Why Marriage is Sacred

[@alfamejeu7237]

As a 17 year old girl in highschool, I learn so much fatherly advice from these videos. My mother is liberal and against all my religious ideologies of pro family and pro marriage. She is Catholic yet just because she grew up in a horrible household she reflects that trauma onto me and my future marriage. She assumes my husband will leave me, that I will suffer if I have too much children, and I can just tell she hates when I bring up my conservative ideologies . I want a big family and a good husband, because I never had a family (I’m the only child and have no father figure and my family from my moms side is non existent) It still leaves scars in me. It just sucks that my mom claims to be religious yet ignores everything that constructs the church because she had horrible experiences with men. Feminism and promiscuity ruined my mom and left her without a man and fending on her own. I suffered so much trauma as a kid because I had to grow up in the babysitter with my mom working 9 hour shifts. I hate feminism, I hate what it did to my mom and how it ruined me. All I could ever dream of is a father, a GOOD father. But now some fathers SA their OWN girls. It’s hell . Thank goodness I’m not God because I would’ve destroyed everything and everyone with my anger. Please pray for me whoever is reading this , so I can be a good wife and a good woman in the near future.

[@Life-xg9pf]

You have to stick to your religious, conservatives ideologies, pro family and pro marriage...no matter what.

[@hhahahakkkk1791]

I don’t have father too, Lord is my Father. Panagia is my mother. Pray for your mother that God opens up her heart, so she can see His love.

[@juliav5403]

[@anandanuggets1339]

@alfamejeu237 This touched me so much, i had an amazing father but God took him back when I was 20 and I went through 10 years of trying to deal with his death where I went really hard into feminism. Luckily my father taught me many things about what a good man is, both by example and teaching. So when I met a good man at 27 in the midst of all the debautchery of los angeles I managed to stick with him and now I'm 40, we have 3 wonderful kids and live a very conservative life. Praise God. My dad taught me 3 main things.... 1. Ethics are the most important thing to look for in a man, will he stick to his base ethics when put under pressure. or me I saw this when my husband refused to go to his best friends Brit Milah ( when Jews circumsize 8 day old babies) His friend disowned him and a large group of his friends shunned him. but from his own experience he believed it was genital mutilation and refused to support it. 2. How does he treat "the help" waiters, plumbers, janitors, people who work hard for a living. Is he polite and kind or dismissive. On our first date my husband asked the waiter his name and referred to him by it the whole night, then over tipped because he liked the guy. He continues to do this every time to this day 13 years later. 3. How does he treat his mother? My father always told me, how he treats his mother is how he will treat you. Now some people have horrible mothers, and I never took this as a "he should treat her well even if she's a witch" but more of a, given the situation, is he acting christ like, trying to forgive, trying to help, having good boundaries, always at least acting with a loving intention or understanding intention. My husband's mother is a very complex but wonderful lady, my husband has had tough conversations with her, and has spent the last 13 years repairing their relationship which was tarnished by feminism, I always always admired that he was fighting for her happiness and their relationship even when she wasn't. ....lastly that man adopted his friends 17 year old snaggle tooth, incontenenet chihuahua that was half dead and deaf, because his friend wasn't taking care of her. I thought it was the most ugly, annoying dog in the world... But if you heard him talk about her, she was the same adorable spunky tea cup chihuahua he knew in college and could do nothing wrong... i knew then, this guy sticks to his women and loves their soul. I hope that was helpful to hear my experience. Good luck. Find a good man, eat red meat and veggies, work out, have lots of kids, and never go on social media again.

[@Ethan-xx7vq]

I can understand this too, everytime I talk to my mum about what I want in a wife she always goes back to her own experiences with men and thinks I'm going to end up like them. Your doing great, I wish I could hug you. I'm sorry your going through life without a father. May the lord multiply your life

[@michaelwasiljov8633]

I've worked for a limousine company here in Western Maryland for four years now and working wedding are the absolute worse. I joked that we need to keep a spread sheet and look the couples up in the court system in six months to a year to see if they're still married. The majority of the wedding are no longer held in churches and its basically rent a person to officiate or even worse, they will issue someone a license to perform a wedding, so you can have whoever you want do it. Don't even get me started on the amount of drinking. Wedding parties are smashed before the wedding and it's even worse when you pick them up. When a wedding is at a church, so many look like they have no idea how to act in a church. One wedding at a Catholic Church, two women who were attending should have been given blankets to cover up with, since their outfits should not have been allowed in even the most liberal of churches. Enough of my ranting over what I've seen. Great video Father and I hope you and your family have a great New Year.

[@johnobeid67]

You are absolutely correct.

[@Thor-o1v]

Any Christian preacher that tells me to get a government marriage license to be married does not believe in the Holy Word of God. Marriage is a Holy Union; a government marriage license is a property contract designed to remove wealth from men, extort and enslave men.

[@Thor-o1v]

Any Christian preacher that tells me to get a government marriage license to be married does not believe in the Holy Word of God. Marriage is a Holy Union; a government marriage license is a property contract designed to remove wealth from men, extort and enslave men.

[@Thor-o1v]

Marriage is a Holy Union; a government marriage license is a property contract designed to remove wealth from men, extort and enslave men.

[@Thor-o1v]

Any Christian preacher that tells me to get a government marriage license to be married does not believe in the Holy Word of God.

[@AshleyGotcher]

I learn from orthodoxy that how much marriage is important. Thank you Lord for your church. Lord have mercy on your church 🙏✝️

[@adeporter3999]

' It was not the corruption of the natural family that led to the desecration of society, but the desecration of Christians... The reason our families became weak is because Christians became weak.' My respect for Father Josiah only continues to grow.

[@agisilaoszenempisis215]

Δεν φταίνε οι χριστιανοί ούτε οι οικογενειες,αλλά οι διάφορες εκκλησίες που εχασάν τον δρόμο προς τον Χριστό.

[@72586jejones]

I can't imagine not being married. My parents have a wonderful marriage. They had so much fun (still do) when I was a child. Made me want to get married ever since I was about 3. If I could have married sooner than 24, I would have. Hubs didn't come into my life until I was 23. We did move fast toward marriage, so that is a plus despite getting married later than I desired.

[@mexicangunslinger915]

I do not know if its okay if to ask for prayer here but my name is Hector if you guys don't mind praying for me

[@katiaantonova6949]

Praying for you. ❤

[@BigJamesGraham]

Yes

[@andrewfoster1210]

Praying for you Hector 🙏

[@mexicangunslinger915]

@ thank you

[@PomazeBog1389]

Even Orthodox Churches aren't immune, unfortunately. In my church, the priest is constantly denying couples their request to play the "Bridal Chorus" by Richard Wagner during the wedding. This request almost always comes from heterodox brides. Little do they know that Richard Wagner did not even believe in God and promoted German mythology. They don't see the marriage act as a holy sacrament, unfortunately, but rather as some obligation that needs to be done before the big party afterwards.

[@dvforever]

I love Wagner's music. One of my favorite composers. But his music shouldn't be played in church. Unless it's a secular wedding or a Protestant ceremony where they do whatever they prefer.

[@Thor-o1v]

Odin was here long before the Christ.

[@Thor-o1v]

Furthermore, Christianity is full of rites, ceremony, and holidays stolen from my peoples ancient beliefs.

[@glhi4773]

​@Thor-o1v christ says I am the alpha and the omega the first and the last. Making him God. Notice how you said Christ. You didn't say Abraham, Yahweh, Allah, Muhammad. You had to say Christ, Christ in human form, maybe. But you could have said Muhammad who came 600 years after Christ's birth

[@glhi4773]

​@@Thor-o1v Odin's name may have influence but does the Nordic pagan faith have any influence at all, I am not talking about Hitler or any other explicitly nazi philosophy. But in actual modern day. Because Christ and his legacy is more relevant than any pagan gods in Europe. Look at the slavs. Go to Russia or Ukraine, or any slavic country, no one can name a single slavic pagan god yet they know the name Иисус Христос Jesus Christ. They certainly didn't know who Odin was until modern culture came about, still none of them care about Odin. They care about Christ.

[@Pan472]

May the new year be blessed, and wishing everyone happiness, health and joy. Glory to our Lord. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷☦️

[@Life-xg9pf]

Yes, marriage is a duty. God created marriage.

[@LemonJuice516]

@@Life-xg9pf No he didnt read a book.

[@alfamejeu7237]

Or monasticism

[@rh10033]

My husband and I are blessed that we already have a house, but the cost of living today is crazy high. I'm sure that's a factor for many young people, especially ones who believe the mother should stay home with the children.

[@CYBER_FunkER]

I'm seeking the Lord, and praying he makes me a good enough man for a great woman.

[@amaer2971]

Finding someone who is equally yoked is really difficult. I live in England and finding someone willing to sacrifice the world for building her family instead is hard. I've been single for nearly 9 years. Secular life it was already hard finding someone who had good values, and when I went to God, it's even harder. The women in my age range don't go to Church, they don't seek men who seek The Lord. Women between 18 to 30 don't come to Bible believing Churches like mine. That's my experience. Maybe, our preachers and elders should look themselves in the mirror. If you want God's kingdom to continue then maybe the Churches shouldn't have abandoned the family for the world.

[@NFS0038]

Unfortunately, for the reasons stated in the video relating to the desire to compromise and assimilate to secular/passionate culture, this will never happen in protestant churches. They simply don't have the foundational grounding to stick to, it's too dependent on the "preacher" or "elder" as opposed to the Canons of the Church upheld by the ordained priesthood. There are lots of Orthodox churches in England though, it's growing like mad.

[@Thor-o1v]

Why do you allow Islam to take over your land?

[@amaer2971]

​@NFS0038 Brother, thank you for the response. I haven't spoken to brothers from English Orthodox Churches but the big issue is that irrespective or how good a Church is, the women don't seem to care, they dont attend in the first place. I've only come across ones who wear a crucifix as a fashion statement, that's it 😂 A man should lead his family, the scriptures are clear. Finding women who take God seriously is the issue.

[@fruitfulvine222]

Good points here. Since you mentioned age, I just want to point out that part of the anti-family lies poisoning our culture is that a woman's fertility drastically drops at 35. Many Orthodox men want women not a day over 30, claiming it's because of fertility. Meanwhile look at OBGYN offices in any big city and a huge chunk of pregnant women are 40 or older, no IVF needed. The Evil One wants to you narrow down to the fewest possible options so you end up alone.

[@22Too]

Nikolai Tesla NEVER MARRIED. He said that he felt that God had given him so much insight that the world needed so urgently, and so he devoted himself entirely to electrification. Many unmarried people contribute significantly to civilization.

[@Life-xg9pf]

Oh, please. What I really want to know is if he remained a virgin for all his life. If not, he committed sin. Are you interested in "contributing to civilization" but living in sin?

[@herkload]

I agree. To think that only married people contribute to society is wrong.

[@fujikokun]

There is only married life or monastic life.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

Nikola Tesla was a genius and he also was celibate all his life and never indulged in fornication nor masturbation Are you Tesla? Are you an Angel? No man can live like that outside of a monastery…

[@FoundSheep-AN]

@@fujikokunwhat about a young woman who never got proposed to? When should she join a monastery cause no godly man wanted to legally tie the knot? You view is too narrow especially for women. Since it’s only the man who can propose marriage, if the woman does not get proposed cause there are no Christian men who want to legally and sacrament ally marry, it’s not the woman’s fault and she does not have to go to the monastery. She can wait for her God given husband

[@robinconnelly6079]

Great Stuff. Preach it!

[@WORKOUTSOLUTIONS]

✝ HAPPY NEW YEAR ✝ 🕊️💍🙏 GOD BE WITH US AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS 💪👩‍❤️‍👨☀️

[@cgeorge4930]

You're everywhere on my youtube man. Haha may Christ our God be with you.

[@WORKOUTSOLUTIONS]

@@cgeorge4930 ✝HAPPY NEW YEAR ✝ ❤🔥✝GOD GIVES US STRENGTH 🙏🚀

[@george.eliot42]

People always bring up divorce as a reason to avoid marriage. No, we need to abolish "No Fault Divorce" COMPLETELY. We need to abolish birth control, we need to abolish sexual liberation, especially in our households. Marriage is a wonderful blessing to have and experience, tge issue is our hypersexual society that loves and idolizes hedonism.

[@henrywolf5332]

So you want power?

[@ElonMuskrat-my8jy]

Repeal the 19th

[@spikestoyou]

Ok and since those things are not happening what do you recommend an individual do?

[@TheFrisianBear]

​@@spikestoyou Pray to God. Work on your own spiritual life and find a suitable partner with love for God and good morals and values and do better in our relationship/marriage. We can't change society, but we can control to an extent our own choices and hopefully give a better example to others.

[@NFS0038]

​@@spikestoyou unite yourself to the Church. These are already in effect in the Orthodox faith. People will say that not all priests are stalwart in this issue, but if you have watched this video, you have the knowledge yourself of the right thing to do, so it's no use hiding behind the priest's imperfections if you personally decide to live in iniquity.

[@aureliancosma3807]

Wow! Finally simeone has the courage to say these things. God bless them! Also, I'd like to ask for your prayers. My name's Aurelian.

[@andrewfoster1210]

From my experience young men want to be married and have children when they are 18-24 whereas most young women absolutely don't have any desire entertain the possibility of having a family until after they are 25, and many of them look for older men with more $. This has made it so after men get into their late 20s they are distrustful of women after being used, and the women their age are not willing to submit to the traditional role of wife and won't allow the man to lead, also many women of that age have unrealistic expectations as it relates to finances. This leads a lot of men past 25 to decide to remain single until they amass enough wealth to attract a younger woman commonly a foreigner from a country with a culture of traditional marriage. This is the most likely formula I see for my own future. American women have been destroyed but feminism and our culture has been potentially mortally wounded by the forced push of women into competition with men in the workforce. Our culture teaches young women to have unrealistic expectations, delay having children, to have multiple casual relationships, and to work instead of dedicating their time and focus to their children... My point is it's not men driving the downward trend starting marriages and families

[@KulturKampf777]

Excellent video

[@jeffjunk]

An elder said something along the lines.. "marriage doesn't exist much anymore... "marriage is like taking wine and water.. and mixing them together.." how can you separate wine mixed with water?.. The elder said, this mixture doesn't exist today.. What does the greek word Marriage mean - "yokemates".. Be careful who you marry - because the consequences are eternal.. There is no excuse.. for any of us..

[@paulwartt4942]

I am from a catholic family and believe in marriage. I also have had an annulment. The reason I did I will not mention however some people do get in bad marriages. I know we say for better or for worst but sometimes the person you are with is not showing you who they really are. You might be caught up in a nightmare. I believe in the sacrament and I believe that we are not perfect and make mistakes and God with his mercy understands that! God bless. And look at the words of the Jesus prayer!

[@alexanderharris632]

Parents are responsible for arranging matches and teaching girls to be wives. Marriage has fallen apart because the kids have been left to make all the decisions alone.

[@SunShineLady-d4r]

This priest speaks my mind 😂🎉😊

[@antiochianwoman]

Amen ☦️

[@AmericanaGardens]

As an orthodox, I do not have any person of interests. I would only marry orthodox but I also had a hysterectomy so I can not bare children. So I no longer seek a partner because of that. Plus, there are not many to chose from in my area.

[@Life-xg9pf]

I think is a sin to have a hysterectomy. Women are made to marry and have children.

[@jemperdiller]

Lol, still picky and hypergamous.

[@angeliquesourtzis2392]

What? ​@@jemperdiller

[@AlyoshaBosha]

I recommend you read st John Chrysostom's homily on Marriage. He speaks about the matter of having children in there.

[@crossofintimidation]

Not every couple will have children, that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't get married. If you don't want to, okay, but children are a gift, not a requirement.

[@anotherkickintheball]

Get the Government out of marriage and you would see a difference. I wish our Orthodox leaders would lead the charge in this endeavor.

[@sasi5841]

The more overregulated a market is, the fewer the chances of new businesses opening up. Too much govt regulations means there will be fewer new businesses, and the more small businesses will go bust. Marriage follows a similar principle. The marriage market is overregulated (often in all the wrong ways). So now there are fewer marriages. Within the last 100-120 years, everytime the govt has created new legislation regarding marriages, the Marriage rate went down and divorce rates went up. People behave based on incentive structures, marriage is no exception. The disordersd legal system, and disordered social incentives, are now the biggest hindrances to higher marriage rates.

[@NFS0038]

Secular institutions are not the source of weakened marriage, as this video explained if you watched it. The source is the Church, and the weak stances of Christians in recent times. Deeply held social convictions (faith in God and commitment to uphold Christ's commandments) are the basis of culture, not legislation. Culture and governance are both downstream of faith.

[@louisilapan9804]

Amen no such things

[@KnightRave-v3o]

This guy sounds like Sylvester Stallone

[@TheGreatAustino]

Adriaaaaan 🗿

[@lexzenis2544]

he drew first blood not me.

[@locomotive9000]

In an artificial way, too. It sounds like he's on T pills/injections.

[@DiMacky24]

My mistake was being born into a dispensationalist church. None of the women in my church wanted to have kids because "The great tribulation was upon us". The pastors never told the girls not to have kids, quite the opposite, but they basically guaranteed that none of us would see our old age or the grave, and so what else would the young people infer? So yes, there were women that considered me for marriage, but only if that marriage did not include children. Sadly it took until I was 33 to join the Orthodox church, and shortly after I joined a flood of single men joined as well (glory be to God!) so now there just aren't enough women to go around (1 single woman to 5 single men in the local parishes). The ratio is so bad, and has been bad for so many years, that the priest has blessed some of the men to go to eastern Europe this summer to find wives with the help of the cradle parishioners, so maybe when I have the money to spare for that trip I may try that.

[@jessicathemom]

What part of the world are you in? This is an interesting ratio

[@kirerunte1046]

Jobs don't pay, can't afford to get married or have kids until that changes

[@fujikokun]

@@jessicathemomthis is increasingly common in America right now. Most new Orthodox (who aren’t babies) are men. As an anecdote, I recently became Orthodox and my husband and I visited every Orthodox Church in our region, I think 6 of them. The catechumen ratio total was like 50 men to 4 women.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

In Eastern Europe young girls are never churchgoers though. I advice you against going to Eastern Europe to look for a so called orthodox churchgoer girl cause you would be very extremely disappointed and your cultural difference will be too much. If you pray you will find a good Christian woman, single, moral, then who knows. If there are not enough orthodox women you don’t have to focus on the woman being orthodox. In which country do you live?

[@FoundSheep-AN]

@@fujikokunso weird. I live in Western Europe and my Orthodox Church is full of elderly women from Ukraine. No man, nobody under 40 (only the young married batushka)

[@monikasolymos2396]

I have a few questions: 1.Can marriage and celibacy be an idol in our life? 2. Can commandments, rules, superficial acts be more important than God? 3. Did Jesus love hypocrites? 4. Can anybody be saint who is divorced and remarried? I have only one answer: The first commandmend: the love of God, is the law, the prophets, and the source of life. No rules are above. Marriage is an act only in this world, so it can be sacrificed for God, but only for His command. Keeping and loosing it, both acts, can be a sacrifice. He is above all worldly rules. Please God, help us to find the right answers for our lives!

[@alfamejeu7237]

All your comments are full of ignorance and just plane our dumb. A simple research would answer your questions. Common Protestant 😂

[@monikasolymos2396]

@alfamejeu7237 All? How much have you read? I would say, they are rather orthodox. I have just read about orthodox divorce laws. I like them. They are full of mercy. Not full of ignorance for the suffering ones like in the catholic church. May the Lord write his laws into our hearts, as He promised, regardless which judeo-christian community we belong to!

[@MANDALORETHEMGTOW]

Saint Lyudmila of Bohemia is the patron saint of Divorced people. Look her up. She is a great Orthodox saint.

[@monikasolymos2396]

@MANDALORETHEMGTOW Thank you, I will. I am not yet divorced.

[@jeffjunk]

Here is the Orthodox view on marriage.. The Triad I'll call it.. 1.) Marriage is Martyrdom 2.) Marriage is NOT a 50/50 effort (sometimes it's 90/10, 30/40.. ect..).. 3.) You will change NO ONE.

[@jemperdiller]

You forget about complete compliance to godless state.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

The man has to provide financially though not go 50/50 on rent and bills

[@Thor-o1v]

Any Christian preacher that tells me to get a government marriage license to be married does not believe in the Holy Word of God. Marriage is a Holy Union; a government marriage license is a property contract designed to remove wealth from men, extort and enslave men.

[@LemonJuice516]

​@@FoundSheep-ANMajority of orthodox couples work. American bubble is not the world.

[@LemonJuice516]

​@@FoundSheep-AN No where in the bible does it say its the mans job to provide financially.

[@sstrykert]

Remove the state from marriage & churches,& things will improve.

[@redroversk]

Ban birth control too, the xenoestrogens are unfilterable in the water, plus it allows women to remain in a permanent, horned up, bad decision making state of mind without the repercussion of pregnancy

[@kirerunte1046]

Marriage has only existed in churches and religion, doesn't exist anywhere else

[@pablokoz7497]

I’m agreeing with you . However, what is the situation when you had to get married, then your wife divorced you without your agreement, as in most USA states, and no cause needed. Then you get a divorce decree from the bisho p ( albeit with a upset bishop that clearly abhors this situation) Then with great repentance and a vow toward your marriage in front of God with a Christian woman and her first marriage. It’s not perfect and yet it is perfect. Although I’m an idiot , I thank God and Jesus Christ for His mercy and for my great happiness at a second chance to get it right . Sorry Father, Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, a sinner

[@Ltlmscrl]

I’m curious about the church’s views when it comes to marriage for the sake of marriage. If you don’t have a parter who shares your values and long term goals should you still get married? Two people can be attracted to one another and get along but that only goes so far. Also, should people stay married when it comes to abusive situations, and their children have to witness them fighting (hence not providing a good example of what a marriage should be). I’m blessed to be married to a wonderful man but I can understand why some people have no interest.

[@kirerunte1046]

Both need to be orthodox

[@beac8238]

They don’t want to marry but they’ll do everything married people do EXCEPT make a lifelong commitment to their lover. It’s sick. And we’re adding to the brokenness in the world with our sin.

[@Life-xg9pf]

Marriage and having children are Christian duties.

[@beautifulwhitecat]

Hold up......there are infertile couples too.

[@herkload]

Not really, marriage is not mandatory.

[@kirerunte1046]

Jobs don't pay so you can't afford kids and marriage

[@FoundSheep-AN]

Not everyone can fulfill that though

[@Thor-o1v]

Any Christian preacher that tells me to get a government marriage license to be married does not believe in the Holy Word of God. Marriage is a Holy Union; a government marriage license is a property contract designed to remove wealth from men, extort and enslave men.

[@lexzenis2544]

Remove the crime committed by the family court system against men and redistribution of his wealth and watch this all turn around. When women can breach contract on marriage at no fault and walk away with cash and prizes- then whats the incentive to stay married.? or for men to even get married anymore.

[@herkload]

I agree. I’m Orthodox and willing to get married if I find a Godly woman who loves me and wants to marry me, but the divorce & family court laws have made me lose a lot of interest in marriage. I’ve met men who were completely destroyed because of divorce.

[@Life-xg9pf]

@@herkload Well, men have to open their eyes and choose godly women.

[@amyashleman106]

I do not agree with a woman walking away for no reason, but it is only right for him to split with her because she invested her time, body, and emotions into him. If a man does not provide for his family he is worse than an infidel.

[@LemonJuice516]

​@@amyashleman106When you marry its for richer and for poorer. Cant your gold digger mind understand that?

[@lexzenis2544]

@@amyashleman106 well ...in the west women walk away just because they are bored and leave a path of destruction behind them just so they can experience a happiness outside their vows.

[@skeleton1765]

Frankly, the fault lies with the women. From anecdotal experience, I was with a woman for 6 years, and when I proposed it scared her away. They want to have their cake and eat it too. There are horrible men out there, but they choose to have fun with those men, or even give them children, and then expect the good men to save them when they’re ready to settle down. The atheist male friends I have are more concerned with being good and growing and fostering the soul than the Christian women I know.

[@Life-xg9pf]

So, you lived in sin for 6 years?

[@Life-xg9pf]

The secret to great marriages are godly women. If men choose women who go to clubs, drink alcohol, wear yoga pants, don't want to be homemakers, don't want to have children. don't want to cook or clean their homes, .etc., etc., forget about having a good marriage that does not end up in divorce. Open your eyes before marriage, not after.

[@LemonJuice516]

😂😂. Christian divorce rate in the US is higher then the national average. What are you talking about.

[@ilétaitunefoi33]

Iam this woman, or I try to be at least and guess what. Nobody talks to me

[@herkload]

The problem is that there are very few Godly Orthodox Women who are available and interested in marriage.

[@alfamejeu7237]

@@herkloadthere is, but many men think she will be a 5’5 blonde blue eyed model.

[@alfamejeu7237]

@@LemonJuice516this is a complete lie. No source says this. In fact, it’s the opposite. According to the institute of marriage bureau

[@freedominion7369]

🙏✝️⛪

[@kelvenhua4886]

Yeah sure, Marriage. A woman has never talked to me first in my whole life.😐

[@redroversk]

The ones i want don't want me and the ones that want me i don't want, so i starve. I think it's better than taking advantage just because they have opposing genitals, if the feeling isn't mutual, it's not worth it to live and children with someone you ultimately resent

[@Life-xg9pf]

Silly, ridiculous comments. Both of you. Men are supposed to take the initiative and talk to women. If you don't have the courage or refuse to do it you are paying the price. If you really want to get married you have to take actions, do something.

[@Life-xg9pf]

@@redroversk Well, stay in your line and don't approach women that don't want you. Just go for the ones that accept you just the way you are, are happy to be with you and want to marry you.

[@kirerunte1046]

​@Life-xg9pf jobs don't pay and women are ran through, better to be homeless

[@FoundSheep-AN]

Man have to talk to the woman first

[@ElGalvarinoBeliOrao]

I have just now recently started to study the new testament so I am no expert buy any means so I would like to ask a question. Didn't jesua say I Matthew that a divorce is legit if there have been adultery? Meaning sexual relationships outside of the marriage? If that is the reason for the "legal divorce" will God then at the judgement day accept the divorce?

[@NFS0038]

You can't separate the Bible from the Church, just as you can't separate the sacrament of Marriage from the Church in a courtroom.

[@ElGalvarinoBeliOrao]

@NFS0038 My doubts are concerning Matthew 5:31-32.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

I go to the Russian Orthodox Chirch and yeas in the Russian Orthodox Church that is legal ground for divorce in the church. We don’t force people to stay together after infidelity. The marriage is over In the Russian Orthodox Church if two spouses marry in church and have a sacramental wedding, and then the husband cheats on the wife, the wife can go to the church. The marriage is null and void and divorced. She can marry a second husband in church with a sacramental wedding cause it was not her fault. The spouse who was unfaithful can’t marry no more in church though

[@ElGalvarinoBeliOrao]

@FoundSheep-AN thx.

[@redroversk]

The government got involved

[@MANDALORETHEMGTOW]

No hymen no diamond

[@unclearasalways]

Change the law. Simple.

[@jacktracy8356]

Romans 5:1 KJV Therefore being JUSTIFIED by FAITH we have PEACE with GOD through our LORD JESUS CHRIST 2 By Whom also we have access by FAITH into this GRACE wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the GLORY of GOD. 5 And hope makes not ashamed because the LOVE of GOD is shed abroad in our hearts by the HOLY GHOST which is given unto us. 6 For when we were yet without strength in due time CHRIST died for the ungodly. 8 But GOD commends HIS LOVE toward us in that while we were yet sinners CHRIST died for us. 9 Much more then being now JUSTIFIED by HIS BLOOD, we shall be SAVED from wrath through HIM.

[@anthojn1651]

It is better not to marry.

[@skittenhund]

IS HIS VOICE EVEN REAL

[@skittenhund]

This guy probably woke up one day and scared the crap out of both his mother and himself.

[@AugustasKunc]

sounds like u like him🤭​@skittenhund

[@spikestoyou]

Modern relationships are completely impossible, Orthodoxy or not. Saying Christ is at the center of a relationship does not make it so.

[@NFS0038]

You can't speak with authority on whether Orthodox relations work if you are not practicing Orthodox. You don't have enough experience to comment on the subject.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

In what country do you live to say that modern relationships are impossible? Majority of my friends are now getting married and having kids. It’s not impossible. They are Christian (not orthodox though cause where I live only Eastern European are orthodox and Greeks etc)

[@karlstrauss2330]

Marriage is antiquated business arrangement from a bygone era. Time to embrace alternative mechanisms to find love companionship in the 21st Century.

[@Life-xg9pf]

Poor you. I feel sorry for you. I consider you lost. "Alternatives"...actually sinful behavior, going from relationship to relationship never finding true satisfaction and peace (not to mention STD).

[@karlstrauss2330]

@ truth hurts my friend. If marriage was truly this wonderful and sacred institution, people would be flocking to the churches and courthouses all over the country to get hitched. The fact that they’re not should tell you something.

[@alfamejeu7237]

@@karlstrauss2330marriage is not the problem, secularism is. You’ll just go switching from people to people forever and die alone and helpless. Poor you. 😅

[@Ultra504]

This guy is putting on a crazy deep voice that's not authentic.

[@yomamma4612]

what in the galaxy gas is going on with this dudes voice? who green lit this?

[@King_Immanuel]

You want them to shoot down an interview with someone because of their voice? Lol

[@Jbayz]

@@King_Immanuel This person referenced drugs and just look at the profile pic. They stumbled upon this at 3am obviously lol

[@celesteshenas2155]

I bet his chanting is amazing.

[@ChickityChicken]

I love the Orthodox bros but why do y'all allow divorce in your Church?

[@AmericanaGardens]

Only in extreme situations like abuse or not baring children.

[@ElonMuskrat-my8jy]

Why does your false church deny the existence of previous marriages by annuling them as if they never happened?

[@beautifulwhitecat]

​@@AmericanaGardensNot bearing children? No, there are infertile couples who love God. ✝️

[@fujikokun]

The Church allows divorce in the way that it “allows” any sin. Divorce happens, just like sin does. Once it has happened, if it is determined that it will benefit their salvation the parties are allowed to remarry, but the second marriage is always a somber event. It’s not a sacrament like the first one is.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

@@AmericanaGardens not baring children is not ground for divorce. In which Orthodox Church do you think or say it is? In Russian Orthodox Church its not! The priest explained only in Judaism the accent is on having kids. In our church marriage is to help the spouse becoming holy and the spouse helping us becoming holy, and to go to heaven after death. Also infidelity ends up in divorce in the Russian Orthodox Church

[@BigNugget993]

I can’t stand this guys voice

[@mchristr]

I don't think he had a say in the matter. God did.

[@brendanmcpike184]

I like it I think it’s cool

[@wjckc79]

Show some charity. He can't help it.

[@NOMACD]

Cool story bro

[@cgeorge4930]

Weird thing to say sir

[@kevinnorris6157]

Dude can marry any chick he wants with that voice and hes not married?

[@ForContact]

Who Father josiah? He is married and has I think 5 kids.

[@MatthewB-r1q]

All metaphysical concepts are malleable. 😂

[@MatthewB-r1q]

Marriage is not a sacrament. It’s was invented by humans long before Christianity was around.

[@Life-xg9pf]

I feel sorry for you. I hope you don't live in sin, having relationships with multiple women.

[@LemonJuice516]

​@@Life-xg9pfI feel sorry for you. Learning some history is hard especially when it proves your beliefs false.

[@exmanolive305]

Marriage was instituted by God. Christianity follows the one true God who has been there from the beginning. Just because we started 2000 years ago doesn’t mean anything.

[@MatthewB-r1q]

Why does your God make people gay?😂😂

[@AugustasKunc]

why does your Darwin evolve people gay?🤣🤣

[@amayasasaki2848]

Sin is a spiritual disease in our world. God doesn't make sin.