“i nvr said you were becoming protestant, i said the same thing that protestants did, i.e., leaving the original church, they began to fragment, and argue amongst themselves, and refuse to join together for matters of faith and doctrine, the same thing orthodox churches are doing as this article notes.”
Oh, really? And after the Church of Rome went off on its own, leaving the other ancient Patriarchates of The Church in the Great Schism’ how many pieces did the Western Church break into? 30,000+, isn’t that the number of protestant ecclesial assembly children the Roman Church has?
We have a few autocephallous national churches and maybe 10 patriarchates, if you include the Oriental Orthodox and the Copts and we all believe the exact same thing doctrinally/dogamatically.
Indeed, since Rome left the Church there has been almost no serious doctrinal controversy. We had the Palamite question that was resolved by the 9th Ecumenical Council if that counts. But I can’t think of any other. And whereas the Christian West has been fragmenting pretty much ever since, as K points out, there have been only two persistent schisms in Orthodoxy (the Old Believers of Russia and the Calendar schism) in the last nine hundred years or so.
” how many pieces did the Western Church break into? 30,000+,”
That’s a logical impossibility. People break away from the Church. The Western Church did not break into pieces. It’s still there and it’s whole.
Even about divorce and remarriage?