A Concise Evaluation of the Heretical and Robber Pseudo-Council of Kolymbari, Crete (30 points)

[Produced by Neo-Zealots]

 

Invalidity of the false council due to Canonical and administrative violations

 

1. It did not have charismatic and God-bearing holy Elders as presenters and ratifiers of the subjects and texts, as all previous Councils did. And not only that, but they were even forbidden to speak. Consequently, the false council was not “following the Holy Fathers,” therefore it was not Holy.

2. The postponement requested for doctrinal reasons by the 4 major Orthodox Churches—Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch—was not accepted.

3. The 4 major Orthodox Churches—Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch—abstained from it, which represent seventy percent (70%) of all Orthodox worldwide. Consequently, the false council is not simply not Pan-Orthodox, but not even Great.

4. It unlawfully replaced and excluded from the Council the Patriarch of Jerusalem Mr. Irenaeus because he was not heretical (Ecumenist).

5. It did not have valid items on the agenda since they were not signed unanimously.

6. In an unprecedented violation of the Orthodox Synodal Tradition, out of the 830 Orthodox Bishops worldwide—namely the 580 Diocesan and the 250 Titular ones—who were supposed to be invited, only 160 were invited (and selectively at that!), many of whom again did not attend for doctrinal and confessional reasons, and who were scandalously replaced by others!

7. By allowing participation only to 24 of the hierarchs of each local Church, it violated the Ecclesiastical Tradition and the equality among the hierarchs.

8. By the selection—and not even by lot—of these 24 hierarchs, it violated every notion of Ecclesiastical legitimacy.

9. In an unprecedented Orthodox Ecclesiastical violation, instead of at least allowing those hierarchs who were invited to vote, the final and decisive vote was given only to the Primates—something that occurs in Papal Councils (cf. Second Vatican Council).

10. According to Orthodox Ecclesiastical Tradition, since the representatives of the local Churches had no voting rights, the decisions of the false council are non-binding and invalid for them.

11. The vote of the Patriarch of Serbia was invalid, since 17 out of the 24 Serbian Metropolitans voted against the new heretical Ecclesiology.

12. The vote of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece was also invalid, since it was contrary to the unanimous decision of the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece.

13. The vote of the Archbishop of Cyprus was also invalid, since 4 Cypriot Bishops did not sign the document.

14. It did not recognize previous Orthodox Councils. That is, it did not recognize even the Quinisext Ecumenical Council in Constantinople of 692 AD, nor the Ecumenical Council in Constantinople of 880 AD (which "coincidentally" addressed the heretical Papists), nor the Ecumenical Council in Constantinople of 1341 AD, which also "coincidentally" addressed the heretical Papists. According to Holy Tradition, each new Council draws its validity also from the rejection or recognition of the preceding Councils. Therefore, the false council invalidates itself by ignoring the preceding Councils.

15. It did not deal at all with the most pressing issues of the time, such as that of the old and revised calendar/Typicon or that of the parallel bishops in America, etc.

 

Heresy of the false council due to blasphemous heretical doctrines

 

1. It did not name any heretical organization of our time (Papists, Uniates, Protestants, Evangelicals, Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Chiliasts, Ecumenists, Anti-Chalcedonians, Monophysites, Maronites, Nestorians, Monothelites, Masons, etc.), and therefore accepted them all as rightly dividing the word of Truth.

2. It recognized most organizations of unrepentant heretics as “Churches” and our participation as an equal member-part of a worldwide council of such organizations which it accepts as “Churches” (WCC).

3. By accepting the Toronto Statement, it formulated the heresy that Orthodoxy is only a part of the Church of Christ, and that the remaining parts are the other “Churches,” that is, the heretical organizations.

4. It accepted, without distinguishing or condemning any, all the heretical texts of the WCC (Porto Alegre, Busan, etc.). Thus, it adopted the heresy of Porto Alegre that all heresies are the divided members of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Christ, and that only when we are in communion with the heretics are we the Church and the Body of Christ.

5. It adopted the heresy of Busan that we Orthodox must repent for the schisms, because the heretics did not depart from the Church, but we are jointly responsible for the divisions of the Church into pieces, and for this reason all the divided members of the Church, that is, Orthodox and heretics, must return to communion.

6. By indirect acceptance, it adopted the heresy of the Balamand Agreement, where among many other grievous things, we accepted, signed, recognized, and thus declared faith in the idea that the heretical Papists are a Church and that they possess Baptism and Mysteries.

7. By indirect acceptance, it adopted the heresy of the Chambésy Agreement, which states that the heretical Monophysites preserved authentic Christology, and that we agreed to lift the anathemas on both sides, without the heretical Monophysites renouncing their delusions.

8. By recognizing heretical organizations as “Churches” and the need for reunion with them, it adopted the heresies concerning the “divided Church,” the “branch theory,” the “two lungs,” “syncretism,” “baptismal theology,” “post-Patristic theology,” etc.

9. By recognizing heretical organizations as “Churches,” it recognized in them Apostolic Succession, Priesthood, Grace, Mysteries, and salvation.

10. By recognizing heretical organizations as “Churches” and parts of the Church of Christ, it indirectly accepted—or at the very least disgracefully diminished the significance of—all their gravest and most blasphemous heresies, such as the filioque, iconoclasm, Monophysitism, Monothelitism, the identification of essence and energy, created Divine Grace, the Theotokos being merely Christotokos, etc.

11. By all the above, it nullified and renounced Article 9 of the Symbol of Faith concerning the ONE Church, as well as all the previous Ecumenical Councils.

12. Not only did it adopt and establish the pan-heresy of Ecumenism, but the false council was an ode to the pan-heresy, glorifying the aims of the WCC and beyond.

13. It permits mixed marriages between Christians and heretics.

14. It definitively ceases and forbids missionary work toward heretical peoples.

15. It devalues and Protestantizes the extremely important tool of fasting, through which the cleansing struggle toward the “acquisition” of the Holy Spirit—and therefore toward salvation—is undertaken.

...the list of theological deviations is much longer, but let us remain with these few...

 

Greek source: https://omologia.neocities.org/heresynod