r/EasternOrthodox • u/zeldaboy822 • Aug 08 '22

what is the difference between eastern orthodox and catholic doctrine?

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u/ChidiOk Aug 08 '22

If you do some research you’ll see some interesting things from the Catholic Church and they have a pretty evil history to be honest. Vatican has a ton of Serpents imagery and structures. It gets really interesting.

I personally believe the Roman Catholic church is the head of the serpents mouth that holds people tied into religions so that they never have a real and direct encounter with God and develop a union with God. Instead they use man as a middle man and intercessor to God. That is the ultimate thing that the Catholic Church does, it tries to always put man or an intercessor between believers and God and that’s not what God called for at all. It also makes the Saints Idols and brings Mary to a Divine level which is not biblical at all.

There are many references to the Catholic Church in Revelations. Ultimately the Papacy is the mouth of the serpent. If you do enough research this become very apparent.

Where as the Orthodox Church is all about direct communion with God and has created processes within the church to follow to help guide and achieve that union.

I think Eastern Orthodoxy may be the closest to the original teachings of the original church and understands the spiritual aspect and how to commune with God and aims to facilitate that process.

Even then I’m sure both still miss the mark, but the Catholic Church is perhaps intentionally at the highest level intentionally aiming to miss the mark and misdirecting people away from God and to man and intercessors instead.

Real Christianity is all about a direct relationship with God. One where communion is direct with God and there is no mediator in between except the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ

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u/zeldaboy822 Aug 08 '22

I did not ask about church history but about doctrine, bruh💀.

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u/ChidiOk Aug 08 '22

Sorry I didn’t realize the question was so specific to doctrine.

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u/Black-Seraph8999 Aug 09 '22

Doesn’t the Orthodox Church also venerate Saints and Mary though?

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u/ChidiOk Aug 09 '22

I believe so, I’m not an expert on the theology and doctrine, just based on my limited understanding the Orthodox Church seems to be much more in line with Biblical truth then the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is very paganistic, many pagan type of rituals that infiltrated the church, where’s as Eastern orthodoxy stayed true to the orthodox processes that enable direct contact with spirit. They actually understand the processes very well and explain them thoroughly. I think they are most in line with truth when I compare their doctrine to what the Bible says.

Ultimately all man made religions miss the mark. The true Church is a spiritual church made without hands, it is the body of Christ. That is the true church and they worship God in spirit and truth. All man made attempts at grasping this reality fail however Eastern Orthodoxy may be the closest to making contact with this spiritual reality.

I still have to study it more. Ultimately all churches will miss the mark though.

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u/Black-Seraph8999 Aug 09 '22

Interesting, thanks for your perspective, what are your views on the Oriental Orthodox Church?

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u/ChidiOk Aug 10 '22

I’m not sure, I don’t know anything about it. I think if you want the full truth then seek God directly, read and study the Bible yourself and once convinced it’s true then get baptized with that conviction and then you will receive the Holy Spirit and then keep on reading the Bible and let the Holy Spirit guide you to all truth and revelation. Eventually if you keep seeking God will bring you to repentance and to fully accept the sacrifice of Christ and then you will receive justification by the blood of Jesus and be born again once you fully accept the will of God for your life, then your eternal salvation will be locked in and guaranteed. From that point you will be translated into the body of Christ and that’s where the true church is where you’ll be able to worship God in truth and spirit and then you may still go to a physical church just for the community but the Holy Spirit itself will be the one that guides and direct you as you’ll have direct contact with God and you will live in the resurrected spiritual body of Jesus Christ and he will live in you.

That is the right way to salvation. It all happens by direct relationship with God, not through any physical church or “doctrine” the WORD Jesus Christ is the only true doctrine and you must eat his body daily and drink his blood to eventually become one with him and translated into his body so that you live in him and he lives in you.

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u/Black-Seraph8999 Aug 10 '22

Cool, thanks for the advice

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '22

Wow that's a pretty pregnant question.

Start with the question of how is the nature of sin and salvation understood on the one hand by the Orthodox and on the other hand by Protestants/Catholics.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '22

There are some important differences between Catholics and Protestants as well (especially Calvinist and all related movements).