Statements of Faith - Heretical for Baptist Communities
Baptists admit that they “do not agree with each other” in the smallest details, and that they do not have a “Baptist doctrine,” or a “historical Baptist belief,” […]
Chapter Twenty-Five - The Transformation of the World
The Church's war, then, is not against the body but against its passions. If the man of the new creation is freed from his corrupt passions, his senses and his entire body will become pure and enlightened, and everything around him will shine with the love and glory of God. In the lives of the saints of our Church there are examples of liberation from the slavery of passions.
The Ten Commandments in the Christian Law
1. The Lord our God is one Lord. The Lord, your God, is one Lord (Deuteronomy 6:4), and He is known as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is different
The Orthodox Church is a universal, holy and apostolic Church
Introduction: The church, in its narrow sense, means the community of believers. When we talk about a group called a church, there must be a link connecting that group
Why do we light candles in front of icons?
First: The candle expresses an accurate pictorial expression of the worshiper’s stance before God! She appears calm and calm, and her heart is burning with fire
Triumph of Orthodoxy
Leo V and the Icons: Nikephoros, the Minister of Finance, took control of the court of Ireneiah, arrested her, and imprisoned her in a monastery. The era of this philosophy ended
The Church in the Fatimid period
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 The name and title of the Church: The Egyptian Jacobites criticized Timothy, the Patriarch of Alexandria (460-482), for saying the king’s words at the Council of Chalcedon (451), so they called
Prostrating to icons
The origin of prostration for man is the presence of the image of God in him: - When some blamed us for prostrating to the images of the Savior and Our Lady the Virgin Mary and honoring them,