I suggest you learn about the bible as much as you may have read from it. You may be surprised what the facts have to say....Today, we know that our Holy Bible has been corrupted by additions and deletions. And I would suggest that you learn about the official teaching of the Orthodox Church on the scriptures.
The soul of Holy Orthodoxy is prayer, and it is also Holy Scripture since the Christian Church is a Scriptural Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church follows the beliefs of the Old Testament, the New Testament and including several books of the Apocrypha. Since the Eastern Orthodox Church therefore looks to Holy Scripture the Bible as the supreme expression of God"s revelation to man, and it must not be regarded as something set up over the Church, but as something that lives and is understood within the Church (that is why one should not separate Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition). It is from the Church that Holy Scripture ultimately derives its authority, for it was the Church, which originally decided which books form a part of Holy Scripture; and it is the Church alone which can interpret Holy Scripture with authority.-Eastern Orthodox Belief on the Bible
While I don't necessarily subscribe to the above interpretation, the Orthodox view the scriptures as God's supreme revelation to man. I wouldn't be telling everyone that that scriptures are full of holes, corrupted with additions and deletions, when the Orthodox Church states that the scriptures are God's supreme revelation to man. You're in conflict with your Church's views and traditions, not mine.
While I don't necessarily subscribe to the above interpretation, the Orthodox view the scriptures as God's supreme revelation to man. I wouldn't be telling everyone that that scriptures are full of holes, corrupted with additions and deletions, when the Orthodox Church states that the scriptures are God's supreme revelation to man. You're in conflict with your Church's views and traditions, not mine I have shown you facts, HD and you choose to bury your head in the sand and pretend they are not there.
You are telling me that I am in conflict with "my Church." How Protestant of you to presume that you know better than I what "my Church" teaches! Apparently your cursory "study" of the Church doctrinal truths is just that -- cursory.
Had you gone a little deeper, you would have found this:
So it is with divine inspiration in the case of the Bible: the Holy Spirit inspires, and the sacred author follows the Holy Spirit's injunctions, utilizing his own human and imperfect ways to express the perfect message and doctrine of the Holy Spirit [from the The Dogmatic Tradition of the Orthodox Church]
So, for the record, lest someone else were to arrogate himself the right to "teach" Orthodoxy to the Orthodox. Thus, we believe the Bible does express God's perfect truth, expressed by imperfect human language and limited human capacity. That's why not everybody can just pick up the Bible and understand, or be able to separate human factors from divine truth that are in it.
Historical facts also show that the Bible was put together over a span of time, by consensus of Church hierarchs who struggled to separate what they believed were inspired and rejecting what they believed were profane writings.
To say that the Church "knew" and agreed on all the books contained in the NT is a lie. The NT canon was -- like everything else we have from God -- a gradual revealed truth.
PS There is no "my Church." There is only One (Catholic) Church which teaches One Apostolic (Orthodox) Faith. The concept of "my church" is a distorted Protestant construct which goes hand-in-hand with the Protestant notion that every one is his own pope.