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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2024
- Father Josiah Trenham, pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church, joins James Poulos to discuss modern-day Christianity in a technologically changing America. As an Orthodox pastor, he gives his thoughts on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Orthodox Christianity has changed in Russia since the fall of communism. Similarly, he explains Orthodox history in Israel and Gaza and how the Palestinian conflict has affected both Jews and Christians. How can Christians find anchors in modern Protestant churches when the world around them has turned to war? He argues there is a way to find faith and that America seems to be turning in a positive religious direction.
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This man is one of the reasons I became Orthodox. Many years Fr. Josiah.
Same .
Same
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@@marymarysmarket3508 Good for him!
Amen, same
Father Josiah is a gift from God in these dark times for our country!
He was such an essential part of our family joining the Holy Orthodox Church and continues to be a source of wisdom, hope, and edification!
Peace BeOnto you🙏🛐🕊🇬🇷🙌☦️🌍🌏☦️🌏☦️🌎
God Bless Fr. Josiah! 🙏🏻☦️☦️☦️
Wonderful discussion. I had the privilege of meeting Fr. Josiah and visiting St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside. Wonderful man and wonderful church.
Fr Josiah is a true inspiration. Glory to God ☦️
Nice to know there's an Orthodox Christian over on blaze and Glory to God, Father had the chance to be on !
The blaze is the propaganda arm of Satan
@@conmantrumpwhy
@@KillerofGods because they lie and spread divisive rightwing propaganda to divide America and destroy us from within
Holy Orthodoxy is Truth
Jesus Christ died for our Sins according to the scriptures and that he was Buried and that he Rose again the third day praise God praying for everyone everyday God Bless you all....
Most so-called Christians are lost because they deny the power of the cross by adding works and dogmas and traditions.
☦️ Lord have mercy✝️
I believe this, but where exactly does it state this word-for-word in the old testament?
@mjgalante1
It is absolutely not in the Old Testament.
Fake Christian trump said he's never asked god for forgiveness! Isn't that one of the fundamental tenets of your religion?
Jesus Christ said love one another as I have loved you praise God praying for everyone everyday God bless you all...
Glory to Christ and his Holy Orthodox Church ☦️
Orthodoxy is the one and true church which has apostolic succession. God established only one church and promised to preserve until the end of times. Through Orthodoxy God gave us the Bible. It was Saint Athanasius who canonized the Bible and now the whole world has the word of God. Glory be to God ❤
With real respect, Orthodoxy has historical and theological issues, like every denomination. Christ established His church and will preserve it, but He didn’t say He would preserve it infallibly from all error. The New Testament documents from the apostles show error entering the church in many places and ways.
Athanasius is a wonderful hero of the faith, but he did not single-handedly canonize the NT. And he did not affirm icon veneration in the way the Seventh Ecumenical Council claimed and mandated for all true Christians.
I don’t say any of this to attack you personally, but because information spreads so easily via the internet. Grace to you.
@@tjkhan4541 to begin with, Orthodoxy is not a denomination but a pre-denomination. The whole argument falls apart right from your first sentence. God promised something but what you say its just twisting words to also support your argument which fell apart earlier. God is God so when He promises something, He does not make any discounts. He gave us the church and that church will remain intact until the end of times. Orthodoxy does not have a single error when it comes to doctrines, because if it did, it would contradict Gods promise.
Since you are saying that Saint Athanasius didn’t single handedly canonized it..then can you give us the other names? Are you saying that you dont accept the 7th council?
My brother, There is no salvation outside of the one and true church. Good luck interpreting the Bible, which is God brethren, by yourself. Just remember there will be the day of judgement…and then we will all go through it..Are you confident that your solo path will secure your salvation? There is a saying “the lonely sheep gets eaten by the wolf” . God bless!
@@Theoretically-ko6lr I wish God’s blessings to you too, friend. Thank you for that.
I do think we disagree about what God actually promised about the church. I agree with you that He always keeps His promises, but the question is the content of the specific promise.
I do not accept the Seventh Ecumenical Council. I don’t mean this to give offense to you or anyone, but I think historically, it’s just very hard to argue that icon veneration was present before the sixth or seventh century. And it’s also hard to reconcile with the whole Bible’s theology.
Fully agree with you on the day of judgment, and I’m sure that not all my theology is exactly what it should be, but I am 100% confident in my salvation before the Lord and status in Christ, because the good news of Christianity is not limited to one institutional church. He died in my place and gave me His righteousness to be reckoned to my account before God. I want all my Eastern Orthodox friends to know that same joy and peace. Grace to you, friend.
There are plenty of verses where God instructed how to make icons. In fact some of the Apostles made the first icons. Were the Apostles wrong in that or they were less knowledgeable than us. I suggest you reading some history of the church or listen to some great Fathers of the church that explain the icon veneration based on the Bible.
Also how are you 100% sure of your salvation brother, for which i wish you the best. According to Corinthians 9-27, Apostle Paul, one of the greatest preacher and Huge believers of Christ, he was still afraid of his salvation. If Paul was afraid why dont we all are?! Are we more faithful that the Apostle Paul who spread the Gospel? Didnt Jesus die for his sins also? As you see claiming that we are already saved its unbiblical and also a heretical false teaching. Orthodoxy says, we have been saved, we are being saved, and we shall be saved. Lets read Corinthians 9-27 again, and then lets compare our faith to Pauls. If he was afraid, how can we be not?
@@Theoretically-ko6lr with real respect, I think that (1) you are conflating art with icons, and (2) you are accepting late historical claims as having apostolic veracity, without evidence. The first evidence for Luke being an iconographer, for example, comes from Theodorus Lector in the sixth century; it’s just not apostolic.
May I ask which chapter of 1st or 2nd Corinthians you have in mind?
"The United States spying on its own people is going to be the defense of Freedom??" Powerful!! Stay safe Father Josiah☦
Glad that Orthodoxy gets some representation ☦♥
I agree with Fr. beyond words. I have been blessed by events of 2020...opened my eyes, radical dissonance (and openess to God as he says) and ultimately uniting to Christ and his Church from secularism. So much truth here.
Bravo Father Josiah!
From a Catholic listener.
Fr Josiah is of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the Patriarch of Antioch in Damascus, Syria.
Technically the Autonomous Antiochian Archdiocese of America.
There has never been a time in the history of the world when it has been easier to find the Truth☦️
IC XC NIKA
God bless you, Fr. Trenham
Fr. Josiah is a GIANT of a man. Incredible shepherd and an inspiration. God bless him and grant him many years!
The problem with our relationship with Russia is our attitude toward Russia, not Russia itself. Today, the KGB is not any worse than the CIA.
Sadly, I think that’s not saying much. Remember MKUltra? CIA m.o. seems very satanic to me.
KGB doesn't exist since soviet union's collapse. Russian Federation's secret service is called FSB.
Kirill and his holy 'special military operation'..
The CIA is completely awful with its espionage against Americans propaganda control of the media, putting drugs in inner cities, putting guns in the hands of gang members. If that’s how bad the KGB is, we should pray for Russia.
@@joekey8464As far as I know the Patriarch Kiril did not sit on the board of Lockheed and Raytheon which pushed for this war by prodding Russia. The west which promotes LGBTQ, transitioning children, abolishing Christianity in its countries, and placing over 900 military bases around the globe might have more a hand in this money laundering operation than you have been led to believe. The US would go nuclear if Russia toppled the government in Mexico and placed troops on the US border with the assistance of a puppet government. Why would Russia act any differently?
God bless, Father Josiah ☦
1.99 million subscribers and the vid has 48 views 1 hour after being published. I smell something fishy, youtube!
No, it was just 3 am in EU...
Yeah. The glaze bought their subs.
Most of the subscribers are bots the rightwing propaganda pushers at the blaze payed for.
Its more than likely suppression. There could also be bought subs like one of the commenters above me said.
Russians
Nice to see Fr. Josiah on Blaze! ☦
Father Trenham is a true blessing!
Wow! At 41 minutes Father Josiah really nailed it. These Christians from Palestine are all but forgotten for their suffering. And America looks the other way and rarely hold the state of Israel accountable. The evils of old are back poking at those on both sides.
Unfortunately I'm learning our tax dollars may be the leading funding of Orthodox persecution in the whole Middle East and Europe. It's growing here though so how wild is that? I didn't know Orthodox existed till a year ago. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but coming along. We will be visiting for first time soon.
They are the ones I think about the most, but yes, the majority forget they are there.
Algorithm comment for Orthodoxy.
God bless you brother. Keep fighting for our sweet Lord!! ❤ From Serbia.
Finally getting people telling the truth on here.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal have mercy on us. God bless Fr. Josiah
Just Because some one Claims to Be a Catholic doesn’t make them Good America is Under Demonic Attack . Pleace pray For America & The world 🕊🛐🕊🌎☦️🕊🌏🕊🌍🙏🙌🇮🇱🕎
Thank you for having Fr Josiah on.
This is what America needs to hear right now.
NO. IT IS NOT. He is a false teacher.
@@LB81RNyou are false
Glory to Jesus Christ! Fr. Josiah's wisdom continues to shine through with every conversation. I'm so grateful for these discussions, where he always provides such valuable insights.
Hes right
"I'm not convinced" HA! - well put Fr. Josiah
Be careful about those which call themselves "spiritual". Most if the time, they believe anything except for Christ.
Demons are spiritual, being spiritual without Christ, is in short, Satanism.
He speaks like an Evangelical. He is tied into the root issues of culture. Now, he is telling us the Cure.
And we are also in the Fight
Father Josiah converted to Orthodoxy from the Presbyterian faith. A large number of Protestant evangelicals were welcomed into the Antiochian Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Philip of blessed memory. This was a great blessing for America, as many foreign-born Orthodox bishops do not encourage conversion, especially if the converts eventually outnumber the cradle Orthodox and ask for an independent American Orthodox Church.
SIn makes us all blind. “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57, NKJV)
TH-cam moderators are a joke!
AGREE, THEY ARE THE COMMUNISTS NOW!
HAHA THE TRUTH HURTS GOOGLECHAN, COMMIES!
THEY ARE RIGHT BACK WHERE THEY WERE IN 2016, communists are in control of the internet. The Communist Indoctrination Agency is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL!
There are no TH-cam moderators lol
@@DM-dk7js then who censors the comments?
Powerful interview and a must watch
I dont go to chirch but im one with God And Jesus is My King!
I've Always been A Son of God! HAVE YOU ALWAYS HERD HIS VOICE!
How youg can you remember hearing from God!?
The holy Temple of unhewn stone is the human body.
Spoiler alert: GOD WINS! I’ve read The Book! ✅💯✝️🙏🏼💕🕊️💪
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Excellent interview !
Glory to God 🙏
Orthodoxy is how I understood Christianity and Christ. Christians have left the faith so far gone from fasting and sacrifice and rituals to the glory of our God.
I'm Orthodox, Russia was Orthodox since around 11th and 12th century. Where the Kremlin still has atheists within, where we can not forget what The U.S.S.R./Soviet Union did to all the faithful, where many died, any number made it to the U.S. Where I liked Putin, a judoka, fly fisherman, and assumingly Orthodox, but politics is politics, where if Buddhists, a leader may claim to be Buddhists. As Steven Seagal is something like Buddhists and said to be right there with Putin. But Putin as said is likeable, yet, he has to do and say what is expected of him. If he doesn't, someone else will. Which Ukraine is Orthodox, but the two are killing each other. Thats never made sense to me.
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Great content
incredible questions, incredible interview. This truly speaks to the heart of man
So good!
The message of the Bible is all we need. It answers all the questions and provides a life plan to follow from birth to death.
And where do you think that “bible” came from????
@@marymarysmarket3508 I understand very well where it came from and what it is.
@@barrycoleno, apparently you don’t.
@@OlympicLeprechaun Unlike you I actually have a name and an identity.
You have to change the title of this video to something better so more people will watch this talk about current events
"Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore, a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly understood that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live. Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer" Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus
Awesome interview
We've made money our God and now we pay for it
As a Reformed Christian I have many disagreements with EO but the gentleman has great wisdom and insight. We must be willing to learn from each other and not always be fighting.
I say I am Reformed but I spent a great deal of my life in the Baptistic-Arminio-Dispy camp which he describes. The disconnect with the teachings and scripture as well as the trivialized/feminized thing that the churches had become started me on a journey of searching the scripture that lead me to the Reformed tradition.
Fr. Josiah Trenham was a Reformed Christian. Check out his book, Rock and Sand.
@@lornadoone8887 Meaning was and converted?
@@mkshffr4936yes
@@mkshffr4936Yes! Am hoping you might check it all out and consider following him and joining us! ☦💝📿💝☦
@@mkshffr4936 yes, he converted
Вся слава Господу !
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Fr. Josiah is absolutely right about Russia. In truth, if our politicians could get beyond the past, we could enter into a new era of US/Russia cooperation. The people there want the same things as us. They do not want war, but we continue to provoke them. Lord have mercy.
It has nothing to do with communism or any superficial differences. Russia was communist because it separated itself from the Western cabal economic system. West has always lived thanks colonialism where it took advantage of the weaker nations by taking their natural resources as well as human. The only disagreement there is that Russia does not want to give away its natural resources for free and it will fight for itself till the end.
Sadly russian orthodox thing is just manipulation, we georgians suffer 200 years because of that, we thought that we could have good relationship with russia just because they are orthodox, now 20% of georgia is occupied by them, same happened in ukraine
Father Josiah does not know the real implications of Russian Orthodoxy. He knows about it theoretically, but that is totally different from reality. Я Русская, поэтому я знаю не по наслышки
Thank you Pastor following in the footsteps and philosophy of Jesus.
In this day and age of don't rock the boat, go along to get along, virtue signal for approval from the Masses, I save the last one when in Rome do as the Roman's do that never sat well with Jesus.
Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
This remedy will cure the world's illness.
I compare this to how the Western Roman Empire fell but the Eastern empire ruled for thousand years, and now the Roman Church is already at its declined but it's Eastern side you know will live on forever😮
American religion, their ingerpfetation of Christ's gospel scares me, IS scaring!
Don't rely on it but allow it to be a back up for expansion!
Is anything too hard for GOD? Oh Justice ⚖️ shall prevail... because the effectual, fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much...
Love from Russia❤
Christ has risen!
Before the middle of 19th century the Church was not a state business, the priests didn't had a steady income from the state, wasn't a state employee at lest here in Romania. Therefore the priest had to stay 24/7 in his parish to make all the services needed, hi was living with the "income" from his flock, priesthood wasn't a job, it was a calling. Cuza, one of the kings of Romania changed that, he confiscated the fortunes, lands, etc belonging to the monasteries and gave a monthly income to the priests, now the priests could go on holiday not fearing that at the end of the month he will have nothing to put on the table for his family. Slowly but surely the priesthood became what we see now, the priest has a working schedule, he goes at the beach on holiday and doesn't care that much about his flock. I don't want to make it look like every priest from Romania is like that, off course there are priests that are dedicated to their calling and love their flock and would do everything in order not to lose any member of his flock, but more and more men came to priesthood because is a easy and well paid "job".
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The diasporic Eastern Orthodox churches of America have it a bit easier than we Catholics did. And not only will they feel less pressure to change but they are also so decentralized they have no power for that sort of “top down” change or accommodation. Not to mention, Eastern Orthodoxy is so small and insignificant it has the privilege of flying under the radar and it is fortunate enough to learn from our mistakes.
Small and insignificant? Rome separating from the rest of the 4 patriarchates around 1054, and those other 4 patriarchates are insignificant? 250 million Christians are insignificant. Odd perspective
You're praising us too much, God willing you will be insignificant one day too. Mark 10:42-45
@@leopistis3560I think he/she meant EO is small and insignificant in US. Most of the US is Catholic and Protestant.
@@leopistis3560 I don’t think you realize how how much bigger and more widespread the Catholic Church is. Roman Catholicism (1.3 billion) is >5x the size as Eastern Orthodoxy (2-3 hundred million). The overwhelming majority of that 250 million is also counted in Russia and Eastern Europe, the Orthodox diaspora is very sparse, scrambled together, and disconnected from their mother churches. In the U.S., there are ~70 million Catholics compared to the EO churches which are together home to ~1 million. The biggest EO church is the Greek Orthodox (GOARCH) at ~400 thousand.
@@leopistis3560we are like 2% of all Christians in America, but we have signs of growth, God willing a healthy trend that will keep going!
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One thing just struck me, when it comes to Russia they were talking about how it isn't the same as it was in the USSR, it's changed and there are new generations there that never lived under that government. And it's not the same place.
But in the same interview the priest is still attaching stuff that happened in 1948 to Israel today. Which is not the same place either.
It was pretty easy to see where his biases are.
Orthodox Christians, at least the young converts I've come across, are more willing to side with Muslims than Jews/Israel on anything.
Lord, have mercy on us!
@@DragblackerOrthodox Christians typically don’t side with other. They are not Dispensationalists so they are not going side with the Jews who reject Christ.
I would love to hear how Israel has changed the way Russia has.
I haven't seen yet. But i am learning how what happened in 1948 still makes a huge difference in that minds of people there.
I believe we know enough about Russia today to know that it has thrown off the atheism of the ussr and openly restored its historic life in the Orthodox Church.
Please help Jesus Christ for political freedom I pray for freedom set us free
Strange question blaze tv. What qualifies a country to be evil or good. ? Yes a country???
If it doesn't serve Israel it is evil
The only truth is us Orthodox Christian. Make sure we pray 9 times a day my fellow Brothers and Sisters
Quick note on the first part of the video regarding catholics and contraceptives. Big difference between practicing catholics and ppl who just claim to be catholic
Actually for Hispanics,Pentocostalism is getting most of Catholics who are falling away from Roman Catholicism. I've lived in Spanish neighborhoods for the last 30 years.
I prefer Putin over Zelenskyy.
Weird
I prefer people who know what they are talking about. Neither is here to help America, dummy.
Then go to Russia.
@sfappetrupavelandrei I in no way said anything against the USA. My comment was anti Zelenskyy because he's a greedy money grabbing creep in my opinion.
@sfappetrupavelandrei I in no way said anything against the USA. My comment was anti Zelenskyy because he's a money grabbing creep in my opinion.
Nuts for even asking this question. It's a guy that just wants protection of his own country and idiots keep encroaching.
Brainwashed assertion.
Russia's history is defined by conquering its neighbors across Eurasia in the name of "its own security". I'd say that's pretty evil for them to deny sovereignty to neighboring countries. The Czarist Russians didn't have a right to conquer the hundreds of ethnic groups surrounding them, especially when they engaged in ethnic cleansing after doing so (see the Pogroms), and neither did the Soviet Union (see the Holodomor and other atrocities). Doubly so regarding the Soviets given the dozens of ethnic states like Ukraine which attempted to assert their sovereignty during the Russian Civil War, only to get steamrolled by the Bolsheviks.
Ukraine today was aggressed upon by Vladimir Putin (who is the grandson of the personal chef of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and who tried to sign up for the KGB [the Soviet equivalent of the CIA] when too young to do so, meaning that as a KGB officer, he is *AT LEAST* as bad as whatever nightmares you think the CIA gets up to), as evident by Putin's "Little Green Men" (Russian mercenaries in Putin's employ) who infiltrated Crimea, Donbas, and Luhansk and started attacking Ukrainians there before and during 2014.
Remember, those three territories before the 1940s were Ukrainian/Cossack dominant, and then Stalin inflicted the Holodomor on them to try to break Ukrainian Nationalist resistance to him, starving to death over a couple million people, hollowing out the population of the regions, and then forcibly importing tens of thousands of ethnic Russians who were loyal to him and the Soviet government to repopulate the territory and secure a land corridor to the Black Sea and the Soviet naval base situated in Crimea. So, Putin's whole claims to the territory are based on the dirty genocidal ethnic cleansing tactics of one of his predecessors, the dictator of the country in whose employ he was as a Soviet secret agent in the KGB. I think the evilness of the Russian government at least is firmly established with those facts.
We're getting closer by minute to the Orthodox Easter, Happy Easter! The church of ruzzia is neither Orthodox nor Christian by any means, ruzzia attacked Ukraine not otherwise, and there was no coop. I love Christ and know He sees the misunderstanding or lie that father Josiah is saying. Save Ukraine or suffer under the atheistic / devilish ruler putler. Keep in mind that Germany was also a "Christian nation" in 1933.
Thank you for your service! 1000 hryvnia have been deposited into your account.
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Russia should stop killing Ukrainians.
I hate to say this, but RC has failed the USA.
Hilarion's problem wasn't or isn't Putin its Kirill.
The Russian Orthodox Church, the only Church not in Apostasy,
No, Russia is beloved by our Lord and Our Lady, you should have known this all along🤨
Dear fellow Americans, check out the videos of who reacted and how when 9/11 happened, hint Palestinians were dancing in the streets.
Thank you for the reminder!!!!!
A country which has produced people like RC Sproul and John MacAthur, can't be that bad.
Nobody is above critism.
Fr. Josiah is a former student of Sproul and John MacArthur is an open Nestorian.
America has always been an AntiChrist State.
both of them are heretics
@@hippios that we'll only know much later. The ferosity of the attacts of RC and other Ortodox church "christians" on Protestants reminds me of the same attacks of Muslims and Ortodox Jews on Christians.
@@dirkbindemann1852 I am Orthodox, and I have good reason for calling them heretical. Especially Macarthur, who said the blood of Christ is not the blood of God.
@@hippios He only refered to your Mass where your do not say that the bread represents the body of Christ, but say it IS the body of Christ and wine IS the blood of Christ.
We know which one is evil
Podcasters criticizing tecnology.
23:30 Jesus Christ did not order us to be slaves, but servants. There are no slaves in the kingdom of Heaven.
i appreciate social media for i have faith that god is controlling my algorithm. wich this video appeared on my feed. I am happy for this.... praise Jesus Christ
and now we are creating artificial humans
History is repeating. More accurate mistakes of people are repeated. The Second World War, the Balkans, for one killed German, the Germans killed a hundred Serb civilians, women and children and the elderly, everyone. Not to mention the ferocity and cruelty of the Croatian "Ustasha", it's creepy. The state of Israel does the same to Palestinians. And what the U.S and NATO do to Serbs in 90's ...
God says in the Bible call no man Father but I
You don’t call your biological father, father? He also said call no one teacher. What are your thoughts on teachers in schools?
And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
Acts 7:2
What’s your point? Fr. Trenham is called Father so he’s anti Bible? Not a valid Priest? Not a member of the True Church? A false prophet, what? If you think your or anyone’s exclusive interpretation of Scripture is superior or even adequate in comparison to that of the Apostles, the Apostolic Fathers, Church Fathers, Saints and Martyrs who relied only and exclusively on the authority of the Holy Spirit and the enduring voices of the many that is the fingerprint of the Holy Spirits continued inspiration and involvement in the Body of Christ to interpret Scripture then you are grossly mistaken. Approach with faith, love and fear of God, forgive me a sinner.
@@SaltShack Jesus is our Priest. Catholics don't know the word that's my point. I have was involved in that mess at one time. Brain use it
@@cajunoneforchrist4545 Fr. Trenham is not Roman Catholic. Using one’s Brain in matters of History, Religion and Theology lead me to one conclusion, the One Holy, Catholic (not Roman) and Apostolic Church, Christs Church Founded on Pentecost that has remained faithful to Scripture it is responsible for it through guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Papacy wrestled away the Authority to determine Truth from the Holy Spirit and gave it to the Pope. The Protestant Reformers took it from the Pope and gave it to themselves and American Evangelicalism took it from the reformers and granted that authority to anyone with a Bible and an opinion who lacks the fear of God to use it. I’m not saying anyone is wrong just explaining how can you know who is correct and why. I think scholars call it epistemology. The unilateral primal decrees of a single man or that very synodal and conciliatory doctrine defined and practiced in Scripture by the Apostles themselves?
It’s difficult to describe Using one’s brain to allow confidence in Scripture while simultaneously discarding the Biblical tradition and principles that the Body of Christ deployed to create Scripture. That requires a belief that the Apostles, Apostolic Fathers and Church fathers were only inspired by the Holy Spirit in their authorship and curation of Scripture but lacked similar or any inspiration or guidance in every other aspect of their respective Ministries, which of course is so narrow minded that it requires you to discard all the scripture, which is vast, that pertains to the establishment and vary practices demanded by Scripture they upheld and put into use. The very order under Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons and commands that we be of one mind and Judgement through the enduring consensus Scripture defines as pleasing to the Holy Spirit, for instance. Those who established Christ Church as commanded on Pentecost and those directly taught by the Apostles each represented on Pentecost are far better interpreters of Scripture because they held, lived and understood the complete and complicated cultural context which no matter how hard one tries or claims simply can’t recreate. Melanchthon knew this himself so why would Bacon and Billy Graham and Joel Osteen for that matter ignore his lead let alone Ignatius. Polycarp and Clement if not to create some new patch that they can claim jurisdiction over for God or for themselves the motives don’t matter. After all, one’s Protestantism in the 16th century and now is determined more by one’s City and Municipal authority than anything defined by Scripture. Otherwise Knox’s Church wouldn’t be different than Calvin’s and Calvin wouldn’t be different from Luther’s. The very decrees they drafted to define themselves are named after the City from which they originated, London, Augsburg, Westminster…….. This is precisely why the “Rock” church is different from the Church of Christ and Lonnie Frisbies was different than Greg Laurie’s, that is different than Joel Osteen’s. Forgive me I can’t help but to pick on Joel, probably because my wife listens to him and he’s so pretty and pleasant.
The worship Father Trenham is Presbyter over would be far more recognizable to the Apostolic Fathers than anything that occurs in Rome let alone in any Protestant tradition. Does that mean it’s perfect? Does that mean his opinions on Israel and the Ukraine and the United States role, even obligation to the world in the 21st. Century are spot on? Of course not. Does that fact make a compellingly argument that it is in fact Right and True? Yes of course. We should all seek the same thing, a good account of ourselves before the fearsome and awesome judgements seat of Christ and of those which have received much, much is required and that means to use our brains and our hearts and our very being.
You don’t have to go to any Church to have a personal relationship with Christ, but if you wish to strengthen that relationship to the greatest degree possible, all things being equal, through contemplative prayer and worship and especially receiving the Sacraments, the best place with the greatest chance of pleasing the Holy Spirit most is in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Thanks for the exchange and opinions. Again, Forgive me a sinner.
When Trump gets in there he's gonna tell the whole world the truth about the flat earth and the ice wall.
I huess it's also the US's fault for Moldova and Transnistria, and for Chechnya and for Georgia. Priests should leave politics and deal with the Kingdom of God and not of men.
Is James Orthodox?
Certainly some informed questions. At about 35 minutes in he states he was baptized by a Ukrainian priest.
@@HubertofLiege thanks! I missed that part!
James Paulos does not give an accurate reason why Metropolitan Hilarion was exiled to Hungary. He should research more to get the real truth of the matter. Most Russian Orthodox Christians see him as a failure when he was the head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow. BTW he's back in Moscow.
He's not a Christian, but of the Orthodox Pauline pharisean Rehoboamites.
Paul was not an Apostle.
What is his problem with the Catholic Church?
All orthodox believers have a problem with the catholic church
Partly thru political events from the past and theological dogma
Heresies... He is an Orthodox priest if you missed it...
I mean try asking the formerly Catholic Parishioners at his Church.
The RC Diocese of LA is Spiritually dead. 40 Confessor Priests for more than a million Catholics, the selling of "Old" Buildings in favor of modernist Cathedrals that look more like Protestant Shopping Malls.
Why do you say he has a problem with the Catholic Church? Did he say something which caught your attention (except, of course, the fact that as an EO he can't just praise Catholicism as the best Church)?
This is Russia's manipulative agent Orthodox zombie! You who live in the West do not yet know what true Orthodoxy is. This is the bomb of Russian imperialism, of which this priest is a part of the agency. I am Georgian and I know exactly what I am talking about.
From what I have read in the comments so far is sad....you all are sheep following a false teacher. Sounded good until his false information regarding Russia and Israel. SHAME on HIM!
Where was the LIE?