/lit/ - Literature

>>19219438
>St. Theophan disagrees with you
He does not actually, this is a common out of context misinterpretation of that letter (nowhere does he claim that you can be saved in heresy/schism). And in other places besides that letter he explicitly said that heretics are not saved (which is basic patristic and apostolic teaching by the way).

>"Among the papists, all the sacraments are damaged and many of the salvific sacraments are distorted. Papacy is a lung with scabs and festering. Among Lutherans, most of the sacraments are rejected, the rest is distorted both in sense and in form. They are like those who have rotted three-quarters of their lungs, and the rest is smoldering. Close to them, but even more damaged are our schismatics ... All of them do not breathe or do not fully breathe, therefore they are smoldering corpses, or wasting away, like the one whose chest is upset is wasting away. "

>“Do not turn your eyes around to see if there is truth somewhere else... There is no truth outside the Orthodox Church. She is the only faithful keeper of everything commanded by the Lord through the Holy Apostles, and therefore is the real Apostolic Church. Others lost the Apostolic Church, and ... they decided to build such a church themselves, and they built it, and they gave it such a name. They gave the name, but its essence they could not give it, for the Apostolic Church was created by the grace of the Father by the Lord Savior ... And this is our Orthodox Church ”

>“The Holy Orthodox Church is a treasury of the blessings of salvation. Whatever you need for salvation, you will find everything in her, and only in her. Apart from her, the Lord Himself does not give these blessings ... Having become the Head of the Church, He does not otherwise act for our salvation, but through this body of His. And do not seek other access to His salvation treasures. No such access is there. "


>>19220015
We defend it because it is patristic. Simple as that.
If you were genuinely interested in the question, it would be of little trouble to you to investigate and find the answer in like 15 minutes.