For those inquirers that are not too sensitive and wants straight claims to evaluate: 1. Rock & Sand - Fr Josiah Trentham 2. The Way - Clark Carlton
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Haha, I had a feeling these two would be in your top 5
@sweetstephylu10 ай бұрын
Father Josiah mailed to me the Clark Carlton book in 1999, he inscribed it. I still have it and it has my pencil notes as my first two years we ( the Orthodox Mission ) still needed our Priest. I was nominated to Sing in the Choir from my first visit, a Christmas Carol night. ALL of our theology is in our hymns. I was welcomed into the Faith in 2003/27/12 Glory to Jesus Christ……Glory forever 💖💙💚
@doubtingthomas911710 ай бұрын
‘The Way’…that brings back memories from my Orthodox-inquirer days. (In fact I once had all four of Carlton’s books in that series)
@ThisIsCafeRojo10 ай бұрын
Rock and sand was profound for me!
@SeraphimWebster6 ай бұрын
Those were almost my first 3 to include The Way by Kallistos Ware. Great introductions for Protestant converts
@frandrewstephendamick10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the plugs, my friends!
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Our pleasure Father! On another note. We're excited about your two YT channels! Let's go!! ☦️🔥🔥
@MR-G-Rod10 ай бұрын
The plug for the realest! All day! Jonathan Pageau was my plug! Alan Watts helps like a stepping stone but his goal is to be forgotten not to be followed.
@jaybuzbee68039 ай бұрын
What two YT channels??@@TheTransfiguredLife
@yecksd10 ай бұрын
you know its a good day when Fr and Luther upload
@JustJordan12610 ай бұрын
💯
@booklassygarrahan39299 ай бұрын
Thinking Orthodox by Dr. Eugenia Constantinou has been hugely helpful to me as a convert on so many levels.
@DustyBooks20209 ай бұрын
Have you seen her Bible study? I love it!
@booklassygarrahan39299 ай бұрын
@@DustyBooks2020 it's excellent, but I can't remember where I left off.
@JacquelineRPrice10 ай бұрын
I have a lot of those books. Fortunately, "Know The Faith" and "Becoming Orthodox" are both offered in digital form for FREE from Ancient Faith. Rock and Sand and Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy are definitely on my list of books to get.
@averagemanhempgars50210 ай бұрын
I have becoming orthodox good book
@alexandregb5669 ай бұрын
I'm not a Catholic, Protestante nor Ortodox. I was an atheist who found the absolute truth that GOD does exist. I'm trying to find the right denomination. Could you pray for GOD to help me find the truth and lead me and my family to salvation?
@HudsonFamily77 ай бұрын
As a former protestant I would highly suggest Eastern Orthodox. I know its not what you asked but if you want heavenly beauty and poetry this is the place to go meet Her.
@SaltShack6 ай бұрын
With all due respect don’t go to any Church because of beauty or poetry. Rightness and Truth in experiencing the fullness of the Gospel, who Jesus Christ was, what he accomplished and what he expects of us is what’s important and the only faith that accomplishes that is Eastern Orthodoxy because it has remained faithful to the authority of the Holy Spirit by the Biblical principle of enduring consensus.
@MURDANA_4 ай бұрын
I'm in your boat but it's been about a year of seeking currently. Let us all pray 🙏
@cult2Christ10 ай бұрын
One of my favorite channels. I have all of the books you mentioned and will be sure to share this one. Thanks! I also enjoyed "Thirsting for God in a land of shallow wells".
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Thanks brother! And absolutely love that book! ☦️🔥🔥
@vaporizejello10 ай бұрын
That book basically convinced me of the Truth of Orthodoxy, thank God!
@shawnbrewer710 ай бұрын
My 5 for protestants are in this list. Fantastic lists!
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@dalehulley937610 ай бұрын
Coming from a very low church, iconoclastic, reformed Presbyterian Church into ROCOR, the top 2 would be: 1. Religion of the Apostles by Father Stephen De Young (theology) 2. Rock and Sand by Fr. Josiah Trenham (history)
@ByronWarfield3 ай бұрын
Those books were paradigm changers for me as well!
@OddHarvey10 ай бұрын
Y’all really nailed the KZbin algorithm thumbnail haha love to see it!
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Haha thx! 😂
@aklt492310 ай бұрын
Excellent lists! I will add the one by St. John of Damscus to my own reading list. A few others that really helped me were Welcome to the Orthodox Church by Frederica Mathews Greene, Mountain of Silence by Kyriacos Markides, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology by Dr. Eve Tibbs, and finally, the text of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Crysostom. Nothing speaks stronger and more effectively than the Liturgy itself. ☦️😊
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Frederica Matthews Green is amazing! Can't believe her & "Thinking Orthodox" by Dr.Jeannie wasn't mentioned between the two of us.
@aklt492310 ай бұрын
@TheTransfiguredLife ah Dr. Jeannie, YES. I missed that one too. So many wonderful Orthodox writers!
@homeschoolwell10 ай бұрын
Love the energy of this duo! So much of orthodoxy is serious and I really appreciate the fun yall have with this. Well done.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
We appreciate that! Thank you! ☦️
@chrisj12316510 ай бұрын
I'm still a protestant learning about Orthodoxy but some of my favorites (that weren't mentioned have been: Truth Matters, Life Matters More The Mountain of Silence Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
I have Truth Matters but I just need to prioritize reading it. Thanks for sharing. What protestant tradition are you a part of?
@chrisj12316510 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife currently LCMS Lutheran, born and raised Southern Baptist.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
@@chrisj123165 Gotcha! Well wishes on your journey! ☦️
@OrthodoxFamilyLife10 ай бұрын
The first book my dad read was Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. He loved it. He went from a biker to an acolyte in just a few years. :)
@EricDunn123410 ай бұрын
Great recommendations, thanks.
@MossyRock-g9i3 ай бұрын
Fr. Michael Shanbour brought my family and I into The Church. Really happy to see his wonderful book, "Know the Faith" included here!
@TheTransfiguredLife3 ай бұрын
@@MossyRock-g9i That's amazing. He has a really awesome children's book too. Where is the parish exactly?
@MossyRock-g9i3 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife Three Hierarchs in Wenatchee, WA. Yes, a Children’s Catechism.
@1991jj9 ай бұрын
An Orthodox YT where the host Luther says "Sup Father"? It seems the algorithm knows me far too well 😅 love it
@TheTransfiguredLife9 ай бұрын
😂💯💯
@D4NK110 ай бұрын
I'm subbing, not because of the content but because of the positive vibes I'm getting from the two of you. Keep sharing the good message ❤☦️🙏🇦🇺
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
We appreciate that! ☦️
@OrthodoxFamilyLife10 ай бұрын
It is amazing how many introductory books there are now. Thirty years ago there was just Introducing the Orthodox Church, Becoming Orthodox, and Fr. Thomas Hopko's "rainbow" series. As a new Orthodox, I remember getting a lot out of Journey to Heaven by St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.
@micahkirn675610 ай бұрын
Great list! For protestants, these were my top 5 that seem to explain the faith particularly to protestant inquirers not in any specific order. 1. The orthodox veneration of the mother of God -St. John Maximovich 2. Christ the conquerer of hell - Metropolitan Hilarion 3. Truth matters, life matters more - Hank Hannegraph 4. Orthodoxy and the religon of the future - Fr. Seraphim Rose 5. The mystical theology of the eastern orthodox church - Vladimir Losskey But... if we were talking writtings of the earliest saints that speak to the faith without protestantism in mind id say 1. Apostolic fathers 2. 50 spiritual homilies - St. Macarius 3. Conferences - St. John Cassian 4. Philokalia 5. Eccumenical councils
@WilliamPotting10 ай бұрын
I’m currently reading St. John’s On the Orthodox Faith. So much treasure in that book. I do confess that I found it to be very dense in many parts and it is taking me quite awhile to get through it but I am blessed to be able to read this.
@NavelOrangeGazer10 ай бұрын
I would add the first two volumes of Fr. John Strickland's Paradise and Utopia as they are imperative to understanding that rome and protestantism are two sides of the same coin. Especially for those with an interest in history.
@DavidSinghiser10 ай бұрын
Mine are: Thinking Orthodox, Faith of the Apostles, The Orthodox Way, The Age of Paradise, Division, Utopia & Nihilism (4 Volumes), Rock & Sand
@mikelandsman899310 ай бұрын
Just a note about Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy- be sure to pick up the second edition. It has a lot of new material in it as well as re-edited material.
@GaryBallardToney10 ай бұрын
Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells by Matthew Gallatin was greatly influential on my journey to Holy Orthodoxy.
@doubtingthomas911710 ай бұрын
That was probably my favorite back during my Orthodox-inquirer days about 20 years ago.
@jesuschristsaves906710 ай бұрын
New sub. Religion of the Apostles is definitely a good read.
@emanuelkournianos741210 ай бұрын
"Light From the Christian East" By Western Christian! Great chapters on Icons and "grace" and Theosis and the mysteries etc!
@WeakestAvenger10 ай бұрын
As a Protestant inquirer into Orthodoxy, my literary journey began with Daniel B. Clendenin's two-part series *Eastern Orthodox Christianity* and Eastern Orthodox Theology. They are from a "Western perspective," but the second volume in particular is mostly essays by Orthodox theologians. I have read *Know the Faith* and appreciated it for the same reasons Luther enumerated. *Becoming Orthodox* by Fr. Peter Gillquist is another one. *On the Incarnation* by Athanasius has also been very influential for me. I listened to Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick's *Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy* lectures in podcast format. I need to go back and re-read the Apostolic Fathers from a perspective of inquiring into Orthodoxy. But St. Ignatius' comment on the real presence in the Eucharist hit me hard when I read that. From my own exegesis of John 6, I would say Jesus is clearly speaking metaphorically there. But when I read St. Ignatius, a disciple of John the Apostle, attesting to the real presence at the turn of the second century, I have to consider that I have missed something. That I could very well be wrong.
@OrthodoxJourney3599 ай бұрын
Arise O God and Rock and Sand. I’d encourage to listen to Rock and Sand, it just hits different.
@OrthoBrit10 ай бұрын
I recently asked my priest which of the Church Fathers would he recommend as the first to read by an enquirer or catechumen. He instantly replied "St John of Damascus", for the very same reasons Luther explained in the video. When I was enquiring, over 30 years ago, as a former Roman Catholic, the 2 books recommended to me were 'The Orthodox Church' and 'The Orthodox Way' by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. These are very straightforward books dealing with the history and the faith of the Church in great detail. That's the sole reason for the books, and they are very easy to read. They were my first books, and I'd highly recommend them to anyone.
@lpembrey10 ай бұрын
Love recommending Protestant inquirers to read our contemporary saints on what differentiates Orthodox Christianity from their understanding of the Faith. For example, A Protestant’s Walk Through an Orthodox Church by Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev is excellent!
@niarataylor8246 күн бұрын
Great recommendations! im currently reading religion of the apostles as an orthodox catechumen. Question: what is the title of the song that plays around 7:50 and 9:37?
@TheTransfiguredLife6 күн бұрын
@@niarataylor824 Wow, that's exciting news. Happy for you. As for the music I'll link the direct website below. You can listen for free. The song is called "Polyeleos". mosestheblack.org/resources/our-music/
@Theoretically-ko6lr10 ай бұрын
Glory to God ❤
@living_orthodox10 ай бұрын
Would you guys like to do a collaboration at some point?
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Would love to collab Father. Let's do it! ☦️🔥🔥
@waitforitonesecond73710 ай бұрын
This was really enjoyable to watch, God bless.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! ☦️
@ivanipatov655910 ай бұрын
I have never read St. John of Damascus in its entirety. Although I have read the chapters on terminology many many times.
@truegravee10 ай бұрын
Can we get a pinned comment with the list of both of your guys's recommendations
@Demetra7198 ай бұрын
My top 5 were: Thinking Orthodox by Dr. Jeannie Constantinou; The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware; Silence on the Mountain and also, Gifts of the Desert, by Kyriacos Markedis; Religion of the Apostles by Fr. Stephen DeYoung.
@jwrevdave9 ай бұрын
Fr. Lawrence Farley just released “Living Faith: An Orthodox Christian Conversation with Evangelicals.” Excellent resource.
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
The letter that made me think was "Preaching Another Christ" by St. Theophan the Recluse. It's very blunt. The other one I recommend is "Religion of the Apostles" By Fr. Steven De Young.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Very blunt! Thanks for the reminder I need to come back to that one! ☦️
@Road2Heaven12310 ай бұрын
Where can I buy the book of Saint Theophan.. everywhere it says sold out or not available..
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
@@Road2Heaven123 I bought my copy from St. Anthony's bookstore in Florence. You could give them a ring Tuesday
@Road2Heaven12310 ай бұрын
@@acekoala457 thank you, I live in Germany.. looks like a big mission to get one of them 🙂
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
@@Road2Heaven123 You may also be able to find a version online. It's not a long letter.
@ThomasG_Nikolaj6 ай бұрын
Before watching, this is my top 5 for Protestants Rock & Sand - Fr. Josiah Trenham The Religion of the Apostles - Fr. Stephen De Young Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity with the Synagogue, the Temple, and the Early Church - Benjamin D. Williams & Harold B. Anstall The Orthodox Study Bible The Truth of our Faith - Elder Cleopa
@TheTransfiguredLife6 ай бұрын
That's a strong solid list! ☦️
@JacksonScott-os7kj10 ай бұрын
In my hometown we have an Antiochian Orthodox church, guess what it was before? Evangelical Orthodox. St Peters of Madison MS. I did not know the story behind the book "Becoming Orthodox", with how it was former leaders of CRU then Evangelical Orthodox and then finally Orthodox, though I would really like to read it now. I mean St Peters Church is right up the street from my parents place maybe 5 minutes, always drove past it and never gave it a second thought, how cool. I am a protestant inquirer.
@Journey_of_Abundance10 ай бұрын
Dancing Alone by Frank Schaefer I think is way underrated. It is a very strong polemic against American evangelicalism, so it's not for everyone. I understand Schaefer is controversial and has gone astray, but if you can look aside from that, it's great.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
I agree with you. That book is so underrated. I recommend that one only to some people since we live in such a sensitive age. A friend of mine told me his ex- protestant pastor got offended after reading "Rock and Sand" by Fr.Josiah Trenham 😐
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife Many were offended in John 6 as well. We shouldn't be afraid to offend by simply telling the truth.
@bobk18457 күн бұрын
Frank fell off the edge. He was overrated and a fabulous self promoter. I wish it wasn’t true.
@Paddle-N-Fish10 ай бұрын
Great books! Thanks! Another new one i am reading now that could be added to the list is, Journey to Reality, Sacramental Life in a Secular Age, by Zachary Porcu.
@NicolasMorin-gt1zu4 күн бұрын
Who wrote the book The Apostolic Fathers. I’d like to purchase it. Thank you
@ronkeats10 ай бұрын
I have only read one Orthodox book so far and it made me return to Christianity. That book is The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
That's much to celebrate! Amen! ☦️
@OrthodoxChristianTreasures5 ай бұрын
Dr. Constantine Cavarnos write numerous excellent books in English that inquirers would find beneficial.
@marcellealosta57489 ай бұрын
Can you please provide the list? Book names , authors , links to purchase? Thank you 🙏
@TheThinkersBible10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the lists. Will check out Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. My Top 2 are "The Orthodox Church" by Timothy Ware and "The Religion of the Apostles" by Stephen de Young.
@EpistemicAnthony3 ай бұрын
I have someone in my family who loves to study history, but would not be interested in targetted attacks. (Otherwise I'd recommend Rock and Sand to him.) What book should I give him?
@TheTransfiguredLife3 ай бұрын
"Arise O' God" by Fr.Andrew Damick. This is an excellent little book!
@shally895 ай бұрын
Hey do you know a good place to buy orthodox book other than amazon? I can't find clarks books and Rock and sand.
@TheTransfiguredLife5 ай бұрын
Hey! You can buy Rock and Sand here -> store.ancientfaith.com/rock-and-sand/ Clark's book will be harder to find because it's out of print. However, they have the e-book on the Thriftbooks website for about $4.99
@ivanipatov655910 ай бұрын
good video
@manuelquelle991510 ай бұрын
Coming to Orthodoxy in 2000 when many books were not available yet and the internet just took off with America Online, my OCA priest gave me: 1- The Truth (Clark Carlton) 2-Of Water & The Spirit (Fr. Alexander Schmemann) 3- The Orthodox Church (Kallistos Ware)
@cherylketcherside24597 ай бұрын
The apostolic fathers book - who is it by? I can’t seem to find that one
@TheTransfiguredLife7 ай бұрын
It's a bit pricey these days ⬇️ www.ebay.com/itm/285861983154?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ZYxq2mh7QGKiRv2gbfM_8A24&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=285861983154&targetid=1583904486842&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9011546&poi=&campaignid=19894961968&mkgroupid=148855406073&rlsatarget=pla-1583904486842&abcId=9307911&merchantid=113075919&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyJqzBhBaEiwAWDRJVDN1f_0nsNg8Y1cKAkOargu8H4b0fLa1PjpU__7Vk-hfOFoBhW-DNhoCpGIQAvD_BwE But you can read the writings for free online. 😊
@cherylketcherside24597 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife thank you so much! I will see about finding them online.
@Whaat-in-the-world10 ай бұрын
What version of The Apostolic Fathers do you recommend? There are a lot of options online and I'm not sure which to get.
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Hey! If possible get the one by Jack Sparks!
@SaltShack6 ай бұрын
I agree, Fr. Jonathan cheated. Seriously, I’m no Scholar but I get the sense that reading the Church Fathers can be difficult or even problematic without already having the foundation of Phronema and trust in the rightness and trueness of Holy Orthodoxy as a guide. Every heresy ever uttered has been accompanied by Bible quotes adding the Church Fathers can either cure that problem or exacerbate it.
@Theoretically-ko6lr9 ай бұрын
Orthodoxy is the one and true church. The one and only church God created and promised to preserve until the end of times. Glory to God ❤
@nickbrown591010 ай бұрын
What church is shown at 17:19?
@thinktank82867 ай бұрын
Hello sincere questions. As I'm on this journey as an Evangelical Pastor exhausted. I am faced with the challenge of is it Catholic or the Orthodox church for me? Both claim they are the original, historic, founded by Christ church. It becomes for me a consideration of man's ability to corrupt things in an organization. Proverbially. There were 5 Brother Patriarchs leading the churches in their care. Which sin occurred between these brothers: The sin of pride of the Bishop of Rome, claiming he had all the authority over the four brothers, or the sin of rebellion and scisim where the four brothers wouldn't submit to Romes central leadership? As a Protestant I have seen BOTH these play out in churches on a much less global and historical scale. Pastors leave, throwing off authority and leadership, establishing their own works. Or some pastor gets a big ego thinking he's in charge of other pastors and everyone is appalled by the arrogance and over stepping. Please pray for me.
@jerryhatfield84409 ай бұрын
Great recommendations but several of the ones they suggest are way too expensive (i.e. The Apostolic Fathers and The Way).
@TheTransfiguredLife9 ай бұрын
Good point. A more affordable alternative is "Thinking Orthodox by Dr.Jeannie Constantinou"
@PhillipOnWater7 ай бұрын
I want to add to this list “The Orthodox Understanding,” by Phillip Lebsack and James T. Dolemen. I made videos about it on my channel.
@TheTransfiguredLife7 ай бұрын
Never heard of it. Are you the author?
@mariebo749110 ай бұрын
I currently have no label other than Christian. Grew up Pentecostal Church of God. Been part of different denominations and non-denominational churches. Seen so many different things that I just have to go by what my Bible says as it’s the only sure thing. I believe the Reformation and Protestantism got a lot of things wrong. Like Luther said, created a whole other religion. EO intrigues me. I can honestly say we are brothers and sisters in Christ. But I have a hard time accepting things that aren’t at least expressed in some way in scripture. I see the Trinity in scripture, but I don’t see Calvinism. I see water baptism as a practice of those who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit through their faith, I don’t see that that water baptism itself does the regenerating. I have so many questions and no one to ask. There isn’t an EO church in my area. I’d love to hear Luther’s story on his journey to EO. I’ll find one of these books as well.
@TheTransfiguredLife8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! And in this video I share a little bit of my journey to Orthodoxy ⬇️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH2Yg4CPr9CLhZYsi=cL-s67pK0liEqk-4
@DustyBooks20209 ай бұрын
Hello! Where do y’all get your books? I’ve seen some Orthodox book that have been suggested for over $200 on Amazon. Is there a better place to order them? Thank You!
@elguapo283110 ай бұрын
KJV Bible + 1828 Dictionary Done!
@jerryhatfield84409 ай бұрын
$71.39 for The Apostolic Fathers used on Amazon!!!
@stevepa99910 ай бұрын
IMHO what my brothers in Christ who have converted to Orthodoxy to stop doing is intellectualizing Christianity. No one knows God better than Satan. Knowledge of God is not going to save our souls. We have to try to live the life of Christ. The beauty of Orthodoxy is that its teachings bring us closer to Christ. This is why the lives of the saints are so important for our spiritual growth. They explain to us why important aspects of spiritual growth, like humility, are necessary. They become our role models on how to handle adverse situations. These are the books we should be reading.
@stevepa99910 ай бұрын
@@nariaslitspace The disclaimer says you should not just read but attend church. The topic of this video is important books to read in Orthodoxy. “you will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:16) What better way to teach others about the beauty of Orthodoxy than to talk about our saints. That when people follow the teachings of the Orthodox Church (like fasting and noetic prayers) they can achieve theosis. They then receive special gifts from Christ like clairvoyance and the ability to partake in God's energies. We are also called to become saints.
@jerryhatfield84409 ай бұрын
Clark Carlton’s The Way for $47.64 Amazon price.😮
@TheTransfiguredLife9 ай бұрын
Some of them are out of print. But we have some more affordable books on this list. Arise O' God and a few others will be a more affordable alternative.
@TheRadChadDad10 ай бұрын
☦️☦️☦️
@Locust1310 ай бұрын
If God's real and wants worship why do we have to go looking for the right way to do it in a dusty old book? Millions of goofballs writing their contradicting opinions about God, meanwhile he stays suspiciously silent on the issue.
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
Except He isn't silent. God works through the Holy Spirit in His Body, the Church, which has no Contradictory opinions about God.
@truthdefenders-10 ай бұрын
Top 66 books for pagan Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox enquirers; the Bible 📖. 😉
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
I read the Bible. I became Orthodox partly because it is the only Body with a Consistent Scriptural Exegesis since Pentecost.
@truthdefenders-10 ай бұрын
@@acekoala457 That is a very simplistic reason. The Roman Catholics will say they have authority and more consistency than your sect. You guys broke away from them and therefore you left and started your own religion.
@shobudski677610 ай бұрын
@@truthdefenders-The 4 other patriarchs started a new religion? 😂
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
@@truthdefenders- Except they don't have a more consistent Exegesis of Scripture and that's historically Demonstrable, no matter how much they protest. But for the Protestant Worldview it's necessary that Rome was on the right side of the Schism since much of their own Theology is borrowed from them, like denying infants the Sacraments.
@acekoala45710 ай бұрын
@@truthdefenders- Who changed? Because it wasn't the Orthodox. Roman Catholics are your mother church, not ours. Our Faith hasn't changed since Pentecost.
@sweetstephylu10 ай бұрын
*footnote on the Channels ‘Disclaimer’ > Orthodox Christians learn to think with our HEARTS and stay out of our HEADS. *Learning all about you from a essay is not meant to replace having a cuppa with you. ☦️♥️🌀☕️
@larrybedouin292110 ай бұрын
If you want to know God. Get a KJV bible.
@oldwest51710 ай бұрын
I agree. I have been Orthodox for 35 years and use nothing else. It is the only translation that uses both the Orthodox text of the NT and translates it literally, with only a few mistranslations.
@reasonandtheology10 ай бұрын
Best book for them is Answering Orthodoxy by Michael Lofton 😃
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
Nice try! I can understand the demand for the book. It seems like almost every day Roman Catholics are entering our parishes in droves seeking to leave so they can join Holy Orthodoxy. So in regards to the RC inquirers specifically, maybe directing them towards "Two Paths" by Michael Whelton and "The Truth: What every Roman Catholic should know about the Orthodox Church" by Clark Carlton. 😉
@reasonandtheology10 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife and then they leave a year later when they find out Orthodoxy was all talk and sold them a bill of goods. Or they don’t make it through the door because they are told they have to get rebaptized and thereby treated as if they were a pagan. I refuted Carlton in the book btw. He is atrocious and it shows how poor orthodox apologetics is. ✌️
@Cthuski10 ай бұрын
This is sad
@TheTransfiguredLife10 ай бұрын
@@Cthuski What is?
@Cthuski10 ай бұрын
@@TheTransfiguredLife Lofton plugging his book here and thumbing up his own comments
@dariuslembert871710 ай бұрын
Luther, you do not know Jesus' teachings by proving it just from the beginning of this interview. Matthew 23:9 KJV: "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
@jeanoxley53839 ай бұрын
1 Corinthians 4:15 Amplified Bible (AMP)For even if you were to have ten thousand teachers [to guide you] in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers [who led you to Christ and assumed responsibility for you], for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the good news [of salvation].
@dariuslembert87179 ай бұрын
@@jeanoxley5383 You do not have to prove me that Paul was a pharisee, so I am not surprised he contradicted Jesus's "call no man your father upon the earth..." Jesus spoke against pharisees and priests, Paul reinstituted them. What a shame it is, you can see how they have twisted and divided teachings of the Master.
@tclearytcleary7 ай бұрын
@@dariuslembert8717 It's just a shame that Paul must be outside the scope of our Lord's promise that the Holy Spirit would lead His Apostles into all truth. Not.
@dariuslembert87177 ай бұрын
@@tclearytcleary Paul was an agent of Pharisees who cooperated with Roman authorities in order to maintain their status quo. They twisted Jesus Christ's teachings 180 degree. Where do you see the truth my friend???
@inrmds3 ай бұрын
@@dariuslembert8717 it seems by trying to hold onto your beliefs you reject the authority of scripture