You call yourself "orthodox" and yet you and I believe very much differently.Incidentally, the "orthodox" in my screen name refers to my Denomination...
...Founded by that great Fundamentalist, anti-evolutionist, and
Anti-Prohibitionist Dr. J. Gresham Machen, personal tutor to Francis Schaeffer (the greatest Protestant theologian of the modern age).
In his own position there was never the least shadow of inconsistency. When the Prohibition imbecility fell upon the country, and a multitude of theological quacks, including not a few eminent Presbyterians, sought to read support for it into the New Testament, he attacked them with great vigor, and routed them easily. He not only proved that there was nothing in the teachings of Jesus to support so monstrous a folly; he proved abundantly that the known teachings of Jesus were unalterably against it. And having set forth that proof, he refused, as a convinced and honest Christian, to have anything to do with the dry jehad. -- H.L. Mencken's obituary of Machen: "Dr. Fundamentalist"