This is really fun tho

Lol you left bc you couldnt stop interrupting people

You got muted bc you literally cant control yourself lol\

Oh he didnt interrupt you hardly as much as vice versa

You didnt say much, you just repeated yourself several times

No one was pushing you, we were trying to get your perspective

Lol

You dont need that schizo attitude dude

You should be proud

Youre comparing yourself to the worst, thats pretty easy

You dont even know who is in your church, how many, and even if they believe exactly what you do

Invisible church

Youre literally a freelance christian

Like .... 5?

2?

Im not saying know them, Im saying know of them. Knowing that theyre out there

Seems you havent figured it out

So is it safe to say, you think I believe Jesus isnt the King

So how can you call me heretical?

You dont know

The Bible is a tradition of men

Compiled by men

Yes

Orthodoxy follows the Bible very well, although you think we worship people like gods

Keeping a picture of someone is not condemned by God, neither is reverence of holy people. After all the saints of the old testament are held in high reguard

HAHA you say honoring your father and mother is the same as worshiping God

You do the same thing

Twisting meanings

You said worship and honor are the same

The English words honor and worship mean different things

The bible you read is written in English

Im not telling you to not honor your father and Mother

Lol

Im saying worshiping God is not literally the same as honoring your father and mother

No Im not?

That commandment is still sacred

MHM

YES

Youre equating my challenge that worship does not equal honor, and youre accusing me of calling you away from God's required obedience

Which is completely unrelated and false

I do, do you?

Im talking about one thing, youre talking about another

Im not

Idols are demons

Icons are depictions of holy people

Actually

No Idols are depictions inhabited by demons, icons are the depictions

Lol

No one who died in the past ever demanded to have a statue made of them

Noobpocket, please stop

You cant name a single holy person outside of the Bible

Thats how limited you are

Who

I saw some images of him online, you might have to raid the google servers

Oh so a Catholic guy?

Im reading into this

On Baldwin

Why do you think he was a saint?

Checkmate

So the Catholics were the true Christians!

Up to the middle ages?

Up to the middle ages????

That is true

There were heretics from the start

Paul addresses heresy and cultism in the Bible dude

Nicolas?

Of Myra?

Who Nic

This is just.....Nicolas?

No other defining names?

Lol who is Nicolas?

If Nicolas spawned Prots? That means it's irrelevant to Orthodoxy

You just said

You still havent even proved to me this Nicolas exists dude

You literally just said Nicolas

Ok nvm I looked it up

Amazin. Heresy in the early church, and what do you know, its still considered a heresy

I would equate Nicoletaism to modern day ecumenism

As a loose comparison

My church is actually wood sir

I like earlier how you completely ignored the thing about the oral and written traditions of the church

Also

nvm go ahead

Well I apologize I dont mean to throw too much

Well one thing that disturbs me is that you think that since the church gradually fell into heresy over 2000 years and there is only a sparse invisible church, that means, really there is going to be a very tiny number of true believers.

Thats straight up paranoia

You have no way of confirming this

Also the Orthodox arent even the biggest church

This idea that few are chosen can be taken very extremely as you are doing, which in Russian is refered to as "prelest" which means that you trust yourself (Calling this trust your trust in Jesus and the Baaaible) way more than anyone else. Everyone else is wrong, you are right, and no one will ever convince you that youve deluded yourself

Its a very conforting sentiment to think that everyone but you and a few friends are going to go to hell

I agree

But I disagree bc you follow God the wrong way, with no guidance

Yes, also I have a very severe issue of your belief that you understand the Bible exactly as it should be

Have you confided with anyone else to confirm that they understand the Bible the same as you do?

Just as a poem or philosphical writing can be interpreted multiple ways, most ways not the way the author intended, so can the Bible

I would disagree

St Mary of Egypt never read the bible and yet she new it by heart

She was taught by angels, she didnt figure it out herself lol

And it wasnt even the Bible yet dude,