Hello all İm Turkish and new to the Christian religion. First of all my family is secular Muslim and İ have atheist brother so İm safe dont worry. So recently İ took interest on the Christian religion more specifically Orthodox Christianity and İ looked some stuff but dude no idea how to explain. Can you give resources or something to help İ find tons of weird stuff online for some reason so İ want to get good info thanks my name is Murat
Hello my Friend. welcome to the Apostolic churches.
its good that you choose a faith that can trace its roots back to the Apostles of Jesus Christ, you are on the right track.
When you find a Bible, find a Orthodox Bible with 76 books, do not buy a protestant book with 66 books, they removed the other books in the reformation.
The old Church fathers quoted those books that the protestants reject today.
do yourself a favour and follow the early Church which is 2000 years old and not the 500 year old church that was made by man.
One of the Books that are not in the protestant Bible, but is in both The Catholic and Orthodox Bible is
BARUCH
here is
3 examples of the early Church quoting it like any other scripture!:
Clement of Alexandria A.D 230.
Saint John Chrysostom: A.D 407
Saint Hilary of Poitiers: A.D 368
Baruch 3:13
If You Had Obeyed
Threats, Exhortations and Pardon Are Blessings.
Clement of Alexandria: A.D 215
And still another form of instruction is benediction. “And blessed is he,” he says by David, “who has not sinned; and he shall be as the tree planted near the channels of the waters, which will yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not wither”—which is an allusion to the resurrection—“and whatever he will do will prosper with him.” [
Psa 1:1-3.]This is what he wants us to be so that we may be blessed. Again, showing the opposite scale of the balance of justice, he says, “But not so the ungodly—not so; but as the dust that the wind sweeps away from the face of the earth.” [
Psa 1:4.] By showing the punishment of sinners and how easily they are dissipated and carried off by the wind, the Teacher [Christ.] dissuades us from crime by means of punishment. And, by holding up the penalty we deserve, he shows the goodness of his beneficence in the most skillful way in order that we may possess and enjoy its blessings. He invites us to knowledge also when he says by the mouth of Jeremiah, “If you had walked in the way of God, you would have lived forever in peace.” Thus, when he exhibits the reward of knowledge here, he invites those who are wise to its love. And, granting pardon to him who has erred, he says, “Turn, turn, as a grape gatherer to his basket.” [
Jer 6:9.] Do you see the goodness of justice, in that it counsels to repentance?
Christ the Educator 1.10.92.1-3. [CTP 181:117-18.]
Here is two more from the Early Church.
Baruch 3:35
None Can Compare with Our God
Singing the Magnificence of God’s Works.
John Chrysostom: A.D 407
It is ordained that not only we human beings but also the angels, the archangels, the celestial nations and all we who are on earth give praise. “Bless the Lord,” it says, “all you works of his.” [
Psa 103:22(102:22 LXX).] His good works are no small achievement; rather, they exceed all speech, intellect and human understanding. The prophets announce these things every day, each in various ways publishing this splendid triumph. One says, “You have gone up on high, you have led captivity captive, and you have received gifts among people.” [
Psa 68:19 (67:19 LXX).] And, “The Lord strong and powerful in battle.” [
Psa 24:8 (23:8 LXX).] And another says, “He will divide the spoils of the strong.” [
Isa 53:12.] For this is why he came, in order to announce freedom to the prisoners and the recovery of sight to the blind. [See
Luk 4:18.] And raising aloud the cry of victory against over death, he said, “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O grave, is your sting?” [
1Co 15:55.] And another, in its turn, announcing good news of the most profound peace, said, “They will forge their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” [
Isa 2:4.] And while one invokes Jerusalem, saying, “Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion, because your king comes to you, meek, riding on a beast of burden, a young colt,” [
Zec 9:9.] another proclaims his second coming, thus saying, “The Lord, whom you seek, will come, and who will abide the day of his coming? Leap as calves set free from their bonds.” [Mal 3:1-2, 20.] And another again, amazed at such similar events, said, “This is our God; no other will be compared with him
.” Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew 19.9. [CTP 170:378.]
Baruch 3:35
None Can Compare with Our God
God Seen on Earth.
Hilary of Poitiers: A.D 368
Listen now to Jeremiah: “This is our God, and there shall be no one else like him who has found out all the way of knowledge and has given it to Jacob his servant and to Israel his beloved. Afterward he showed himself on earth and dwelled among people.” For previously he had said, “And he is human, and who shall know him?” [Jer 17:9 LXX.] Thus you have God seen on earth and dwelling among people. Now I ask you what sense you would assign to “no one has seen God at any time, except the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father,” [
Jhn 1:18.] when Jeremiah proclaims God seen on earth and dwelling among people? The Father most assuredly cannot be seen except by the Son. Who then is this who was seen and lived among us? He must be our God, for he is God visible in human form, whom human beings can handle.
On the Trinity 4.42. [NPNF 2 9:84*.]
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