Why I am converting to the Russian orthodox church part two
When I was looking for a new church in Texas, I was sick of all the compromises I was seeing all around. Not sin so much, I have sinned and it has always been that men sin. As long as there is repentance things can go on. The thing that bothered me was women clergy. I was raised to be a good feminist so it wasn't that I thought they couldn't do it, it is the question of what changed that now it is ok, when it wasn't before? This brought the most important question, "who sez?" Who says that this is ok all the sudden? Who has the right to tell Joel Osteen to shut up? The answer I was always given, and gave, is the Holy Spirit. But who speaks for the Holy Spirit? I have been convinced that I knew what He said but was proven wrong. So it's not me. Many claiming to speak for him said women clergy was just spiffy and 2000 years of Christian practice was wrong. So really, no kidding, who gets to say? I watch too much YouTube. But I started to notice that the mos...
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