Greek Orthodox Church Eucharist is Unbiblical Witchcraft
See also: Unbiblical organization of the Greek Orthodox church
Unbiblical Orthodox Church Communion is Witchcraft
1. Orthodox Eucharist liturgy is witchcraft with over 50 sequential component stages that include spells, incantations, gestures, actions, and precise recipe ingredients mixed in a special cup to brew a magic potion that mysteriously and spontaneously changes physical form and induces a supernatural effect only when it is drank from a spoon held by a witch. If all the 50 steps of the recipe are not followed precisely the magic potion is a failure.
2. Both Orthodox and Catholic claim their bizarre, nutty, and anti-biblical Eucharist liturgy comes from oral apostolic tradition, yet they differ sharply from each other and none of it is found in scripture, making both liturgies a doctrine of demons and vain worship.
3. Orthodox Eucharist is vain manmade worship because it is 100% different from the Bible pattern of how Jesus and Paul partook of the Lord’s supper.
4. Jesus said, “do communion in remembrance of me”, not in remembrance of Mary, angels, and dead saints as in Orthodox Eucharist. A memorial pinch of bread for each living and dead person for whom prayer has been requested is put on the plate, yet communion bread is not a symbol of supplication prayer for living Christians but of the body of Christ. We do not pray for the dead because they have been judged, are in the hands of God, and we do not know their needs in the spirit world. Local dead members are memorialized through communion for 40 days.
5. Unscriptural use of one cup, when Jesus used 13 cups at the last supper as proved by the Greek words “divided” in v17 and “poured out” in v 20 (Luke 22:17–20). The “holy grail” (communion cup) of Jesus is widely believed to be a Jewish ritual purity stone cup, certainly never gold or silver as used in the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
6. If during Passover, Jesus did not use unleavened bread and unleavened grape juice at the last supper, he would have broken the Law of Moses and sinned and disqualified himself as our saviour (1 Cor 5:7-8). Orthodox Eucharist violates the Bible blueprint of Jesus by using leavened bread and leavened, alcoholic wine. Jesus likely used “Passim wine” made from soaking grapes in water and squeezing out the juice in a press. Without exception, the Greek word used in the New Testament for communion juice is “fruit of the vine”, not “oinos” (wine).
7. In Matthew 26:26-30, Jesus’ liturgy served bread and juice separately and sequentially in two steps, but the nutty Orthodox liturgy combines the bread and wine together in a cup and consumed in a single step on a spoon! You have to be on cheap psychedelic drugs to even think something up so different from what Jesus did! Leavened bread sawdust and croutons are dropped into wine then eaten from a communal spoon. Archeologically, spoons were never used by Jesus or anyone during meals. Jesus was accused of eating with unwashed hands not cutlery.
8. A “portable altar” (AKA, a tablecloth) made of cloth called “Antimins” (“instead of a altar”) has body parts of the local dead patron saint sewn into it, to catch any holy breadcrumbs or juice and prevent the horror of it touching the unholy table. Whereas Catholics mix martyr bones into their marble altar tops, Orthodox sew them into a tablecloth. So much for unified oral apostolic tradition!
9. The “Asterisk Star” is a metal support of another veil that covers the bread and represents the star of Bethlehem shining over the cave where Jesus was born, but archeology and scripturally, Jesus that was born on the main floor of a house, not a cave or an inn. (Luke 2:7)
10. A “cup veil cloth” and incense “censor” are used primarily to keep insects away, but if a bug drops into the wine is believed to have communed with Christ and the priest eats it alive or puts it on the plate if it has died.
11. In a complex sequence of incantations, actions, and gestures, the priest cuts the one loaf into four sections: First, one square of bread representing Jesus. Second, one large triangle of bread representing Mary. At this point, the priest then reads and misapplies Psalm 45:9 to Mary, as the MOTHER of Jesus, when in context it is the WIFE of Solomon. Third, nine small triangles of bread representing the spirit world (angels and dead saints). Fourth, the priest rasps the bread with the “spear of Christ” to create a pile of bread sawdust. Then the priest drops one chunk of bread into the cup and drinks three times. Finally, all the leavened bread on the plate is dumped into the one communion cup of leavened, sweet, alcoholic wine mixed with water, ready for consumption by the 2nd rank “laity” Christians who leave their lowly pews and line up one by one at the high and holy altar before the priest to be spoon fed like children. If any of the witch’s brew is left over when the service over, the priest is required to drink it all himself in the epitome of unbiblical sacramentalism gone to seed. The demons rejoice!
12. Abstinence from sex and food, and incantational prayers are mandatory before communion is offered on a communal spoon with a wine-soaked crouton or bread “sawdust” porridge. Arms must be crossed during communion, after which you must kiss (worship) the communion cup. If a drop of wine falls on a recipient’s clothing, the priest must physically cut it out of the cloth. If the priest runs out of wine, communion ends, and the remainder are sent home without communion.
13. Contrary to science, priests teach the wine/bread “magic brew” miraculously kills diseases commonly transmitted by sharing one spoon. Science says the risk is real but low with a spoon and zero using multiple cups like Jesus and the apostles did in scripture.
Organization of the church and Seven Historic Stages of Corruption
Apostacy Stage 6: Birth of the Greek Orthodox church organization: AD 381-present
Unbiblical organization of the Greek Orthodox Church:
The current 5-tier organization of the Orthodox church traces its origin to the council of Constantinople in AD 381, which proclaimed Constantinople as “first” over the Patriarchates of Antioch and Alexandria, but “second” to Rome. After the church split fellowship in AD 1054 into Roman Catholic (West/Latin) and Orthodox (East/Greek), Constantinople became the functional Pope with the title of Ecumenical Patriarchate. In contrast to the extreme over/under military command style of the 3-tier Roman Catholic organization, Orthodox emphasises autonomy like King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. Local “parishes” are stripped of all autonomy and their biblical “overseers, shepherds, and elders” and replaced with an unbiblical “priest”, further stripping the common members of their Biblical status of both saints and priests.
10 HERESIES OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
1. Elevates human tradition equal to scripture.
2. Obeys human tradition when it contradicts scripture.
3. Inclusion of uninspired books into their Bible canon.
4. Only ordained priests can infallibly understand scripture.
5. Unbiblical use of leavened bread for communion.
6. Unbiblical elevation of Mary to being equal to God as the recipient of prayers.
7. Unbiblical Infant baptism.
8. Unbiblical triple baptism.
9. Unbiblical redefinition of saint and priest from all Christians to leaders.
10. Unbiblical organization of the global church.
