Catholicism and Orthodoxy

“There may be a continued succession of bishops where there is no true Church, as at this day amongst the Grecians, Armenians, and Ethiopians, which yet are not the true Churches of God, in the opinion of them that plead for succession... Thus still we see, that truth of doctrine is a necessary note whereby the Church must be known and discerned, and not ministry or succession, or anything else without it... not bare and naked succession, but true and lawful, wherein no new or strange doctrine is brought into the Church, but the ancient religiously preserved, is a mark, note, or character of the true Church.” Richard Field; Of the Church, Vol. I, Book II (Cambridge University Press; 1847), pg. 83-84

Revenge of the Protestant Dilemma How it Sets Up a Parallel Dilemma for Catholics https://protestantreview.substack.com/p/revenge-of-the-protestant-dilemma

Pseudo-Dionysius Explained: The Forgery That Shaped Eastern Theology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujq7-2loCb0

“Certainly the question at issue between us is where the Church is, whether with us or with them... The question between us and the Donatists, however, is where this body is, that is, where the Church is. What shall we do, then? Shall we look for it in our own words or in the words of its head, our Lord Jesus Christ? I think that we have to look for it, rather, in the words of him who is the truth and who knows his body best.... But, as I was about to say, let us not hear, "You say this; I say that," but let us hear, "The Lord says this." There are certainly the Lord's Books, to whose authority we both accede, to which we both yield and which we both obey; let us look for the Church there; let us examine our case there....I do not want the holy Church to be set forth by human proofs but by divine oracles.... So let us look for it in the Holy Canonical Scriptures.” Augustine; The Works of Saint Augustine, The Donatist Controversy, Part 1, Vol. 21 (NCP; 2019), pg. 607-613

Does the Book of Acts Prove Sola Scriptura? Catholics & Orthodox Need to Answer This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLx9DZU9ho

Why Jay Dyer's Protestant Argument Fails https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SR2qcgBkKX0

“The Canon of Scripture in the Orthodox Church The precise status, content and role of the canon in the Orthodox Church escape easy definitions and explanations. The Eastern Church never conclusively defined a canon of Scripture in an authoritative statement such as those ultimately pronounced in the West. Although the Orthodox Church is one Church, united in one faith and historically connected to the early apostolic Church, it is also simultaneously many separate, autonomously functioning churches. The various Orthodox churches embrace a variety of practices and traditions with respect to liturgics, iconography, lectionary and even the canon of Scripture itself. Among the Orthodox Churches are both Chalcedonian (“Eastern Orthodox”) and non-Chalcedonian (“Oriental Orthodox”). The most unusual aspect of the canon of Scripture among the Orthodox is that no official canon exists at all and the canon remains somewhat loose. The word “canon” (kanon in Greek) originally meant a reed or measuring stick. It came to mean the applicable standard for measurement: a ruler. The word “canon” was employed to refer to a rule or Church law. With respect to the Bible, “canon” is the list of books recognized as authoritative Scripture because when deciding which books should be considered Scripture, the Church applied certain standards. The canon of Scripture also demarcates those books which may be read in Church.” The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East Page 1. Edited Vahan S. Hovhanessian

Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Louis – Theological Theses published at Various Times in the Academy of Sedan, vol. 1, 2  3rd ed. https://reformedbooksonline.com/1100-pages-of-le-blanc-in-english/

The Problem Every “One True Church” Claim Can’t Escape | OrthodoxEthos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZYuhi-OPI

Trent Horn Was Asked to Prove It From Scripture—His Answer Says It All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEr5AxlCek

A little McClellen and then finishing intro to pseudo Dionysius http://www.tinysa.com/sermon/81126233381705

What is the Gospel? Protestant vs. Orthodox Answers https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T3e67b75aFg

An Introduction to the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus: Contents and Viewpoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKEe_NxAdAM

Review: Canon Discussion EO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLyJqDp1YN4

"Protestants Can't Condemn Pedophilia" - and other things Roman Catholics say https://anglicanaesthetics.substack.com/p/protestants-cant-condemn-pedophilia

Did Martin Luther Regret the Reformation? https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2026/05/dialog-did-martin-luther-regret.html

James White: Why Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Keep Talking Past Each Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbURCXPwu0

“Inconsistencies of their church traditions Setting aside for the moment their misinterpretation of that verse”1 Tim 3:15”, 32 we might ask the following questions: Which claims to an authoritative tradition or church should we follow? Should we follow the authoritative tradition of Rome, 33 the Greek Orthodox Church, 34 The Slavonic Orthodox Church, 35 the Coptic Church, 36 the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, 37 the Armenian Church, 38 or some other Orthodox Church? 39 As the footnotes demonstrate, “Church tradition” has been fractured. Furthermore, how can this so-called tradition be infallible or in any way authoritative when these non-Protestant churches have changed the content of their canon? For example, in AD 600 the Pope declared the Apocrypha to not be Scripture40 (as did the translator of the Latin Vulgate, Jerome). However, in 1546 (at the Council of Trent), the Roman Catholic Church officially declared the apocrypha to be part of the canon. This does not seem like an infallible tradition. It seems like changing church policy.” — The Canon of Scripture: A Presuppositional Study by Phillip Kayser

31The Reformers did not disagree with the statement that the church is the pillar and ground of the truth, but they insisted that the church has failed to be the pillar and ground of the truth when it fails to derive 100% of its teachings from the truth of the Bible. As Paul elsewhere stated, “that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written” (1 Cor. 4: 6). This phrase, “the pillar and ground of the truth,” does help to distinguish between the errant deviation from Sola Scriptura sometimes known as Solo Scriptura. Solo Scriptura isolates the individual from the body of Christ and the growing body of information that God has enabled the church to mine from the Bible over the centuries. Solo Scriptura is sometimes facetiously described as “only me, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit.” The word “only” in that phrase disobeys the many Biblical commands to listen to teachers (Matt. 10: 24; Rom. 12: 7; 1 Cor. 12: 28-29; Eph. 4: 11; 2 Tim. 4: 2; Titus 2: 3; Heb. 5: 12; etc.). while being a Berean who checks their interpretations against the Bible (Acts 17: 11; 1 Thes. 5: 21; etc.). Historical Theology (the study of how the church has gradually developed doctrinal ideas from the Bible) is a helpful corrective to an anarchical approach to Scripture. Where Sola Scriptura takes seriously God’s providential work through the church to preserve His doctrines, Solo Scriptura is so radically individualistic that it wants each individual to reinvent the wheel in every generation and fails to honor the teachers that God has given to the church. We believe that historical theology is a necessary check and balance to our exegetical and systematic theology. If no one in the church has ever held to our doctrine, it is likely that our new doctrine is wrong. We will be devoting an entire chapter to the Historical Theology of canon to show that our approach is consistent with the teachings of the church of the first millennium and that the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy have left catholic doctrine behind and embraced what the early church considered heresy.” — The Canon of Scripture: A Presuppositional Study by Phillip Kayser

Roman Catholic apologist & author Patrick Madrid equates prayer with worship https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FGrVXkvwocM