The Mystery of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Harmony | REACTION | Christian Orthodoxy 

A lot of low ball takes but I appreciate y’alls willingness to watch and share. You guys should visit an Orthodox monastery one day- Things make more sense after you experience it

You guys REALLY need to get into Christian Metaphysics and theology

The reason why The Orthodox Church has more of a sense of duty/required dedication to it's faith is because of what is being offered wich is the entirety of Christ's self, and since Christ is offering the entirety of himself to his followers, they are expected to give the entirety of themselves to him.

Orthodox icons always look so cool

Harmony has many Very Well edited and structured videos. Edit: a Channel i also recommend especially for The life of saints Is Trisagion films. They are more Visual in terms of Painting cause they paint most their stories while Harmony is very well edited.

Theotokos=Bearer/Mother of God=Holy Mother Mary

Harmony videos are very good and well edited but they are very difficult for beginners. I would rather start with the "Bible Illustrated" channel.

I liked your banter, and your interaction with the content, guys. I wonder what changes in this existence if we say there is no God/spirituality/magical thinking?

Thank you for your honest search for the True faith. Can you please share the links of the documentaries you are commenting on?

This is a potent exercise against my passion towards judging in the negative. Not sure I'm quite up to it actually... very good test!

A bit to unpack here.. On one hand..I appreciate the effort that the makers of the video you reviewed put into it. I also get, with making a video like that, they want it to be “catchy”, which comes out in themes, and being a little dramatic. On the other hand.. I’ve been Orthodox for 21 years and.. I don’t want to be critical (and like I said, I appreciate the effort) but.. I didn’t really like it (not your video, the video you’re reviewing). Like for example, ya’ll mentioned a “oogie boogie” theme. That feeling was created by the video. Sure, there are some really old monasteries, with burial crypts etc. that might give that feeling irl, but the feeling in your typical Orthodox Parish is very light, and warm, and peaceful. My main complaint with it though is the way that some of the things were worded. It’s not that the information was “wrong”, but that as you kind of touched on.. it was worded in a way that was confusing to someone not familiar with the teachings it was talking about, and what’s worse is that it would be easy to draw conclusions from it that are not correct. Example: Orthodox Christian Theosis does NOT teach that we become “gods” as in separate little deities. I felt that the way they explained that left a lot of room for misunderstanding. I also felt it was unnecessarily complicated (on that topic). In his book “Divine Energy: the Orthodox path to Christian Victory” Fr. Jon Braun gives the metaphor for Theosis of a Sword in Fire. I like to simplify it one step further, and just say Metal in Fire. The Metal represents our Human Nature, the Fire represents God’s Divine Nature. We don’t know Fire by it’s Essence, we know it by it’s energies which are Heat & Light. When we put Metal in Fire (in union with it) it remains Metal, but it begins to radiate the Heat and glow with its Light. But the Fire is the source of the Heat & Light, and the Metal is dependent on its union with the Fire to radiate the Heat & Light. The very second that it is removed from the Fire, it cools and darkens. And so it is with us. We are Human. We will NEVER possess our own Divine Nature..Full Stop. However.. by union with God through Jesus Christ, who participated in our Humanity, we can (as written in Scripture in 1 Peter) “Become partakers of His Divine Nature”. God is always & forever the source. Thank you, I enjoyed watching your reactions and commentary on the video P.S.- If I seem to be coming down hard on the vid reviewed, it’s because in western countries like the US, Orthodoxy is still not well known or understood, and it’s very important when Orthodox share information about it, that it’s communicated effectively & clearly with thought for the level of understanding of the person watching/listening/reading. The last thing we need is for misunderstandings to go viral.

Also you should watch Sri M ....He will be worth your watch.

Please watch old sadhguru videos like 10-12 years ago.....those are on another level...much love❤

Atmos- fear. Atman in sanskrit means the true eternal self.

Pls react to little krishna in English

Ironically, the video of Mystery is my IRL piont against them, they play with words that could lead to polythiesm as dharama teaches and/or other eastern philosophies teach. Still great vid, visuals very theatrical.

My primary religion is this orthodox christianity, since childhood I had great enthusiasm about that, but as I grow I started asking questions and I saw smth is not right, smth is hidden, those who say they know they dont know, they are hypnotized by others who are also hypnotized. A virus spread from generation to generation. I seek truth.

Yes the atmosphere in this religion is like that cause it is organized, with purpose to keep you low and control you. In fear, guilt, shame - they give you the 7 sins, and not the 7 rights. There are 7 chakra rights - to be, to feel, to act, to love, to speak, to see, to know.

Looks like they got it from Buddhism