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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.

I have shown you facts, HD and you choose to bury your head in the sand and pretend they are not there.

Tsk, tsk. Facts? Point to an early Church father who didn't believe in the inspired writings. You have yet to tell me how any Church father knew about the virgin birth apart from inspiration. I'm sure none of them were in the room when the angel was there. A couple of people get together and say the virgin birth happened and you believe it? Yet other sections you doubt.

If you doubt one part of scripture, you might as well doubt the whole thing. If you want to find contradictions and errors, you can find them. But before I go down that path, I would prefer to claim my own ignorance and try to understand. I have found that to be more rewarding.

The problem with Christians today is that they no longer believe in the scriptures. Where the early church fathers extensively quoted the scriptures, nowadays Church fathers simply quote one another. People don't believe the word of God is THE POWER OF GOD FOR SALVATION. Shame on us.

PS There is no "my Church." There is only One (Catholic) Church which teaches One Apostolic (Orthodox) Faith.

You are "free" to teach anything you like. It doesn't make it right.