This is where the Orthodox disagree with the Protestants. We will say that we don't really know what is needed for one's salvation. From the Tradition and the Bible, we do know that one is to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. After that, our faiths diverge. The protestants feel that they are saved while on earth. We believe that we might be saved after we leave this place.
I do not disagree ... but, today, ... we have the canon of scripture ... and it is enough.
The Bible must be interpreted in conjuction with the Christian theology which is dervied from the Sacred Tradition.
My point is not that the scriptures contain all that there is to know of God, ... but that what the scriptures contain is enough for one's salvation and subsequent life in Christ
This is where the Orthodox disagree with the Protestants. We will say that we don't really know what is needed for one's salvation. From the Tradition and the Bible, we do know that one is to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. After that, our faiths diverge. The protestants feel that they are saved while on earth. We believe that we might be saved after we leave this place.
Do you doubt the testimony of John (the beloved) Apostle ?John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
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1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.