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
***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***
Hi Irish, long time no debate.
I posted a few articles ago about the Scripture that has God saying that humans cannot see Him as He is or they will be destroyed. Christ is the human face of God; all other apparitions are what He chose to show us so that those who saw any aspect of Him would not die.
The writings are not dismissed. The interpretation of those writing are what is in question.
Yes, psalmology is the most used part of the OT in the Orthodox Church. Lots of Christ-like God there, but also mixed with OT misconceptions, often in one and the same psalm.
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
I do not disavow the wrtings of the Apostles. I just don't consider the copies of the copies attributed to them to be "infallible." I also do not dismiss the reality with which the Apostles were faced in the firts century AD, and the task they had to accomplish to save the Church. They did their work in good faith to save the Church from certain destruction.
Yes, Revelation and some of the dreams and "trans" states described in the NT and OT border on hallucinations. Just as some stories (i.e. Jonah) sound like a fairytale with a moral twist.
Vis-a-vis the blessed Apostles: we all individually make mistakes and the Apostles admit they did too. The Church, however, is immune from error in a collective sense. The Church will not fail, even if its individual members do.
So, while some succumbed to Gnosticism and Arianism, others held the orthodox line. While some bought into inconoclasty, others didn't. Some fell for the Protestant error while most of us didn't.
There will always be those who will individually or in groups fail, but the Church will remain steadfast as it did until this day.