Dear Silouan7,
First, forgive my previous hot tempered response. While I find your posts to be somewhat offensive, I should not be firing back so strongly. After all, you are asking questions.
I think you need to distinguish between those who leave Orthodoxy and those who were born into a non-Orthodox Church. Even Patrick Barnes of
www.orthodoxinfo.com [
orthodoxinfo.com] shows how the most strict of fathers made this distinction in his book "The Non Orthodox" (which of course was condemned as in itself too strict by the Antiochian Archdiocese).
The first category, namely those who leave, are heretics or schismatics, while those who are born into a non Orthodox church are considered "Heterodox"
Please ask your spiritual father if heterodox Christians can be saved.
anastasios
