RE: As far as I know, the Orthodox church holds orthodox Christian beliefs … well duh!.
Some differences:
1) Orthodox Church believes the Apocrypha is inspired. Protestants do not.
2) Sola Sciptura: Protestants believe that their ULTIMATE authority is scripture alone. The Orthodox Church, like Roman Catholics, it is Scripture PLUS tradition.
3) The claim to be Christ’s one, true church remains the clear Orthodox position. This should trouble evangelicals (as well as other Protestants), especially when it is combined with the Orthodox idea of who constitutes the church and how one enters the church.
We claim to be the ancient, original Christian Church. We don’t know about yours, other than it is not Orthodox. Our identity is not dependent on the dissection or over thinking of yours. Heaven on earth during each liturgy. Experience it.
How on earth does that work? CRI published stuff a few years ago that systematically attacked every Catholic belief about the Virgin Mary. Now Hanegraaf has joined a church that dogmatically professes every one of those, except the Immaculate Conception. I don't get it. Mary wasn't a perpetual Virgin before, but now she is, but Hank's views haven't changed?
I think his Orthodox catechist and pastor maybe need to ask some more questions.