Although distinguished Professor Dr. Dimitrios Tselengidis proclaims the ecclesiastical self-identity of the Orthodox Church, and recognizes Her as the “One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church," his conclusion is but a weak warning call:
With all that is written and what is clearly implied in the text above, it is clear that its initiators and authors are attempting the institutional and official ratification of Christian Syncretistism-Ecumenism by means of a Pan-Orthodox Synod. This, however, would be catastrophic for the Orthodox Church. For this reason I humbly propose the text’s total withdrawal.
This particular conciliar document on the "Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World" is not the only symptom of this widespread World Orthodox Modernism-Syncretism-Ecumenism, which began during the life of St. Nectarios of Aegina, who valiantly fought this heresy with his writings, his speeches, and with all night vigils and supplications to the Theotokos until his last breath in 1920. After the saint was silenced, Meletios Metaxakis gained control of the EP, ignored his synod, and unilateral imposed the New Calendar in 1924 along with the abandonment of the priestly cassock and facial hair.
Modernism and Ecumenism continued to advance in 1965 when Athenagorus and Paul VI unilaterally lifted of the Anathemas, which led to inter-Christian Ecumenical Vespers services followed by the infamous World Day of Prayer in Assisi on October 27, 1986 with John Paul II, the World Orthodox, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.
How can World Orthodox theologians and clergy acknowledge the Pope and Protestants as "Christians" when the Pope and his Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Protestant "Christians" say that they worship the same god of love as do the Jews and Muslims?
Now that World Orthodox agree that they worship the same god as do Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims, in their rush to embrace ecumenism, they have become heterodox themselves. The truth is that all these heterodox groups, which include the World Orthodox, the Catholics, and the Protestants, have left the "One Holy Catholics, and Apostolic Church."
Thus, we the True Orthodox are the faithful tiny remnant, which Christ is protecting from the pan-heresy of Ecumenism. Remember, Christ warned us that the faith of many would grow cold before His Second Coming. We are in the End Times, and Christ's return is imminent. We just do not know when, for He will come as a Thief in the night.
