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Old 11-07-2014, 07:27 PM   #31
InChristAlone
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Some more links:

The Original Christian Gospel
FR. JAMES BERNSTEIN


http://www.pravmir.com/the-original-christian-gospel

Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament?
by Fr. James Bernstein


http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/whichcamefirst.aspx

Chapters from “The Truth of Our Faith”:

http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/ec_bookinfo.aspx

Finding The New Testament Church
By Fr. Jon E. Braun


http://www.antiochian.org/content/fi...stament-church
http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/orthod...stament-church

Patriarchates, Bishops, and Popes - Is the Catholic Church the direct line from Peter?

http://wellthoughtoutlife.blogspot.c...-popes-is.html

Understanding the Orthodox Christian Faith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxdbE7033Ho

Sola Scriptura. In the Vanity of Their Minds
by Fr. John Whiteford

http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/tc...scriptura.aspx

Is Venerating Icons Idolatry? by Timothy Copple

http://www.orthodoxconvert.info/Q-A....Icons+Idolatry

No Graven Image: Icons and Their Proper Use by Fr. Jack N. Sparks, Ph.D.

http://www.antiochian.org/content/no...eir-proper-use

Are not icons images or idols that are forbidden by the ten commandments? Why do the Orthodox give such reverence (kissing, etc) to icons?

http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/o...ns-and-relics/

The Functions of Icons by Dr. Constantine Cavarnos

http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/icon_function.aspx

What is an Icon? Do Orthodox Christians pray to Icons? Do Icons work miracles? Doesn’t the 2nd Commandment forbid Icons? Icons in the Old Testament.

http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/o...ns-and-relics/

Holy Fathers – On Veneration of Icons (Fr. Alexey Young)

http://www.roca.org/OA/19/19e.htm

What is Orthodoxy?

Orthodoxy is not only the sum total of dogmas accepted as true in a purely formal manner. It is not only theory, but practice; it is not only right Faith, but a life which agrees in everything with this Faith. The true Orthodox Christian is not only he who thinks in an Orthodox manner, but who feels according to Orthodoxy and lives Orthodoxy, who strives to embody the true Orthodox teaching of Christ in his life.

http://www.euphrosynoscafe.com/www.s...Orthodoxy.html

Theosis: The True Purpose of Human Life

http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/theosis.aspx

Some straight answers about the Orthodox Church

http://web.mit.edu/ocf/www/orthodox_qna.html

Rules for Pious Life

http://www.fatheralexander.org/bookl...sh/ch_life.htm

HOW OLD IS THE ORTHODOX FAITH?

http://stinnocentorthodoxchurch.org/...rthodox-faith/

I still remember and like the quote about Orthodoxy that Aron shared once. The words belong to the Russian thinker Nicolai Berdyaev:

“Orthodoxy is first of all, an orthodoxy of life and not an orthodoxy of indoctrination. For it, heretics are not so much those who confess a false doctrine but those who have a false spiritual life and go along a false spiritual path. Orthodoxy is before all else, not a doctrine, not an external organization, not an external norm of behavior but a spiritual life, a spiritual experience and a spiritual path. It sees the substance of Christianity in internal spiritual activity. Orthodoxy is less the normative form of Christianity (in the sense of a normative-rational logic and moral law) but is rather its more spiritual form”.

We can say the same about Berdayev. He was a great thinker but some of his ideas were controversial and not Orthodox at all. But by his life, he was an Orthodox Christian.
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