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To: HarleyD

There's tons of em. Protestants for instance reject 282 words by St Paul (which he says are commandments from the Lord) because their tradition tells them women don't need to cover their heads.


10,297 posted on 02/14/2007 7:22:24 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: kawaii
There's tons of em. Protestants for instance reject 282 words by St Paul

I don't know of any Protestants "rejecting" any of the word of God. Some have interpretations. Some may even find excuses. But I can't say that any Protestants reject God's word.

There is a significant difference in my mind of saying, "We interpret the scriptures in such a way." than to simply, flat out call the word of God full of errors and mistakes, discarding it for what people tell you and relegating it to any other type of writing. At least the Catholics go back to a bit of the scripture, however tiny that is. While you may believe in an error-ridden bible, it was never the view of the early Church fathers as much as you would like to discount and discredit that possibility. These men sat aside the portion of scripture they deemed "inspired", deliniating it from the rest. The Orthodox would like to counter those fathers by saying it's not so. Tradition says otherwise.

What you are discribing, and is verified, is that Orthodox is nothing more that a philosophy, not theology. What's the difference from Orthodox and Mormonism? Mormonism has their fathers who tells them all sorts of things as well. If the Orthodox can't base their theology on the inspired word of God, then IMO it's nothing more than a made up religion based and ground in nothing but people's opinions of what they think God is like.

Frankly, my veiws of Orthodox has greatly slipped. I should have know as this is where synergism usually leads.

10,358 posted on 02/14/2007 1:36:51 PM PST by HarleyD
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