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Books on Orthodox Ecclesiology (Teaching on the Church)

 



The Church is the Body of Christ which is ontologically bound to Him, It is not an organization but an Organism, We are the members of His body, heretics simply fall away from this Body, In Church history there were many times where the organization persecuted the Organism, like during the persecution of St John Chrysostom, during St Maximus the Confessor, St Theodore the Studiite, St Mark of Ephesus and in the 20th century Russia during sergianism and also presently during the heresies of ecumenism and sergianism. The Church is based not on bishops who sin and are fallible but on Christ, His Apostles, The Ecumenical Councils, The Consensus of Saints.

The main error of papism is its identification of the Church with the pope, instead of Christ the head of the Church became a fallible human which they claim infallible. That is why all our Saints called catholics papists and the pope as the precursor of the antichrist. St Justin Popovich called papism the proto-protestantism the first major rebellion against the Church of Christ.

Protestantism is no different because instead of the pope now everyone becomes a pope, hence all their 10000+ denominations and rejection of the Tradition of the Church. They both replaced Christ and His grace with humanism and falled human reason.

Only the Orthodox Church preserves the nature of Church as it was established by Christ.

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