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.
Well done. And exceedingly correct, imho.
Thx
Exactly. Or as Quix pointed out, grounded in nothing more than personal idiosyncrasies or psychological weaknesses.
This is the vigor of the Reformation -- we must base everything we know about God and His plan for our lives on His written word because we have faith the Holy Spirit guides us in our learning.
And when we disagree, we open our Bibles and thrash it out, comparing Scripture to Scripture and context to content, thereby understanding God's will more deeply than before we sat down to read and discuss and debate.
But all this is predicated on Christ's assurance that the Holy Spirit does indeed lead God's children in all righteousness and truth. If we disbelieve that, we are lost.
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" -- John 16:13
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." -- Colossians 3:16-17
Further, Paul doesn't say to do anything in the name of anyone other than Jesus Christ.