MikeDwight
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Most people are unable to pinpoint the meaning of Christian establishment in the world. The English background makes people from a naturally Anglican background. The Anglican compromise already put Government over solid control over the apparatus of established Religion. Anglicanism/via media/secularism these are a lot of ways to say that.
The separable and promotable institutions of Christianity are hard to pinpoint. We read from the very first Anglican wedding vows how Christ attended a marriage in Canaan? Jesus Ordered Christians not to divorce their wives. Their hearts were hard when Moses Allowed divorce and Jesus did not Allow divorce, and that word is given to whom its not given to act as eunuchs , for the Kingdom of God, in Matthew.
The Christian institution does not exist as the Roman or Hellenistic Gods did in an all-absorbing all-comers equal knowledge environment , or at least not to the same historical extent. The 10 commandments that preserved the land of Israel state, in there, no God shall be worshipped before God.
This is before the undisputed work of Jesus Christ to redeem as an advocate toward , without colorful language, the vengeful Creator whom all humanity has original sin of the fall of Adam and Eve, and to inherit as would be understood, the rights as like a family, to the Kingdom of Heaven which is God's alone.
Mostly the work of the Apostles as recorded in the Bible are undisputed , Mostly. The twelve Apostles in the book of Acts spread Christianity to the entire world. Paul's missions show a route from Jerusalem through Anatolia, to Athens.
This video is from Acts 17 . There is relevance today on how the Greek Orthodox Church would be organized. People again, will have very little connection to Eastern Europe, which is fairly easy to point out , not with the Communist era, but by the Orthodox Church. The writing systems, the beliefs, these are not direct Roman descendants.
Looking back on history, the idea that Zeus became the Greek language for God as "Theus". The Parthenon of the pagan Athena would develop into a temple to the Virgin Mary. The video expresses a much deeper concept, that the original Apostles, accepted that God had acted in Athens Before their arrival. After all, the saving Grace and the Soul of each individual being only one Aspect of God. Late in the video, an Unknown God whom had saved sheep from plague before Paul's arrival is the God that he wishes to proclaim as the God of the Bible. These Were the Acts of God already in the land of Greece by natural discovery. Church planting is mentioned as they wanted to have planted Christianity in this culture.
We may briefly review how it is that we can Stand for their to be Denominations of a religion. How can people Stand it?! How can their be but only One belief in Jesus Christ?! How did a Denomination ever come about?! Do we not have a populace that yearns for the undivided group of followers? How is it that a Pope can claim this effort?
Admittedly from a Biblical, Orthodox, and Presbyterian favoring perspective, we may briefly review the Great Schism from 800 ad to 1200 ad. The Pope, was a position, that used to meet as equals with the others in the Pentarchy. Pentarchy - Wikipedia
The Pope claims to hold office from Saint Peter who was granted "keys to the Kingdom". Most Presbyterians and Orthodox instead favor "Saint Andrew" the "First-called", brother of Saint Peter. Saint Andrew is generally given to have preached in the East. The Pope in order to have Thrown Off and disclaimed the other half of the Church, had to have named himself the Only Church, then he placed himself not in an equal meeting with the others. In 800 ad, Germany, neither Roman, nor Holy, was proclaimed the Holy Roman Empire, a title grantable by the Pope, since this did upset and unthrone the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire believed itself Eastern Rome, the Greek Roman Empire, and generally the Churches of Orthodoxy were among, around or missioned by the Byzantine Empire. They had created up until then, standards that still define accepted Christianity, in the 400s, the Nicene Creed, the Chalcedonian Creed.
These produced the common phrases many will see such as the Trinity, or Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These decided that Jesus Christ was fully Human and Divinity. This wasn't like Hercules, a simple half-man Half-God whom Zeus had in a love affair.
These decisions did produce relevant schisms still today. The Ethiopians used to be aligned with the Coptics of Egypt, these all very historical people, whom disregarded the rulings of the 400's in Egypt and Ethiopia. The Scots Confession of 1560 also notes the heresies of Nestorius, Arius, and others whom disregard those rulings. Arius found favor among the disorganized Visigothic tribes during the fall of Rome.
So this video has several nice features. It offers a fairly abstract idea about, how the Orthodox could repair the one Catholic or Universal Church of all Christians. They suggest the recapture of Rome, Antioch, Jerusalem, would allow promotion of the Pentarchy, which simply puts the Bishop of Rome back among equals and in equal council and anyone who must meet is no longer infallible, we can assume.
Late in the video shows off the basic concept of Autocephaly. Besides the Pentarchy, the mended Great Schism has produced autocephaly in the non-standard area of that Pentarchy set out by the Byzantines, such as, the autocephalic Kingdoms of Poland, and Hungary, whose Bishop would meet representing that would meet or "synod" representing that area and its religious history.
Presbyterian is a Greek Word. In the 1500's the Byzantine Empire would have been conquered by the Ottomans. The Greek Scholars by necessity flee with the actual history, education, and concepts of the Byzantines, the obscure name for that was humanist renaissance, not humanism. The name tries to describe having multiple educational histories and innovating, opening the student's minds and learning by the debates of Socrates over rote memorization learning.