Is the Orthodox church the true church?

No, Orthodox Church is not the true church. The true church is The Body of Christ, made up of TRUE believers that keep all of the Commandments and the Feast Days according to KJV Holy Bible. The Corinthians were not Jews, but they did keep the Passover as all christians must do for ever.

What is orthodox thinking?

An orthodox religious belief or interpretation is one handed down by a church’s founders or leaders. Orthodox medical treatment, for example, follows the established practices of mainstream medicine. Unorthodox thinking is known in business language as “thinking outside the box”.

Does the Catholic Church recognize Orthodox sacraments?

The Orthodox church does not recognize Roman Catholic sacraments. But the Roman Catholic church does recognize the Orthodox sacraments as valid.

Can Orthodox marry non Orthodox?

The Orthodox Church will marry a non-Orthodox Christian to an Orthodox Christian, as long as the marriage takes place in the Orthodox Church, and the non-Orthodox person has been baptized, in water, with the Trinitarian formula. The couple has to agree to raise the children in the Orthodox Church.

Do Orthodox Christians recognize the pope as a church?

Orthodox do not recognize the pope as having the kind of teaching and governing authority that the Catholic Church claims. When I was an Evangelical considering Catholicism—and previously, even when I was quite anti-Catholic—I recognized that there is a certain logic to the office of the papacy.

Can a Catholic convert to Orthodoxy?

From a Catholic perspective, converting from Protestantism to Orthodoxy is a move deeper into full Catholic union, in a way that converting from one Protestant denomination to another is not. For that reason, I’ve been a bit hesitant to answer the “why not Orthodox?” question, for fear of making the perfect the enemy of the good.

Did the Eastern Orthodox come over to the Catholic church willingly?

These groups mostly came over willingly. While some did come over by force, the Orthodox also forcibly converted large numbers of Eastern Catholics Orthodoxy. This objection by Orthodox is really just an appeal to enlightenment ideas of freedom of religion that have not been historically held by Orthodoxy or Catholicism.

Do the Orthodox believe that Peter was the first apostle?

So the Orthodox acknowledge that in the ancient Church, Peter was the first of the Apostles, and the Roman See was the first of the Church. Some sort of primacy existed. Any Orthodox denying this is denying what the Ecumenical Patriarch concedes, or what the First Council of Constantinople concedes.