Thanks to Paul for the help! I meant to refer to Psalm 90 when I was referencing the psalm the devil used to try to tempt Christ. I had read psalm 67 prior to and had a slip of the tongue. It is psalm 90 according to the Septuagint numbering.
@endtimes2028 your made up ideas and schizophrenic theology has no place here. You don’t even know what’s Truth or have any basis for your interpretation of scripture. It’s Fr or Reverend to you. I am not your buddy. Go stand with Israel, they hate Christ. That tells me all I need to know about your strange ideas.
As a orthodox christian ☦️ convert from islam with My family and many family friends. All Muslims will see the truth like we did. Bless you ☦️☝️ Have a great .life.
Father bless I am a person that is a exmo and then have been worshiping with a non denomination church I am just starting my going deeper into Orthodoxy I thank you for you frankness on these issues of false teachings I am so grateful I have been led to Orthodoxy
@@living_orthodox Wow that is huge donation! Looks like God is showering you with blessings, Father! For defending the true nature of the Lord Jesus Christ! May God bless this person also !
I am totally new to Orthodoxy and this channel is now followed. VERY good video and you seem to be the kind of person i can actually listen to. At this point i need strict truths from anyone speaking of Jesus, or i cannot trust them. I will follow with enthusiasm.
He's not a heretic. Really. I examined his words expecting to find a Nestorian. Since this channel released its videos, Mar Mari has been very, very clear - explicit - that he believes Jesus is one person with two natures. That he is God in all his fullness incarnate. His take on Nestorius is that Nestorius was misunderstood and not actually a Nestorian (as we would use the term). I'm skeptical of that claim but it's certainly not itself heretical. Here's a transcript from ua-cam.com/video/Mc_UPBqOioo/v-deo.html: "The church I belong to believes that Christ is one unique person forever. Divinity and Humanity United in one person my church believes that Christ is one and one person only....Enough, enough! Christ is one divine unique person forever. In Christ, this one unique person, Divinity and Humanity were united." Furthermore, in other videos, he has been expounding the eternal preexistence of Jesus in perfectly orthodox terms, identifying him as the eternal Logos who was with God and was God. This channel should apologise - knowingly or unknowingly, they have borne false witness against a brother in Christ.
@@SeanusAurelius father Michael has a clip in which Mari Mari says that Nestorius is a saint and that St Mary is not Mother of God Theotokos, just Mother of Christ. Check that one.
Thank you so much, Father! These recent videos exposing certain heresies have been very enlightening. You did a wonderful job in this video to succinctly explain all the heresies that us Orthodox should be well aware of in order to correctly defend our faith. You are right. We can't be soft in calling out heresy. The Church Fathers weren't soft on this matter when they anathematized heretics in the Ecumenical Councils centuries ago, and we should be adhering to this same mindset to this present day. God bless you and your family 🙏
Father this is an answer to my prayers as I struggle with an issue that is occurring in my church. Graceful but to the point and clarifying. Thank you!
Hi Father , just started listening to your channel ❤. You mentioned Fr Daniel Sysoev who was martyred in Church ! He had written some really good books and pamphlets that are a big help to my understanding of our faith . I understand that the sale of this literature also helps his widow and children. Maybe if you could put a link in the description in the future it would be wonderful
That took the commentary and criticism right out of me. If only you were my priest when it would have mattered. Must respect this kind of hard love delivered quietly, without the force.
@@skibidi.G So, I'm guessing why satan cannot partake in any glorification of God, even indirectly, is because the righteousness of God would likely expose him totally if he let any of the light in, even in the slightest, so he hides himself from light, always to immerse himself in his familiar darkness (sin), to run from his judgement? What a snake.
Bless Father. Thank you. I’ve learned to not try to understand spiritual things with my rational mind. I believe that’s what leads to these heresies. I submit to what the Orthodox Church teaches and not try to overthink.
2:40 This actually helped me understand this particular nestorian issue a lot better. Before, it seemed like people were just splitting hairs when describing The Lord Jesus' nature.
This world needs truth, seems as though every person you encounter is immersed in lies anymore, like you said Father, false love. World is getting colder, I for one am not buying the emotional manipulation tactics that politicians, and others dragged down by lies, frequently use. God bless!
Father Bless, The Black Hole is getting brighter. The Mission Dean of our ROCOR Diocese has given us a blessing to start meeting for Typica at the end of next month and that a Reader from the Cathedral will be coming down to help. Please continue to pray for Raphael and those who have decided to plant stakes here in the Black Hole.
Why doesn't Christ have a human side? Scripture says Christ was hungry and wept and thirsted Isn't that his human side? Crying out on the cross, why have you forsaken me? This is very confusing too me
Not sure this link below will work but if you type in "Psalm 135- Byzantine chant" you should find it. Here's the link too: music.ua-cam.com/video/sATnkD8wLQg/v-deo.html&si=X84FWMZB3uO_1FAV
Simple. Judaizers. A condemned heresy even in the times of the apostles. We celebrate on Sunday because it’s the day the Lord Rose from the dead. The heretics are led by the spirit of delusion and mistake it for the Holy Spirit.
Greetings from Ethiopia.I'm Ethiopian Orthodox Christian. I'm really happy about the clear answers you've given to the Heritic Mar Mari.It's really important to call a spade a spade.He is snake in the grass.At the end of the day the truth will prevail.I'm not a priest.I can't say May God bless you.I'm not entitled to bless any one.But I would say May God be with you father !
Father I have been watching Mari can you please make a video to break it down what you’re trying to claim if you’re not orthodox, we don’t see it. I am planning to convert to orthodox because of him if he’s wrong I wanna make sure before I go forward. Rudy
@@khesed0000 even in the two videos he posted about Mari Emmanuel, I don't see it either. He was the first orthodox I gave the time of day. I don't see what's wrong with what he said even in the clips that Fr Mikhail used. On top of that, he turned off the comments to those videos. He put the man on blast and refused to hear anything about it. Not signs of an orthodox priest trying to have an honest discussion. He also didn't actually home in on what made the specific things Mar said that we're heretical. He gave the doctrine, then played 5 to 10 minutes of Mari speaking without actually breaking down specifics. The only thing I could remotely see was a potential language barrier and Fr Mikhail didn't seem to want to entertain any grace toward him. He didn't say he tried reaching out and contacting him, didn't say he tried to get others to speak with him, instead he made nearly an hour worth of content condemning him and then turned the comments off to avoid dealing with any serious or honest discussions about anything specific Mari said.
I go to a Greek church and it has lost its spark since covid. Something feels very wrong. Is the Greek church becoming heretical? I live in Australia. I'm actually Russian Orthodox and Something is feeling wrong there too. Moscow is starting construction on an interfaith facility containing 4 religions. This is frightening.
@mariedolianitis5144 0:29 I googled Bishop Makarios / Patriarch Constantinople since last message , well he's coming here this year. You can find alot of stuff on our Bishop. Things are very wrong, believe me. Patriarch Constantinople is in communion with Pope. 2025 heretical union. Very sad. People are seeking the true church and it is becoming ANTICHRIST RELIGION. PLEASE SAVE US LORD JESUS. WE ARE IN A MESS.
Stay close to Christ and he will show us if, how and when we need to leave a certain church. Do not be anxious simply follow Christ. Try to find a church or monastery that watchful and follow the priest or abbot there. God be with you. @@natthoroughgood9273
Christ will show us when the time comes. Remember that the Roman Catholics had CHANGED THE CREED 400 years before they were cut off from the Grace of Christ's Church. These things take time.
At 15:19 in the photo is that Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydin among the ecumenists? That's a shock and a relief. I am member of an orthodox church in Holland, taking bible study which i am not content with but i keep telling myself i need to wait untill i have better understanding perhaps. i and my family have been members of the assyrian orthodox church all our lives.. Can you give me advice please Father Mikhail?
@Desertfox21 i dont know who our bishop is, or if we have one. This is our archbishop in Holland, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarpus_Augin_Aydin And our pastor is Yuhanes Barsaliba of the Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the city of Hengelo. I asked him once if we are ecumenical and he said ofcourse. I dont know how to understand that now that i've just read that there have been a few ecumenical councils after the resurrection of Jesus up to now. So if a church accepts any one of these councils are they then heretical?
According to the Wikipedia link that he sent, that archbishop is part of the Syriac Orthodox church which is part of the Oriental Orthodox church. So still heretical because it is miaphysitism, but it is not nestorian.
@Desertfox21 The Assyrian church of the east is nestorian, but the syriac orthodox church is part of the oriental orthodox church which are miaphysites.
I think that might be a waste of his valuable time-but that’s just one idiots opinion. It would be surprising to learn that any Orthodox Christian watches that for edification though. To create a fictitious dialogue-putting unheard of expressions into His mouth, so to speak-that also depends on the interpretation of the actor (facial expressions, emotive license etc.) seems to me very impious and potentially misleading. It may be entertaining for Papists (like the actor who plays Jesus) and emotionally ‘uplifting’ for Protestants like their often terrible pop music, but I personally see no value there for an Orthodox Christian.
No, don't bother, I read that many people have noticed protestant/heretical teachings in the way The Theotokos/Holy Mother of God is presented and in other ways. If you want to watch an orthodox movie, see "A man of God" or "The Island" with Peter Mamonov
NEXT YEAR I HOPE, I START TO STUDY GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AS NEW CONVERT( FROM PROTESTANISM)....ITS I SCREACH SINCE 1995......FYI ONE OF THE TOP NESTOTIANISM IS WITNESS LEE AND HIS GROUP AKA LOCAL CHURCH AKA LORD RECOVERY....
Where in the Bible does it say you need to leave a comment on everything? Where in the Bible does it say that one must believe in the Bible alone? Just curious.
Please forgive if is say something wrong, but what is the difference between ecumenism and the ecumenical counsil, I am relatively new to the Holy Orthodox Church, an to me, these wordt sound the same, so I am a little confused about the fact if they mean the same or are just completere different, again, please forgive me if I said something that is heterodox, or maybe even heresy. May the Lord be with you all☦️❤️
Great video. I am a Dutch Reformed Christian and its amazing how much I agree with you. As a Calvinist myself, I can say John MacArthur is no calvinist, but rather a damnable heritic. Every Reformed Christian I know believes that God died on the cross, the heidelberg catechism clearly states it when speaking on the nature of Christ. Thank you and God bless
@Desertfox21 First of all, we do believe in sola scriptura, but as the only infallible authority of God. Scripture clear states that the church has authority, as do creeds and confessions, but they can be fallible, which is why we need Scripture to guide us. That being said the church is an authority that roots itself in scripture and traditions that follow it. One of the pillars of the Dutch Reformed church is church discipline. The church needs to maintain order as God is a God of order, and so the church uses the bible, and well as creeds and confessions that are gleaned from scripture, to us accountable. So when then church met in Ephesus to damn Nestorianism, this council still has authority, as it is rooted in scripture.
@Desertfox21 The bible is the Torah or old testament, that Christ preached from, so Christ gave the Old testament authority. The New Testament is the gospels and teaching of the Apostles, who were with Christ and preserved His teachings. So really Christ, through his Holy Spirit gave the bible its authority. As for interpretation, we are all called to read the scriptures, as we see in Acts 17, the Jews of Berea studied the scriptures upon hearing of our Savior, to see if what was said was true. This was noted as a good and proper thing, so we should all read the bible and be teachable by other, and make that what is being taught is compatible with Gods word.
@Desertfox21 To be honest I don't know Matthew and I wasn't there when he wrote it, so I can't say 100 percent Matthew wrote the gospel of Matthew. But I do believe that it is still the word of God. Could I suggest reading the Belgic Confession, it does a way better job of explaining this then I ever would
By its very name and the rejection of Chalcedon it does. They are also monothelites and monergists which immediately collapses the whole system back into being Monophysite-energy and will are properties of nature. If Christ is lacking these, it still Monophysitism.
@@living_orthodox Its name means one nature, not mixed nature. The miaphysite view is that the nature of Christ is one, a composite of humanity and divinity, which are unified in Him without mixture, mingling, alteration, or confusion.
@@oo1o11o except natures can’t be composite without changing or mixing. The hypostasis can be compound not the nature. So again the miaphysites are simply rebranding Monophysitism and confusing nature (physis) with person (hypostasis).
@@living_orthodox Then they've reached the correct conclusion (Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, with humanity and divinity unified without mixture, mingling, alteration, or confusion) by a logically flawed application of a non-biblical category, right?
Hello, could you please do a video on that notion of the wills and the energy being ACTUALIZED by the person. This seems to be the crux of the debate. It would be of tremendous help if we could have good online resource, because it might be on that question that Nestorian, Monophysite and Orthodox differs.
I had the same conversation with my fellow orthodox( Ethiopian ) regarding mar mari views, specifically after the attack. Any one can have a Sympathy for any person who is undesrvely attacked like ma mari.Sadly, a lot of people deceived by his teaching and charming looking even though I have no idea why he dressed up like Copts? Sympathy dose not set you free only the true apostolic teaching of the church of Jesus Christ! Michael, I really appreciate what you are doing exposing heretical teachings and people like Mar Mari a Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Father, you are right! The one thing is we can not call heretics Christians as you did at the end of the video. A Christian is someone who's part of Christ's Church so if they find themselves in heresy they are not Christian. Excuse me for my boldness and forgive me!
@@ioantecuschi6142 you are wrong in how you’re interpreting what I said. I think it’s pretty clear where I stand. We call oriental orthodox “orthodox” to indicate what they call themselves. We don’t accept them as Orthodox. It’s the same with heretics. They have a belief in Christ that is false and aren’t part of the Church. They’re not Buddhist or atheist for example. I am the furthest thing from an ecumenist. Be wary of word concept fallacy.
Did the Orthodox Church ever put heretics to death or cause them to be put to death? If so, is there an explanation on this? Thank you Fr. Michael for taking the time to make these videos.
By grace. It is the dimension that Adam lost, but was brought back by Christ. That's why He is called the new Adam. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (John 1)
@@Orm-zn6flI don’t think “become a god” is the correct term..I think it helps to explain his uncreated energies given to us. It’s a union, not becoming “a god”.
It's a Greek saying attributed to Saint Athanasius that can also be translated as "so that man might become divine". But it's not that men are divine by nature, but that by the power of God (by grace) men are made to become like unto God.
I just saw your videos about Mar Mari Emmanuel, the false "bishop". Thank you, Father Mikhail, for upholding the truth about the difference beween orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
What an ignorant comment. The truth about Mar Mari? You have no idea what the truth is about him or our Church. Don't let someone come in sheep's clothing but is a wolf himself and tell you someone isn't following the Lord in truth. Our Church is Holy and sound and the oldest. We have never changed our teachings and Faith and people should come and speak to Mar Mari himself before judging and calling the Lord's children heretics. Shame on you all. You all have to answer to the Lord but we will pray for you all. May God have Mercy
Don't let them get to you Fr. Mikhail and don't let them hold you back, use it as a motivation to push harder. The apostles were beaten and they rejoiced as heaven does with the saints who stand up to protect the sheep.
I can't help but wonder what defines the official doctrine of the orthodox church, and thereby what defines heresy ? Apart from the seven ecumenical councils ? Are there other councils that define truth and error ? For example, what about glossolalia, non-binary marriages, penal substitution, ... Or is it more like Protestantism, where everyone does what they think is right ?
St Basils canons addresses the marriage and contraception issue. No Orthodoxy isn’t like Protestantism or the Papal Protestants. Unlike both we are consistent. Protestant “tongues” is condemned at delusion. We also don’t believe in penal substitution. I have to ask…did you ever bother doing some actual reading offline into our faith? These kinds of questions usually betray a weak understanding of our faith and usually are built from bad polemics.
@@living_orthodox I only want to know what constitute the official orthodox doctrine apart from the seven ecumenical councils. Because there are a lot of topics which have not been covered by those councils.
@@mathiasweil3507 there are local councils elevated to ecumenical status. We technically have 8 councils such as the Photian councils. I did give you an answer. You do honestly need to do some research of your own. I did. The other is looking at the consensus of the Fathers. Unlike Papal Protestants we don’t need a head who changes the church so fast, no one knows what’s going on, and we aren’t as rigid as the Protestants in limiting ourselves to scripture. So again, I gave you an answer. I am going to encourage you to do some leg work. If you’re serious go and look. We have various catechisms as well.
Father, please pray for Alexei Navalny, who was allegedly killed today by the ungodly regime of my country, Russia. Alexey claimed to be orthodox christian unlike president of my state, Putin, who never professed his faith.
I'm adding this video to my save list. I'm trying to keep track of heresies so as not to fall into them, and also repent from them in case I've ever held them before in ignorance.
Father, might you do a video regarding the topic of medically assisted suicide? I live in NZ and we are following Canada’s lead. In fact, my own neighbour (a young lady!!) is Doctor who is tasked in this. However, the argument is that these are people in devastating pain and will soon die anyway and that this is a way of being compassionate to their suffering. It’s difficult for me to grapple with that emotional argument.
@@living_orthodox I've been watching my cat suffer with an incurable disease for about a year, but I can't bring myself to have it put to sleep. Everything should live until God decides. I know you know this and will explain it much better. Love ya Father Mikhail 🙏🏻☦️
This feels like Orthodox one true Church rhetoric, it feels like you see everyone who does not agree with you on everything as a damned heretic, accusing the Pope of herecy is quite the accusation.
It’s called Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. It’s located in Jordanville. You might want to contact them first and ask for your priest’s blessing to attend online courses.
Know only one thing God is almighty, rest in the peace of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and know that the Holy Spirit enters into the souls of those who fear God. The unity of the church is not that we all agree but rather that we all embrace and know we are 1st amongst sinners and that we need to lift up our fellow man in deed before word. The publican did not even look up because he was ashamed. Whoever is the least shall be exalted. I am orthodox but the truth is nothing to do with fasting or keeping to strict dogma, if anything the Pharisees were defined by their dogmatic hypocritical beliefs. Do not fear embrace the unity in forgiveness and do the will of God. You might tell me that there are many heretics and I will rather say that there are many misinterpretations. God will is that we never deny give holy communion and that we also accept the repentance of someone else. Many healed in the name of Christ and his apostles were offended and yet Jesus said they that preach in his name are for him. God looks at the essential, that which is invisible to us.
@living_orthodox wow! Thank you! I've been desiring to convert for overc10 years. But life is not so simple. I began to last year and again this year but my wife is Protestant. Pray for us father
Father I am a serbian orthodox could you please anwser this question? Last time a protestant friend asked me why our priest bless weapons and I couldn't anwser. Can you help me?
Priest can make mistakes. A priest making a personal decision doesn’t reflect the whole teaching of the Church. Just as someone being in error on something within the Church, doesn’t immediately disqualify them. We shouldn’t bless anything meant to take a life. There’s an example from the life of St Columba on this. Someone had asked him to bless a knife, which was to be used to kill an animal. The knife didn’t work.
No no, priests bless weapons as defensive tools. For the survival of our Nations, notice how Orthodox countries don't invade for oil and gas pipelines and petrodollars.
Oh ive seen my beloved Saint Paisios in the beginning of the video ❤❤🎉🎉Our precious recent Saint, aww i hear some recordings of him talking (pure blessing), we are blessed to have from believers who met him and many stories about people who visited him while he was still alive, he had the charisma if knowing things people before seeing them How holy and sweet saint Paisios was during his earthly life. I visited where he " rests" and it beautiful essence/ smell coming out there ❤ We are blessed as Greeks to have holy people like him and other monks from the Saint mountain Athos Agion Oros❤ God Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all from Greece 🇬🇷 ❤
But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Why all that you said matter? Can't you be holy as catholic or orthodox or whatever? You can't claim an understading of divine nature. And if even you understood through Holy Spirit, you still can't proove divine to unholy poeople. All that talk is of no use to regular Joe. What an understanding of nature of Christ can do for your salvation? All that theology talk just raptured the church into thousand denominations today. Any grifter now can claim an understanding of God in his own way. It is supposed to be simple, now churches trying to pull a blanket(congregation) from other denominations trying to prove their theology is more "right".
You realize it was a simplistic deception the devil used against Eve right? Just because something is a hard saying, or difficult doesn’t mean you don’t challenge yourself to understand it. In fact that is the passion, the sin of sloth that keeps someone in place from learning. Theology helps us to dive deeper into the scriptures and understand it. No one is claiming to fully comprehend divine nature. Your confusion is yet again, with what something is vs who someone is. You may be a human being. But you’re not humanity itself. Jesus is a divine person, He isn’t simply divine nature itself. Such thinking would lead to modalism which would imply the whole Trinity died on the cross. That’s incorrect as then, you would be introducing a change to the way God is and subjecting the whole nature of divinity to a change that would render it no longer divine. That’s why the distinction between person and nature matters. Christ is God. He became man but remained divine. He experienced death in His humanity but because He is God and the source of life, death couldn’t contain Him. No one fixed anything by giving up and saying “this is too hard”. This is what the 3000 who left Christ said in John 6:56-67 when Jesus spoke of how they must eat His flesh and drink His blood. Theology is important. It isn’t what fractured the Church. It’s pride and refusing to see reason and truth which fractured it. If one believes incorrectly about God, then one runs the risk of believing in a counterfeit and being deceived by the anti christ. If you want to be a Christian, you can’t remain a “regular Joe”. That’s an excuse to never challenge yourself beyond your comfort zone. What then? Trying to overcome alcoholism or porn is too hard? What of the fact when someone has questions? You may not have to have all the answers, but you have to know someone who does know them. What will you say? “That’s just how it is, accept it man”? Nonsense. It’s over simplification that has led the Protestants down to many schisms. 30,000 plus denominations! All claiming to interpret the Bible and yet with noting to back them up. This is why atheism and immortality rules the west right now.
He is a hypocrites! It is crucial to emphasize that the Oriental Orthodox tradition upholds the belief in the unity of Christ's nature, contrary to the Eastern Orthodox emphasis on separate natures. As Mor Philoxenos taught, when Jesus walked on water, it was the divine nature and a human nature. Jesus was both God and man simultaneously, as no human ability alone enables walking on water. Therefore, it is impossible to divide Jesus into separate natures as the Nestorians and Eastern Orthodox do. It is thus hypocritical to warn against the Nestorian bishop while sharing similar thoughts. Orthodox is not equal to orthodox, and it is crucial to understand the differences to recognize the truth. Moreover, dividing Jesus into separate natures would lead to a departure from the concept of the Trinity, transforming it into a quaternity, which undermines the fundamental Christian doctrine. Additionally, it's important to note that initially, there were no Catholics, Protestants, or Eastern Orthodox; over time, divisions from the original unity emerged. Mia physis is a Christological doctrine of the Oriental Orthodox emphasizing the unity of Christ's nature, whereas Dyophysites is the doctrine of the Eastern Orthodox and Nestorians advocating for the concept of two distinct natures in Christ. This difference is crucial in understanding the theological disparities between the two traditions and refuting the Eastern Orthodox standpoint.
Miaphysitism is heresy. It is nominal. Not only does it presuppose Christ’s nature is a new composite nature, making Him no longer fully consubstantial with the Father nor humanity, it shows you can’t parse out the difference between nature and person, or universal from particular in other words. Your whole model collapses into Tritheism. One “incarnate nature of word” equals the other natures which aren’t incarnate? So you have three gods. One hypostasis (the Word), two natures. The fact you can’t understand this reveals the astounding level of illiteracy of your church. You’re also woefully uneducated. The difference between us and the Nestorians is that the Nestorians believe Christ is two natures and two hypostases. Which no matter how they swing it, turns into an issue of two persons. We believe the divine person (hyspostasis) is in two natures. The divine nature is homoousion with the other three persons and thus communicated between them and truly unites them as one God. Your Christological system is rife with the errors I mentioned earlier and is the result of theological illiteracy.
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I recently engaged with Neo-Arians/Arians, Mormons/Thritheists, Unitarians and, perhaps, Modalists in a YT video about the I-II century Church Fathers affirming the Holy Trinity and it was just so.. tiresome. I would go as far as saying that one's faith ends up.. weakened by such masochistic interactions
@@AnonymousMan115 Definitely. For many time I was reluctant to take the words of many saints, all the way from Saint Paul, refering to the fact that we must pray without ceasing seriously. There's no other way around it
@@Juan-gd1wd Yeah that's me. I still have that "self-sufficient" pride I developed in the midst of my atheism. Glory to God for getting me out of the hellhole that is Nihlistic (in attitude) atheism. It's a struggle right now but it's worth it.
@@AnonymousMan115 Amen. God bless you and thank you for taking the time to answer. Also, Atheism taken to it's logical conclusion can only lead to Nihilism, in all aspects of existence and knowledge.
@@Juan-gd1wd I agree brother. I feel the mental scars from the Nihlism but I trust God once I get to take part in the sacraments that my soul will be healed. (In contact with a priest) Question. How'd you come to Orthodoxy?
No offence but one of the only things that keep me away from orthodoxy is this gratuitous worship of Mary. I feel bad for her! She must feel terrible that so many people pray to her instead of Jesus for “intercession”. I am however open minded to the other side of this discussion but I can’t find any good discussion.
Anecdotally, I know several people who converted to Orthodoxy while yet not understanding the level of veneration given to the Theotokos. To quote one of them: I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, so I defer to its witness on this matter and pray that I may enter more deeply into this mystery of piety. This seems to me the correct attitude; not deferring to their own private opinion-that aligns with modern sectarian beliefs-but rather submitting to the authority and witness of the Church throughout history: its theology and saints and common piety of the faithful. Unfortunately it would require a rather lengthy essay to do justice on this topic, but I could add a couple things to consider. 1) We have no distinction between the Church Triumphant and Church Militant-the Church is One and alive in heaven and on earth-so in one sense what you say would be akin to telling us that our earthly mothers should be sad if we ask for their help and prayers. We could 'just ask Jesus' after all. I think this is also a misunderstanding of 'the one mediator between God and man.' The mediation is due to the uniting of our humanity to the eternal Person of the Logos: after making propitiation He ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Father, elevating human nature to His throne, making full communion possible. 2) The Theotokos is also the mother of the Christian race, and has been exalted by God above every saint and angel. Or to what angel is the Logos united with bodily? Who of the great saints has both this same spiritual and material relation? She is forever unique in all of creation: the new Eve for the second Adam, the Ark of the New Covenant (containing the uncontainable God in her womb) through whom Heaven came down to earth for the salvation of man; who is deified and radiant with the uncreated light of God-Queen Mother of the Kingdom, to reign forever with the Lord of Glory. Inexpressible magnificence. 3) In light of these things we could hardly honor her enough, and if anyone should dishonor her they dishonor God who has so highly favored her. Of course we very highly honor her, for God has done so. Of course we ask the Mother of our God to intercede for us. And obviously we find such intercession valuable. Prayer is ordained by God-not that He has any need of it, but according to His good pleasure, for our benefit, we are given to pray and ask. We will continue to ask the friends of God to pray to Him on our behalf (especially His Mother). We pray for others who ask and ask the same for ourselves. How much poorer we would be without it! If the saints prayed to God for people while on earth, why would they cease their intercessions before the throne?
@@eikon7001 This has given me a lot to read and look into and I won’t be able to give a thoughtful reply as thoughtful as your reply was quiet yet. Thank you for this and I’ll send a better reply to you after more study.
Fr I like the way you express current popular beliefs and contrast them with traditional truths of the faith. I believe it is of utmost importance and value to both young and older seekers of the truth. . Thank you Fr.
Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God. To me, begotten means birthed son. Is begotten son Prince William less than King Charles? Yes and no. Just as Jesus always referred to his Father as Father and that he Jesus was lesser than the Father yet worked the will of his Father with perfection. The kinship terms were used with precision. Does not undeify the Son nor the Father. Just as calling Prince William a son does not reduce William to peasant status. He is still royalty. Perhaps it is human absolutism that cannot handle Begotten Son of God as truth. For either Jesus was the Only Begotten or scripture is wrong.
So again here is the limited thinking of those who cannot distinguish between persons and nature. Begotten doesn’t mean birthed. In the sense of divinity and the fact that God (the Trinity) is uncreated, begotten describes the mode (not modalism) of existence of the person of the Son. The three persons of the Holy Trinity have always existed as God exists before and outside of space and time. To claim Christ is created is not only demonic but a perversion that makes salvation impossible, given that only one who is God and Man can unite man to God because He enhypostatized human nature. It’s shocking to see how many struggle with Arianism. Given that Arianism is a heresy that is formed from such weak faith that it had to lower God to man rather than elevate man to God. God’s being as in the being that is common to all three persons of the Trinity isn’t comparable to earthly fathers and sons the way you laid out. Time to read some Church Fathers. This is your soul and if you’re not careful, you will be entrusting it with your one faulty reasoning. Simply put, scripture isn’t wrong. You are.
@@living_orthodox Sorry but the Trinity instead is demonic for it makes Jesus to be a pagan three headed monster god like Cerberus, the three headed one body hound of hell. The origins of the trinity was in response to being accused by the Jews of being polytheists. The mental gymnastics to concoct an idol monster to appease both the Jews and the new pagan converts. To deny Jesus as the Only Begotten Son is to deny Jesus himself. Ashamed to admit that Father had a son. Like Prince William is less royal than his father King Charles. Shame on you for denying the divinity of the Son. Put aside your pagan idolatry and believe the truth of the scripture and the truth of NDE witnesses who report Jesus standing literally on the right hand of the Father. No siamese twin but separate entities as Father and Only Begotten Son. Son is not Father. Neither Father the Son. Yet both deity. Truth. Sorry you hold onto idolatry trinity. Sins of the fathers for concocting such paganism. Satanic is having Satan as an individual yet Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a Cerberus entity. God the Father. His only Begotten Son Jesus. The Holy Spirit. United in purpose but not in form. Truth eternal.
@@suem6004This is the dumbest thing I have read in a while; which is saying a lot considering the infinite supply of extreme stupidity that is found on the internet. I nearly made a real response but I think it would be like trying to convince a man in a padded cell that he is not in fact an egg despite his undying insistence. Ignorant and delusional-you have removed all doubt about that.
I would definitely encourage to dig deeply into our ecclesiastical perspective and how our saints address some of the Papal claims. Best thing to do is attend a Divine Liturgy
Become Orthodox and practice the faith with prayer and fasting. You will understand a few years later of your own accord why it was the right move . @@philipschaffer9414
I have don’t be lazy. Look it up. It’s very low intelligence polemics like this that make atheists think that the Bible has contradictions. By rejecting biological and spiritual fatherhood, you’re rejecting the image and likeness of God in man. It also shows the ignorance of second temple Judaism and Christian history
@@johngult6994 you certainly are proud nor Christ like. Typical Pharisee move to twist scripture. I also suppose you thought it “unchrist like” when Jesus drove out the money changers with a whip. It’s also typical when someone comes looking for a fight or a Protestant arrogantly assumes they’re the first to make this argument, or that we don’t have knowledge of scripture.
Nope. You got it all wrong. I came to you with a question. As a "little one", and the first you do is call me "lazy". You would rather spend time arguing with me on YT instead of just preaching the word of God. This is where YOUR religion is flawed. Your attitude is exactly why becoming orthodox is not an option for me and my family.
Then you aren’t seeking Orthodoxy for Christ but for yourself. If you need your pride and ego cradled, then you’re not ready for Christian life. Your religion is yourself and if you truly were a little one, you wouldn’t behave this way as a means to try and leverage guilt. There was no innocent intent, otherwise you would have been humble. If I was your sole source in choosing the True Faith, then it is you with the man centred religion. No humility and typical Protestant tactics to try and use emotional manipulation. It was Protestant nonsense like yours that once led me away from Christ. The dishonest and outright manipulation behind the mindset of your reply will harm the image of Christ, far more than an honest response with an encouragement to not be lazy.
Thanks to Paul for the help! I meant to refer to Psalm 90 when I was referencing the psalm the devil used to try to tempt Christ. I had read psalm 67 prior to and had a slip of the tongue. It is psalm 90 according to the Septuagint numbering.
Michael, i checked your website, but it’s under maintenance. Do you know when it will be done? God bless you.
@@nubRas10 my sister and I are currently trying to restructure and improve it. Hoping to relaunch in a few weeks
@endtimes2028 your made up ideas and schizophrenic theology has no place here. You don’t even know what’s Truth or have any basis for your interpretation of scripture. It’s Fr or Reverend to you. I am not your buddy. Go stand with Israel, they hate Christ. That tells me all I need to know about your strange ideas.
Can you make more catchetical videos explaining the councils please. I come from a protestant background and have no understanding of them at all
Are you saying that Christ and his Father are not separate but one in essence?
As a orthodox christian ☦️ convert from islam with My family and many family friends.
All Muslims will see the truth like we did.
Bless you ☦️☝️
Have a great .life.
Let’s all pray for them to see the truth . Christ Almighty bless you and your family.
Please pray for my family and friends that they may come to Christ as you did. May God bless you my brother/sister.
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Amin
Father bless I am a person that is a exmo and then have been worshiping with a non denomination church I am just starting my going deeper into Orthodoxy I thank you for you frankness on these issues of false teachings I am so grateful I have been led to Orthodoxy
Thanks
God bless and thank you!
@@living_orthodox Wow that is huge donation! Looks like God is showering you with blessings, Father! For defending the true nature of the Lord Jesus Christ! May God bless this person also !
I am totally new to Orthodoxy and this channel is now followed.
VERY good video and you seem to be the kind of person i can actually listen to.
At this point i need strict truths from anyone speaking of Jesus, or i cannot trust them.
I will follow with enthusiasm.
You’re a hero. Keep speaking the truth. God bless, from Japan
Pray for Mar Mari and his followers 🙏☦️
He's not a heretic. Really. I examined his words expecting to find a Nestorian. Since this channel released its videos, Mar Mari has been very, very clear - explicit - that he believes Jesus is one person with two natures. That he is God in all his fullness incarnate. His take on Nestorius is that Nestorius was misunderstood and not actually a Nestorian (as we would use the term). I'm skeptical of that claim but it's certainly not itself heretical.
Here's a transcript from ua-cam.com/video/Mc_UPBqOioo/v-deo.html:
"The church I belong to believes that Christ is one unique person forever. Divinity and Humanity United in one person my church believes that Christ is one and one person only....Enough, enough! Christ is one divine unique person forever. In Christ, this one unique person, Divinity and Humanity were united."
Furthermore, in other videos, he has been expounding the eternal preexistence of Jesus in perfectly orthodox terms, identifying him as the eternal Logos who was with God and was God.
This channel should apologise - knowingly or unknowingly, they have borne false witness against a brother in Christ.
@@SeanusAurelius Mar Mari was ex communicated for a reason…
@@SeanusAurelius father Michael has a clip in which Mari Mari says that Nestorius is a saint and that St Mary is not Mother of God Theotokos, just Mother of Christ. Check that one.
If you paid attention to how he uses a sleight of hand with his speech. @@SeanusAurelius
@@FaithfulComforter His Christology is not the reason. The whole Assyrian Church of the East is Nestorian.
Thank you so much, Father! These recent videos exposing certain heresies have been very enlightening. You did a wonderful job in this video to succinctly explain all the heresies that us Orthodox should be well aware of in order to correctly defend our faith.
You are right. We can't be soft in calling out heresy. The Church Fathers weren't soft on this matter when they anathematized heretics in the Ecumenical Councils centuries ago, and we should be adhering to this same mindset to this present day.
God bless you and your family 🙏
Father this is an answer to my prayers as I struggle with an issue that is occurring in my church. Graceful but to the point and clarifying. Thank you!
As someone new to Orthodoxy I'm glad you made that video
Hi Father , just started listening to your channel ❤. You mentioned Fr Daniel Sysoev who was martyred in Church ! He had written some really good books and pamphlets that are a big help to my understanding of our faith . I understand that the sale of this literature also helps his widow and children. Maybe if you could put a link in the description in the future it would be wonderful
Absolutely! I really enjoyed his “A Protestants Walk through the Orthodox Church”. That was very helpful in converting my family
Thank you for the knowledge you imparted on this. Enlightening!
Hope you are well and prospering. You are a spiritual inspiration for me.
That took the commentary and criticism right out of me. If only you were my priest when it would have mattered. Must respect this kind of hard love delivered quietly, without the force.
Amen! Thank you, father.
Even the devil can read and quote the scripture as they say
Yes but the devil can't bless or refer to Christ, therefore that small gargoyle can't fully quote the scripture 😄
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So, I'm guessing why satan cannot partake in any glorification of God, even indirectly, is because the righteousness of God would likely expose him totally if he let any of the light in, even in the slightest, so he hides himself from light, always to immerse himself in his familiar darkness (sin), to run from his judgement? What a snake.
@@willyb7353 yes, excellently put my friend . And a snake yeah
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 satan transforms himself into an angel of light (question mark)
Thanks . Keep going father .
Thank you, I will!
Bless Father. Thank you. I’ve learned to not try to understand spiritual things with my rational mind. I believe that’s what leads to these heresies. I submit to what the Orthodox Church teaches and not try to overthink.
Amen. Truth is love.
2:40 This actually helped me understand this particular nestorian issue a lot better. Before, it seemed like people were just splitting hairs when describing The Lord Jesus' nature.
Exactly. Agree with everything you saud. Thank you, Father.
The explanation does help!
Love is to wish good for others. We need to know the Truth!
This world needs truth, seems as though every person you encounter is immersed in lies anymore, like you said Father, false love. World is getting colder, I for one am not buying the emotional manipulation tactics that politicians, and others dragged down by lies, frequently use. God bless!
Father bless, thank you.
What a great video, thank you Fr. Mikaïl 😊
Father Bless,
The Black Hole is getting brighter. The Mission Dean of our ROCOR Diocese has given us a blessing to start meeting for Typica at the end of next month and that a Reader from the Cathedral will be coming down to help.
Please continue to pray for Raphael and those who have decided to plant stakes here in the Black Hole.
God bless. Thank you for this video father. ☦️
Why doesn't Christ have a human side? Scripture says Christ was hungry and wept and thirsted
Isn't that his human side? Crying out on the cross, why have you forsaken me?
This is very confusing too me
What is the name of the chant in the beggining?
Not sure this link below will work but if you type in "Psalm 135- Byzantine chant" you should find it. Here's the link too:
music.ua-cam.com/video/sATnkD8wLQg/v-deo.html&si=X84FWMZB3uO_1FAV
Thank you very much.
Bravo father. I love your forthrightness. It is one main characteristic missing nowadays. Ευλογείτε
What’s the song at the very end?
Thank you Father Glory to God
Father can you make a video to explain why we celebrating and have liturgy on Sunday some christians still celebrating sabath???
Simple. Judaizers. A condemned heresy even in the times of the apostles. We celebrate on Sunday because it’s the day the Lord Rose from the dead. The heretics are led by the spirit of delusion and mistake it for the Holy Spirit.
Greetings from Ethiopia.I'm Ethiopian Orthodox Christian. I'm really happy about the clear answers you've given to the Heritic Mar Mari.It's really important to call a spade a spade.He is snake in the grass.At the end of the day the truth will prevail.I'm not a priest.I can't say May God bless you.I'm not entitled to bless any one.But I would say May God be with you father !
Father I have been watching Mari can you please make a video to break it down what you’re trying to claim if you’re not orthodox, we don’t see it. I am planning to convert to orthodox because of him if he’s wrong I wanna make sure before I go forward. Rudy
See his old videos on mar mari
@@khesed0000 I did see them when I watch Mari he is good I don’t understand what Father is trying to explain Heretic
@@rlmoya76 He's trying to explain that Mari Emmanuel doesn't believe that the Logos became man.
@@khesed0000 even in the two videos he posted about Mari Emmanuel, I don't see it either. He was the first orthodox I gave the time of day. I don't see what's wrong with what he said even in the clips that Fr Mikhail used. On top of that, he turned off the comments to those videos. He put the man on blast and refused to hear anything about it. Not signs of an orthodox priest trying to have an honest discussion.
He also didn't actually home in on what made the specific things Mar said that we're heretical. He gave the doctrine, then played 5 to 10 minutes of Mari speaking without actually breaking down specifics. The only thing I could remotely see was a potential language barrier and Fr Mikhail didn't seem to want to entertain any grace toward him.
He didn't say he tried reaching out and contacting him, didn't say he tried to get others to speak with him, instead he made nearly an hour worth of content condemning him and then turned the comments off to avoid dealing with any serious or honest discussions about anything specific Mari said.
It's not just you. Fr Mikhail needs to confess and repent
Dear Fr, Bartholomew is teaching heresy... Do i continue going to a Greek orthodox church ?
I go to a Greek church and it has lost its spark since covid.
Something feels very wrong.
Is the Greek church becoming heretical?
I live in Australia.
I'm actually Russian Orthodox and Something is feeling wrong there too.
Moscow is starting construction on an interfaith facility containing 4 religions.
This is frightening.
I'm also in Australia and I'm also feel something isn't right.
@mariedolianitis5144 0:29
I googled Bishop Makarios / Patriarch Constantinople since last message , well he's coming here this year.
You can find alot of stuff on our Bishop.
Things are very wrong, believe me.
Patriarch Constantinople is in communion with Pope.
2025 heretical union.
Very sad.
People are seeking the true church and it is becoming ANTICHRIST RELIGION.
PLEASE SAVE US LORD JESUS.
WE ARE IN A MESS.
Stay close to Christ and he will show us if, how and when we need to leave a certain church. Do not be anxious simply follow Christ. Try to find a church or monastery that watchful and follow the priest or abbot there. God be with you. @@natthoroughgood9273
Christ will show us when the time comes. Remember that the Roman Catholics had CHANGED THE CREED 400 years before they were cut off from the Grace of Christ's Church. These things take time.
What are the main differences between Roman Catholics and Orthodox people?
Thank you Father
At 15:19 in the photo is that Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydin among the ecumenists? That's a shock and a relief. I am member of an orthodox church in Holland, taking bible study which i am not content with but i keep telling myself i need to wait untill i have better understanding perhaps.
i and my family have been members of the assyrian orthodox church all our lives..
Can you give me advice please Father Mikhail?
@Desertfox21 syriac orthodox church (antioch), not nestorian. I'd like to know which churches are known to go with the ecumenical movement.
@Desertfox21 i dont know who our bishop is, or if we have one. This is our archbishop in Holland, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarpus_Augin_Aydin
And our pastor is Yuhanes Barsaliba of the Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the city of Hengelo. I asked him once if we are ecumenical and he said ofcourse. I dont know how to understand that now that i've just read that there have been a few ecumenical councils after the resurrection of Jesus up to now. So if a church accepts any one of these councils are they then heretical?
According to the Wikipedia link that he sent, that archbishop is part of the Syriac Orthodox church which is part of the Oriental Orthodox church. So still heretical because it is miaphysitism, but it is not nestorian.
@@canislupusminecraft2670 ok, are we also ecumenist? How could i verify?
@Desertfox21 The Assyrian church of the east is nestorian, but the syriac orthodox church is part of the oriental orthodox church which are miaphysites.
Hello Father,
Can you do an episode in which you review the TV series The Chosen?
Should an Orthodox christian watch that show?
I think that might be a waste of his valuable time-but that’s just one idiots opinion. It would be surprising to learn that any Orthodox Christian watches that for edification though. To create a fictitious dialogue-putting unheard of expressions into His mouth, so to speak-that also depends on the interpretation of the actor (facial expressions, emotive license etc.) seems to me very impious and potentially misleading.
It may be entertaining for Papists (like the actor who plays Jesus) and emotionally ‘uplifting’ for Protestants like their often terrible pop music, but I personally see no value there for an Orthodox Christian.
@@eikon7001 I came to this conclusion myself. Thank you brother in Christ !
No, don't bother, I read that many people have noticed protestant/heretical teachings in the way The Theotokos/Holy Mother of God is presented and in other ways. If you want to watch an orthodox movie, see "A man of God" or "The Island" with Peter Mamonov
@@vamheredur413 Seen them, amazing movies.
Yeah, I decided to skip the Chosen.
Thank you.
Bless you Father
NEXT YEAR I HOPE, I START TO STUDY GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AS NEW CONVERT( FROM PROTESTANISM)....ITS I SCREACH SINCE 1995......FYI ONE OF THE TOP NESTOTIANISM IS WITNESS LEE AND HIS GROUP AKA LOCAL CHURCH AKA LORD RECOVERY....
An absolute slam dunk
Zachariah 11:17 right eye utterly darkened (question mark)
Irrelevant statement.
Where in the Bible does it say we should fast on Wednesday? I am just curious...
Where in the Bible does it say you need to leave a comment on everything? Where in the Bible does it say that one must believe in the Bible alone? Just curious.
Please forgive if is say something wrong, but what is the difference between ecumenism and the ecumenical counsil, I am relatively new to the Holy Orthodox Church, an to me, these wordt sound the same, so I am a little confused about the fact if they mean the same or are just completere different, again, please forgive me if I said something that is heterodox, or maybe even heresy. May the Lord be with you all☦️❤️
@DesertFox21 thank you for your answer
Great video. I am a Dutch Reformed Christian and its amazing how much I agree with you. As a Calvinist myself, I can say John MacArthur is no calvinist, but rather a damnable heritic. Every Reformed Christian I know believes that God died on the cross, the heidelberg catechism clearly states it when speaking on the nature of Christ. Thank you and God bless
@Desertfox21Well the Council of Ephesus, that condemned Nestorian teachings, which MacArthur teaches
@Desertfox21 First of all, we do believe in sola scriptura, but as the only infallible authority of God. Scripture clear states that the church has authority, as do creeds and confessions, but they can be fallible, which is why we need Scripture to guide us. That being said the church is an authority that roots itself in scripture and traditions that follow it. One of the pillars of the Dutch Reformed church is church discipline. The church needs to maintain order as God is a God of order, and so the church uses the bible, and well as creeds and confessions that are gleaned from scripture, to us accountable. So when then church met in Ephesus to damn Nestorianism, this council still has authority, as it is rooted in scripture.
@Desertfox21 The bible is the Torah or old testament, that Christ preached from, so Christ gave the Old testament authority. The New Testament is the gospels and teaching of the Apostles, who were with Christ and preserved His teachings. So really Christ, through his Holy Spirit gave the bible its authority. As for interpretation, we are all called to read the scriptures, as we see in Acts 17, the Jews of Berea studied the scriptures upon hearing of our Savior, to see if what was said was true. This was noted as a good and proper thing, so we should all read the bible and be teachable by other, and make that what is being taught is compatible with Gods word.
@Desertfox21 To be honest I don't know Matthew and I wasn't there when he wrote it, so I can't say 100 percent Matthew wrote the gospel of Matthew. But I do believe that it is still the word of God. Could I suggest reading the Belgic Confession, it does a way better job of explaining this then I ever would
8:00 Miaphysitism does not claim that the nature of Christ is a mixture of humanity and divinity.
By its very name and the rejection of Chalcedon it does. They are also monothelites and monergists which immediately collapses the whole system back into being Monophysite-energy and will are properties of nature. If Christ is lacking these, it still Monophysitism.
@@living_orthodox Its name means one nature, not mixed nature. The miaphysite view is that the nature of Christ is one, a composite of humanity and divinity, which are unified in Him without mixture, mingling, alteration, or confusion.
@@oo1o11o except natures can’t be composite without changing or mixing. The hypostasis can be compound not the nature. So again the miaphysites are simply rebranding Monophysitism and confusing nature (physis) with person (hypostasis).
@@living_orthodox Then they've reached the correct conclusion (Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, with humanity and divinity unified without mixture, mingling, alteration, or confusion) by a logically flawed application of a non-biblical category, right?
Hello, could you please do a video on that notion of the wills and the energy being ACTUALIZED by the person.
This seems to be the crux of the debate.
It would be of tremendous help if we could have good online resource, because it might be on that question that Nestorian, Monophysite and Orthodox differs.
Absolutely. I’ll put something solid together.
Thank you very much father@@living_orthodox
I had the same conversation with my fellow orthodox( Ethiopian ) regarding mar mari views, specifically after the attack. Any one can have a Sympathy for any person who is undesrvely attacked like ma mari.Sadly, a lot of people deceived by his teaching and charming looking even though I have no idea why he dressed up like Copts? Sympathy dose not set you free only the true apostolic teaching of the church of Jesus Christ! Michael, I really appreciate what you are doing exposing heretical teachings and people like Mar Mari a Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Father, you are right! The one thing is we can not call heretics Christians as you did at the end of the video. A Christian is someone who's part of Christ's Church so if they find themselves in heresy they are not Christian. Excuse me for my boldness and forgive me!
I never called them Christians. Be sure to listen closely to what I am saying.
@living_orthodox 19:37 "I don't have hatred for other Christian people who are not Orthodox" is what I understand, am I wrong?
@@ioantecuschi6142 you are wrong in how you’re interpreting what I said. I think it’s pretty clear where I stand. We call oriental orthodox “orthodox” to indicate what they call themselves. We don’t accept them as Orthodox. It’s the same with heretics. They have a belief in Christ that is false and aren’t part of the Church. They’re not Buddhist or atheist for example. I am the furthest thing from an ecumenist. Be wary of word concept fallacy.
Did the Orthodox Church ever put heretics to death or cause them to be put to death? If so, is there an explanation on this? Thank you Fr. Michael for taking the time to make these videos.
No. We exiled them. But the Church never had the power to put people to death.
Have you heard of Revelations of Jesus Christ ministries, and if so, what are your views on it?
@@michaelturnage3395 it’s hard to keep up the with commercialism of Protestants.
@@living_orthodox Well, at least check out the channel Revelations of Jesus Christ. You may be surprised.
@@living_orthodox Odynao (όδυνάω): ua-cam.com/video/HPN5pgT0SK0/v-deo.htmlsi=tOdrM8X97b3rKSMI
@@michaelturnage3395 I checked it out. Not impressed. It’s more of the same branding that evangelicals often fall into.
@@living_orthodox What's different about Orthodoxy? How is Orthodoxy different?
Father Mikhail, What do you mean when you said in 18:36 “so that man might become God?” Can you please explain? Thank you
Theosis. Look up theosis eastern orthodox perspective
It is actually the gospel, good news, the purpose of creation: God's will is that He wants you to become a god by His grace.
By grace. It is the dimension that Adam lost, but was brought back by Christ. That's why He is called the new Adam.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(John 1)
@@Orm-zn6flI don’t think “become a god” is the correct term..I think it helps to explain his uncreated energies given to us. It’s a union, not becoming “a god”.
It's a Greek saying attributed to Saint Athanasius that can also be translated as "so that man might become divine". But it's not that men are divine by nature, but that by the power of God (by grace) men are made to become like unto God.
I just saw your videos about Mar Mari Emmanuel, the false "bishop".
Thank you, Father Mikhail, for upholding the truth about the difference beween orthodoxy and heterodoxy.
Thank you Fr. Your video helped me learn to truth about Mar Mari. I appreciate you keeping us on the right path to Christ.
What an ignorant comment. The truth about Mar Mari? You have no idea what the truth is about him or our Church. Don't let someone come in sheep's clothing but is a wolf himself and tell you someone isn't following the Lord in truth. Our Church is Holy and sound and the oldest. We have never changed our teachings and Faith and people should come and speak to Mar Mari himself before judging and calling the Lord's children heretics. Shame on you all. You all have to answer to the Lord but we will pray for you all. May God have Mercy
This was a much needed gut-punch Father, thank you so much, I will continue to pray for you and your family
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Don't let them get to you Fr. Mikhail and don't let them hold you back, use it as a motivation to push harder.
The apostles were beaten and they rejoiced as heaven does with the saints who stand up to protect the sheep.
I can't help but wonder what defines the official doctrine of the orthodox church, and thereby what defines heresy ? Apart from the seven ecumenical councils ? Are there other councils that define truth and error ? For example, what about glossolalia, non-binary marriages, penal substitution, ... Or is it more like Protestantism, where everyone does what they think is right ?
St Basils canons addresses the marriage and contraception issue. No Orthodoxy isn’t like Protestantism or the Papal Protestants. Unlike both we are consistent. Protestant “tongues” is condemned at delusion. We also don’t believe in penal substitution. I have to ask…did you ever bother doing some actual reading offline into our faith? These kinds of questions usually betray a weak understanding of our faith and usually are built from bad polemics.
@@living_orthodox I only want to know what constitute the official orthodox doctrine apart from the seven ecumenical councils. Because there are a lot of topics which have not been covered by those councils.
@@mathiasweil3507 there are local councils elevated to ecumenical status. We technically have 8 councils such as the Photian councils. I did give you an answer. You do honestly need to do some research of your own. I did. The other is looking at the consensus of the Fathers. Unlike Papal Protestants we don’t need a head who changes the church so fast, no one knows what’s going on, and we aren’t as rigid as the Protestants in limiting ourselves to scripture. So again, I gave you an answer. I am going to encourage you to do some leg work. If you’re serious go and look. We have various catechisms as well.
God Bless your life and service
As an Eritrean orthodox, start your video by prayer and sign of a cross in your face and body 🙏
I do it our Eastern Orthodox way. God bless.
Tewahedo is not Orthodox.
Father, please pray for Alexei Navalny, who was allegedly killed today by the ungodly regime of my country, Russia. Alexey claimed to be orthodox christian unlike president of my state, Putin, who never professed his faith.
I'm adding this video to my save list. I'm trying to keep track of heresies so as not to fall into them, and also repent from them in case I've ever held them before in ignorance.
Father, might you do a video regarding the topic of medically assisted suicide? I live in NZ and we are following Canada’s lead. In fact, my own neighbour (a young lady!!) is Doctor who is tasked in this. However, the argument is that these are people in devastating pain and will soon die anyway and that this is a way of being compassionate to their suffering. It’s difficult for me to grapple with that emotional argument.
I will make my next video on that topic! Lord have mercy.
@@living_orthodox I've been watching my cat suffer with an incurable disease for about a year, but I can't bring myself to have it put to sleep. Everything should live until God decides. I know you know this and will explain it much better. Love ya Father Mikhail 🙏🏻☦️
@@slowboywhiteboardv4 much love and may God bless you!
It's a super-big sin !
@@skibidi.Gno sin is greater than the other
Can you post a video on your thoughts on old calendar vs new please 🙏 thank you. ΙΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΝΙΚΑ
Small correction, it’s ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΝΙΚΑ
@@HellenicLegend7 σ’ευχαριστώ αδερφέ μου
This feels like Orthodox one true Church rhetoric, it feels like you see everyone who does not agree with you on everything as a damned heretic, accusing the Pope of herecy is quite the accusation.
Except it’s not. Even by Catholic standards he is a heretic, and historically speaking, Catholicism is heresy.
The Church has regard all of the so-called Popes of Rome as heretics since at least the 1484 synod of Constantinople (1484 would be generous, though).
Father I’m confused what is the difference between the Eastern and Oriental view of Christology?
Orientals fall under the category of Monophysite/Miaphysite Christology. David Erhan has a great series on the topic
Dear Father Michael, I am also interested in distance seminary. I come Czech Republic - central Europe. Can you recommend your seminary?
It’s called Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. It’s located in Jordanville. You might want to contact them first and ask for your priest’s blessing to attend online courses.
Thank you for the good word on the fast today Father. It is a good consolation to hear from a Father in the struggle!
Was Christ a divine person before being born?
Yes. He was known as the Logos. The Word of God. His person pre-existed His incarnation
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Forgive me Father, but i believe that the psalm tag was quoted was actually psalm 90:11 by the devil when tempting Christ.
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Yes! Thank you for correction! I had read psalm 67 and had a slip up!
God bless you Father Mikhail for clearly defining these heresies in a way that is easily understood. The use of diagrams helped alot☦️☦️
Amen, thank you, Father.
the devil will come in the name of love. just like he is now in america.
Know only one thing God is almighty, rest in the peace of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and know that the Holy Spirit enters into the souls of those who fear God. The unity of the church is not that we all agree but rather that we all embrace and know we are 1st amongst sinners and that we need to lift up our fellow man in deed before word. The publican did not even look up because he was ashamed. Whoever is the least shall be exalted. I am orthodox but the truth is nothing to do with fasting or keeping to strict dogma, if anything the Pharisees were defined by their dogmatic hypocritical beliefs. Do not fear embrace the unity in forgiveness and do the will of God. You might tell me that there are many heretics and I will rather say that there are many misinterpretations. God will is that we never deny give holy communion and that we also accept the repentance of someone else. Many healed in the name of Christ and his apostles were offended and yet Jesus said they that preach in his name are for him. God looks at the essential, that which is invisible to us.
This has nothing to do with the content of the video.
thank you!
.... Ecumenism is the open marriage of The Faith, and brings to an end the great commission.
Well said!
@living_orthodox wow! Thank you! I've been desiring to convert for overc10 years. But life is not so simple. I began to last year and again this year but my wife is Protestant. Pray for us father
Thank you Father Mihail you said it ! Our Blessed Mother is the Theotokos . Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is God . Eternal not created ♥️
Father I am a serbian orthodox could you please anwser this question? Last time a protestant friend asked me why our priest bless weapons and I couldn't anwser. Can you help me?
Priest can make mistakes. A priest making a personal decision doesn’t reflect the whole teaching of the Church. Just as someone being in error on something within the Church, doesn’t immediately disqualify them. We shouldn’t bless anything meant to take a life. There’s an example from the life of St Columba on this. Someone had asked him to bless a knife, which was to be used to kill an animal. The knife didn’t work.
No no, priests bless weapons as defensive tools. For the survival of our Nations, notice how Orthodox countries don't invade for oil and gas pipelines and petrodollars.
@@living_orthodox thank you
Oh ive seen my beloved Saint Paisios in the beginning of the video ❤❤🎉🎉Our precious recent Saint, aww i hear some recordings of him talking (pure blessing), we are blessed to have from believers who met him and many stories about people who visited him while he was still alive, he had the charisma if knowing things people before seeing them How holy and sweet saint Paisios was during his earthly life. I visited where he " rests" and it beautiful essence/ smell coming out there ❤ We are blessed as Greeks to have holy people like him and other monks from the Saint mountain Athos Agion Oros❤ God Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all from Greece 🇬🇷 ❤
I converted to Orthodoxy 2 years ago and took St. Paisios as my Patron Saint. Greetings from Canada!
@@BecomeAnOrthodoxChristian oh how beautiful ♥︎ May God Jesus Christ bless you ♡♡♡ MUCH love and blessings from Greece 🇬🇷 ♡♡♡♡
But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Why all that you said matter? Can't you be holy as catholic or orthodox or whatever? You can't claim an understading of divine nature. And if even you understood through Holy Spirit, you still can't proove divine to unholy poeople. All that talk is of no use to regular Joe. What an understanding of nature of Christ can do for your salvation? All that theology talk just raptured the church into thousand denominations today. Any grifter now can claim an understanding of God in his own way. It is supposed to be simple, now churches trying to pull a blanket(congregation) from other denominations trying to prove their theology is more "right".
You realize it was a simplistic deception the devil used against Eve right? Just because something is a hard saying, or difficult doesn’t mean you don’t challenge yourself to understand it. In fact that is the passion, the sin of sloth that keeps someone in place from learning.
Theology helps us to dive deeper into the scriptures and understand it. No one is claiming to fully comprehend divine nature. Your confusion is yet again, with what something is vs who someone is. You may be a human being. But you’re not humanity itself. Jesus is a divine person, He isn’t simply divine nature itself. Such thinking would lead to modalism which would imply the whole Trinity died on the cross. That’s incorrect as then, you would be introducing a change to the way God is and subjecting the whole nature of divinity to a change that would render it no longer divine.
That’s why the distinction between person and nature matters. Christ is God. He became man but remained divine. He experienced death in His humanity but because He is God and the source of life, death couldn’t contain Him.
No one fixed anything by giving up and saying “this is too hard”. This is what the 3000 who left Christ said in John 6:56-67 when Jesus spoke of how they must eat His flesh and drink His blood. Theology is important. It isn’t what fractured the Church. It’s pride and refusing to see reason and truth which fractured it. If one believes incorrectly about God, then one runs the risk of believing in a counterfeit and being deceived by the anti christ. If you want to be a Christian, you can’t remain a “regular Joe”. That’s an excuse to never challenge yourself beyond your comfort zone. What then? Trying to overcome alcoholism or porn is too hard? What of the fact when someone has questions? You may not have to have all the answers, but you have to know someone who does know them. What will you say? “That’s just how it is, accept it man”? Nonsense. It’s over simplification that has led the Protestants down to many schisms. 30,000 plus denominations! All claiming to interpret the Bible and yet with noting to back them up. This is why atheism and immortality rules the west right now.
Axios!
Mar Mari Bishop, he helped me to change my life. Because of him I came to orthodox
I am glad he helped. But be wary. He still teaches error. I am not saying he is a bad man. I am saying he teaches a false Christology.
Thanks for the criminal lineup.
Thank you for posting the truth of heresies. Lord have mercy on us all! May the eyes of our mind and heart be opened to see and seek the truth.
Just beautiful. God Bless you father.
He is a hypocrites!
It is crucial to emphasize that the Oriental Orthodox tradition upholds the belief in the unity of Christ's nature, contrary to the Eastern Orthodox emphasis on separate natures. As Mor Philoxenos taught, when Jesus walked on water, it was the divine nature and a human nature. Jesus was both God and man simultaneously, as no human ability alone enables walking on water. Therefore, it is impossible to divide Jesus into separate natures as the Nestorians and Eastern Orthodox do. It is thus hypocritical to warn against the Nestorian bishop while sharing similar thoughts. Orthodox is not equal to orthodox, and it is crucial to understand the differences to recognize the truth. Moreover, dividing Jesus into separate natures would lead to a departure from the concept of the Trinity, transforming it into a quaternity, which undermines the fundamental Christian doctrine. Additionally, it's important to note that initially, there were no Catholics, Protestants, or Eastern Orthodox; over time, divisions from the original unity emerged.
Mia physis is a Christological doctrine of the Oriental Orthodox emphasizing the unity of Christ's nature, whereas Dyophysites is the doctrine of the Eastern Orthodox and Nestorians advocating for the concept of two distinct natures in Christ. This difference is crucial in understanding the theological disparities between the two traditions and refuting the Eastern Orthodox standpoint.
Miaphysitism is heresy. It is nominal. Not only does it presuppose Christ’s nature is a new composite nature, making Him no longer fully consubstantial with the Father nor humanity, it shows you can’t parse out the difference between nature and person, or universal from particular in other words.
Your whole model collapses into Tritheism. One “incarnate nature of word” equals the other natures which aren’t incarnate? So you have three gods. One hypostasis (the Word), two natures. The fact you can’t understand this reveals the astounding level of illiteracy of your church.
You’re also woefully uneducated. The difference between us and the Nestorians is that the Nestorians believe Christ is two natures and two hypostases. Which no matter how they swing it, turns into an issue of two persons. We believe the divine person (hyspostasis) is in two natures. The divine nature is homoousion with the other three persons and thus communicated between them and truly unites them as one God. Your Christological system is rife with the errors I mentioned earlier and is the result of theological illiteracy.
We don't believe in a separation of natures in the Logos and never have. You're committing the strawman fallacy.
father how do i fast for lent if im bulking
There’s always high quality Lenten food that is high in calories. That might require a little creativity
If you insist on bulking during fasting periods instead of planning around those times (unless it’s actually required for your job/sport somehow), and believe you need a certain amount of protein, then you can find vegan protein powders to go along with your rice, pasta, lentils, fruit or whatever licit foods you choose. Nut butters are a great source of calories; you could hit your caloric ‘needs’ without stuffing yourself if you get enough fat. High fat/carb with moderate protein and maybe even smaller (calorie dense) portions or more time between meals if you’re willing and able to do that for forty days won’t kill all your gains.
I recently engaged with Neo-Arians/Arians, Mormons/Thritheists, Unitarians and, perhaps, Modalists in a YT video about the I-II century Church Fathers affirming the Holy Trinity and it was just so.. tiresome. I would go as far as saying that one's faith ends up.. weakened by such masochistic interactions
Pray fervently beforehand. I've been learning this the hard way; having engaged in conversation about this with explicitly non-Christian family.
@@AnonymousMan115 Definitely. For many time I was reluctant to take the words of many saints, all the way from Saint Paul, refering to the fact that we must pray without ceasing seriously. There's no other way around it
@@Juan-gd1wd Yeah that's me. I still have that "self-sufficient" pride I developed in the midst of my atheism. Glory to God for getting me out of the hellhole that is Nihlistic (in attitude) atheism.
It's a struggle right now but it's worth it.
@@AnonymousMan115 Amen. God bless you and thank you for taking the time to answer. Also, Atheism taken to it's logical conclusion can only lead to Nihilism, in all aspects of existence and knowledge.
@@Juan-gd1wd I agree brother. I feel the mental scars from the Nihlism but I trust God once I get to take part in the sacraments that my soul will be healed.
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Question. How'd you come to Orthodoxy?
Continue your work! It is needed in these days. Lord bless.
You don’t need to defend yourself just teach Ftr
No offence but one of the only things that keep me away from orthodoxy is this gratuitous worship of Mary. I feel bad for her! She must feel terrible that so many people pray to her instead of Jesus for “intercession”. I am however open minded to the other side of this discussion but I can’t find any good discussion.
I happen to have a few videos coming out on this
Anecdotally, I know several people who converted to Orthodoxy while yet not understanding the level of veneration given to the Theotokos. To quote one of them: I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, so I defer to its witness on this matter and pray that I may enter more deeply into this mystery of piety.
This seems to me the correct attitude; not deferring to their own private opinion-that aligns with modern sectarian beliefs-but rather submitting to the authority and witness of the Church throughout history: its theology and saints and common piety of the faithful.
Unfortunately it would require a rather lengthy essay to do justice on this topic, but I could add a couple things to consider.
1) We have no distinction between the Church Triumphant and Church Militant-the Church is One and alive in heaven and on earth-so in one sense what you say would be akin to telling us that our earthly mothers should be sad if we ask for their help and prayers. We could 'just ask Jesus' after all.
I think this is also a misunderstanding of 'the one mediator between God and man.' The mediation is due to the uniting of our humanity to the eternal Person of the Logos: after making propitiation He ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Father, elevating human nature to His throne, making full communion possible.
2) The Theotokos is also the mother of the Christian race, and has been exalted by God above every saint and angel. Or to what angel is the Logos united with bodily? Who of the great saints has both this same spiritual and material relation? She is forever unique in all of creation: the new Eve for the second Adam, the Ark of the New Covenant (containing the uncontainable God in her womb) through whom Heaven came down to earth for the salvation of man; who is deified and radiant with the uncreated light of God-Queen Mother of the Kingdom, to reign forever with the Lord of Glory. Inexpressible magnificence.
3) In light of these things we could hardly honor her enough, and if anyone should dishonor her they dishonor God who has so highly favored her. Of course we very highly honor her, for God has done so. Of course we ask the Mother of our God to intercede for us. And obviously we find such intercession valuable.
Prayer is ordained by God-not that He has any need of it, but according to His good pleasure, for our benefit, we are given to pray and ask. We will continue to ask the friends of God to pray to Him on our behalf (especially His Mother). We pray for others who ask and ask the same for ourselves. How much poorer we would be without it! If the saints prayed to God for people while on earth, why would they cease their intercessions before the throne?
@@eikon7001 This has given me a lot to read and look into and I won’t be able to give a thoughtful reply as thoughtful as your reply was quiet yet. Thank you for this and I’ll send a better reply to you after more study.
Nobody prays to the Theotokos _instead of_ her son, though.
@@thomasburke9060 then what is interceding on our behalf if not praying to her to ask her to intercede?
Fr I like the way you express current popular beliefs and contrast them with traditional truths of the faith. I believe it is of utmost importance and value to both young and older seekers of the truth. . Thank you Fr.
The root of all heresies is the confusing of nature with personhood (and vice versa)
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Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God. To me, begotten means birthed son. Is begotten son Prince William less than King Charles? Yes and no. Just as Jesus always referred to his Father as Father and that he Jesus was lesser than the Father yet worked the will of his Father with perfection. The kinship terms were used with precision. Does not undeify the Son nor the Father. Just as calling Prince William a son does not reduce William to peasant status. He is still royalty. Perhaps it is human absolutism that cannot handle Begotten Son of God as truth. For either Jesus was the Only Begotten or scripture is wrong.
So again here is the limited thinking of those who cannot distinguish between persons and nature. Begotten doesn’t mean birthed. In the sense of divinity and the fact that God (the Trinity) is uncreated, begotten describes the mode (not modalism) of existence of the person of the Son. The three persons of the Holy Trinity have always existed as God exists before and outside of space and time. To claim Christ is created is not only demonic but a perversion that makes salvation impossible, given that only one who is God and Man can unite man to God because He enhypostatized human nature. It’s shocking to see how many struggle with Arianism. Given that Arianism is a heresy that is formed from such weak faith that it had to lower God to man rather than elevate man to God.
God’s being as in the being that is common to all three persons of the Trinity isn’t comparable to earthly fathers and sons the way you laid out. Time to read some Church Fathers. This is your soul and if you’re not careful, you will be entrusting it with your one faulty reasoning. Simply put, scripture isn’t wrong. You are.
@@living_orthodox Sorry but the Trinity instead is demonic for it makes Jesus to be a pagan three headed monster god like Cerberus, the three headed one body hound of hell. The origins of the trinity was in response to being accused by the Jews of being polytheists. The mental gymnastics to concoct an idol monster to appease both the Jews and the new pagan converts. To deny Jesus as the Only Begotten Son is to deny Jesus himself. Ashamed to admit that Father had a son. Like Prince William is less royal than his father King Charles. Shame on you for denying the divinity of the Son. Put aside your pagan idolatry and believe the truth of the scripture and the truth of NDE witnesses who report Jesus standing literally on the right hand of the Father. No siamese twin but separate entities as Father and Only Begotten Son. Son is not Father. Neither Father the Son. Yet both deity. Truth. Sorry you hold onto idolatry trinity. Sins of the fathers for concocting such paganism. Satanic is having Satan as an individual yet Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a Cerberus entity. God the Father. His only Begotten Son Jesus. The Holy Spirit. United in purpose but not in form. Truth eternal.
@@suem6004This is the dumbest thing I have read in a while; which is saying a lot considering the infinite supply of extreme stupidity that is found on the internet. I nearly made a real response but I think it would be like trying to convince a man in a padded cell that he is not in fact an egg despite his undying insistence. Ignorant and delusional-you have removed all doubt about that.
I have considered becoming Orthodox considering what is happening in the Catholic Church. My patron Saint converted to Catholicism
I would definitely encourage to dig deeply into our ecclesiastical perspective and how our saints address some of the Papal claims. Best thing to do is attend a Divine Liturgy
@@living_orthodox I was Protestant but became Catholic when I read about St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Become Orthodox and practice the faith with prayer and fasting. You will understand a few years later of your own accord why it was the right move .
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And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. - Matthew 23:9
Yet you call yourself "father". Please explain.
I have don’t be lazy. Look it up. It’s very low intelligence polemics like this that make atheists think that the Bible has contradictions. By rejecting biological and spiritual fatherhood, you’re rejecting the image and likeness of God in man. It also shows the ignorance of second temple Judaism and Christian history
You are very welcoming, kind, and Christ like... You should be proud...
@@johngult6994 you certainly are proud nor Christ like. Typical Pharisee move to twist scripture. I also suppose you thought it “unchrist like” when Jesus drove out the money changers with a whip. It’s also typical when someone comes looking for a fight or a Protestant arrogantly assumes they’re the first to make this argument, or that we don’t have knowledge of scripture.
Nope. You got it all wrong. I came to you with a question. As a "little one", and the first you do is call me "lazy". You would rather spend time arguing with me on YT instead of just preaching the word of God. This is where YOUR religion is flawed. Your attitude is exactly why becoming orthodox is not an option for me and my family.
Then you aren’t seeking Orthodoxy for Christ but for yourself. If you need your pride and ego cradled, then you’re not ready for Christian life. Your religion is yourself and if you truly were a little one, you wouldn’t behave this way as a means to try and leverage guilt. There was no innocent intent, otherwise you would have been humble. If I was your sole source in choosing the True Faith, then it is you with the man centred religion. No humility and typical Protestant tactics to try and use emotional manipulation. It was Protestant nonsense like yours that once led me away from Christ. The dishonest and outright manipulation behind the mindset of your reply will harm the image of Christ, far more than an honest response with an encouragement to not be lazy.