The Church And The Pope The Case For Orthodoxy Robert Spencer by Robert Spencer instant download after payment.

In 2015, after nearly thirty years as a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, an Eastern Church in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, I left Roman Catholicism and shortly thereafter rejoined the Orthodox Church, the Church into which I had been baptized many years before.
My return to Orthodoxy was the result of a series of circumstances that led me to undertake a reexamination of long-held and largely unexamined premises. That reexamination ultimately led me to a rediscovery of the Orthodox Church, which in one way I never fully left. As a Melkite Greek Catholic, I had been able to participate in the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great, and other elements of the majestic and profound Byzantine liturgical tradition.
Rediscovering and rejoining the Orthodox Church has been a great blessing to me, blessings that have aided me through difficult times. However, this change bewildered some of my family and friends. I have been warned about hellfire. I have received numerous emails explaining to me why the true church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ was only to be found in the communion of the Bishop of Rome. In light of this concern, I thought it might be helpful (to those who are close to me, and to others who have considered the vexed questions dividing Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics) for me to explain what I discovered that made me leave Roman Catholicism, why I rejoined the Orthodox Church, and what difference it makes.