Who’s really causing the division?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Paul Vusik

I grew up around the Eastern Orthodox Church when I was a kid, so I have some familiarity with what they teach.

And I grew up in the Catholic Church. I view them both as empty shells, with little reality within, filled with traditions and liturgies and deceitful systems rather than Jesus Himself.

But on the positive side, they do provide continuity of truth for successive generations. They do guard the scripture and the truth about Jesus. Admittedly it does take a miracle to break thru their shell, and find the real Jesus. As a young kid I did believe the Bible was the word of God, and Jesus was the Son of God who died on the cross, yet my heart was dark and sinful without God. I was named after a Franciscan monk, yet never once heard the gospel from him or anyone else in that church.