Yes, I would agree. Trust me kosta, while I may disagree with the theological views of the Orthodox, I do think they tend to be consistent in the way they have viewed things. Catholics have far greater theological problems simply because they tinker too much with their doctrine.
***Yes, I would agree. Trust me kosta, while I may disagree with the theological views of the Orthodox, I do think they tend to be consistent in the way they have viewed things. Catholics have far greater theological problems simply because they tinker too much with their doctrine.***
We have given in to the temptation of the Protestantization of the Church and require the Orthodox to provide assistance. I will trust that the bishops of the Church, put into the position of spiritual authority or rather, stewardship, by and for Jesus Christ, will handle what needs to be handled.
I do not believe that kosta and I differ in any significant fashion in our faith, other than some of the furniture and the colour of the drapes. The Roman Catholic Church is not better than or worse than any other branch of Catholicism.
We are Catholics in fact. And it merely remains for our spiritual leaders to handle the affairs to formalize that.
Thank you for you vote of confidence, but I must decline. You of all Reformed on this Forum wold know better than any other that most of the heresies that sprang up in the first millennium came from my side of the Church and that it was the fraternal Latin Church that helped us stay the course and return to our Orthodoxy.
I don't think the Latin side ever taught heresies comparable to those of some of our Eastern Patriarchs!
So, if anything, we owe our Latin brothers eternal gratitude, and the least we can do is extend a helping hand, if they ask, to help them to de-Protestantize their Church, and being tainted with Protestantism in manner more than belief does not even come close to ancient christological heresies of the East!
So, once we learned our lesson we stayed the course and consistently so, and, yes, the Latins have "tinkered" if you will with tradition and sacred things of the Church, but they are on the rebound and we are glad!
But it comes to me as strange that you would complain of "tinkering" when such a term best describes Protestant and Baptist assemblies, where there is an infinite degree of variation of theology and belief among groups, and where everyone interprets to his or her satisfaction.
That being said, it is also true that the 19th century brought about two dogmas that have widened rather than narrowed our theological gap, namely the dogma of Immaculate Conception and the dogma of Papal Infallibility. Perhaps thecollective wisdom of the Church and God's loving care will help us overocme these human definition and once again share our Eucharist, but these dogmas sure made it much more dififuclt.
But for now all we can do is respect each other and proclaim our common faith, rather than concentrate on things that separate us.