I became Orthodox back in 2013. I started off being one of those “based” types which is why when I started My journey in 2007, it took years (6) to be Baptized.
I'm 66, and late in life walked away from evangelical Protestantism of my birth and converted to Orthodoxy (Antiochian). I still wrestle with baggage from that heterodox world, as well as the secular culture (toxic work cultures and people), although I'd say it's diminishing more.
I had the exact same experience. Underground subcultures and music, nieche philosophies and esoteric religions, and right wing politics were all culminated in me thinking I am above all the rest. That I have some secret understanding and balance in my life. But you cannot serve God and Mammon. So I have been trying to humble myself before God and just view everything through the lens of Orthodoxy.
That's great to hear! My first Divine Liturgy was an awesome experience. I didn't really know what the heck was going on but I had the very comforting feeling that I had found what I was seeking for years. ☦️🕯️📿
This video is rather timely. I'm a recent convert to Orthodoxy (Praise God). But the last couple of days I've gotten really hooked on Jay Dyer debates in defence of Orthodoxy. I mentioned this to my local Priest, and he said the exact same thing you said. These debates are no good, because they usually come from a place of winning. And with the case of Jay Dyer, while he isn't wrong about what he's debating. His additude really isn't one of humility. Thank you my friend for this video! May the Lord have mercy on us, and God be with us 🙏
Thanks for watching the video and for the comment! 🤝 I'm very grateful for Jay as he played a pivotal role in me discovering Orthodoxy. With that being said, these days I don't really get too much out of apologetics. A lot of these debates played a key role in 'winning me over' and even introducing me to Orthodox theology, but since I've joined the Church my focus has shifted. I do feel apologetics play a big role in raising awareness about the faith and bringing new converts into the Church, but these days my focus has shifted more towards learning about the lives of the saints, reading more monastic writings, improving my prayer life, and participating in the life of the Church. God bless! ☦️🤝💯
This is a good subject, and you express yourself clearly and articulately. Thank you. I am considering more and more becoming a catechumen, and I definitely resonate with these observations. I guess there's work to do.
Thanks so much for the comment! I'm glad you found value in the video. And you are absolutely right, there will always be work to do. I think living the Orthodox life really is a lifelong struggle of shedding the passions of this world and in doing so, growing closer to God. May God bless you and your path to the Orthodox Chruch! ☦️🤍🤝
Hey brother! I just found your channel. I’m currently in college and recently became a catechumen a while back. I’m hoping to be received into the church this year. Just wanted to say, keep up the good work! I liked and subscribed! God bless! ☦️
Thank you ,I’m in the process of trying to become a catechumen. Yesterday I went to my first Divine Liturgy after 7 months since my start to orthodoxy. I went down a similar path before you before orthodoxy so I found that interesting
Love to hear it 💯🤝 Glory to God! It took me a while of inquiring intellectually before I attended my first Liturgy. For me, that's when the rubber hit the pavement and I really started to experience growth and repentance. Participating in the life of the Church and the Sacraments is crucial for inner transformation. Stay vigilant on your path brother 💪🏼☦️📿🕯️
Same for me. Trad Skin, always very niche. Always felt very correct. Orthodoxy isn’t niche. We must submit to Christianity. It’s hard to be a “baby” again. We are babies brother, a drop in humanity’s bucket. Glory to God being a drop- or in my case a drip lol.
100% brother 💯☦️ I spent years rebelling against conformity and kind of built my entire identity around that. To abandon that identity and set my ego aside has been an incredibly humbling experience.
it's simple actually...live as He did...love as He loved us...JUST AS...faith in things NOT SEEN...blessed are those that DON"T SEE (ikons) and still believe...helps to have a circumcised heart... nothing more revolutionary than claiming to be the ONE TRUE since the beginning and not having fruits as He did...NOT living as He demonstrated before He sealed the new covenant lifestyle with His death...Paul affirms NO CHANGES after Galations 3:15
Really enjoyed you sharing that band Byzantium. Can you share more orthodox bands/musicians or link to a place where you find this? Please and thank you brother
Thank you for your info about not supporting a welfare state. People are going after me because while originally I was thinking Orthodoxy agrees with my views, it turns out that my views agree with Orthodoxy and they don't like my views (Pro-Trump, pro-life, pro-2A, pro-constitution, pro-strong border). They are also going after me simply because I want Trump to be the 47th president of the United States even though everything in the United States was objectively better underneath him. I'm praying that he and his family are okay considering everything that's going on right now and he had to pay over $80 million to a crazy woman who literally said the r-word was sensual and she lied about the case and had no proof. Pray for President Trump. God bless you. Trump 2024
@@James-px6hp I sadly don't have one. I haven't gone to an Orthodox Church yet. One of the people told me that it's apparently not what I think or that I want to go there because it is pro-life. Excuse me, how is not wanting babies to be killed controversial? Oh because it's inconvenient for the mother? Obviously it's not that you get my point.
@@RetakeAmerica i can guarantee whatever Orthodox Church you attend will be against abortion. But as my Soiritual Father said when I first visited: politics and social issues ire something that is outside of the Church. Christianity is about healing our sick souls. We need to turn into men and be warriors for Christ, everything else will fall into place
Do you still listen to your underground music? I have a similar journey as you and definitely prided myself of being “unique.” But isn’t it the truth to be a jack of all trades and a master on none. I’m starting to become more dispassionate about music, but I like to think it will stay with me in some form throughout my life. Music is an amazing form of human expression and if you look for it Christ is everywhere. That’s what I tell myself now anyway.
I definitely do still listen to a lot of music but don't see myself really ever being an active part of any 'scene' centered around music again. I occasionally enjoy going to shows and still love heavy music. I do listen to some Christian/ Orthodox bands and artists but still enjoy many genres that are more secular. I've always enjoyed Hardcore, Metalcore, and even some proto soundcloud rap like BONES and Bladee. I'll always be a music head but have dramatically shifted my focus toward my spiritual life these days ☦️🕯️📿 I primarily listen to music at the gym now 💪🏼😤💯
Thank you for your video. I am concerned about the topic of ecumenism in the Orthodox Church. I feel like it is a discussion that needs to had by all of us calling ourselves Orthodox. Have you any videos on this topic?
Thanks for watching! I have not yet made a video on this subject. I do not support ecumenism. I believe the Holy Orthodox Church has the full deposit of faith and ecumenical efforts result in Orthodox Christians compromising their tradition. With that being said I do believe we can have civil conversations with other Christians sects. I believe that optimistically displaying our faith and not constantly trying to dunk on others is the most constructive way to bring new converts into the Church. 💯☦️
@@Dwell.within I am thinking about it a lot because the OCA church I was attending would not baptize me since I had been baptized in the Protestant sect. They said that was good enough, according to their bishop. Im thinking something is very wrong here, and I am concerned that many others are told that all they need is chrismation, when actually it isnt enough according to the canons. I agree that civil discussions need to be had. These things are so important as they are concerning our salvation. Thank you! God bless!
@@eh3345 I was received by Chrismation into the Serbian Orthodox Church. Some jurisdictions always provide corrective baptism, some like the Serbians tend more toward Chrismation. As a Catechumen I didn't see it my place to question my bishop or parish priest. I also feel this is a slippery slope that will lead ten of thousands of converts to constantly question if they are really a member of the Church and are validly receiving the sacraments. I'm very young in the faith so I really don't even speak on things like this that I'm not very educated on, just my thoughts! Have you spoke to your priest and had a conversation about your concerns?
@@Dwell.within Hi. Thank you for your thoughts. Im thinking that during the period of catechumen it would be an appropriate time to ask questions. It is a time of learning, and asking valid questions to come to understand the faith. I am afraid that the spiritual guidance being given to new catechumens is somewhat lacking if they are not discussing church canons (regarding valid baptism, etc.) and the teaching of the Church Fathers regarding how one should properly come into the Church. Something to think about-why are invalid priests of other “Christian” faiths being allowed to baptize you if they do not have apostolic succession? The grace of God- we are taught-comes by Apostolic succession. If your priest did not baptize you, who did? Was he an Orthodox priest? If not, something is amiss and your salvation is, literally, at stake. If it were not true why was it such a hot topic in the past with St. Cyprian of Carthage and other fathers? Thanks for taking time to read and consider.
So at the 5 minute and 40 second mark of this video, protestant converts are mentioned. I was just wondering what the orthodox issued opinion on protestants by conviction are.
10 Scoops! Haha, nice. I also have a very similar path to you: pagang, red-pilled/based politics, loads of philosophy & esoterica. Man, we gotta hang out one day lol
Politics is mostly noise, but it's getting increasingly more important when one side is getting increasingly more involved in the death cult of anti-natalism and anti-humanism which is spreading far and wide to every faucet of society and civilisation.
I agree, and it's a good thing that true Christianity completely opposes Leftist ideologies. My critique of the secular right is a more 'might makes right' Nietzschean philosophy and, often times, the ethnocentrism associated with these far right movements. These are not in line with Christian morality and lead to elitism and a purity spiral more often than not.
@@Dwell.within Yes, the horseshoe of the two extremes also cannot be ignored. The neo nazis are basically the same just with Hitler as their messiah. I got a little taste of it on Elon's twitter, some of them even claimed to be Christian which was laughable.
Make sure you dont leave your Bible and the Gospel beyond. Beards and crosses, incense and icons wont get you into heaven. Only faith in God's amazing Grace revealed in Jesus Christ will do that. Been there, got the T shirt, lost the Gospel of free Grace, rediscovering it now. God bless.
@@gumbyshrimp2606 Yall really do see him as a religious figure, eh? He's really no different than the rest of the (((elites))). He cares not for his creed nor his country, and he'd gladly sacrifice a million american men for Israel.
Why participate in an election where the devil wins either way? Godless conservatism conserving money and not morals or satanic neoliberalism? To hell with the "democratic" United States of America! P.S. I love the American people, despite their innumerable amount of flaws, but despise their nation and works of sin.
Who said that it is? This thumbnail is just poking fun at keyboard punishers, I find them insufferable regardless if they're Trump fanbois or Leftists. The point I was trying to make is that if you've built your whole identity around your political views, you have a lot of baggage to shed in order to truly follow Christ and live the Orthodox life. For many people their political views or views on social issues become an idol and stumbling block for them 💯🤝
None of these ethnarchs are canonical in my territory. You're not allowed to "choose your own bishop". You must find out which communion came and evangelized the people through an apostolic ministry. In my territory of New France the Church of France alone is canonical. Why? Because they came here and reached the Native American tribes establishing settlements/local parishes of converted pagans. Serbia, Romanian, Albania, Bulgaria, Syria, etc. have a canonical territory. Nowhere in North America do they have valid canonical rule. They ARE aware of this fact. They know they lack apostolic ministry here. They continue to lie and keep up the fraud because the ethnic groups are in on the scam together. Basil Essey (Antiochian), Nathaniel Popp (Romanian) and Paul Gassios (OCA) are 3 bishops who have brought up this problem of multiple bishops in a territory (parallel churches). But, they never do anything to fix the problem. Usually because the negative involves financial consequences for each communion. Same reason Arabs, Greeks, etc. came here - to make $$$$$
The Antiochians are working to move their Diocese out of Brooklyn and to Rural Pennsylvania. The Hierarchs know that the Jurisdictional Issue needs to be handled but the current Moscow/Constantinople split is stopping even a discussion. Also Isn't the Church of France Roman Catholic? Or are you talking about the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Exarchate?
@@acekoala457 God energized priest orders in the Church of France to come to North America and evangelize the Native Americans. God didn't choose your teeny tiny disobedient ethnic church to do it. Your judgment of God as wrong for using the Church of France to bring the faith and civilization to this territory will result in your going to hell with jet rockets. You don't get the option to criticize God's activity growing the church here using the specific church He chose to use and prepared this land for that canonical apostolic ministry 2 Cor 10:13-16
@@acekoala457 remember, in the territory of New France there are no ethnic "apostles" converting the Native Americans as part of their activity. Not one. John Hawaweeney (who isn't actually a saint putting a gun to the back of a cop's head) only went around North America gathering together Arabs to form small Arab churches. Not one Orthodox cleric or anyone considers his activity that of an apostle.
Because you said it, God Almighty, and infinite is constricted to only one manifestation. And yet your book says God does not enter this world literally ever; and that would make Moses’s experience with the burn bush (that was not consumed) rather hard to explain (As Moses came closer to the burning bush he heard a voice calling to him, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am” he answered. “Do not come closer. Take off your shoes; you are standing on holy ground.)
I became Orthodox back in 2013. I started off being one of those “based” types which is why when I started My journey in 2007, it took years (6) to be Baptized.
What are the “based” types? I’ve been attending my parish for few months now. Everyone is cool and fairly knowledgeable.
What even was a "based" type in 2007? Ron Paul gang?
@@Burgermeister1836 Hmm… Tanky Anti-Immigration Commie?
2007: based
2013: blessed
@@Burgermeister1836 I was (and am) hard core Ron Paul gang. I didn’t know we had a name.
I'm 66, and late in life walked away from evangelical Protestantism of my birth and converted to Orthodoxy (Antiochian).
I still wrestle with baggage from that heterodox world, as well as the secular culture (toxic work cultures and people), although I'd say it's diminishing more.
I had the exact same experience. Underground subcultures and music, nieche philosophies and esoteric religions, and right wing politics were all culminated in me thinking I am above all the rest. That I have some secret understanding and balance in my life. But you cannot serve God and Mammon. So I have been trying to humble myself before God and just view everything through the lens of Orthodoxy.
Man, how comforting to hear this. Thank you my brother. God Bless you
Thank you for sharing your struggle. I have been through an almost similar path. My gf and I visited an Orthodox Church last Sunday.
That's great to hear! My first Divine Liturgy was an awesome experience. I didn't really know what the heck was going on but I had the very comforting feeling that I had found what I was seeking for years. ☦️🕯️📿
May the blood on the one true triune God Lord Jesus the Christ cover you always.
This video is rather timely. I'm a recent convert to Orthodoxy (Praise God).
But the last couple of days I've gotten really hooked on Jay Dyer debates in defence of Orthodoxy.
I mentioned this to my local Priest, and he said the exact same thing you said.
These debates are no good, because they usually come from a place of winning.
And with the case of Jay Dyer, while he isn't wrong about what he's debating. His additude really isn't one of humility.
Thank you my friend for this video! May the Lord have mercy on us, and God be with us 🙏
Thanks for watching the video and for the comment! 🤝 I'm very grateful for Jay as he played a pivotal role in me discovering Orthodoxy. With that being said, these days I don't really get too much out of apologetics. A lot of these debates played a key role in 'winning me over' and even introducing me to Orthodox theology, but since I've joined the Church my focus has shifted. I do feel apologetics play a big role in raising awareness about the faith and bringing new converts into the Church, but these days my focus has shifted more towards learning about the lives of the saints, reading more monastic writings, improving my prayer life, and participating in the life of the Church. God bless! ☦️🤝💯
Jay holds a purpose for the faith. His path is just different than most of ours.
@Reimerguns yeah I appreciate his defence of the faith, I suppose it's just his additude.
Then again, that being said. He does get a ton of trolls.
@@Dwell.withinwell said
@@Reimerguns agreed. He's gathering the atheists (mostly young men) who left the faith (usually protestants) and bringing them back to Christ.
Wise words to live by as Orthodox filled with The Holy Spirit and called to love and pray for all.
This is a good subject, and you express yourself clearly and articulately. Thank you. I am considering more and more becoming a catechumen, and I definitely resonate with these observations. I guess there's work to do.
Thanks so much for the comment! I'm glad you found value in the video. And you are absolutely right, there will always be work to do. I think living the Orthodox life really is a lifelong struggle of shedding the passions of this world and in doing so, growing closer to God. May God bless you and your path to the Orthodox Chruch! ☦️🤍🤝
@@Dwell.within Thanks, and amen. May God bless you.
May God bless you and help you on your journey
This is my background too. Praise God that He rescued us from all of that mess.
Absolutely ☦️ a lot of my seeking prepared me to fully embrace the Orthodox life so I guess it wasn't all for all for naught 😅
What a beautiful talk! Thank you so much! God bless you, brother!
Hey brother! I just found your channel. I’m currently in college and recently became a catechumen a while back. I’m hoping to be received into the church this year. Just wanted to say, keep up the good work! I liked and subscribed! God bless! ☦️
Love to hear it! You have a beautiful journey ahead of you brother ☦️🕯️📿 Glad you dig the channel and thanks for subscribing 💪🏼🤝
Your share is so helpful, God bless you, in His Great Mercy.
I definitely feel it when it comes to the need to humble myself.
Thank you ,I’m in the process of trying to become a catechumen. Yesterday I went to my first Divine Liturgy after 7 months since my start to orthodoxy. I went down a similar path before you before orthodoxy so I found that interesting
Love to hear it 💯🤝 Glory to God! It took me a while of inquiring intellectually before I attended my first Liturgy. For me, that's when the rubber hit the pavement and I really started to experience growth and repentance. Participating in the life of the Church and the Sacraments is crucial for inner transformation. Stay vigilant on your path brother 💪🏼☦️📿🕯️
Same for me. Trad Skin, always very niche. Always felt very correct. Orthodoxy isn’t niche. We must submit to Christianity. It’s hard to be a “baby” again. We are babies brother, a drop in humanity’s bucket. Glory to God being a drop- or in my case a drip lol.
100% brother 💯☦️ I spent years rebelling against conformity and kind of built my entire identity around that. To abandon that identity and set my ego aside has been an incredibly humbling experience.
Brother I AM VERY HAPPY THAT SUCH PEOPLE EXIST☦️☦️☦️ I WISH EVERYBODY WOULD BECOME ORTHODOX and know what true life with God is. Good luck
it's simple actually...live as He did...love as He loved us...JUST AS...faith in things NOT SEEN...blessed are those that DON"T SEE (ikons) and still believe...helps to have a circumcised heart...
nothing more revolutionary than claiming to be the ONE TRUE since the beginning and not having fruits as He did...NOT living as He demonstrated before He sealed the new covenant lifestyle with His death...Paul affirms NO CHANGES after Galations 3:15
I can relate to you. I am glad I converted. ☦️ 🌹 🌹 🌹
Really enjoyed you sharing that band Byzantium. Can you share more orthodox bands/musicians or link to a place where you find this? Please and thank you brother
Some others are Hesychast,Gospod, and Troparion
Agreed my friend!
Make America great again!!!!!!!!
YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Thank you for your info about not supporting a welfare state. People are going after me because while originally I was thinking Orthodoxy agrees with my views, it turns out that my views agree with Orthodoxy and they don't like my views (Pro-Trump, pro-life, pro-2A, pro-constitution, pro-strong border). They are also going after me simply because I want Trump to be the 47th president of the United States even though everything in the United States was objectively better underneath him. I'm praying that he and his family are okay considering everything that's going on right now and he had to pay over $80 million to a crazy woman who literally said the r-word was sensual and she lied about the case and had no proof. Pray for President Trump. God bless you. Trump 2024
I hope you speak with your Spiritual Father about this
@@James-px6hp I sadly don't have one. I haven't gone to an Orthodox Church yet. One of the people told me that it's apparently not what I think or that I want to go there because it is pro-life. Excuse me, how is not wanting babies to be killed controversial? Oh because it's inconvenient for the mother? Obviously it's not that you get my point.
@@RetakeAmerica i can guarantee whatever Orthodox Church you attend will be against abortion.
But as my Soiritual Father said when I first visited: politics and social issues ire something that is outside of the Church. Christianity is about healing our sick souls. We need to turn into men and be warriors for Christ, everything else will fall into place
@@James-px6hp Thank you. Let us not be concerned with those who call us Christo-fascists. Pray for them.
The Greeks in the USA seem to be an arm of the Democrat Party. They mimic their language at the very least.
Agreed
Do you still listen to your underground music? I have a similar journey as you and definitely prided myself of being “unique.” But isn’t it the truth to be a jack of all trades and a master on none. I’m starting to become more dispassionate about music, but I like to think it will stay with me in some form throughout my life. Music is an amazing form of human expression and if you look for it Christ is everywhere. That’s what I tell myself now anyway.
I definitely do still listen to a lot of music but don't see myself really ever being an active part of any 'scene' centered around music again. I occasionally enjoy going to shows and still love heavy music. I do listen to some Christian/ Orthodox bands and artists but still enjoy many genres that are more secular. I've always enjoyed Hardcore, Metalcore, and even some proto soundcloud rap like BONES and Bladee. I'll always be a music head but have dramatically shifted my focus toward my spiritual life these days ☦️🕯️📿 I primarily listen to music at the gym now 💪🏼😤💯
Thank you.
I need help with this 😢❤
Thank you for your video. I am concerned about the topic of ecumenism in the Orthodox Church. I feel like it is a discussion that needs to had by all of us calling ourselves Orthodox. Have you any videos on this topic?
Thanks for watching! I have not yet made a video on this subject. I do not support ecumenism. I believe the Holy Orthodox Church has the full deposit of faith and ecumenical efforts result in Orthodox Christians compromising their tradition. With that being said I do believe we can have civil conversations with other Christians sects. I believe that optimistically displaying our faith and not constantly trying to dunk on others is the most constructive way to bring new converts into the Church. 💯☦️
@@Dwell.within I am thinking about it a lot because the OCA church I was attending would not baptize me since I had been baptized in the Protestant sect. They said that was good enough, according to their bishop. Im thinking something is very wrong here, and I am concerned that many others are told that all they need is chrismation, when actually it isnt enough according to the canons. I agree that civil discussions need to be had. These things are so important as they are concerning our salvation. Thank you! God bless!
@@eh3345 I was received by Chrismation into the Serbian Orthodox Church. Some jurisdictions always provide corrective baptism, some like the Serbians tend more toward Chrismation. As a Catechumen I didn't see it my place to question my bishop or parish priest. I also feel this is a slippery slope that will lead ten of thousands of converts to constantly question if they are really a member of the Church and are validly receiving the sacraments. I'm very young in the faith so I really don't even speak on things like this that I'm not very educated on, just my thoughts! Have you spoke to your priest and had a conversation about your concerns?
ua-cam.com/video/fRC9-vCS3uY/v-deo.htmlsi=YcTcTKqHlGVbFszY here's a video from Metropolitan Jonah that I found pretty informative on this subject 🤝☦️
@@Dwell.within Hi. Thank you for your thoughts. Im thinking that during the period of catechumen it would be an appropriate time to ask questions. It is a time of learning, and asking valid questions to come to understand the faith. I am afraid that the spiritual guidance being given to new catechumens is somewhat lacking if they are not discussing church canons (regarding valid baptism, etc.) and the teaching of the Church Fathers regarding how one should properly come into the Church. Something to think about-why are invalid priests of other “Christian” faiths being allowed to baptize you if they do not have apostolic succession? The grace of God- we are taught-comes by Apostolic succession. If your priest did not baptize you, who did? Was he an Orthodox priest? If not, something is amiss and your salvation is, literally, at stake. If it were not true why was it such a hot topic in the past with St. Cyprian of Carthage and other fathers? Thanks for taking time to read and consider.
So at the 5 minute and 40 second mark of this video, protestant converts are mentioned. I was just wondering what the orthodox issued opinion on protestants by conviction are.
Dude your icon corner is awsome
10 Scoops! Haha, nice. I also have a very similar path to you: pagang, red-pilled/based politics, loads of philosophy & esoterica. Man, we gotta hang out one day lol
Politics is mostly noise, but it's getting increasingly more important when one side is getting increasingly more involved in the death cult of anti-natalism and anti-humanism which is spreading far and wide to every faucet of society and civilisation.
I agree, and it's a good thing that true Christianity completely opposes Leftist ideologies. My critique of the secular right is a more 'might makes right' Nietzschean philosophy and, often times, the ethnocentrism associated with these far right movements. These are not in line with Christian morality and lead to elitism and a purity spiral more often than not.
@@Dwell.within Yes, the horseshoe of the two extremes also cannot be ignored. The neo nazis are basically the same just with Hitler as their messiah. I got a little taste of it on Elon's twitter, some of them even claimed to be Christian which was laughable.
Hey mate, aussie catechuman here. Could we talk?
Hit me up homie! Email and Instagram in the video description 🤝☦️
You were into Black Metal, werent you?
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Make sure you dont leave your Bible and the Gospel beyond. Beards and crosses, incense and icons wont get you into heaven. Only faith in God's amazing Grace revealed in Jesus Christ will do that. Been there, got the T shirt, lost the Gospel of free Grace, rediscovering it now. God bless.
Faith alone doesn’t get you into heaven, either… at least according to the Bible.
Wish I could, I just can’t cause of palamas and God exiling them on the day of Pentecost
Trump 2024
Sweet 🤙🏻🤙🏻 thanks watching the video and commenting 🫡💯
L, not voting for Zion Don
@@zebulaun consider yourself anathema
@@gumbyshrimp2606 Yall really do see him as a religious figure, eh? He's really no different than the rest of the (((elites))). He cares not for his creed nor his country, and he'd gladly sacrifice a million american men for Israel.
Why participate in an election where the devil wins either way? Godless conservatism conserving money and not morals or satanic neoliberalism? To hell with the "democratic" United States of America!
P.S. I love the American people, despite their innumerable amount of flaws, but despise their nation and works of sin.
being a trump supporter isnt antithetical to being Orthodox
Who said that it is? This thumbnail is just poking fun at keyboard punishers, I find them insufferable regardless if they're Trump fanbois or Leftists. The point I was trying to make is that if you've built your whole identity around your political views, you have a lot of baggage to shed in order to truly follow Christ and live the Orthodox life. For many people their political views or views on social issues become an idol and stumbling block for them 💯🤝
@@Dwell.within I'm falling for the clickbait and providing engagement so the algorithm can push the video
@@kardzYT 😂🤝😎☦️
None of these ethnarchs are canonical in my territory.
You're not allowed to "choose your own bishop". You must find out which communion came and evangelized the people through an apostolic ministry.
In my territory of New France the Church of France alone is canonical. Why? Because they came here and reached the Native American tribes establishing settlements/local parishes of converted pagans.
Serbia, Romanian, Albania, Bulgaria, Syria, etc. have a canonical territory. Nowhere in North America do they have valid canonical rule. They ARE aware of this fact. They know they lack apostolic ministry here. They continue to lie and keep up the fraud because the ethnic groups are in on the scam together.
Basil Essey (Antiochian), Nathaniel Popp (Romanian) and Paul Gassios (OCA) are 3 bishops who have brought up this problem of multiple bishops in a territory (parallel churches). But, they never do anything to fix the problem. Usually because the negative involves financial consequences for each communion. Same reason Arabs, Greeks, etc. came here - to make $$$$$
The Antiochians are working to move their Diocese out of Brooklyn and to Rural Pennsylvania.
The Hierarchs know that the Jurisdictional Issue needs to be handled but the current Moscow/Constantinople split is stopping even a discussion.
Also Isn't the Church of France Roman Catholic? Or are you talking about the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Exarchate?
@@acekoala457 the church of France is self-ruling
@@ekklesiagigapanography1854
If it isn't Orthodox then it has no Canonical Status and cannot be "The Only Canonical Body" in your territory.
@@acekoala457 God energized priest orders in the Church of France to come to North America and evangelize the Native Americans. God didn't choose your teeny tiny disobedient ethnic church to do it. Your judgment of God as wrong for using the Church of France to bring the faith and civilization to this territory will result in your going to hell with jet rockets. You don't get the option to criticize God's activity growing the church here using the specific church He chose to use and prepared this land for that canonical apostolic ministry 2 Cor 10:13-16
@@acekoala457 remember, in the territory of New France there are no ethnic "apostles" converting the Native Americans as part of their activity. Not one. John Hawaweeney (who isn't actually a saint putting a gun to the back of a cop's head) only went around North America gathering together Arabs to form small Arab churches. Not one Orthodox cleric or anyone considers his activity that of an apostle.
There is only one god. no son no holy spirit no father
THATS A BIG NO FROM ME DAWG 😳☦️😎
That mindset is what got Jesus crucified
Because you said it, God Almighty, and infinite is constricted to only one manifestation. And yet your book says God does not enter this world literally ever; and that would make Moses’s experience with the burn bush (that was not consumed) rather hard to explain (As Moses came closer to the burning bush he heard a voice calling to him, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am” he answered. “Do not come closer. Take off your shoes; you are standing on holy ground.)