Christ is both human and divine, only they express it in different language (using "one nature of God the Word Incarnate" in a sense that we would express as "one hypostasis of the God the Word" etc). Of course, this begs the question of whether it's possible to confess the same faith in different language; the Copts continue to reject Chalcedonian language precisely because they continue to maintain that it has Nestorian implications, which shows that how you express your faith does in fact affect your confession of faith.
But these theological subtleties are lost on most people. What most people see is that Copts and other Monophysites behave like Orthodox in practically every respect and they can't see the point in worrying over apparently tiny differences in doctrine. The problem is that once you start overlooking relatively small differences in faith, you start overlooking larger ones.
