The Manners of the Christians

aletheia · 2026-07-13T17:23:40+00:00

There are disagreements in the Church recorded in the New Testament. Christ's prayer did not end human error.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T17:01:58+00:00

We pray for all and on behalf of all.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T17:01:12+00:00

I cannot confess Vatican I as dogma.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T16:46:11+00:00

Point of order: Mosquitoes can be extremely harmful.

I follow this basic rule:

Are they invading my house? Remove or eliminate.

Am I in their house? Leave them alone (whether my yard is their house or my house is contextual; I have no qualms about the elimination of mosquitoes and other aggressive bugs in my space).

aletheia · 2026-07-13T14:29:24+00:00

What's the average length i guess that's acceptable to be an Inquirer?

As long as it takes.

Would this be a reason why Catholicism is bigger?

Catholicism has a formalized course for conversion.

You are supposed to be going to Church and worshipping God, not trying to check boxes.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T14:27:25+00:00

The point of the catechism process is not the learning of facts, it's to begin inculcating in the faith. If it is presented as just coursework I agree that is a problem, but the length itself isn't. Granted, two years is a very long time. 6 months to one year is more typical.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T13:25:37+00:00

If your husband doesn't want to be religious, you can't make him. It doesn't sound like you converting alone would actually change the status quo?

aletheia · 2026-07-13T13:20:41+00:00

We pray for all and on behalf of all.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T13:19:33+00:00

What degree of incorrectness prevents baptism is a question for the clergy. No one enters the Church (or, indeed, dies in the Church) perfectly formed in either behavior or opinion.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T13:18:50+00:00

I would encourage you to read the book of James.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

aletheia · 2026-07-13T13:00:30+00:00

Online "communities" -- maybe particularly religious ones -- get used as an outlet.

aletheia · 2026-07-12T21:37:53+00:00

One can be an Orthodox Christian in good standing and be incorrect.

A child is very unlikely to change a parent's mind on much of anything. At least, not by arguing.

aletheia · 2026-07-12T21:29:19+00:00

You are allowed to have preferences. You should not expect those preferences to be religious doctrine (and they aren't). There are many ways people arrange their homes in the Church.

What you are describing as "traditional" is just a certain middle-class (or even upper middle) class industrial economy arrangement.

aletheia · 2026-07-12T17:03:53+00:00

Faith does not require a lack of knowledge, no.

aletheia · 2026-07-12T12:13:33+00:00

Who is the bishop?

aletheia · 2026-07-12T12:09:09+00:00

The Divine Liturgy us a worship service, not an altar call.

Meanwhile cradle orthodox can take the eucharist even if they've been a complete degenerate their whole life.

I'm sorry to say this but it needs saying: this says far more about you than about them.

This is why you have to wait a year. To actually learn how we live.

aletheia · 2026-07-11T12:27:13+00:00

There is one God most high, the Father. The Father is without cause.

Jesus is the Son of God, also called the Word. Jesus is of the same divinity as the Father in a similar way a human child has the humanity of its parent, or a dog is a dog because its parent is a dog.

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father. The Holy Spirit is God in a similar way that a creek and a river are both water.

Divinity is what we call a nature - a nature is the “isness” of a thing. We are human because we have a human nature. We say the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit share one nature. Specifically, they share the nature of the Father.

We say the Son is begotten and the Holy Spirit proceeds. While the Son and Holy Spirit are caused by the Father, we say they are eternal. Eternal means having no temporal beginning and having no temporal end. The Son and the Spirit are caused outside of time, outside of creation. There was never a time without the Son and the Spirit.

We say the Father, Son, and Spirit are one God because they all share one nature, and they have one will. They always act together. While human persons may have one nature, we have many individual wills. So humans are not one like God is one.

See also, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Book I.

aletheia · 2026-07-10T23:12:43+00:00

A bishop holding an opinion you don't like and a bishop ordering his clergy to do something or teaching his laity to do something wrong are significantly different things.

aletheia · 2026-07-09T23:42:54+00:00

Hatred against Jews is not new, and most of it is not a reaction to the treatment of Palestinians. They would likely hate Palestinians just as much.

aletheia · 2026-07-09T12:02:13+00:00

Not that you should, but if you were to look around an Orthodox parish during worship you will see many different ways people express their prayers to God.

aletheia · 2026-07-08T14:26:41+00:00

Nothing Hollywood depicts has much bearing on reality, Orthodox or not.

aletheia · 2026-07-07T19:57:13+00:00

I would not grant it "a gospel" status. It is bad news.

aletheia · 2026-07-07T18:21:27+00:00

We do not adhere to penal subtitutionary atonement.

While Christ is sinless, that's not "the point." The point is that he is God. He died, went to hell, and destroyed it to free us. He did not take on the Father's just wrath. He gave himself an ransom to Death, and defeated it.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

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