If you believe in the Bible, you believe in the Orthodox Church. If you do not believe in the Orthodox Church, then you do not believe in the Bible.

The Holy Bible is the composition of the Orthodox Church, which alone is responsible for its contents. It gathered a selection of Greek writings, some of which it accepted as Divinely Inspired, such as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and many others which it rejected, such as the Gospels of Thomas, Phillip, James, etc. The Bible we have today did not exist before the 6^th century after Christ. These decisions were all made by Greek speaking bishops in the lands of the Bible. These peoples have never known any other Church. Every other denomination is a merely human organization. The Orthodox Church alone was founded by Christ in Jerusalem in 33 A.D. and spread by the Apostles and their successors to the whole world. This Church is His Body, Holy, Perfect and True. Every other is a merely human organization, and has something false in it, alien to God.

For example, the BAPTISTS SAY that they believe in the BIBLE ALONE . . . BUT . . . it is a sin to drink alcohol , which is the very opposite of what the Bible teaches. You can either believe that it is a sin to drink alcohol, or you can believe in the BIBLE, but you cannot believe both.

Neither do women cover their heads, nor their clergy forgive sins, nor anoint the sick, nor do they hesitate to remarry people divorced for any reason, etc. Thus the SAY that they believe the BIBLE, but they all do the opposite. This cannot be from God! Their denomination goes back to the 17^th century AFTER Christ.

The Roman Church was once Orthodox , being founded by Apostles from Jerusalem, but about a thousand years ago it completely drifted away from its Apostolic roots and from the Orthodox Faith preserved in the Holy land, and in all other ancient Churches. It introduced many new, unheard of things, indulgences, giving Communion with pasta instead of real bread and wine, fantastic claims by the bishop of Rome, forbidding married clergy, and other such novelties unknown in all other ancient churches.

Ecumenism is the " pan-heresy" which supposes that God has not revealed the True Faith, the Apostles did not teach it, and Christ did not found the One True Church. It is NOT POSSIBLE that the Orthodox Church can every unite with Roman Catholicism, or any other heresy. However, Roman Catholics themselves have lost faith in their denomination and they spread the lie, from the Pope down, that the Orthodox Church is just like Roman Catholicism without the Pope. Christ calls the Devil the Father of Lies, . . . so. . . The Orthodox Church is just like what the Roman Catholic Church was more than a thousand years ago, and if Roman Catholics can return to their Origins, they must return to the Truth, and from Pride and Worldliness to Humility. If the Pope and all Roman Catholics joined the Orthodox Church today, would they really learn Orthodoxy in a hundred years?

The real division came when Crusaders arrived in the Holy Land, and all realized that they no longer had the same Ancient, Apostolic Faith.

Many converts to the Orthodox Church say, "But I was always, Orthodox, only, nobody ever told me about the Orthodox Church! " The very fact that the ORTHODOX CHURCH ALONE observes everything in the New Testament, and nobody else does, ought to solve once and for all beyond any doubt, which is the One True Church. If you really believe in the Bible, then you already believe in the Orthodox Church.

Greeks, Syrians, Palestinians and other ancient peoples of the Lands of the Bible are Orthodox Christians, as are Russians, Romanians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, but The Church is NOT Greek or Russian , but the Universal, Original Faith, preached to the ends of the earth.

The number of people today who consider themselves Orthodox is more than 300 million, perhaps 500 million. The number of Orthodox Christians has risen greatly since the collapse of Communism, and many call themselves Orthodox & Christian who are neither, just as not all who say they believe in the Bible , really do. If you believe in the Bible, then you already believe in the Orthodox Church. If you do not believe in the Orthodox Church, then you do not really believe in the Bible.