Just because Roman Catholics aren't speaking truth when they claim they are the true Church, doesn't mean there is no true Church out there and therefore everyone else is a liar too. All churches which claim to be the true Church are liars, with the exception of one.
There can only be one true Church that Christ founded. It must exist visibly since Pentecost. (this obviously excludes Protestants who have only existed for 500 years.)
The Roman Catholics (Papists) claim to go back all the way to the Apostle Peter, yet this is a lie. There was no such thing as Roman Catholicism until several centuries later. To be a Roman Catholic you must be in communion and subjugation to the primacy of the Pope. Orthodox have never accepted such nonsense, and even many pious and Orthodox Popes such as St. Gregory the Great (†604) rejected universal primacy of the See of Rome. St. Augustine (†430) never taught that the Pope of Rome had universal primacy, and he did not teach the heretical belief in the so-called "Immaculate Conception" of the Mother of God either.
St. Augugstine and St. Gregory the Great are Orthodox Saints, not Roman Catholic Saints. Roman Catholicism did not even exist in the late 4th century of Blessed Augustine, nor in the 6th century when St. Gregory the Great was Pope of Rome.
Roman Catholics wish to trick people into believing that the false teachings which they espouse today were always believed going back to the Apostles. This is patently absurd, to anyone who has objectively studied Church history.
The Orthodox Church rejects the notion of one man -- the Pope, exercising authority over the Church. The Orthodox reject the "Immaculate Conception", the heretical use of the Filioque, and Purgatory, among other Latin heresies that have sprung up since the Papist Latin left the Church and started the Crusades.
Christ did not tell the holy Apostle Peter, "...and upon this rock I will build my Churches (plural) -- he said Church (singular).
None of you will have any excuse on the Day of Judgment since you will not no longer be able to say that no one shared with you the truth that the Holy Orthodox Church is Christ's One and only true Church.
It is not necessary to repeat myself numerous times. The Orthodox Church does not teach the heretical perversities that the Papists and Protestants adhere too.
If you choose not to approach the Orthodox Church -- the Ark of Salvation, then your blood be upon your own head.
Kyrie eleison! |
