I liked the EP just for its historical position and historicity is what originally drew me to Orthodoxy

That is until I saw the icons and all doubts I had suddenly vanished..

Icons were what drew me in in the first place

I thought icons were just paintings

Then as I kept digging, the better and juicier everything was

Beautiful artwork but just artwork, seeing one changed my perception

Not just one, lol

One that particularly caught my attention was of Emperor Constantine and Helena

@󠀂 󠀂 what denom are you?

@Quarantine_Zone grew up Pentecostal

And now?

Also, AoG? Which branch of Pentecostal?

AoG

Now going into Orthodoxy

Not officially a catechumen yet though

I assume ROCOR

I am leaning ROCOR yeah

I like Antiochians too, though

They are under Greece these days yeah?

Or autocephalous, but follow Greek tradition?

Antiochians are autocephalous

I think they do follow the Greek tradition, their churches seem similarly structured

I find it comedic when EO or RCC talk about the 10 Gajillion prot denoms, when, in reality, a lot of supposedly different denoms are way closer to each other than various traditions and/or schools or RCC and EO

On the surface level, yeah

Like Mollinists and Thomists are so different, they would certainly be different prot denoms technically

But there are very minute differences that truly matter theologically that cause proper schism

Such as two words

Filioque

Ruined Christendom

There is so much more than that

Filioque caused postmodernism

not even joking

Filioque is only one piece of the puzzle

The schism had so many other things that caused it

Politics aside

I need to write something about that but I need to do a fuckton more research in order to think I have anything authoritative to say about it

And energy-essence debate

That is, in conformity with Orthodoxy

There's all sorts of metaphysical ideas roaming around in my head that may not be agreeable with the patristic perspective

If the EO has unity, then there are like 5 prot denoms in total

And then a huge group of apostates