Reddit reviews The Faith: Understanding Orthodox Christianity
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My priest used The Faith by Clark Carlton as a catechism. It's very good, as is the aforementioned books by Kallistos Ware. It lays out our beliefs and our practices well for a newcomer.
If you are interested, it is here on Amazon, where I am surprised at it's price (my parish bookstore had it for twenty dollars). If you are serious, PM me and I would be willing to loan you my copy.
You have come to the start of the path to the Truth. It's a hard one, but very rich and fulfilling. May God bless you on your journey!
That is a bad translation. A better one is:
"For You possess my heart, O Lord; you took hold of me from my other's womb."
It goes on:
"I will give thanks to You, For I am fearfully and wondrously made ..."
If all our inclinations are the will of God, then God ordained pyromaniacs and pedophiles, as /u/sarracht pointed out. What this verse means in context is that God created man to be in communion with him.
So no, it is not the case that "whatever is, is as is it should be." This is the unfortunate consequence of the Protestant Calvinist doctrine that God predestined everything. He has foreknowledge, but he lets us have free will.
Are you sure you "personally really only disagree with one or two things and that's it?" A good book to read is The Faith. It includes chapters about the creation, the fall, and the sacrament of marriage.
The Faith: Understanding Orthodox Christianity https://www.amazon.com/dp/0964914115/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_2ye9ybVK8CRE4 This is what my parish uses for the inquirers class
Finally, Orthodoxy is not a legalistic religion, so we don't have a single uniform catechism. However, [this is one of the best books] (https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Understanding-Orthodox-Christianity/dp/0964914115) explaining Orthodox Christian beliefs if you're interested.