An Orthodox Christian who joins another Christian church is considered apostate. Natasha Brandstatter is an art historian and writer. Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages. Based on the Word Net lexical database for the English Language.
See disclaimer. For Roman Catholics, Jesus saved man and allowed him to reach heaven by paying the price for sin through his death by crucifiction. The richness of the spiritual practices of the Western and Eastern Churches nearly defy categorisation. Nevertheless, certain customary differences stand out. While Roman Catholics tend to use statues to represent the saints, the Orthodox Church has a rich iconographic or pictorial tradition. In Roman Catholic Churches, unleavened bread made without yeast is used in church rituals, while leavened bread is employed by the Orthodox Church.
The latter permits married priests but western Catholic priests are required to remain single and abstain from sexual relations. There is a God!
The definition of adultery is according to dictionary. She conceived through the Holy Spirit, which is a member of the Holy Trinity and does not even have a body. The early believers did believe in God, but they fell away and dispersed throughout the Earth.
God made the Jews, who were descendants of Abraham from Mesopotamia, his chosen people. Generations down the line, some people are not properly catechized or they make a sin. Based on these factors we now have different religions.
Latin is more of the language of remembrance. Understand religion is a means to draw closer to God. That is the purpose of Religion; to be a means of understanding and worshipping God. If there are those who use religion as a means of control and start wars then it is they who will have to answer to God for that, but religion is a necessary means to know God and draw closer to Him which is a good thing and is all important.
I pray for discernment for you,start with Matthew. Mary was a sinner just like we are and Mary acknowledged that fact when she acknowledged her Savior Luke …. If she had been born without sin, she would have no need of a savior.
All Jewish people were waiting for the Messiah. Mary was glorifying God and humbling herself. She would not have known at that time that she was free from sin. However , God would not be born into impurity. Perfection would not beget imperfection and Christ is perfect in all things. This doctrine alone — dogma actually — proves that Catholicism is a false religion as shown by this logic.
If Mary had to be pure and sinless to bear the Christ, then Marys parents would likewise need to be pure and sinless to bear Mary — and their parents and their parents and their parents parents. This doctrine is found nowhere in the gospels or epistles, because it was wholly unnecessary and is obviously false.
I think you will find that in Israel, genealogy is through the mother. In Genesis their eyes were not opened till Adam had eaten and sinned. The question is had Adam not eaten would they still be there even though Eve had sinned? The genealogy of Mary is seen in the book of Luke and Joseph in the book of Math. Gen 3 verse 15 is a direct prophecy to Christs coming from the woman, no mention of a man. When Gabriel speaks to Mary he says you have found favour in Gods sight or are highly favoured not that she had not sinned.
Romans 3 v 25 says all have sinned. Mark 6 v 3 says about his mother and brothers and sisters. Mary was the vessel Jesus the treasure.
Pure Gold cannot be tarnished so no matter what you put it in it will remain pure. Jesus was pure so could not be tarnished by any sin that is why death could not hold him.
I have not ever heard we change what is written in either the Old or New Testament. Oh yes, we do believe in the purity of Mary. It would be like starting to make a fantastic dinner in a pot that was dirty and had not ever been cleaned. I do not, the Son could not be carried by anyone but Mary. Additionally, we do not believe the pope is infallable on all things, just for morals and ethics, although this pope falls waaay short in both those areas.
Holy Mary was not born without sin, but she chose not to sin! This is was make me venerate Her even more! Sabine, born Catholic, chose to become Orthodox. Mary called the Lord her Savior. If she was sinless why would she need a Savior? She did need a Savior just like any of mankind. She just received it sooner. I am not Roman Catholic, just passing on what RC theology says. That is incorrect. Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit. She held in her womb both her biological son, totally human yet totally God.
She gave birth to both her son and her creator Jesus who is without sin as a virgin. By the grace of the same God, she alone was preordained born immaculately, without sin.
This central mystery is a great stumbling block to many. If you believe in the apparitions of the Virgin Mary, then you have a chance to recognize the truth. You can visit the grotto where Bernadette first saw the Virgin Mother and drink from the waters of Lourdes, it is a spring that started when Mary told Bernadette where it was, many people have been cured of their infirmities by either drinking or bathing in this water.
You can also see the body of St. Bernadette in a glass coffin, it is incorrupt. When she died on August 15 only her clothes remained on earth and she ascended to Heaven!
They both will live forever. The prophet Elias went to heaven completely with his whole carriage. The man next to Jesus at the crucifixon went to heaven because he believed that Jesus was innocent. There were many others who believed in him and it is my belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that only those who do believe in him and repent will be going to heaven. Judgement day is coming by the will of God and no one will ever know when that will occur no matter what they say or what they do.
I think this is trivial and really nobody knows. Seems to be no major differences in doctrine other than technicalities. Mary and all people are born without original sin, because original sin is something invented by Christians.
It was not something Jesus peace be upon him taught his followers. We Muslims believe in Jesus as a prophet and consider Mary as one of the most righteous and noblest women ever lived.
Unlike Christians who blame Eve, we Muslims believe both Eve and Adam our father and mother were responsible for the act, but both of them asked God for forgiveness. God forgave because their repentance was sincere. Anways sin is not something to be passed on. How unfair is such a thing. We Muslims also believe God is One and Only. Jesus was no more than a Messenger and a Prophet. I invite you to learn about Islam. Jesus was a Muslim who surrendered his will to God just all other prophets and Messengers of God.
Please read the 7th Ecumenical Council. I have seen some statues, especially of Mary, carried in processions, covered with flowers, but these are usually cultural actions and not part of any universal Roman Catholic liturgical tradition. When we light a candle in front of a statue, or kneel, it is a function of intercessory prayer, not veneration.
The veneration is for the Saint, not the object. Excuse me, Catholics do venerate statues!!! Believers kneel and cross themselves in front of this idols. They have a Virgin for everything!! And the Pope? He is the direct representative of God on earth meaning only God is above him which apparently the Queen of England also believes, that only God is above her. No need for angry posts. Just as you disagree with the Catholic way, you will find many who disagree with what you believe.
Yes, we do venerate statues. Why did the Catholics remove the word from Moses tablets and change the word in their printed Catholic bibles??????? Thatis exactly the role of idols in pagan relegions, a reminder of a god that is not the statue itself.
I dont mean any disrespect and I believe that people are free to practice any form of siprituality but in my humble opinion Catholicism is idolatory to the core. As a practicing Catholic, I agree that we do not venerate statues.
We venerate the saints and the holy people that the statues represent, such as Saint Peter and Saint Paul. As previously stated, the statues simply act as a reminder of those persons. There is so much misinformation out there.
The world would be such a better place if people would celebrate what we share in common instead of tearing each other down over our differences. Something may be added…but once it is there….. Also, nothing is taken out. The main changes in Roman Catholicism are practices. How the doctrines are carried out as regards lifestyle and within the mass.
But doctrines do not change…and have never changed. Adding to something is changing it. In this case it is expanding on the subject.
Vatican II led to massive confusion in the Church. This has caused many priests, nuns, sisters, brothers and lay people to become heretical, mainly because they have not been properly catechized. This new confusion in the Church occurred alongside the Sexual Revolution in the s, so many Catholic started to fall away and started to believe in contraception, because they thought that Church had come to accept modernism. The Church today is paying for the confusion that Vatican II brought around.
By adding to even a food recipe you are changing the original. This will change the recipe and it may make it even better or some thing else , but it is not a same thing. You have changed the Gods doctrine. One of the most obvious differences and part of what led to the Great Schism is the filioque clause of the Nicene Creed — the Greeks believing that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, the Romans believing that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son.
Funny that it was left out of this list, as it is one of the top reasons the two communions are not reconciled. What a shame. The Father and Son are the same. Christ was incarnated by the Holy Spirit and became man. Orthodoxy and Catholicism shold unite asap……what a force this could be for Christianity with these two churches united. Man always has a way of messing with perfection.
I agree Tom-I am not in any way a religious scholar-but I would love to see the Greek Orthodox and Catholic somehow unite again. I know this is impossible but we all would stronger together. The two are born of the same thing-they are far more alike than different.
I agree that there should be a unification. But physical structure, finances, power allocation and, most of all, politics will make it very difficult.
I attend both and am comfortable in each one. I bridge the differences as if they do not exist. Hi Tom. My life is like a big garden,full of different types of plants and flowers. Later I used to sit and admire the life size statue of Jesus in the Roman Catholic Church, because it was closer to our home. Even later I came to America and joined an Evangelical church. Was re- baptized, took lessons in Cathecism and I was Confirmed in the church and became a member.
I really like all that I experienced. Later on, the powers of the five centers started to weaken and this led to the Great Schism called the East-West Schism. Here are some notable characteristics of each church.
Since St. Thomas Aquinas incorporated philosophy in religion, the church set a high respect for human wisdom which also led to radical alterations of theology, mysteries, and institutions of the Catholic Church. This church believes it would be best if the New Testament is preserved and unaltered in any way. Although Orthodoxy welcomes science and philosophy to be able for a believer to explain its own faith, it does not make any effort to use science or logic in order to prove what Christ gave and left to his followers for them to believe.
The existence of God is inherent in human nature and that is how human beings know he exists. Other differences are the language used in celebrating Masses. Roman Catholics prefer the Latin language while the Orthodox prefers native tongues.
Roman Catholics have statues while Orthodoxy has icons. Roman Catholics priest cannot marry while Orthodox priests could marry prior to being ordained as priests.
Roman Catholic Church has high respect for the human reason whilst Eastern Orthodox Church does not because it promotes heresy. Roman Catholic: the Pope is the infallible leader of the church and he has the power to govern other Catholic churches. Eastern Orthodox disagrees with the fact that no divine grace could ever give man the power to behold the essence of God.
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