Orthodox Redneck☦️

If there are any Orthodox Farmers/Homesteaders/Ranchers who see this post please feel free tk reach out to me so we can network. Would enjoy having discussions pertaining to the initial development. Please feel free to share this post for further reach.

@Food4Salvation @LowStudies Thank you for your kind words.

@LowStudies @OrthoRedneck I'm not sure what this means as I haven't researched Orthodoxy much, but I'm happy for your happiness brother. May you continue to show people the truth with kindness and recover many lost sheep for the Lord's flock.

Good grief maybe I should start putting a disclaimer on my post from now on. Something like... (These are personal views and opinions. I am a catechumen. I do not have the blessing of my priest to enter into apologetic discourse) Kyrie, eleison.

@WAmericanMale I can understand thst to an extent but I don't feel that's not my place currently. If I feel attacked of course I'll defend myself but I'm not going out of my way to engage.

@OrthoRedneck The church needs young men with zeal. Many cradle Orthodox are comfortable and don't want any feathers ruffled. Spiritual warfare is real and intense and speaking Truth brings you very few friends.

@MrsMagdaBeard 50 cent AYC chicken? You are correct.

Some of you need this.

@MrsMagdaBeard Truer words never spoken.

@OrthoRedneck Your best bet is to remove the cross and not make your account about orthodoxy. I stupidly did the same thing years ago when I was new to the faith and there is nothing edifying for an Orthodox Christian on Twitter.

@hill_marku47259 Not here to "cook" anyone.

@OrthoRedneck Anytime you cook somebody, they just go "shut up catechumen!" bc it's all they have

@CovenantReform2 @The_LFB The irony

@The_LFB @OrthoRedneck You don't follow the teachings of the early church. I have the actual teachings of the early church. All you have is desperate attempts to distract.

Protestantism taught me who Jesus is. Orthodoxy has shown me what was missing.

@Dusan_Bara Far from it tbh. Our property is heavily wooded and our jobs take us away from home for long periods. It'll come in time I'm sure.

@OrthoRedneck Oh man, I wish!! That’s incredible brother you’re already doing it then! Don’t stress yourself, let it happen organically at Gods timing. That’s incredible. I know you’ll be successful by the Grace of God.

Lord have Mercy on me. My apologies for getting folks riled up.

@MrsMagdaBeard Ya I try not to but it's hard when I feel like I'm being personally attacked. Being called all the typical slurs, idolater etc. and told I joined a cult.

@OrthoRedneck You're a catechumen. It's best that you don't give any opinions on the church for now.

@Dusan_Bara We jumped into 17 acres right before C-19. It's been a process to say the least still a lot of clearing to do.

@OrthoRedneck I wanted 4-5 to start, and an older house to fix up. Ended up going with an acre with like 1 year old house because of some factors. 200amp service, neighbours with land that can sever and sell to us, and space for the family to grow. Custom home builder built for his son

@CovenantReform2 @The_LFB

@OrthoRedneck @The_LFB You became an idolater because you chose to suppress the truth in your quest for unrighteousness (Romans 1:18ff). You choose to bow to idols and lie about being innocent "veneration of icons" because you didn't believe in Jesus but wanted to believe in a self-serving sect.

@CovenantReform2 @The_LFB You won't cite where it says anything specific about infant baptism because it isn’t in there simple as that. It also speaks about fasting and confession as practiced by the Orthodox. Are you committing to those practices as well?

@OrthoRedneck @The_LFB You don't follow the teachings of the early church. I have the actual teachings of the early church. All you have is desperate attempts to distract. You're lying about the Didache because you don't follow it either. It gives instructions for all baptisms.

The burden of proof lies with you sir, you're the one citing it. Your hubris and pride and the very reason I left protestantism. You're condemning and persecuting not only current Orthodox but all those who came before. I'm not seeking to suppress anything just pointing out the flaws in your talking points. As you claim you have the teachings but yet you refuse to follow them.

@OrthoRedneck @The_LFB Why don't you look it up yourself? Of course, as an idolater, you don't care what the truth is. You're seeking to suppress the truth in your quest for unrighteousness (Romans 1:18ff). That's why you go to an idolatrous sect that lies about history.

@CovenantReform2 @The_LFB Ok fdoes this mean you will be accepting their other teachings now as well. Will you be baptizing infants and not only participating in the Eucharist but accept the belief that it is is the literal Body and Blood of Christ?

@OrthoRedneck @The_LFB The issue is that *YOU* do not believe in the teachings of the church fathers who strictly prohibited icons. Only idolaters try to claim that Epiphanius wasn't opposed to icons. You're repeating the lies of your self-serving, idolatrous sect.

@Dusan_Bara I feel ya I need much prayer trying to get my farm growing into a profitable endeavor. Need a new home, capital, bussiness plan, etc etc. Would like to start with a couple acres at first and grow from there.

@OrthoRedneck Thanks brother. Working on our inground beds next. Currently trying to suffocate all the grass slowly to avoid tilling 🫡

Just for further clarity though, Jesus said in John 10 17 Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.⁠ 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”⁠ Also he asked for the forgiveness of those who persecuted and crucified Him.

@Chiloveli @SolaSixMillion @Frost7 @JoelWebbon I believe the term you're looking for is "Murder by Proxy"

Stop Calling Him “Yeshua.” That’s Not His Name. “The irony is almost painful. The same people who insist on calling Jesus "Yeshua" because they want to be more authentic than ordinary Christians rarely stop to consider that the Apostles themselves lived, preached, wrote, and quoted Scripture in Greek. The New Testament is Greek. The churches were Greek-speaking. The Septuagint was the Bible of the early Church. Even the Jewish men walking beside Christ bore Greek names without embarrassment. Yet two thousand years later, a man with a shofar in the garage and a Hebrew Roots podcast subscription becomes convinced that he has uncovered a level of authenticity unavailable to Peter, Paul, Luke, John, and the congregations they planted. At some point, trying to be more Hebrew than the Apostles stops being reverence and starts becoming a theological hobby. What makes the Matthew argument so difficult to escape is that Matthew repeatedly shows his work whenever preserving an original-language phrase actually matters. He gives his readers Raca. He gives them Mammon. He gives them Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. In each case, the original words remain in the text precisely because Matthew wants the reader to know those specific words were spoken. Yet when the angel announces the name of the Messiah, Matthew suddenly abandons this practice entirely and gives us Ἰησοῦς without qualification, explanation, or linguistic footnote. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Matthew preserved original-language expressions when he believed preserving them mattered. He did not do so with the name of Jesus because, for Matthew and the Church that received his Gospel, Ἰησοῦς was not standing in for the real name. It was the real name.”

@OldUSenjoyer Exactly I don't want my zeal to override sound resoning. As well it's exhausting trying to explain it to people. Anymore I'm just going to redirect them to an inquirers course.

I've been Orthodox for like 6 years and I'll be honest, I think a lot of folks on here get to trying to teach and speak for the faith far more than they should. It takes some real time to get past the honeymoon phase and the other various phases. I also don't want to be responsible for driving others away, to the point that I almost didn't even mention being Orthodox on here.

@TGrogan268173 @desertcynic Paine used to the Masoretic Text to come to this conclusion, if he had used the Septuagint he most likely would not have.

Jesus fulfilled zero prophecies in context. In the following treatise I have examined all the passages in the New Testament, quoted from the Old, and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, and I find no such thing as a prophecy of any such person, and I deny there are any. The passages all relate to circumstances the Jewish nation was in at the time they were written or spoken, and not to anything that was, or was not, to happen in the world, several hundred years afterwards; and I have shown what the circumstances were, to which the passages apply or refer. I have given chapter and verse for everything I have said, and have not gone out of the books of the Old and New Testament for evidence, that the passages are not prophecies of the person called Jesus Christ. Paine, Thomas. Age of Reason: The Definitive Edition (p. 222). Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd.. Kindle Edition.

The point of the Old Testament is to point to Christ. It's not about anti-Babylonian polemic, the structure of Hittite treaties, Assyrian wedding ceremonies, or whatever the new gay fad in OT studies. It's literally about Jesus Christ.

@LowStudies @Croative1 At least she's being respectful

@Croative1 Women cover their heads in Orthodox Churches in Russia.

Yesterday she converted to Roman Catholicism. Today she is an russoorthodox babushka. Tomorrow maybe a Hindu.