[Alex Murphy]

Surely you don't think we are devotees of Surely you don't think we are devotees of sola scriptura, do you?

Oh trust me - if there's one thing I would never accuse Orthodoxy of, that would be of their accepting Holy Scripture as the highest, supremely infallible voice of authority within their churches.

[D-fendr]

I'm still looking for how that's done.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It's amazing to me that some would prefer to depend on what men said about Scripture than to depend upon the Scriptures themselves.

"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." -- 2 Corinthians 3:2-6

I thank God for the Holy Spirit which gives life through the new testament of Jesus Christ.

[Kolokotronis]

"Oh trust me - if there's one thing I would never accuse Orthodoxy of, that would be of their accepting Holy Scripture as the highest, supremely infallible voice of authority within their churches."

Then you would be wrong, AM. That's exactly what we believe. What we don;t believe is that any individual, lay person, preacher, hierarch, even a pope, can infallibly declare what scripture means. That infallibilty is God's gift to The Church. You Protestants learned your lessons on individual infallibility very well from the Popes you revolted against.