MUSLIMS REACT to ORTHODOX vs CATHOLIC Christianity 

For Eastern Orthodox priests and monks - the beard is seen as a symbol of maturity, piety, and dedication to their religious calling. It is considered a sign of respect and a visual reminder of their commitment to their faith and the ascetic traditions of monasticism. In the New Testament, the apostles and early Christian leaders were often depicted with beards, and Jesus Christ himself is often portrayed with facial hair in Eastern Orthodox iconography. In regards to fasting according to the Eastern Orthodox faith, the two primary fasting seasons are Great Lent and Advent. Great Lent lasts for 40 days and is a time of intense spiritual preparation leading up to Easter. Advent, also known as the Nativity Fast, occurs for 40 days before Christmas and focuses on preparing for the birth of Jesus Christ. In addition to these major fasts, there are several other fasting periods and days scattered throughout the liturgical calendar. The purpose of fasting in the Eastern Orthodox Church is to cultivate self-discipline, focus on prayer and repentance, and foster spiritual growth. It is seen as a means of purifying the body and mind, detaching from worldly desires, and drawing closer to God. Fasting typically involves abstaining from certain types of foods, such as meat, dairy, and oil, and may also include restrictions on the frequency and quantity of meals. Furthermore, every Wednesday and Friday are considered fasting days regardless. Wednesday is associated with the betrayal of Jesus by Judas, while Friday commemorates His crucification. Finally, the difference in the structures and understandings of authority between the two traditions played a significant role in the split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in the Great Schism of 1054. I hope my explanation has answered a few of your questions! I’m always more than happy to help. Source: I’m an Eastern Orthodox Christian.

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During Great Lent, Orthodox Christians abstain from animal and derived products (ie. they're vegan) for 40 days. Many also abstain from olive oil. In addition fasting also takes place every Wednesday and Friday to be able to take communion.

Really appreciate the spirit of open, non-judgmental inquiry and sharing of viewpoints here. I think this video is setting a really good example for all of us.

As an Orthodox Christian we know that when Jesus gave Peter the keys as it is written in scripture, that the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven aren’t Peter/the Bishop of Rome, instead the keys to the Kingdom are Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Lord and Messiah. Forgive me if I’ve written that in a confusing way.

Orthodox Christians hold fast to the apostolic traditions passed down by Jesus to His apostles.. thays what we keep and always will keep.. we don't interpret the bible, we follow the apostles teachings passed down to us generation by generation, no such thing as innovation... We keep the Lords traditions..

A little late, but here is a historical fact. It was very common, especially in the Middle ages for a Patriarch(Orthodox High Priest) to take a weapon and defend their country, even organize the defense and logistics. However, there was no Patriarch that organized a crusade. On the other hand, the Vatican priests never touched a weapon in their life, but they organized lots of crusades.

As a Catholic theologian I would say that the differences between the Catholics and Orthodox can be divided into few sections. You are right that most of them are cultural and historical. As Catholics we don't say that Orthodox pray in a wrong way or their liturgy is incorrect. We consider it as historical and cultural differences that are normal and allowed. Actually, parts of the Catholic Church are Eastern Catholic Churches, which have liturgy, traditions, laws and prayers very similar to the Orthodox Church. The Church is global, so it has different forms. What really matters is what we believe. I think the differences are actually 3: - the role of the Pope (commenting it is not neccesary) - tha Ecumenical Councils - the dogmas The Orthodox Church believes that Ecumenical Council is the highest authority in the Church and that the Church has already 7 of them. Some of the Orthodox acknowledge 1 or 2 more, but of a lesser rank. They stopped having new Councils after the 1054 schism, because of the doubt if it could be truly ecumenical and to focus on the doctrine already established. The Catholic Church has never stopped calling its Councils and now is 21 of them and counting. All of them have equal rank. Catholics also proclaimed few new dogmas after the schism. The Assumption of Mary, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Purgatory, the Indulgences etc. Most of these things are not rejected by Orthodox, but they are not dogmas. The Orthodox have different opinions about it and various theological tradiotions. Some dogmas are really close like Assumption and some very far like Indulgences. It also has its reverse side, but to be honest the Orthodox tend not to dogmatise things and Catholics quite the opposite. Some things like the famous Filioque are considered closed as an issue between the Churches after theological dialogue. So main difference is the Pope. Then history. New councils and new dogmas, which strengthened the schism. Orthodoxy focused on preserving its beliefs from the 1th millenium. Catholicism became more dynamic and bold in a matter of doctrine (and law) and its development. It's because the different sense of authority. Catholics consider Pope as a rock of unity and faith. So they tend to rely on him, that he will stop all the mistakes. Orthodox rely on the Ecumenical Councils, but after schism they are not totally ok with calling them. Ofc there are at last cultural things and theological tendencies to emphasize some things, which make the differences seen much bigger than they are. Btw I love your videos. Your opinions are very reasonable, thoughtful and open-minded.

A couple of points from an Orthodox perspective - -Firstly, regarding our leadership, we do believe that the pope has primacy (but not supremacy) and he holds the title of "First among equals", however, since he is in schism from the church, he is unfortunately not our head. We do still have Peterine succession though (Bishops who are direct successors of the Apostle Peter) in the form of the Patriarch of Antioch (Peter was the first bishop there) and the Patriarch of Alexandria, which was also established by Peter. We believe that church tradition, and the fathers/saints, does not support the idea of papal infallibility, or Supreme authority. -On the involvement of Children We (Orthodox) want our children to be educated in the faith as well, but we don't believe that's a good reason to prevent them from receiving the Sacraments through their developing years. In fact, what better way is their to teach them about the faith than to raise them in the full extent of it? Also, keep in mind that communion is considered vital in traditional Christianity for one's spiritual well-being, preventing someone from receiving that until they reach a so-called "age of reason" is generally regarded by the Orthodox as being quite troublesome and even dangerous. I've met many Catholics that agree with these principles, and want to revert to their original tradition in that area of adolescent Sacramental involvement. - Orthodox priests generally have beards to more closely resemble Christ. But it's not a requirement. Finally, if you'd like a more in depth analysis of the differences between the 2 faiths, I'd highly recommend watching "Seraphim Hamilton's" videos on yt. His videos are long, but very informative. God bless and love to my Catholic brethren!

As someone who grew up as a Catholic, had first neighbour Orthodox and another Sunni Muslim, and family friends Bektashi Muslims I have a bit of knowledge about theme. So in my family there was a 3 forms of fasting. On friday you can fast (1 meal a day) and no meat (children, sick, pregnant and people working really hard work are excluded) or no food at all. 40 days before Easter light fasting, prayer and no food on couple of days 2 weeks before Easter. Fasting as a type of sacrifice combined with meditation and prayer for someone close can last indefinitely (my mother for my sinful atheistic soul). Fasting is considered if you eat 1 meal not enough to satisfy hunger or no food at all. Usually beside Friday we did 1 other day (tuesday or wednesday). So this is how real Catholic should behave. Most of Catholics have patron saint for themselves and Orthodox have one for family. And there are also Catholic Orthodox, they follow a pope but rest is like Orthodox, and usually use Old Church Slavonic language. Prostration is for special form of prayer for heavy sinners, adamant devotees and priests. There is holy water and ointment. As for beards, well roman tradition, I know a lot of priests with beards of all sizes and forms Catholic and Orthodox. In reality we call each other on our holly days or at least bring cakes and food, mostly old people practice their faith strictly (maybe because death is close?). Of course you will not offer a Muslim alcohol or pork but most do consume it except in Ramadan and Kurban Bayram. And there is a thing with making sign of cross, we do it with 5 fingers - 5 wounds of Jesus and Orthodox with 3 - Holy trinity. And Orthodox have messed up calendar and priests can marry, but some choose celibacy. Orthodox Catholics priests can also marry and are trying to push that into Catholicism. If Catholic priest have a child he is responsible for child and mother. For Croats Catholic church had a lot of compromises because Orthodox church and Islam,. Also Islam for Bosniaks and Albanians has a lot of compromises. That is the only way to live together. Basically don't be an asshole and respect your neighbour otherwise blood will flow and nobody wins...

we orthodox also fast for like 40 days sometimes in the year not just wednesday and friday

I'm a catholic during lent we fast for 40 days like Jesus did praise the Lord Jesus Christ

Love how respectful this video was! You both are very well spoken ❤

As a Catholic, I really appreciate your open mindedness to the education of both of these denominations. Thank you for being chill about it, as I've had some bad experiences speaking/debating to Muslims about my faith and theirs. +1Sub

I'm from a Roman Catholic country (Colombia) 🇨🇴 but i converted to Orthodox faith ☦️. I'm proud of how Christian is the people in the Towns of my country but in the big cities the people is atheist liberals and the Roman Catholic Church does nothing to fight against that !

For the pope, there are differences in how things are read. Roman Catholics read the keys in Matthew 16.19 as an exclusive prerogative given to St. Peter. However, the Orthodox understand the keys to be the power to forgive sins, and so all the Apostles received the keys since the same prerogatives in Mt. 18.18. Thus the chair of Peter is shared by the whole episcopate. A good show of this comes in the book of Acts at the council of Jerusalem. Peter was there, but he did not preside. This difference in reading appears in the Fathers. Where Roman Catholics see a reference to Peter, they always see the Pope, but the Orthodox see the pope as having authority only insofar as he stays in communion with the rest of the Church and holds to the traditions of the faith. The difference played out tellingly in St. Cyril's dispute with pope St. Stephen. They were disputing about baptism. St. Cyril, in his "On the Unity of the Church," insisted that Christ established only one chair of Peter and argued the pope had left it. Later, because the language was so strong, this work was edited so that he affirmed what Roman Catholics think today. As a result, two versions of this book are now extant. In virtually every Petrine prooftext, there is an Orthodox who says, "What's the context?" because we simply don't read them the same. The Filioque is downstream from the differences about the pope, but wasn't touched on enough. The problem comes up in that when it was made, anathemas were leveled at anybody, without exception, who would change it. Thus the Orthodox believe changing it constitutes heresy, i.e. any changes without an ecumenical council. The pope did change it, and so claims authority even over the councils. What the insertion even means is secondary to "Was it permissible to even change it?" Another distinction is the doctrine of grace or energies. Because of a grammar technicality, Latin couldn't properly translate the Apostle Paul's use of the Greek words for "energy." As a result, Orthodoxy worked out the Greek text so that we cannot know God's inner being, but we can know him through his activity, which is also a category of being, and we can literally be a part of it while still being separate. However since these two modes of being couldn't be articulated in Latin, they didn't make this distinction such that God's being is always beyond us. I'm grossly oversimplifying, but it very much is one of the most important differences. Here is a video with an interview on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--280DS1W4BU.html There are many other differences the video didn't touch on. Most Orthodox see sin as a contamination, or a disease. Roman Catholics see it primarily as a legal problem. Indulgences are downstream from this, because they assume we can merits that wipe away sins, and indulgences are extra merits earned by saints that can be used for others. Orthodoxy has no such conception, because our framework is different. "Merit" is a Latin-specific doctrine. Orthodoxy doesn't believe we can inherit guilt from our ancestors. Roman Catholicism makes it a dogma and builds the immaculate conception on top of that. There are lots more I could pile on, but most of them would seem minor from the outside. We are very close, but the differences are also very deep.

In Orthodox on fasting you cant eat meat, milk, milk products, eggs cant drink alcohol cant fight or think about badly something and etc its not only about eating

Im a Catholic & from where im from we do fast & abstain from food & so many things that we enjoy doing or even say not just abstaining frm meat. Over all as a Christian i give u both props & respect for being open minded to our universal church. I also personally do my own researches on Islam & other religions either out of curiosity or just want to learn the differences or simply just want to open my mind to whats out there too. Much blessings🤲🏾

Hello from a greek Christian orthodox

I am an Orthodox teen going to a catholic school so I have a pretty good idea of the differences. The two main ones are the pope and the Filioque (the statement added to the Nicene creed by the Catholics). Also this video didn't touch on the theological difference between East and West, some Theological differences are the catholic belief of purgatory (the orthodox say there is no purgatory), and Catholics tend to focus on sin and how horrible we are, as opposed to Orthodox focusing on looking to Christ and focusing on the resurrection. Also a question for Muslims: why do you not believe That Jesus Christ is God? especially when it is made clear in the Bible, example, in john 20: Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”. Great Video!

Part of the idea behind the indulgences was because in the past, aftee people went to confession, they would often have to do very heavy penitences, but because sometimes people were not able to do those penitences, the church would allow them to do a lighter penitence instead. So instead of a heavy fasting, they replace it, either totally or partially, by praying and doing acts of charity for example. This gave origin to a lot of abuses, since a very common form of obtaining the indulgences was to give donations to the church, which was one of the reasons for the reformation, and later they made more regulations of what was allowed when granting indulgences. There's more aspects to it, but those are a more complicated to explain.

The Catholic Church also views Jesus Christ as the head of the Church, since we believe Jesus is the High Priest.

I believe for Orthodox beards actually come from the centrality of Holy Icons. (Male) Saints are always portrayed with beards, so Orthodox men believe they are imitating the Saints by having beards. In mainstream Orthodoxy it's only priests who do this, but in other sects, like the Old Believers, all men are required to have beards.

The concept of Peter being the first pope is strongly emphasized by Catholics. Originally, there were 5 patriarchs of the 5 biggest communities of Christians. It was only late that the Patriarch of Rome, the Pope (reminding you that pope in Greek is the equivalent of "father", as in a priest), pushed the idea of primacy, around the end of the 10th century, which led to the schism between catholics and orthodox that happened in the 11th century. Also, there are differences between Catholics and Orthodox that lie on the nature of the belief itself and I can't honestly explain properly because it is the stuff of a theology course, with strong roots in ancient and medieval philosophy.

Orthodox fasting is EVERY Wednesday and Friday to remember the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ. During Pascha or Easter, we have the Sarakosti which is a 40-50 day fast before Easter Sunday and it’s meant to represent Jesus’s fast in the desert

The essential difference between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy is that between the Roman and Greek views of the world. The fundamental principle of Rome has always been order; that of Greece, freedom. ADDENDUM (edit): Doctrinal and dogmatic details aside, to understand this is to understand The Great Schism between the Roman Church and the Greeks.

A bit late to this one but I can't find any comments about this so I'll add it anyway in case you still look at your older videos... 3:00 There is a difference between fasting and abstinence. Here you are describing abstinence: we abstain from alcohol and certain foods (and shun other actions and thoughts, similar to Islam during your time of fasting) on certain preparation days in our calendar, and are still encouraged to do so on Fridays (and some would also say Wednesdays) throughout the year just as the Orthodox do. Fasting, on the other hand, is true fasting (except the church doesn't say you are not allowed to drink, because that would put too many people at risk of long-term health problems). Only 2 days of fasting remain in the Western Church's calendar: Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) and Good Friday (the end of Lent). There are several exemptions: those too young or old, those ill, and those doing necessary heavy manual work who may eat enough to "maintain strength" for their labours. People with those exceptions are encouraged to abstain when not fasting. The difference with Christian fasting that some people say makes it watered-down and not real fasting, is that the Church says it only means 1 main meal per day, and one small meal (a snack like breakfast) to "maintain strength" (as above). This definition allows some of us to decide to "fast" throughout the 40 days of Lent to mirror Jesus in the desert, and in this way we very much mirror Islamic fasting (differences being we don't care about hours of sunlight but still only eat one proper meal in the day, whereas I have know some Muslims who wait until after sunset and then have a huge blow-out, indulging in gluttony, which remains a taboo to us during the season of fasting).

7:35 | Leviticus 19:27 "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

1) Kids below a certain age (around 7) do NOT participate in church. They get baptized as soon as possible though (normally at their firat 40 days), because the baptism is the procedure the grants you your personal guardian angel. This personal guardian angel is supposedly, the entiry that will try to raise you in the eyes of God, when you die and you pass through His judgement. It is your representative against your sins that are represented by demons. 2) The actual reason for the beard is to show that these people have abandoned their care for earthly and aonful things, such as their looks, because their looks is there to attract other people and sin. Therefore, they are supposedly showing their dedication to a life with as few sins as possible.

I'm a protestant and what ever we say, really we're a subset of catholics. We define ourselves by how we differ from catholicism. I feel more sympathy with the orthodox, but I'm not orthodox. Both have important things to teach us if we are humble enough to listen. Inside christianity, not necassarily from outside.

Actually the whole thing with St Peter being the rock on which the Church is built is one of the major issues of controversy between Protestants and Catholics. Protestants believe that when the Lord said 'Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build My Church', He was referring to *Himself* as the rock, not Peter. So Protestants would also say that Jesus is the only head of the Church. Though the main communion of Eastern Orthodox Christians do have the Ecumenical Patriarch based in Constantinople (Istanbul), who is supposed to be the first among equals of the Patriarchs. However since recent geopolitical events involving Russia and Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church and the churches under its authority are in schism from the Ecumenical Patriarchate and no longer acknowledge his authority. Which illustrates the pitfall of having churches under the control of the state and bound up in national identities. Whereas pretty much all of Western European Mediaeval history illustrate the pitfalls of having secular authority subordinate to spiritual authority, as it is in Catholicism. In Islam of course this issue doesn't arise since your secular and temporal authorities (at least while the Caliphate was still around) are one and the same ;)

One of the big differences between both are which church councils they adhere to and interpret as legitimate.

Our Catholic lent lasts, as you rightfully said inspired by Christ's fasting, for 40 days before Easter which gets broken on the day of the Lord (Sunday) and every Friday is also a day of lent. And yes it is different from Muslim fasting and meat is banned, many other things can be depending on the regional tradition also banned (e.g. in Germany monasteries rediscovered beer brewing which was originally drunken during Lent as eating bread was also banned here). Nowadays, besides the no meat eating, fasting has become a lot more individualistic, so many people will e.g. not use the internet during that time, don't watch TV, stop smoking or breaking some other habit that is part of their everyday life

As towards the minor differences: the reason for the split was predominantly due to politics: at that time the Roman emperor of Byzantium and the Pope were in a power struggle over who was in charge of the church. Eventually the Pope declared the Frankish King Karl der Große/ Charlemagne to be Roman emperor while eastern Rome was ruled by the widow of the deceased eastern Roman emperor using the vacancy to name a champion of his own against the power of the east. For a long time the emperor was regarded as being higher than the pope (hence it was the Holy Roman Empire) in Catholicism all the way up to the investiture crisis when Pope and Emperor fought openly over who was in charge and a separation between worldly and religious power was introduced in the west. So in their core essence Catholicism and Orthodoxy are the same church that got split mainly due to political reasons (there was also some religious struggle over iconography at the time that played into it) and have developed differently due to the political landscape and traditions of their respective people since, however on all the major topics we are still in much more agreement with eachother than e.g. the protestant (except Anglicanism, which is basically Catholicism without the pope, again a split due to political not religious reasons) denominations

A big reason these two groups split was that the apostles split up and traveled around and found churches everywhere. The last churches they found usually had sway over other churches in matters of doctrine to nearby churches. Peter's church in Rome had sway over a large group of churches and as they saw other apostle churches fall either through war, intolerance of christianity, or bankruptcy they cemented their rule originally as a means of banding together to more effectively aid eachother. This grew until the modern Catholic church you see today while the Orthodox resisted this centralized form of leadership for Patriarches that govern regions, but not central figure.

About the clergy: in orthodox christianity, there are 3 basic ranks of priesthood, a deacon, a priest and a bishop. A deacon and a priest can be married or unmarried ( of course the monks can only be unmarried ), but a priest cannot marry after his ordination. A married priest cannot become a bishop. The bishops are strictly celibate. Also, women cannot enter the priesthood at all, although there was the institution of deaconesses but that fell out of use the last millennium of so and frequently there are discussions for resurrecting it, but you know, when a tradition is solidified, it's difficult to change in the Orthodox Church. Women can be monastics as well, but in separate monasteries.

Biggest difference that divided the catholics and orthodox churches was something called "Filioque". Catholics claim that Holy Spirit comes from both Son and Father (as all are part of the Trinity) while orthodox say Spirit only comes from Father. Also, the holy items can get crazy. In the middle ages two churches (one in France, other in Germany I think) claimed to have original John the Baptist's head. Also in book called "Krzyżacy" (semi-historical work detailing polish war with the teutonic order) there is a merchant of relics. He had archangel Gabriel's wing feather, a plank from ladder Jacob dreamt about, rust from st. Peter's keys to the gates of heaven and st. John's sweat from his fight with a dragon. The character is a satire, but really this was how some scammers worked in 15th century.

The main big differences are basically 3: the Pope, the Filioque and the new dogmas from the Catholic Church after the schism. All of them are difficult issues for different reasons, historical and dogmatic and cultural.

As a Catholic, it is true that there is a lot of disinformation about indulgences, especially if we are talking about the controversy in the 1500s when Protestantism began as a reaction to it. Basically indulgences could consist in giving money to the Church but not because you can buy forgiveness or authority from God (which is called simony and it is very bad) but rather it was used to finance St. Peters Basilica in Rome. Catholics think that using beauty to decorate churches is a way to honor God and a useful way to elevate the faithful's mind to Him: think about those sad grey blocks used in post modern architecture who make many people depressed just by looking at them, well Catholics wanted to avoid it.

To clarify, indulgences are not for the forgiveness of sins, and while there are instances of people selling them, it has always been a condemned practice. To recieve forgiveness of sins, both Catholic and Orthodox acrually have the same practices(baptism and the sacrament of reconciliation, or perfect contrition in some circumstances). I think non-Catholics get confused because the Catholic church has a different concept of what forgiveness actually is. We believe forgiveness offers salvation because it erases the eternal consequence for sin. However, we believe it doesnt erase the temporal consequence. Temporal consequences help us grow on earth, and also have the effect of cleansing our souls to prepare us for heaven. Purgatory is the final cleansing of the soul, a final temporal consequence for those already saved and bound for heaven. Indulgences are simply a remission of those temporal consequences, gained through acts of prayer and charity. It is possible because ultimately, temporal consequences and acts of prayer and charity have the same effect, they work to fill us with the grace of God.

Regarding Indulgences, you're right, what was stated is odd. That's because the the presenter, unfortunately, doesn't understand the theology of Indulgences. Indulgences do not pardon sin and they certainly do not "license the commission of future transgressions." The Sacrament of Penance pardons sin, but Indulgences are granted to those who have satisfied Divine Justice so that a soul is either completely released from Purgatory or the temporal punishment is reduced.

The great schism is rooted in a dispute over the the Nicene creed when the pope attempted to add the words “and the son” (line 29) about the nature of the holy spirit. The Patriarch of Constantinople took the position that the pope could not just change church doctrine as he was FIRST but first among equals the pope’s position was that he was FIRST thus asserted the Primacy of Rome. The Nicene creed was used as a measure of standard beliefs of who was a Christian and who is not. There is more nuance but this is youtube not a seminary.

When it comes to beards, I think it's mostly cultural and depends on where you live. Catholics can have beards as many do, or shave. Popes in the past used to have beards.

Correction when Jesus fasted for 40 days, he didn't eat during the night like Muslims.

Orthodox Christians fast for almost half a year: Every Wednesday and Friday abtain from meat, 40 days during the Great Lent abtain from meat AND animal products and at some days that includes oil, also there is a fast 15 days from start of august until the 15 of august were the passing of the Theotokos is commemorated and also 15 days before Christmas. our way of fast is different than the Muslim one basically in that we abstain from some food categories, while Muslims are fasting from everything every day and they eat what they want after dark and before dawn at Ramadan.

In the Catholic Church, it is common to fast before taking communion. This means not eating anything for at least an hour before mass. Thats why you might see kids who are too young to take communion have snacks in church, but older kids and adults don’t have food and drinks.

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6:32 Order the book called “The Raccolta”. This has a list of indulgenced prayers. This will explain more about indulgences and give you a feel for how they work.

Extra history made a series on the council of Nicaea. The council of Nicaea is basically the spark that leads to the separation between the Catholic and orthodox churches .

The definition of an indulgence is the remission, either partially or fully, of temporal punishment due to sins. One of the conditions to obtain an indulgence is you have to be in a state of grace, i.e. free of any mortal sins. To get a plenary indulgence, meaning all the temporal punishment is remitted, you also have to be free of all venial sins and all attachments to sin. Indulgences don't grant you forgiveness for sins or remit eternal punishment for them.

Orthodoxy and Protestants do not believe that Jesus made Peter the head of the church. The verse that the Catholics used to support this is Matthew 16:13-20 Orthodox and Protestants would interpret this as the 'rock' the church is built on is what Peter said, that Jesus is the messiah and son of God, and not peter specifically. He was given the name peter because he knew this before anyone. I have also heard that in the original Greek the words for the rock he calls Peter and the rock the church is built on are different words. He calls simon Peter, but the rock of the church Petra. The next part of the keys of heaven and hell the Orthodox would view as something jesus was saying to all the apostles and not to peter specifically. Protestants would interpret the keys as either belonging to all Christians or specifically to the apostles at that time.

Long beards is a tradition Orthodoxy is Christianity how it used to be since the beginning keeps tradition Catholic is how it became that’s how I see it Filioque is a difference

There's different types of fasting in Christianity, but the most strict version of Christian fasting is still not as strict as Islam. You can drink water. Also, I could be wrong, but I think indulgences are not really commonly practiced anymore. It was a thing in medevial times through the European Renaissance.

There are Roman Catholic Monks that also wear a beard. I feel the video y'all watched was absolutist information. We also do fast and abstain from food, especially during lent and Holy Week. I have always said that Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy are two wings of the same bird. I want to compliment the both of you for being so respectful of the traditions of both faith, it was refreshing to see.

The fact that Orthodox priests have long beards and Catholic priests do not is due to culture and tradition, as has been said by you in the video. There are passages in the Old Testament that favour the wearing of long beards as righteous men, but these are not considered necessary by the Catholic Church, as the New Testament is silent about beards. Another reason, at least that's how my Catholic priest explained it to me, is that in the course of the division of the Roman Empire and the invasion of the Western Roman Empire by the Germanic and Hun peoples, beards were seen as something pagan and barbaric, since Huns and Germanic peoples usually wore long beards. Therefore, well before the Great Schism, it developed in such a way that no beards were worn by the clergy in the West, while it is still prevalent as a practice in the East today. Hope that helps as an explanation!

The idea of indulgences is that even though your sins are forgiven by the priest in confession after you do a penance, you still are held temporally accountable for those sins in purgatory. Indulgences will remove or lessen the temporal stay in purgatory. Today, no indulgences are in return for money, which was a corrupt practice that paid for the Vatican!

Another excellent video. Orthodox brothers view St Peter as the first head of the apostles and had certain primacy, not exactly a "Pope" as to today's Romish Papacy concept.

The main difference is the Papacy and also the Filoque which Rome added to the Nicene Creed. There are also changes and additional councils the Catholics had after the schism. In other worlds Rome has innovated and Orthodoxy has held onto the traditions.

One more comment, my friends: the thoughts around 4:50 on the Roman Catholics partaking in an act of confirmation, whereas the followers of Orthodoxy initiate the infant in the mysteries of the church during the rite of baptism (even though the child does not understand the matters of faith)... it is similar to the followers of Judaism where although the child is not of age to understand, yet they are initiated in the rite of circumcision and considered members of the body of faith.... expecting that the parents (et. al.) will indoctrinate (or train them up) in the faith as they go along. If I am correct, the followers of Islam also have circumcision; although I don't know if they perform this rite an a very young age.

My Muslim friends (one from India, one from Pakistan, one from Nigeria) tell me they fast from sunrise till sunset, but at night they can eat and drink.

I don't understand the point of modern Ramadan fasting. You don't eat while it is sunlight, but when it becomes dark, many Muslims at least here in my country basically hold feasts where the whole family comes together. I don't know if that is the point of fasting, abstaining for 12 hours just to then indulge in more food than what you would eat the entire day while not fasting. I have met one Muslim man that is very extreme during Ramadan, he eats and drinks nothing during the day and at night he eats one date, one flat bread and drinks 1.5l of water, once after dusk and once before dawn. And after hearing how he fasts, I really started doubting the way other people fast.

Orthodox priests have beards because they inherited that tradition from Greek philosophers, hence longer beards equates to wisdom. Orthodox is also called Greek Orthodox While Catholic priests on the other hand are clean shaven is inherited from the Roman soldier's tradition on almost shaving everyday. Catholic is also called Roman Catholic

Sahih Muslim 289a 'Amr b. Maimun said: I asked Sulaiman b. Yasar whether the semen that gets on to the garment of a person should be washed or not. He replied: A'isha told me: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) washed the semen, and then went out for prayer in that very garment and I saw the mark of washing on it

Byzantine Catholics have the same calendar for fasting as the Orthodox do. There are also different types of fasting, some days are more strict while others are less.

Orthodox priests have long beards because it is a sign of wisdom...☦❤☝️

The beard thing is not dogmatic, but it's cultural and at this point is do entrenched, that basically in traditionally orthodox countries is basically unthinkable for a priest of bishop to not have at least some beard, or try to grow one at least.

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Hello! I was born an Orthodox Christian so I can give you some details about Orthodox Fasting as there are multiple types. Me as a child i've only done simpler types of fasting like abstaining from any animal product and other drinks than water but my grandparent which I grew with did a stricter type of fasting similar to the Muslims where they abstained from everything from the morning till the dawn but people with health issues for example still do stricter fasting but they do drink water at least until they heal. Also amazing work! You guys are surely very entertaining and have a great friendly relationship. Also even if I was still a Christian since my birth I do believe in Muhammed and all his teachings and the fact that the Bible was changed a lot since its initial formation for different political reasons.

Hi guys,good work! I ll try to give some info as an orthodox. -we don't have any Pope figure,but as we actually are nationally divided,every orthodox country (with few exceptions)has its own patriarch. We all supposed to pay respect&"obay" to the "central"/Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. -fasting.If an orthodox follows the fasting days, there are really too many,but for everyday people, is no meat wendesdays and Fridays and only bread and olives during the holy week of Easter. - Icons. Orthodox iconography is a chapter of its own. There was an 90 year civil war in Byzantium during the 6th century,called "the battles for the icons"(ΕΙΚΟΝΟΜΑΧΙΑ) between the ones that believed that we must not have icons at all and the ones that believed the opposite. - In orthodox confession,we don't actually been forgiven,but given by the priest the guarantee that if we really repented we shall be forgiven by God. -Beards!😅 Orthodox priests and monks don't shave their beards and do not cut their hair as an indication of mourning for the passions of Jesus. - Relics. (really everywhere..)there are so many,and supposed miraculous. - Wifes. Orthodox priests can not be married unless they were married before they become priests. Hope I was helpful!

3:16 Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, in Islam you are required to only fast until the sun goes down, so.... what is stopping muslim from eating everything that they did not eat during the day? i think Orthodox fasting is more consistent.

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I AM GREEK ORTHODOX (ORIGINAL) THREE ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES. 1. THE UNMISTAKABLE OF POPE , WE DONT ACCEPT. 2.THE HOLY TRINITY , FOR ORTHODOX THE HOLY SPIRIT IS EQUAL TO CHRIST UNDER THE FATHER. 3. THE ORTHODOX COMMUNITY PRIESTS MUST BE MARRIED FIRST. IF I MIGHT SAY , ORTHODOX PRIESTS ARE MORE INTERGRATED IN EACH COMMUNITY AND THEY ARE MORE FORGIVING ON THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. THE CAN BE FARMERS , BUILDERS OR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS , TOO . THEY TAKE PART IN THE PARTIES OF THE VILLAGES , IN CRETE AT LEAST I CAME FROM THEY ARE GOOD TRADITIONAL DANCERS...... THEY DRINK WINE.

For Christianity, brothers and sisters. Psalm 135: 1 Praise the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord; praise him, you servants of the Lord, 2 you who minister in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant. 4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own, Israel to be his treasured possession. 5 I know that the Lord is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods. 6 The Lord does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. 7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. 8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, the firstborn of people and animals. 9 He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants. 10 He struck down many nations and killed mighty kings- 11 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan- 12 and he gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to his people Israel. 13 Your name, Lord, endures forever, your renown, Lord, through all generations. 14 For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants. 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. 16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 17 They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. 19 All you Israelites, praise the Lord; house of Aaron, praise the Lord; 20 house of Levi, praise the Lord; you who fear him, praise the Lord. 21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion, to him who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord.

hello, im catholic but dont have a lot of experience with orthodox cristians, yes catholics believe that orthodox are really close to us, we recognize that their sacraments and their priests are valid and that they have apostolic succesion like us, we pray for unity the 2 major diferences are indeed the papacy and filioque as one comment said, filioque is latin for "and the son" catholics proclaim that the holly spirit procedes from the father "and the son", orthodox believe that the holly spirit procedes only from the father. the orthodox do have bishops and they are the leaders, they have churches that govern themselves but maintain comunion with one another, the bishop of constantinople is refered as the first ammong equals, but its not like the papacy. he is the primary spokesman for the orthodox comunion there was a great schism in 1054 the bishop of rome(the pope) and the bishop of constantinople excomunicated one another and we remained divided since then, but in this thousand years of history divided we didnt drift apart that much, we both remained were we are, considering how the protestant reformation went we are really close, protestants leaved the church for half the time and i dont even know what to say about the results there

Indulgences are not to be sold! They were sold at one time in history but only in one German parish. No where else! Indulgences are not to be sold or bought, but earned or given.

Matthew made e distinction translating the word ‘kefa’ (stone in aramaic) in greek as ‘Petros’ (for Peter) and ‘petra’ (for rock). The early Church Fathers (beside Augustine and Ambrose) recognized a primate of honor in Peter, not jurisdiction and therefore the ‘petra’ was Christ (according to their position but also Scripture, where Paul and Peter themselves reffer to Christ as the Rock, and also the OT teaches us God is the Rock). Also there is no ‘the Holy See’ but ‘Holy Sees’ for all the apostolic successions and the most important ones are the Petrine Sees (Rome Alexandria and Antioch), Constantinople reserves a special statut as founded by Andrew (the first called among the apostles, from wich the term ‘primus inter pares’ comes) and Jerusalem for being the first Holy See founded by James the relative of Christ.

Orthodox here The Orthodox position on the pope is that yes, in Matthew 16:18 Peter is ordained the first bishop, and then the other apostles are granted the same authority later. I don’t remember the exact verse. Thus all bishops are equal, but we give special honors to certain bishops and give administrative duties to certain other bishops. tl;dr all bishops are equal in the eastern view. The early church didn’t have a supreme bishop, it had 5 important administrative bishops called patriarchs, the only patriarch outside of the eastern half of the empire was the pope whose seat was diapostolic in other words, 2 apostles died in Rome, so the west developed the doctrine that the pope was supreme over the years, partly supported by a series of forgeries and mistranslations of certain documents from Greek to Latin. The clerical beard vs no beard thing is just a difference in ascetic tradition that developed over the years. I might be wrong but it is probably based on the difference between the monastic rules since in the east our monasticism has its origin in Saint Basil the Great and in the west the basis is Saint Augustine(?) The Orthodox fast is just different from the Islamic fast, traditionally it is cut out all meats, animal products, alcohol, and cooking oils or something to that effect. In the Bible we are told not to flaunt our prayer or fasting, from that perspective the Islamic fast, as I understand it, where you don’t eat in the day but eat anything in private at night seems strange. There are particular feast days where the fasting rule becomes less strict or is exempted If I remember indulgences are derived from the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory where you can do a good work of some kind and receive a certificate that you receive a reduced sentence in purgatory for lesser sins. Eventually indulgences develop well past what it was, for instance, the Pope gave a blanket indulgence to all crusaders, and eventually corrupt clergy sold indulgences to raise funds and enrich themselves. They later become so corrupt it triggers the Protestant reformation This video doesn’t go over the doctrinal differences only the mainly cosmetic ones

there is one main,very important dogmatic difference,the ''filioque''....all the others are cultural of minor importance

Grave sins incur both guilt and temporal punishment. They both 1. sever you from the divine life of grace and 2. Incur a merit for punishment. Indulgences only remove the latter, and only for forgiven sins Sacramental confession (or the anointing of the sick, in extreme cases) is required to remove the former. You also cant buy indulgences.

The term “pope” just means father. It wasn’t meant to be supreme ruler of the church. In fact, Jesus is called the high priest. We orthodox have many “popes” or priests versus one supreme priest.

They didn't mention that Catholics follow schoolasticism while the Orthodox follow Pallamism.

At about the 1:50 : No, Jesus didn't say Peter to be the first Pope, but said that the meaning of salvation is what Peter said-the faith that Jesus is the Messiah and the Salvator! This homology is the rockbasis-the petra, of someone's salvation.

In Orthodox Christianity we have the black fasting,no food or water for 24 hours!

The Pope himself is a Patriarch. The Caholic Church simply broke away from the other 4 Churches. The Patriarchs of the 4 other Churches: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria all have equal status as the Pope. The Pope was considered First among equals. However, the Pope wanted to be supreme over the other Patriarchs and thus he broke the Pentarchy and proclaimed himself infalible (One who couldnt make a mistake and one without sin) which literally is a heresy because he is human and thus prone to mistakes and sin no matter how holy.

The video kind of glossed over the hierarchy of Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy does have leading figures, they just dont have a single universally powerful leader like the pope. And instead of having a unilateral figure like the pope, we have Patriarchs. Any major decisions regarding the faith needs to be unanimously accept by the Patriarchs via a council.

THAT´S NOT TRUE AT ALL ! there are just 1 Real Cross and the pieces do not form a bigger Cross or nothing , i have visited all the Temples were the pieces are in Europe

The beard.. shows that the priests have denied vanity their life’s are dedicated in worship, and pray..

Correction! Jesus fasted for 40 days and muslims fast for 30. Chrisitans fast for 40 days.

An indulgence cannot get you out of hell, but it can lessen your time in purgatory. In Catholic belief there is heaven, hell, limbo and purgatory. Limbo is for unbaptised babies, it isn't heaven but there is no torture like hell. Hell is for the wicked and those that haven't accepted the faith. Purgatory is a way station beween heaven. In Catholic belief you must be cleaned of all your sins before you can get to heaven. While you're alive the church can keep wiping your sins but if you die with some sins that haven't been forgiven then you wont go straight to heaven. You'll be in purgatory for a long while before you can get to heaven, sometimes up to 10,000 years. An indulgence is given by the pope to lessen the time in purgatory. These are given out of the churches kindness. You can get them while you're alive by helping the church. At the time of the reformation the church was selling indulgences. Luther thought this was wrong and found there was no scripural basis for it, or for indulgences or even for purgatory.

I know the reason they broke apart, or at least the excuse and actual difference in belief. The differences you're describing happened during a thousand years where they drifted apart. Ok, are you ready for it? It's a translation mistake. You don't believe me do you? There you go en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_filioque_controversy. If you're bored of reading all those walls of text I'll summarize it. Around 300's the priests had a meeting where they decided how divine stuff works and how they must worship and pray. So they agreed that the Holy Spirit "derives" from the Father and is respected and praised by both the Father and Son. The word "derived" I used was the cause of the error in translation, although a translation for the Greek word exists in Latin, it's not 100% the same. In one language it means it derives and in the other it means in comes before. So some western churches started using this word to describe that the Holy Spirit comes before (is respected) by both Father and Son, but for eastern church it meant that it derives, "comes from", and the eastern priests didn't like it. That is the only difference in the belief, the rest is just differences in worshiping and traditions. Recently in 2021 I think, Pope Francis admitted that they got lost in translation...

Orthodox fast is half a year. And we abstain from meat, diary products, oil. For the fasting of apostles it is allowed fish only, but that's only for two weeks. Also we don't eat alot, because let's say you fast but you eat 1 kg of apples a day that's not fasting. We eat little, pray more, repent, confense etc

I am Orthodox and my wife is Catholic. The majority of the differences come from the beliefs of the three parts of God as well as the focus of belief. In Catholicism the holy spirit comes from the father and the son whereas in Orthodoxy the spirit comes from the father only. Moreover the focus in Catholicism is on the death of christ whereas in Orthodoxy the focus is on the restriction. Also orthodox is more in line with the historic early Christian practices than the more modern practices of the catholics. With out priests being permitted to being married prior to being ordained as well as the use of iconography and a keeping of the mysteries of God. But that last point is more of an opinion on my part.

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1:44 Orthodox churches do have that figure,Catholics believe that pope is alive saint on this planet.

I’m a catholic catechumen but I love your videos!

Orthodox fasting is eating no food made out of animals, no wine and no oil. That maens only Boiled or steamed food. This is strongest form of our fasting and most common way. There still some lighter days were you can eat cheese or drink wine.

Wow, guys, I don't beleave your channel hasn't blown up yet in terms of popularity. You seem to be really interested in the topic and know much more about Christianity and its denominations than the majority of Christians know about each other, nevermind the other religions. Keep up the good work, I have a feeling sooner rather than later your insightfulness and humor will bear fruit and reach wider auditories. Also, I've been raised as a Russian Ortodox, but currently consider myself an atheist, therefore I think I can provide a somewhat unbiased look on Catholics vs Orthodox issue. First of all, the underlying conflict is connected to how the Roman Empire functioned in late Antiquity: even before embracing Christianity and splitting the Empire in two the Romans had a lot of differences in the Western and the Eastern parts of the Empire, the biggest of which was the language. Western Empire spoke predominantly Latin with some local variations here and there, and the Eastern Empire was speaking and writing Greek. The Christianity originated in Palestine, in the Eastern Empire, but a sizable denomination of Christians have soon formed in Rome and some other Italian cities. The outskirts of Western Empire stayed predominantly pagan for many centuries, while the most important of the Christian authority centres have been located on the territory of the Eastern Empire - Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Constantinople all became the seats of the Patriarchs with each one of the four administering their own part of the Empire without necessarily being subordinate to one another. In the Western Empire though, only Rome became the center of Patriarchy, with the Patriarch being, you've guessed it, the Pope. Therefore, the dynamics between the Patriarchs and the civil authorities was quite different, especially after the Empire has split formally: the Eastern Patriarchs have become more and more subordinate to the Eastern Emperor, while the Western Patriarch - the Pope - comprised the sole highest religious authority in the Western Empire and has grown more and more influential as time passed. As the Western Empire has finally collapsed and was replaced by various barbaric kingdoms, the authority of the Pope persisted, and the institutions of the Church became the unifying force in the fractured cultural landscape of Western Europe of the Dark Ages, with some bishops (who the Pope appointed) being more influential then the local petty kings. Therefore, by the time the large part of Western Europe was once again unified under the strong lidership of Charlemagne, the Pope represented less of a regular church figure and more of a supreme authority, able to crown and excommunicate kings and promote his own agenta across the continent without relying on a backing of a single ruler. The Eastern Patriarchs, however, have largely lost their influence once the Islam rose in Arabia and conquered the majority of Alexandrian, Jerusalimian and Antiochian Patriarchates, with only the Constantinople seat remaining functional - but too close to the Emperial authority to push its own agenta. Therefore, the Eastern Church was much more dependent on the state and much less of a self-governing institution

initially the division was mainly political. after the division of roman empire (western/eastern) in 4th century and fall of western roman empire in 5th, eastern empire (byzantine) was supposed to be recognized as the sole roman empire by the pope and western church. in order to preserve his and his church power and authority, the pope moved away from eastern empire and gave the title of roman emperor to the germanic rulers that conquered western empire and they in return recognized papal authority over their territory. this leads to one of the main theological differences between western and eastern church which is the believe in western (catholic) church that church teachings/ideology is not set in stone and that it can evolve and be interpreted differently over time. since the pope has supreme authority and is infallible (another thing that was added more recently to catholic teachings) he can make that decision. in eastern church change is less likely to happen. now in short if we look at main christian denominations (protestant, catholic, orthodox) and their highest form of authority it would be something like this: protestant: bible catholic: pope/church orthodox: traditions/history

There really is no such thing as giving money to the church to buy forgiveness or erase sins, if there ever was such a thing. People can ask for forgiveness for sin through prayer to God. The idea likely comes from Catholics often donating to the Roman church to fund church repairs or to help build new churches in the medieval and Renaissance period.

I follow both, and admire both regardless, as you can see i have a beard, and there are times when i shave it off. No harm done, i do the holy trinity sign both ways. One from left one from right.