Timeline of the Church of Genuine Orthodox Christians

[OrthodoxyOrDeath]

Justin (and logos),

You seem to be definatley on the right track and the Lord must certainly be your shepherd to have come from the Latin system.

Sometimes converts are stigmatized as somehow being "less orthodox" than "cradles". I think just the opposite. It is those people who are raised Orthodox who all to often need a good kick in the rear so-to-speak.

You keep doing what you are doing, and consider anything I say in-so-far as it does not shake the foundations of faith you have struggled to build.

When you are ready to take on an issue, at a personal level, you will know it. In the mean time, don't stop building your spirit and love for the Lord.

[Justin Kissel]

Christ is risen!

Thank you ...need to sleep on this stuff before I say anything

[Julianna]

True Orthodoxy

by ARCHBISHOP AVERKY (+)
of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery

*Reprinted from Orthodox Christian Witness, wherein it appeared translated from the French in La Foi Transmise (Nov. 1968), pp. 19-22.

Few people today know that the Orthodox Church is nothing less than that Church which has preserved untainted the genuine teachings of Jesus Christ, the very teachings delivered to every subsequent generation of believers. These teachings came down the centuries. from the Holy Apostles, explicated and carefully interpreted by their legitimate successors (their disciples and the holy Fathers), traditioned and conserved unaltered by our Eastern Church which is alone able to prove her right to be called "the Orthodox Church."

The divine Founder of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ, said clearly, "I will build my Church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against Her" (St. Matt xvi, 18). To the Church, He sent the Holy Spirit. The Spirit descended upon the Apostles, the Spirit of Truth (St. John xv, 16f) Who "manifests all things" to Her and guides Her (St. John xvi, 13), protecting Her from error. Indeed, it was to declare this Truth to men that the Lord came into the cosmos, according to His own words (St. John xviii, 31). And Saint Paul confirms this fact in his letter to his pupil, the bishop Timothy, saying that, "the Church of the living God is the ground and pillar of the Truth" (I Tim iii, 15).

Because She is "the ground and pillar of the Truth," "the gates of Hell cannot prevail against Her." It follows, then, that the true Christian Church

[Julianna]

TESTIMONIES FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AND THE HOLY FATHERS ON THE NECESSITY OF HAVING NO COMMUNION WITH HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS, THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST

"And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the law of the Passover: no stranger shall eat of it. And every slave or servant bought with money

[Logos]

The articles posted do nothing to help the state of confusion and despondency that I am in. If anything, they only add to it.

[Justin Kissel]

Julianna,

Holding to a moderate ecclesiology, I don't see the Antiochians, Greeks, etc. as having fallen yet. Perhaps in the future, but until that time, I will pray that they do not fall away (and that I do not fall away, and that ROCOR does not fall away) from the Church...

[尼古拉前执事]

Juliana, thanks for sharing, I finally read it last night and found it very interesting, but while it helped explain many things, I think am more confused aout the various GOCs than ever.