I could never be an Orthodox or a Catholic. I don’t have a good enough attorney. Their explanations of everything read like the legal briefs in a securities fraud derivatives industry lawsuit.
Funny how Jesus wasn’t that complex.
You could always apply yourself a little.
I understood it perfectly and I know little about the Orthodox church aside from a short I had with a colleague of mine who goes to one.
Transubstantiation isn't complex either.
Neither was Jesus' curing of the blind, lame and deaf.
The Healing Touch of Jesus
…21 for she was saying to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I will get well."
22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well." At once the woman was made well.
Jesus was the antithesis of complex. Being a good person is simple as well, NOT COMPLEX as all.
It isn't always EASY but it's sure not complex.
I've heard Catholic teaching all my life...NOT complex.
Jesus said it: Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Very simple.
Today, people really seem to want an explanation of who Mary was. People like to know the milieu of that first century Anno Dominum. Nothing wrong with explaining to people the theology of the seven Sacraments either. I'm not afraid of learning and I'm sure you aren't either. No one forces you to believe anything. It's always, of course, your choice to believe whatever you want. Jesus IS the Way, the Truth and the Life and THAT is simple too.
The Catholic Mass is really very simple, just a MEAL, a Sacred Meal, with the Word of prophets (old and new testament readings) and Jesus' words in the Gospel before the Sacred Meal.
It's a SIMPLE meal of bread and wine transformed into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus. And we Catholics have the privilege to be able to take Him into our bodies.
As for attorneys, you've been reading too much anti-Catholic rhetoric. The mainstream media LOATHE both Catholics AND Evangelicals and NEVER miss an opportunity to either ridicule them, demean them and/or to expose any wrong-doing of any kind by any Catholic priest, nun, friar, brother or Evangelical minister...especially sins against those "absolutes."
Jesus CHOSE to leave His Church humans, to His Twelve Apostles. He might have done is any other way, but He chose that way.
Since there are 3.3. billion Christians in the world, 1.6 billion being Catholics, with the other 1.7 billion Christians belonging to over 40,000 different Protestant denominations, I would say that the Apostles and 72 disciples did a decent job of converting the world to Christianity, wouldn't you?