Main differences between Baptist Christianity and the Eastern Orthodox Church?

i know before anyone tells me that the orthodox church is just a branch of Christianity , but there must obviously still be differences between them. can someone please tell me what they are, you know the kind of thing that would determine which church a person went towards.

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There is so much difference between the two it would take hours to try and detail it all.

Try Google each one and read the differences yourself.

Tradition is the main difference.

Catholics no matter what kind believe that Mary(Christs mother) is just as important as Jesus and god himself.


Baptists have the mentality that god is higher than anything in the universe. Hope i helped you.

Baptist Doctrine is relatively young.
The earliest Baptist church began in 1609 in Amsterdam, with English Separatist John Smyth as its pastor and subscribe to a theology of believer's baptism (as opposed to infant baptism), salvation through faith alone, Scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice, and the autonomy of the local church

The word orthodox means "right believing" and was adopted to signify the true religion that faithfully followed the beliefs and practices defined by the first seven ecumenical councils (dating back to the first 10 centuries).
The primary disputes that led to the split between the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church centered around Rome's deviation from the original conclusions of the seven ecumenical councils, such as the claim to a universal papal supremacy.

Now there is one other Eastern Church, The Assyrian Church of the East.
The Hebrew-Aramaic speaking churches received the Peshitta New Testament text between 50 and 70 C.E. The twenty-two books of the New Testament were originally written in Aramaic using K'tav Ashuri (square Hebrew script). It was translated into Greek soon after. The Peshitta is still used by Assyrian, Syrian Orthodox and other Aramaic/Syriac speaking peoples in both Bible reading and liturgy.

If you compare the Aramaic to English scriptures to the current day "bible" you will see how the scriptures have been modified by the Western Orthodox Church by the first seven ecumenical councils starting in about 300C.E.

Never having been baptist, I might miss a few points as I describe Orthodoxy...

There are many major differences:
- The role of the bishop as spiritual father;
- Orthodox communion is the body of blood of Christ, not a memorial meal.
- Orthodox believe in that the bond of love between believers is not broken by death, and that the saints in heaven can and do pray for us. We ask for their prayers to God for us.
- Guidance by both scripture and Holy Tradition (in part, the interpretation and understanding of scripture)
- Worship is not off the top of the head, but is a deliberate and prescribed act, as was worship in the temple.
- We take to heart the teachings of the Lord Jesus, St. Paul, and St. James that the things we do affect the outcome of our salvation (read Matt 25:1-46). We do not earn or merit salvation; it's by God's grace we are saved. But we can cut off God's grace even while we claim to believe in Jesus (see the Matthew reference -- both the saved and condemned called Jesus "Lord".) "Once saved, always saved is incomprehensible to us without "working out our salvation", as St. Paul says.
- Orthodoxy can be described as millennial - the teaching from the 1800's of the "retribution rapture" is foreign to us. The 1000 years is a figurative number that we are in now; the return of Christ will be all the way to earth for the judgment, meeting the saints in the air as he comes, not whisking them away to heaven just yet. The statement in the Creed "his kingdom shall have no end" is explicitly anti-millennial, since we know that Christ's kingdom will never end. The millennium does.

Blessings.
/Orthodox

Eastern Orthodox Christians are part of the true catholic church..