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Originally Posted by grip_daddy

you'll give me examples of similarities, and/or the churches you assume the name orthodox to apply to.

by orthodox church, i mean the family of churches that make up the eastern and oriental orthodox churches.

The eastern orthodox churches are the greek orthodox, russian orthodox, serbian orthodox, romanian orthodox, bulgarian orthodox, arabian orthodox, and antiochian orthodox churches. this list may not be exhaustive

the oriental orthodox churches are the eritrean and ethiopian tewahedo orthodox, the coptic orthodox, the armenian apostolic church, the indian malankara orthodox church. again this list may not be exhaustive

so grip, we are in agreement that the catholic church sprung from the orthodox church, but we aren't dealing with the catholic church, we are dealing with the orthodox church. The challenge is to find where the orthodox church strayed from christian teachings. What you need to show is a historical evidence of a change and not simply a personal disagreement with a particular orthodox doctrine.

The similarities between jewish worship and orthodox worship is that they are both of liturgical nature and based off of the worship that happens in heaven which is liturgical.