PROOF that the Orthodox was the first Christians not Catholics.
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FACTS:
- That the Romans killed Christians before they became Christians and that the Armenian Orthodoxy is older then the Catholic Church.
- Catholicism was founded by Peter wile Orthodox was founded by Jesus. yet not the Orthodox church though the church was founded before the Roman Catholic was.
- Orthodoxy can survive without a church but the Catholicism can not. Orthodoxy has survived 3 times without a church. 1 in the Roman time, 2 after the fall of the Byzantine and 3 in the communist time were churches were forbidden and all Orthodox was under the communist.
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QUOTE:
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.
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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.
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/ by Rev. Dr. Miltiades Efthimiou
Quotes taken from:
http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/history.shtml