If you attend all the services you'll hear all of them eventually.
I have a Bible that was issued by the Serbian Patriarchy.
I have seen the Gospels, the Epistles, the Old Testament. We sing biblical verses as part of the liturgical services, vespers, etc.
Thanks for the offer, anyway. I don't need your Bible. Besides, its OT is not the one used by the Apostles.
And is your translation correct? Assuming it's written in Greek, is the translation from Hebrew to Greek correct?
Honestly, after I've looked into this and thinking about it, this is one of the most nonsensical arguments I have ever come across. The Orthodox position is that one doesn't know if the translations are correct and yet they provide translations and sing Bible songs that are suppose to be correct. Hello??? Does anyone else see a problem with this logic???
You've complained that Ezekial is translated incorrectly. Well, provide the correct translation and we'll compare notes. It seems that it should be a simply matter if the Orthodox have the "Bible" and everyone else made it up.
I don't need your Bible. Besides, its OT is not the one used by the Apostles.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, Well!!!
EXCUZZZZZZE US!
Should we kowtow several dozen times at the SHRINE OF TRADITION?
Or is it that we must kiss the toes of the ICON OF TRADITION 100 times?
Or maybe say "HAIL BYSANTIUM FULL OF GRAPES" 12 times?
Maybe we should build an altar to THE OLD TESTAMENT THE APOSTLES USED???
Perhaps we should put on sackcloth and ashes and weep that we have been plagued with such a burden as to struggle on so flawedly with an INFERIOR OT???
HOW, OH HOW OH WAILINGLY MORNFULLY HORRIBLY--HOW COULD GOD ALMIGHTY have managed to have drawn us to Himself and matured us in His Word and Spirit with such a FLAWED foundation??? OH THE HORRORS OF IT. How God's hands must have been tied!
Whatever can we do? How can we survivie? How will God manage with us? What an eterminally terminal tragedy. What a GALACTIC TYPO!
And where, oh where is the ocean of White-out to correct it? Oh, me. Oh, MY!
/sar
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THE MESSAGE:
I'll tell you exactly what I was told: You're all picking sides, going around saying, "I'm on Paul's side," or "I'm for Apollos," or "Peter is my man," or "I'm in the Messiah group."
13-16I ask you, "Has the Messiah been chopped up in little pieces so we can each have a relic all our own? Was Paul crucified for you? Was a single one of you baptized in Paul's name?"
AMPLIFIED:
12What I mean is this, that each one of you [either] says, I belong to Paul, or I belong to Apollos, or I belong to Cephas (Peter), or I belong to Christ.
13Is Christ (the Messiah) divided into parts? Was Paul crucified on behalf of you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
KJV:
1 Corinthians 1:12
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.