Why Did You Become Orthodox? - Deacon Kentigern Siewers

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In this episode, Deacon Kentigern Siewers discusses his path to Orthodoxy and some of the factors that played a role in his conversion.
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@ProtectingVeil 6 месяцев назад

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@rustyshackelford3590 3 года назад

Imagine going from a Unitarian cult to Eastern Orthodox, what a journey!

@edwardbedolla4436 3 года назад

Praise God! I recently converted from Protestantism for Orthodox after a 3 1/2 year journey of research, study and prayer. I was first introduced to the Orthodox church by a friend who is Ethiopian and she lovingly challenged me to look into her faith in an effort to see if I could find anything in error. Not knowing anything about Orthodoxy, and happy to meet her challenge, I began my research and the more I looked, the more I saw the church of the first century in all of it's beauty and unquestionable truth. It wasn't long before I knew that Orthodoxy is what I had been searching for from the moment I became Protestant some 20 years ago. As great as the services were back then, I always felt empty. But after coming face to face with the first century church, I experienced an unimaginable fullness that brought me to a deeper understanding and relationship with my Lord and savior.

@ExVeritateLibertas 3 года назад

If you joined the Ethiopian church, though it is referred to as "orthodox" and I am sure they have a beautiful liturgy and deep faith, it is not part of the Orthodox communion due to them holding some heretical theological positions. Sorry I just needed to point that out for those who may not know the difference. I pray God to help you on your spiritual path.

@edwardbedolla4436 3 года назад

Thanks for your reply, I didn't actually join the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It just happened to be that the person who inspired my journey was Ethiopian.

@RevengeOfIjapa 3 года назад

@@ExVeritateLibertas They are Oriental Orthodox, so they are in communion with the Coptic, Armenia, Syriac, and Indian Orthodox Churches. Whether you consider OO fully Orthodox is another matter. As for theology, there have been joint statements signed by hierarchs of both Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy that while they use different language, they share a common Christology. The Syriac and Antiochian Churches commune each others faithful, too. Most people you will speak to consider them validly Orthodox. We are just short of being in Full Communion with each other, so it's not helpful to act like it's hard and fast distinction or that they are heretics or even heterodox because that has long been established as not the case on both sides of the Schism

@ExVeritateLibertas 3 года назад

@@RevengeOfIjapa It is not, "what I consider"...it is what the Orthodox Church considers. It is painful to say, and I agree, the Copts, Armenians and Ethiopians are "close". But as they say...close but no cigar. A lack of agreement on the nature of Christ (and there are other issues also) is not a minor theological issue whether you consider it such or not. "Oriental Orthodox" have been heretics since 451 AD. They *do not* have a common Christology with us (or with Roman Catholics and Protestants for that matter). I'm sorry, but *it is* a "hard and fast distinction." If it were a small matter of language, then they could easily accept the 4th Ecumenial Council. They have not done so. A church that does not accept the 7 ecumenical councils is not orthodox, period. The joint statements you refer to are very controversial and in fact, are not agreed to by most of the Orthodox Church (IIRC only Constantinople and a couple others signed this.) Lastly, I do not know what the Antiochians are doing but if they are communing heretics their action in no way represents the stance of the other Orthodox jurisdictions.

@RevengeOfIjapa 3 года назад

@@ExVeritateLibertas I didn't mean you personally, I meant "you" in a general sense. I should have clarified that, though. I also didn't say Christology was minor, and again, the language is different but *both* Oriental and Eastern Orthodox hierarchs agreed that they share a common Christology. It's not speculation or an opinion, this happened. Of course, this doesn't undo the centuries, but it does mean that we can sit down and have dialogue. Not union, but unless one is going to assume one or both Church Families are wrong about their own Christology or flat out lying, you can't get around it without dismissing it altogether (which you're free to do). My point is to acknowledge the matter is more delicate than the Internet Orthodox give credit for. As for Antioch, that's not either of our place to comment on. The Antiochian and Syriac Patriarchates allow intercommunion partly because of persecution. They have a common struggle for the Faith, especially at the height of Daesh, and the disappearance of the (still missing) Syriac and Antiochian Archbishops - one was the brother of the current Patriarch. To sit in our relative privilege and talk on RU-vid comments about "communing heretics" isn't something I want further part in. I'm going to agree to disagree and disengage now. P. S. Patriarch Kyril of Russia and Abuna Matthias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church have been dialogue and seemingly on good terms, the latter thanking the former for the prayers and support of Orthodox faithful as EOTC are being persecuted.

@jackvancekirkland 3 года назад

Reading Dostoevsky was also hugely influential in the early parts of my own journey.

@skygeneralmonkey1856 3 года назад

Read that book in high school and a few times since. It really sticks with you. Especially the sections with Father Zosima.

@rustybeltway2373 3 года назад

All western Christians should experience at least something of Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha in one of the Byzantine traditions.

@FirstnameLastname-py3bc 3 года назад

Orthodox traditions, not "Byzantine"

@MagnificentFiend Год назад

@@FirstnameLastname-py3bc Both and, either or. You can experience Lent, Holy Week and Pascha in the Roman Rite under Orthodoxy, let us remember. I take your point that Byzantine != Orthodox viz. the Uniates.