Orthodox Saints answer the question: do Muslims and jews worship the Christian God? 🧵 According to Daniel Sahas, Muslims who entered the Church were required to anathematize the God of Muhammad as early as the late eighth century.

Byzantium and Islam by Daniel Sahas, pg. 434 almuslih.org/wp-content/upl…

Given there are those blaspheming Tsar St. Nicholas II today, I find appropriate this thread: The Coronation of the Russian Tsar🧵☦️ The procession to the Cathedral of the Dormition, where the Coronation ceremony will take place:

The Eastern Orthodox view of the Papacy🧵 (1/6) (2/6)

The best summary of the ecclesiology of the First Millennium is from St. Theodore the Studite:

But here it is a question of divine and heavenly decisions and those are reserved only to him to whom the Word of God has said: “Whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, will be bound in Heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in Heaven.” And who are the men to whom this order was given?–  the Apostles and their successors.And who are their successors? –he who occupies the throne of Rome and is the first; the one who sits upon the throne of Constantinople and is the second; after them, those of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. That is the Pentarchic authority in the Church. It is to them that all decision belongs in divine dogmas.”
St. Theodore the Studite (Taken from Fr. Francis Dvornik’s, “Byzantium and the Roman Primacy” p. 101)

In other words, Rome was the First See, but not alone as the Rock of the Church.

The Roman Catholic 8th Ecumenical Council similarly states:

“God established his church in five patriarchates and decreed in his gospels that they would never at any time totally fall away, since they are the heads of the church. For the saying ‘And the gates of the underworld will not prevail against it’ has this meaning: if two were to fall away, people are to have recourse to three, and if three fall away, they are to have recourse to two, while if it so happened that four were to fall away, the single one remaining in the head of all, Christ our God would call back again the remnant of the body of the Church." Price, Acts of Constantinople 869, pg 343

Notice in the case of mass apostasy across 4/5 patriarchs, the one upholding Orthodoxy becomes the head: and Rome is not mentioned.

Did a Roman Catholic just say “your church allows contraception” or “your church allows divorce” or “your church can’t decide on rebaptism” or “your church doesn’t have a head and can’t call Ecumenical Councils”?

Save this thread for when they do🧵 “Your church allows contraception”

When medically necessary, as determined by their priest. Hate to break it to you, but your church allows the same:



Additionally please see this article by Ubi Petrus on the patristics of the matter:

catholic.com/qa/birth-contr…
ubipetrusibiecclesia.com/2022/04/21/con…

The doctrine of the Trinity 🧵

Send this to anyone who is confused by this doctrine. (1/6) For those with a short attention span:

The Trinity is one God, three persons, who have common mind, will, and power (energy).

Distinction without separation, thus one God when counting by division. (2/6)

“The word Trinity isn’t in the Bible, Constantine made that up when he removed books at the Council of Nicaea”

Send this this thread to your Arian and Modalist friends🧵(1/9) First of all, the Council of Nicaea was about the uncreated consubstantial nature of Christ. The only evidence the books of the Bible were discussed there is a passing comment from St. Jerome regarding the book of Judith. (2/9)

1. Why I’m leaving after 27 years of being a devout Protestant Christian.

A thread🧵 2. Now calm down everyone, I’m not leaving Christianity. In fact I am converting to the faith of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity.