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| Check it out!How old is the ORTHODOX faith?
If you are a Lutheran,
your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the Catholic
Church, in the year 1517. If you belong to the Church of England, your
religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the
Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to re-marry. If you
are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland
in the year 1560. If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was
originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582. If you are Protestant
Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England,
founded by Samuel Senbury in the American colonies in the 17th century.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John
Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1606. If you are of the Dutch
Reformed Church, you recognize Michelis Jones as founder because he
originated your religion in New York in 1628. If you are a Methodist,
your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in
1774. If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started
your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829. If you worship with the
Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which
your religion was born and to Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
If
you belong to one of the religious organizations known as "Church of
the Nazarene, Pentecostal Gospel," "Holiness Church," or "Jehovah's
Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded
by men within the past hundred years.
If you are Roman Catholic,
your church shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as
the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history, since
during the first millennium they were one and the same Church.
Lamentably, in 1054, the Pope of Rome broke away from the other four
Apostolic Patriarchates (which include Constantinople, Alexandria,
Antioch and Jerusalem), by tampering with the Original Creed of the
Church, and considering himself to be infallible. Thus your church is
1,000 years old.
Part 1
If you are ORTHODOX Christian, your religion was founded in the
year 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that
time. Our church is now almost 2,000 years old. And it is for this
reason, that Orthodoxy, the Church of the Apostles and the Fathers is
considered the true "one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church." This is
the greatest legacy that we can pass on to the young people of the new
millennium.
Part 2
Part 3
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