Explain the argument between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Churc

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Diocletian split the Roman Empire into two halves, thinking it would be easier to manage. The eastern half became the Byzantine Empire while the western half of the Roman empire weakened. Because of the distance separating the two regions, Christianity was no longer practiced uniformly. The two sides of the empire disagreed on how their faith should be practiced. In 1054, the two churches excommunicated each other. The western half, which became the Roman Catholic Church, believed that the pope was the religious head of everything, and had church services held strictly in Latin. The eastern half grew into the Eastern Orthodox Church, and gave more power to the patriarch, and held services in the vernacular. Also, the Eastern Orthodox Church banned the use of icons, as they viewed it as idol worship. The Roman Catholic Church encouraged their use. Currently, this is not the case.

- cultural differences after splitting the Roman Empire (Greek to Latin)
- disagreement on the role of the pope (EO Church consists of several self-headed national Churches which remain in theological and sacramental unity)
- theological differences (foliage)

The argument between Rome and Constantinople had their original in cultural differences, mainly that the Eastern was Greek and the West was Latin, beside the languages, there was also ritual disagreements regarding things like the use of Leven or uneven bread, and Constantinople's refusal to recognize the primacy of Rome. What led to the actual schism was the Filioque (and the son) in the Nicea creed, where the Western creed said the Holy Spirit was proceeding from Father and the Son where the East said only from The Father.

This is actually a lot harder question than it seems due to our incorrectly learned history of the early Christian Church.

The Eastern Orthodox Churches trace their roots ALL THE WAY BACK to the Apostles and Jesus Christ.

After the Crucifixion of Jesus. his personal FRIEND and DISCIPLE Peter headed the Early Christian Jerusalem Church ..... IN Jerusalem.

The Roman Christian Church was headed by Saul / Paul, a foreign Jew from what is today north Turkey. He's man that had a religious vision, a man that had never met Jesus OR his friends and disciples.

They were NOT the SAME Christian Churches.

In fact BOTH Peter and Paul picked DIFFERENT first Popes to RUN the Christian Church.

300 years AFTER the Crucifixion of Jesus there was not 1 or 2 versions of Christianity but SEVERAL.
The main ones being of the Jerusalem Church and the Roman Church.

Which version was correct? Good question.
Personally being neither Roman Catholic OR Eastern Orthodox I would think that the LOGICAL choice would be the Eastern Orthodox that came directly from Jesus's REAL Disciples.

But the one with the most power and the most money always wins .... and that would be Rome.

In fact, the Roman Church actually physically went after other forms of Christianity and destroyed them. They wiped the Cathers completely off the map by killing them, men, women, children .... Christians killing Christians.

A big point in the complete separation of the Churches was the decisions made during the compilation of the "APPROVED" books of the Bible where the Roman Church wanted the complete removal of a great many books.

At the time of Constatine the idea of Jesus' Devinne parentage or his divinity, was actually decided on after the fact of Jesus's bloodline from the line of King David on both sides of his family allowed that Jesus was supposed to be the REAL King of Israel and sit on the throne as a legit ruler as opposed to it's spiritual ruler. That was the huge problem Jews had with Jesus. The bloodlines of Kings and High Priests were a separate line. A King couldn't be a Priest and a Priest couldn't be a King. John the Baptist was in the line of High Priest.
Early Christians of the Early Christian Jerusalem Church were still Jews.

Also Constantine had problems with the "Return of the KIng" thing.He didn't want people thinking that ANOTHER King besides himself was right for leading the people. The Council of Nicaea assisted this idea of Jesus' Divine Monarchy as opposed to his historical rights to Monarchy.

The Eastern Orthodox Church had MAJOR problems with all of these decisions along the way and broke from the Roman Catholic Church.

Wikepedia really does have an awesome article covering all this.
History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church