Thinking of becoming Orthodox Christian

Thinking of joining orthodox church. Overdosed on redpills now I want the breadpill. Used to be protestant but it doesn't appeal to me anymore. Give me the rundown pollards.

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there is no eternity in which the human mind can find eternal peace.

Appreciate the sentiment but its not what I asked. I'm not worried about eternity as much as in worried about the degradation of western civilization.

Ask an Orthodox priest
Is that so hard to do?

What rundown? Just go to your local Orthodox Church. It's like Catholicism, just without the satanic Vicar of Christ bullshit.

Well I plan on it but I see alto if orthodox Christians on pol and was wanting to hear their experiences. This wasnt a fishing expedition for dicks but then again this is pol.

the truest form of Christianity

catholics are idol worshipers and we all know how protestantism started

that being said, all christians are fine and will ascend to heaven

except catholics

you have to bless your house every once in a while, go to church on sundays, fast (avoid animals fats) during easter and christmas

p easy otherwise

I converted about a year and a half ago. Fasting was hard at first but its a good way to get iron pilled. It can be a bit of a culture shock too but you don't have to be a Slavophile or a Russiaboo to be Orthodox. I am still very much an American and always will be.

fasting is literally the best thing in the orthodox christianity, you get rid of toxins through it and live healthy life

I'm High Church Anglican.
It's how I was brought up. It's a traditional form of Protestantism.
My ancestors were French Huguenots. My surname is French. They were persecuted and fled to the Netherlands, England, South Africa.
There isn't an Orthodox church anywhere near where I live - middle of nowhere.
My wife is Anglican and our daughter goes to the Methodist church. That may sound like a mix, but it really isn't.
The Methodist church is less formal, they sing more, have activities for kids after service.

The only beliefs you need to be a Christian are
1. That God exists
2. That Jesus Christ is Lord
3. That God lives within us and all nature
4. That the Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit are real
5. Prayer. Prayer is so important.

Peace to you.

The Orthodox lies should be less appealing once you move from the freedom of Protestant Theology to the bondage of Orthodox fraud. This is a 4th century fraud perpetrated by Constantine.

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>be Constantine
>unite Rome under one emperor and one God
>inject Christianity with the spirit of monarchy and conquest
>proteshits have a problem with this

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Same situation here. Orthodoxy is the only unbroken line of tradition in Christianity (Catholics will dispute but the Roman Catholic Church really does not become an individual entity until after the Great Schism). Orthodox Christians are generally Conservative, pious, and Spiritual.

Orthodoxy focuses on Spirituality and Mystery rather than the Rationalism of the Western Churches.

tl;dr Do it, you won't regret it.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPcx8VdYEZ8

>orthodox lis
Can you please explain? I grew up Protestant and have had the opposite experience feeling freer after converting to Orthodoxy.

>I used to be protestant
Who the fuck talks like this?

Fuck off you divisive kike.
>t.Baptist

>Orthodox Christians are generally Conservative, pious, and Spiritual.
>Orthodoxy focuses on Spirituality and Mystery rather than the Rationalism of the Western Churches.
this, especially if you visit monasteries
they're really beautiful where you can rest your soul

You aren't a Christian, you're a crypto kike and worldly.

Thanks for the replies fellas.

Worshiping idols and someone else's culture is not freedom.

salam, I am a muslim. Can you tell me which one is the purest. I think I want join

What happen?

Why is the first christian super satan?

Come join us brother

The only last true Christians

Orthodox are not the first Christians. That is their biggest lie.

This is appealing to me.

>sola scripturafag calling someone else a crypto-kike

kys
orthodoxy didn't secede from catholicism, it was otherwise

Not against orthodox here, but we have to remember that the roman church started the break up by refusing to hearken unto their eastern brothers, and ultimately excommunicating them

What about him?

I'm a fedora, BUT

If I had to choose a religion, I'd choose Orthodox Christianity. The modern Catholicism is pure trash, while the Orthodox is perfectly preserved, up to the greek chants

This

If you look into the history of the church, the roman bishops were often rebuked for overstating his authority on many terms by the other bishops from different regions.

They give offering to dead men

I can study history and see that the (((Orthodox))) are misrepresenting and abusing the evidence.

Sorry, OP, Protestant is the only answer. If you go any form of "Catholic," you have fundamentally misunderstood Christ.

I understand you're lost, and the "Catholics" are the loudest (they always are), particularly on this board.

"Sola gratia justificamus et sola fide justificamur."

The Kingdom of God is within you. Christ is within you.

Take a breath.

Pray.

Yes but why did all the pre-constantine christians deny the five solaes?

what """"abusing"""" of evidence, faggot?

But why did this happen?

The fact that all the early Christians deny these solaes?

Stop loving cocks

I'm a catechumen, going to be Baptized and brought into the church on this coming Holy Saturday.

It's been absolutely amazing. I've attended for about a year and a quarter now. The church has a deep and developed theology based on tradition, scripture, and patristics, alongside a very rich liturgical cycle.

As someone who was raised Baptist but spent most of his young adulthood as an atheist, it's not quite like anything I'd ever encountered before.

All that said, if you're deeply attached to racialism (lots of Sup Forumslacks are) there may be some difficulty adjusting. The church has condemned phyletism, the association of religion with ethnicity, as a heresy. Your priest won't be happy if you start posting on facebook about how blacks are subhuman.

Still, Orthodox Christians understand salvation as a continuous and transformational process and nobody expects anyone to be perfect coming in.

I really suggest you visit a service or two and get a feel for it. It's quite wonderful.

Best wishes user, I'll try to remember to pray for you

KYRIE ELEISON
PACE VOUA

It's time to grow some balls and make your own decisions.
(((Orthodox Church))) was created in the 4th century by the establishment of Constantine.

And if even come to Greece dont forget to go to Mount Athos.

It's the closest thing in Paradise on earth

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You didn't answer

>Worshiping idols and someone else's culture is not freedom.
What idols? There is 0 statuary in Orthodox churches. If you mean icons what is wrong with them, at worst they're just paintings depicting a person or illustrating a sequence of events.

Regarding culture, the church I attend is probably 70% converts and only a few are from outside the US. All services are conducted in English.

Think about it. It's not difficult to understand. Protestantism didn't just pop up out of nowhere.

>Orthodox are not the first Christians. That is their biggest lie.
They do have an unbroken line of tradition from the early church though, so they are the closest.

No but we can claim lineage from some of the oldest Christian communities.

Most people forget that when the gospels were being compiled, only Mathew the tax collector was literate because of his job. Now archeological evidence and contemporary accounts showed that most literate people were writing in Greek since it was the Lingua franca of the eastern half of the roman empire.

Nevermind the fact that Greece and Greco-Roman Asia minor are listed among the earliest places that the apostles traveled to after leaving the levant.

It did. You won't find any church father teaching that

(((Orthodox))) teach that jewry is the literal synagogue of satan and the antichrist will be a jew

Christianity undermines nationalism by design. It separates peoples intrest and connections to earhtly groups such as nations, and replaces them with "divine" connections of heaven and the afterlife. Don't fall for their tricks.

Slav here. The Orthodox church if fraught with corruption.

Why not just be non-denominational, senpai?

Also, OP, Great Lent has just begun, so now is the perfect time to visit a church. This is the busiest part of the Liturgical year, leading up to Pascha (Easter), arguably the most important holiday in Orthodoxy. Depending on the size of the parish you visit, there should be services being held extremely frequently, even on weekdays.

absolute lies
you are retarded

The church in places like the US, thankfully, doesn't suffer so much from corruption because it exists as a minority with little sociopolitical power. Probably best to be like that desu.

Britbro, you are sadly mistaken. You need to go back to the Gospel. Read Christ's teachings. Christ's teachings. None other.

Paul, as an example, was first published by Marcion of Sinope in, at the earliest, the 2nd Century. After the "Catholic" Church excommunicated him, they kept his writings which became the Pauline epistles and part of the canon.

Listen, I'm not against all the work the early Church fathers did. Some did great work in spreading the Gospel of the Lord. But the early Church fathers, like all men, were fundamentally corrupt and they built a system flawed in that corruption. And that's what Christ tried to get through in his Word.

Salvation is through Him and Him alone.

Read the Gospel of the Lord, user.

serbian orthodox are apostate I guess

I appreciate that but all entities with any kind of power will become corrupt. I haven't made any decisions yet but I will be visiting my local orthodox church this weekend. I will visit others as well. Except Catholic.

That same church contradict your view. So do all of those fathers

you said that you're atheist earlier itt. i'm interested, what changed your mind to become believer?

>all entities with any kind of power

You're not wrong, but the orthodox church literally has priest calling hits on one another in order to secure patriarchates or whatever.

What kind of ethnic jurisdiction are you in that all that craziness is going down? Bulgarian?

How'd you guess?

Can one of you ortho bros recommend me an intro book on general orthodoxy so I can learn more about the customs and stuff from your church please?


Matthew 4:4King James Version (KJV)

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Redpills. The rise of Marxism. Studying pizza gate related material. Not surface pizzagate crap but the deep stuff dyncorp organ harvesting stuff. The link between western civilization detoriating and a loss of cultural and moral values. That kind of stuff.

You're still not understanding me. I don't care what the "Catholic" Church thinks. I don't care what the early Church fathers think. The "Catholic" Church is not who I answer to.

I answer to God. I answer to Christ. And I answer to the Holy Spirit.

That's what Christ taught. That's what I abide.

Let me ask you a hypothetical. Can a person born imprisoned in a cave who lives and dies never getting to gaze upon God's creation not receive salvation except through the sacraments of the "Catholic" Church? Can a person born imprisoned in a cave who lives and dies but never knows of the "Catholic" Church unworthy of the Kingdom of Heaven?

If that same person born imprisoned in a cave who lives and dies feels the presence of the Lord inside himself, and he humbles himself before God to say that he trusts in Him, is he not worthy of eternal life with the Father?

I say he is. Because Christ said he is. And I believe, fundamentally, that the "Catholic" Church and it's teachings and the early Church fathers are wrong. And that it was done out of a corrupt quest for power, whether they knew it or not.

Nothing and no one is between me and the Lord, my God. Nothing and no one.

In the process of converting here. Orthodoxy has no formal RCIA process like Catholicism does. Some of the larger parishes in convert-rich areas may do group conversion courses, but even in those you'll find things to be a lot more personalized and custom-tailored than you would other denominations.

First step is to look up the parishes in your area. Then, email/call the ones within driving distance and tell them that you're interested in Orthodoxy. First of all, find a parish that's right for you. While all Orthodox believe the same thing, you want to find a Parish that prays in English (praying in a non-understandable language can be a really big turn off for some people) and one that has a large number of converts (these are pretty easy to find, actually) or at least has people from different backgrounds and isn't one of the "ethnic secret club" type places where you'll stand out. These are two very important questions to ask. If you can't choose one, just boil it down to whichever you like best, Byzantine chant or Slavic chant (Byzantine is best desu). Once you've settled on a parish, tell them/the priest that you want to meet up. Protip: If you have a monastery nearby, by all means go for it, you'll get infinitely more wisdom and resources than you would at a parish. I know it seems daunting, but try to even contact the bishop - Orthodox bishops are way, way less high and mighty than the Catholic ones, and depending on bishop, you might get a meeting out of it - hell, a fucking archbishop here agreed to be my one on one personal tutor.

Step two, meet up. Ask all questions you have. Ask about any beliefs you're unsure about. Ask about the process of converting and the demands that would be required of you. If you still want to continue, at the end, tell the priest that you want to go to your first Divine Liturgy (Mass).

Step 3, go to Liturgy and see want you think.

Step 4, you'll start taking classes. These are usually one on one with the priest. Some parishes might have groups, but you'll still get a decent amount of one on one time in.

Step five, BE Orthodox. This is the tricky part. You see, to become Orthodox, you need to live and believe Orthodox, and THEN get baptized, not the other way around. This can take a long time. Even several years in some cases, although that's quite rare.

Remember to read the Bible and pray everyday

Also this may be laughable but I found myself believing in the devil. I don't know if its a biblical devil but there does seem to be a malevolence inherit in people.

Thank you for your informative post.

>posts pagan image
>pretends to be Christian
When will Marios learn?

thanks for the answer
i hope you'll find the peace

Oh, also, I should mention. There are two Orthodox Churches, the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox. Although they both essentially believe the same thing (the scholars and leaders of both sides agreed many decades ago that the schism was over semantics and difficulties in translation and both sides essentially believe the same thing) but they haven't yet restored communion with each other. The Eastern Orthodox are by far the much larger group, and the one that %90 of converts go to. They're the continuation of the previous Churches, and the Oriental Orthodox really are basically just ethnic clubs.

The Law of God, by Seraphim Slobodsky. It's a Children's book, but it crams a whole hell of a lot of material into simple, easy to understand language.

One of Clark Carlton's books. He has two apologetic books, one aimed at Catholicism and one aimed at Protestantism. They basically shit all over them. He also has a nice, small catechism

Hilarion Alfeyev's Orthodox Christianity series. Extremely informative.

I don't know of any oriental orthodox churches remotely near me. I live in the southeastern US so not as much going on in the none protestant ways.

Thanks ill add them to my book orders.

>Orthodoxy focuses on Spirituality and Mystery rather than the Rationalism of the Western Churches.


What do you mean by this? I'm genuinely interested.

user, quoting a couple of people from a single denomination doesn't make the entire denomination bad. How many protestant pedophiles have they found? Would that make the entire protestant denomination illegitimate now? IMO, of course not.

If you want to discredit it, you'll need to do so more thoroughly.

This looks amazing, why can't all churches just get away from this boring "modern" look and embrace their originally amazing cathedral looks?

>I can study history and see that the (((Orthodox))) are misrepresenting and abusing the evidence.

Pls elaborate.

This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Can you explain more? I'm really looking for differences between Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy.

My situation was similar to yours. Was raised Protestant, early adult life was atheist, now I feel like I'm missing something in my life. I've come to the realization that it's probably spirituality and have been seeking for the "purest" form of Christianity. Basically, I'm looking for the most non-corrupted kind of Christianity.

A lot of Christians support what Israel is doing and its existence (I don't), along with making exceptions and being "tolerant", etc. I can't help but feel as if this is nothing but the subversion of the Christian community as a whole. That's why I'm looking at the different denominations and would like to know the differences if you can give me a quick rundown.

You mentioned being a Slav and you have a Bong flag. The other slavs I know to be common there are Poles and I know they're not Orthodox

The religion invented my mongoloid fuckers? Yeah, sounds good.

Ill take Christian sheep over Marxist sheep any day. The same ones laughing at Christians are the same ones screaming heretic and science denier if you dare question their priest..... I mean scientist.

Thanks will check out

Baptists are niggers

>What do you mean by this? I'm genuinely interested.
First remember that all Protestant churches are descended from Roman Catholicism and together form the "Western" church, while the Eastern and autonomous Oriental Orthodox together form the "Eastern" church.

The western church seems to have a need to come up with a logical explanation for pretty much everything (see the Doctrine of Purgatory which is not directly referenced in Scripture) while the eastern church leaves any seeming contradictions or issues to the Mystery of God. This actually makes them more open to alternative spiritual views because they do not deny it as untrue, but instead believe more things are possible but unrevealed.

The finest leafpost in years.

Yes Poles are catholic but the rest of Eastern Europe is mostly orthodox.

Thank you this is the kind of info in looking for.

What would you like me to explain more, user? The Orthodox understanding of salvation? My background?

Right but isn't it just Poles and Bulgarians that are common in bongland? Or are Romanians there too?

Just go to a liturgy (mass), find a church that doesn't have benches, lights everywhere and shit like that, but a church that is more traditional in the way they conduct their service.
It really feels much more "mystical" and christian than protestant or catholic churches.

There are plenty of Romanians here as well, but they're not Slavs.

You're right that amongst Slavs, Bulgarians are the latest big group to come in, but I'm not sure how our numbers compare to, say, Russians in the UK.

Either way, you deduced my heritage correctly.

This map illustrates why I am drawn to orthodoxy. Orthodoxy flourishes where communism and Marxism were tried and failed.

You could listen to some podcasts by the Orthodox Nationalist if you want a redpilled Orthodox Christian

tradyouth.org/2012/02/mrj_2012-02-02/

I loved listening to these in 2011 and 2012, got introduced to them by someone from /new/

You might get something out of Fr. Seraphim Rose's writings about nihilism

Nice saved the link I will listen at home.

Please no Matthew Heimbach larping

If you are thinking about joining the orthodox church, stay away from the Russian Orthodox Church. After 2007, they re-united with the Moscow Patriarch and Russia never really addressed the problem with priests working as KGB agents and now since the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia is united with the Moscow Church, that problem has spread to Russian Orthodox branches in America.

yes i'm planning to visit hilandar some time in the future
they say if you're real orthodox you must visit it

Just checked out some quotes seems legit I will add it to the book order in gonna go broke on books kek. Good thing to go broke on i guess.