Through the Gospels, we lose some of the Hebrew OT misinterpretation of God, FK, i.e. reject "eye for an eye" (proportional justice) and do not return evil for evil, or "love your enemy" and do not hate him (as the OT says), and be merciful so that you too can ask for mercy, etc.
Sure there is Christ-like God all over the OT, but He is hidden and can be found only through the prism of God witnessed in the Gospels.
Which is precisely the reason Christ instituted His Church, lest we fall into misinterpretation and stray from Christian teachings.
Those sects that try to stuff Christ into the mold of the OT God are diminishing Christ's full divine revelation and are making Christ conform to that which He redefined and reinterpreted correctly.
The purpose of the Church is to guard against such misinterpretations by holding on to the tradition passed on by the Apostles, which has been safeguarded for 2,000years by One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
But the Apostolic Church condemns your personal view of the scriptures. The Apostolic Church holds that the scriptures are Holy, and you do not. Your true Bible is only a few pages long
You have a remarkably short memory, FK. Not so long ago I posted the official position of the Orthodox Church on the Scriptures, and this was actually my third such post.
Yeah, hidden all over the Psalms. Can't find it anywhere.
***The purpose of the Church is to guard against such misinterpretations by holding on to the tradition passed on by the Apostles, which has been safeguarded for 2,000years by One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.***
Holding on to the traditions of the Apostles, but ignoring, forgetting, and generally disregarding the WRITINGS of the Apostles. You disavow the writings of Paul and Peter and the epistles of John as either secondary, or, lately, hallucinatory
You have a remarkably short memory, FK. Not so long ago I posted the official position of the Orthodox Church on the Scriptures, and this was actually my third such post.
I remember that link, and while it did say that the Orthodox Church believes that the scriptures are SUBJECT to human error, in no way is it anywhere implied that MOST of the scriptures are patently FALSE as far as fact goes. In fact, in the various Orthodox Catechisms I just consulted, they all say that whole of scriptures are "VERY IMPORTANT" to the Orthodox faith. You CANNOT tell me that you agree with that as far as you personally are concerned, based on what you have been saying.
Just to flesh it out, since you appear to challenge my assertion that the Orthodox Church disavows your view of scripture, do you say that the Church AGREES with your view of scriptures and the things you have been saying about them?