re: Biggest split in modern Orthodox history

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so you don't understand james. that's all you had to say. that is NOT what james is saying. would you like for me to introduce you to some commentaries that can correct your misconception? 

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He says what he says. No mental gymnastics required on this end. Also, commentaries? Who's? I'll stick with Patristic sources. Also, that's not Sola Scriptura.

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which is preceded by saving faith and of course you would know that if you had studied james properly, such as james 2:23. 

ftr, you are taking james at his word and are out serving the community, ministering to those who are hurting, giving of your time, you money, right? 

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Want to know the only place in the Bible that mentions Faith Alone? Yep: James 2:24 where it says we're not saved by faith alone.

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holy cow you are deluded. have you ever heard of the rylands papyrus (p52)? do you know the significance of 1 cor 15:3-4? 

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Sure. I also know many Churches thought the Epistles of Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas were Scripture.

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jesus treated scripture as the true, infallible word of god. but you knew that already didn't you? 

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Sure. He and the writers of the NT quoted from the Septuagint often. This begs the question of why did Protestants then decide to use the Masoratic texts instead.

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the bible itself. the patristics. 

listen, you and your assertions are precisely the kind of thing that causes many people to reject christianity, like david kinnamon wrote about in unchristian. i know you don't see that right now because you are indoctrinated. i'm trying to help you break out of that and see what is going on in the real world of christianity, not the institutionalized, bastardized version of it. you don't even know the history of the reformation. you have been inculcated with some nonsense whitewashed version of it. you know just enough to be dangerous 

you are hurting the kingdom. please stop.

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The Patristic writings were a huge factor leading me from Protestantism. I spent the first 35 years of my life as Protestant. Sorry but truth is truth. I wont stop sharing it.

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When you are descending into the fires of Hell, you won't be thanking the Protestants of 1517. They have damned your soul for eternity and it's not even your fault. There is still time and I would encourage you to use that time to embrace the one, true Church rather than remain a heretic and apostate.

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Cool that you and I agree on something.

Has the Latvian Orthodox Church taken a position on this yet?

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He just wanted to get laid more often and not feel guilty about it

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Ummm, you have made the sex before in woman, yes?

Is very niiiiiiiiiiice!!!!!

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IOW, you don't have one

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my word

literally, page 1

"The dissolution is such, that the souls entrusted to the clergy receive great damage, for we are told that the majority of the clergy are living in open concubinage, and that if our justice intervenes in order to punish them, they revolt and create a scandal, and that they despise our justice to the point that they arm themselves against it."

Isabella of Castille (1451-1504), on November 20, 1500.

"...it was clear that the church was in need of profound reformation, and that many longed for it. The decline and corruption of the papacy was well known."

"Through war, intrigue, bribery and licentiousness, these popes sought to restore and even to outdo the glories of ancient Rome."

did you know that at one point, the church had a standing army? now why would they need that?

"Such corrupt leadership set the tone for most of the lesser clergy and the monastics. While clerical celibacy was the law of the church, there were many who broke it openly; and bishops and local priests alike - and even some popes - flaunted their illegitimate children. The ancient monastic discipline was increasingly relaxed as convents and monasteries became centers of leisurely living. Monarchs and the high nobility often provided for their illegitimate offspring by having them named abbots and abbesses, with no regard for their monastic vocation or lack of it."

So, that was a primary source and a secondary source. your welcome

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it was never a teaching of the Catholic Church

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then why did they fight the reformers? i have already asked this question and did not get an answer.

if what you're saying is true, then they would have realized the error of their ways, agreed with the reformers and purged the offenders. there would be no protestant church

they may not have "taught" it but they certainly thought it was justified under catholic auspices

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Jesus said He would judge us by how we cared for the poor and hungry. N

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Yeah but Protestants say Jesus was full of shite

if you really think we think that then you are really the ignorant one

Christ founded one church and it’s not the one in the prot’s head

but muh institutions muh catholic is the only argument they have