Eastern Orthodoxy

While walking around Bucharest today, we visited the main Eastern Orthodox church for Romania. This is the church where the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church lives. Romania is about 87% Eastern Orthodox - a religion that emphasizes the impenetrable holiness of God through visual symbols (icons) and tradition. Eastern Orthodox Christians believe in the Bible + Tradition, while at the same time elevating Tradition above Scripture. Here is a short video displaying some of what we saw:

Here is a pretty decent resource to check out some of the similarities and differences between Roman Catholics, Protestants (so-called because they "protested" several of the practices of the Catholic Church; Baptists fall into this category), and Eastern Orthodox: http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html.
For further information on what we personally believe, see http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp.


“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us."

-Acts 17:24-27