Orthodoxy and council government

[Rawb]

… we both know the Catholic Church has the foulness of truth.

To introduce a bit of accidental levity…this cracked me up. Like when our service books were supposed to call Christ “Immortal” but there was a typo that had us calling Him “immoral.”

 

[Reuben_J]

All I’m saying is you should check your wording ,as in this case, your words said much more than what you intended them to say due to ambiguity.

One more comment on this. Ideally in a virtual internet discussion we would take the poster’s word at face value. We do not hastily jump into conclusion from what he is saying because we cannot read a poster’s heart. Some posters for certain reason do not want to reveal their stand on particular issue. The correct way of asking him to reveal his position and to remove your own doubt is to ask clarification from him, like, “what do you mean by this … ?” and allow him to reply to you.

I feel the response to my posts are more of a knee jerk reaction without really trying to read them thus certain important word like ‘contradictory’ was missed out. We see what we want to see only instead of going into an objective discussion.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Can the Orthodox Church call herself the true Church and defends her doctrine if she does not address heresy committed outside the confine of her Church?

No. The best analogy I’ve been given whenever I talk to a priest about Orthodoxy and the Orthodox Church is the human body. The Church is a body. If something is outside of the body, why does the body need to address it? Your immune system doesn’t work on trying to cure the sickness of someone else. It only starts working when you get infected. But the approach in Orthodoxy is that anything outside of Orthodoxy is suspect, in terms of teaching. The Catholic Church is pretty much the same but the Reformation is so intertwined with the Catholic faith that it is hard to separate the truths from the lies. Also, every post-Reformation Western faith has their guns aimed at Catholicism. That is why Apologetics has become sort of a “first response” to the attacks.

 

[Rawb]

No.

If you read the question carefully, Constantine, I think you’ll find that the answer you meant to give was “yes”

I actually find the question odd. Do Roman Catholics expect their church to have answers for problems that aren’t even affecting them?

 

[Wandile]

To introduce a bit of accidental levity…this cracked me up. Like when our service books were supposed to call Christ “Immortal” but there was a typo that had us calling Him “immoral.”

wow I feel so embarrassed bout that typo of mine.

How did your church react? I would have been in shock… Then I would have burst out in laughter

 

[Wandile]

If you read the question carefully, Constantine, I think you’ll find that the answer you meant to give was “yes”

I actually find the question odd. Do Roman Catholics expect their church to have answers for problems that aren’t even affecting them?

Although I don’t believe Orthodoxy to be the true Church, I have to admit that the argument of not being able to address heresies not affecting the church is pretty weak

The Catholic Church doesn’t address heresies outside herself so why would the Orthodox? The only time heresies are addressed is when they are fresh and still affect the Church. Once its dealt with the Church normally just says “anathema” to the heretics and let’s them be. That’s what I’ve seen from history. Maybe I’m wrong

 

[Rawb]

wow I feel so embarrassed bout that typo of mine.

How did your church react? I would have been in shock… Then I would have burst out in laughter

They never actually saw it. When I said “had us” it was an abstract sort of “had us.” Father caught it when reading through it and said he blanched and said aloud “I can’t put this in the pews!” Everyone probably would’ve had a good laugh and within a few weeks a few penned in t’s would’ve appeared I bet.