This is for anyone to answer (I’m not sure how to reply without using your name boatbums):
Why don’t Protestants ever look to the Orthodox? Although the Orthodox Church disagrees with the Catholic Church on some things they are the closest to the Catholic Church and have taught and believed many of the same things as the Catholic Church teaches and believes. Both were unified for hundreds of years!
So, when a Protestant decides that they are right, that their interpretation of Scripture is right, they are actually turning away from teachings that *all* Christians believed and followed for hundreds of years...not just the “dreaded” Catholic Church.
Or do Protestants even know about the Orthodox Church? The fact that these two denominations agree on so many things that the Protestants disagree with should make them stop and think about how “right” they are.
Some have and do, but it puts a bee in the bonnet of heavily partisan, foreign Roman Catholics on this forum to ever bring it up.
Look to those churches comprised of people originally proselytised by Cyril and Methodius but brought under Rome by the sword for an example.
I know of several Protestants who have joined the Eastern Orthodox Church. I agree that the Orthodox more closely follow the tenets of the early Christian church. If I HAD to choose one or the other, I would go with the Orthodox. What you may not know is the Orthodox Church had VERY legitimate reasons for splitting from the Roman church. Not the least of which was Rome's insistence that the Pope of Rome was over all of Christendom. There are also differences regarding Purgatory, the "filioque" and the Virgin Mary (her sinlessness and assumption) and others as well. Now, whether or not these differences can be resolved and the two sides reunited, I doubt that will happen. It's been over a thousand years since the split and, if Rome hasn't changed any of her dogmas that initially caused the split in the first place, I don't see her ever admitting she was in error in order for the split to be closed nor do I envision the Orthodox submitting to Rome's demands.
For a good examination of the differences between Orthodox and Catholicism, see http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html