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**ButKnillinoi** · 03-26-2010, 12:16 AM

In an historic Christian sense, those who would abide in the Holy Trinity, through the Son, cannot divide Unity from Truth. To ask which is more important is a nonsensical question for the one(s) who would abide in the Father through the Son by means of the Spirit.

Which is more important? Orthodoxy or Truth?

Which is more important? Orthodoxy or Unity?

OK, it was a trick question. We call ourselves Orthodox Christians. The very meaning of Ortho-doxa is "right-worship" or "correct-doctrine" or "true-belief" or any combination thereof, therefore we obviously believe that Orthodoxy=correct/full knowledge of the Truth which is Christ the Lord. Any move towards unity that appears to compromise the teachings of the Church is not going to be seen favorably by a large segment of that Church.

The RC Church seems to have a much looser standard of Truth, since things like the filioque are now "optional" and recognition of the authority of the Vatican seems to get a greater emphasis than actual teachings (since "eastern catholics" appear to get a pass on otherwise "required" Catholic doctrines).

Orthodoxy seems less willing to allow such wiggle room, is that wrong? Seems like a sliding scale, with Orthodoxy at one end, Catholicism in the middle and Anglicanism at the other end (can anyone definitively say what the Anglican church teaches at this point on just about any topic?). And of course Protestant churches are all over the map, not what the Apostle Paul had in mind when he stressed we should be "of one mind", donchathink?

Herman the "unity in Truth" advocating Pooh

03-26-2010, 12:16 AM	#9
ButKnillinoi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 495 Senior Member	In an historic Christian sense, those who would abide in the Holy Trinity, through the Son, cannot divide Unity from Truth. To ask which is more important is a nonsensical question for the one(s) who would abide in the Father through the Son by means of the Spirit. Which is more important? Orthodoxy or Truth? Which is more important? Orthodoxy or Unity? OK, it was a trick question. We call ourselves Orthodox Christians. The very meaning of Ortho-doxa is "right-worship" or "correct-doctrine" or "true-belief" or any combination thereof, therefore we obviously believe that Orthodoxy=correct/full knowledge of the Truth which is Christ the Lord. Any move towards unity that appears to compromise the teachings of the Church is not going to be seen favorably by a large segment of that Church. The RC Church seems to have a much looser standard of Truth, since things like the filioque are now "optional" and recognition of the authority of the Vatican seems to get a greater emphasis than actual teachings (since "eastern catholics" appear to get a pass on otherwise "required" Catholic doctrines). Orthodoxy seems less willing to allow such wiggle room, is that wrong? Seems like a sliding scale, with Orthodoxy at one end, Catholicism in the middle and Anglicanism at the other end (can anyone definitively say what the Anglican church teaches at this point on just about any topic?). And of course Protestant churches are all over the map, not what the Apostle Paul had in mind when he stressed we should be "of one mind", donchathink? Herman the "unity in Truth" advocating Pooh
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