https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMEz63hUSW4
The Orthodox Church is the original and true Church!
The “progressive” “churches” are far, far away from her and are against her. They are also against any other churches that still have some or most of her original faith!!!!
H. Richard Niebuhr indicted liberal Protestantism for teaching
“a God without wrath
who brings humans without sin
into a kingdom without judgment
through a Christ without a cross.”
I call that that anti-Creed...and orthodox Christians (small “o” and capital “O” alike should commit that to memory, the better to understand what they are up against.
And the Romans make the same claim, despite distinctive Catholic teachings not being manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels). And cults also assert themselves to be the One true Church. However, the one true church which the Lord promised to overcome the gates of Hell was and is the body of Christ that the Spirit baptizes every believer into, (1Co. 12:13) and to which He is married, (Eph. 5:25) for it uniquely only and always consists 100% of true believers, while organic fellowships in which they express their faith inevitably become admixtures of wheat and tares, with Catholicism and liberal Protestantism being mostly the latter.
I think the Orthodox are far closer to Biblical Christianity than Rome is, but they still cannot claim to be THE OTC because the true church is the spiritual body of Christ made up of born again/born from above believers in Jesus Christ.
It’s not a religious denomination that one can join through ceremony or ritual.
Jesus did not come to establish another religion. He came to restore a broken relationship and give man the opportunity to come into right standing with God once again.