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To: HarleyD; Kolokotronis
And if memory serves me correctly, the Orthodox are not ashamed to admit they are willing to change teaching and doctrinal positions. Does that mean what was the infallible position of the Church, like bishops being the husbands of one wife as Paul stated, is no long an infallible teaching?

Nonsense. The Lord never taught anything about bishops being husbands of one wife, nor that presbyters and their wives are to be "model citizens." Even +Paul admits on more than one occasion that what he is writing are not God's commandments, but his own.

As far as the Church is concerned, a bishop being celibate is a matter of dicipline, where celibacy was always held to the highest degree, including by Apostle Paul.

The doctrines of the Church concern themselves with the Holy Trinity and Christ, based on the Scripture and what was not reduced to writing but taught by Apostoles verbally.

Show me when and by whom are the Orthodox willing to change their teaching and doctrinal positions?

3,751 posted on 01/03/2007 6:48:35 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Kolokotronis
Nonsense. The Lord never taught anything about bishops being husbands of one wife, nor that presbyters and their wives are to be "model citizens."

The doctrines of the Church concern themselves with the Holy Trinity and Christ, based on the Scripture and what was not reduced to writing but taught by Apostoles verbally.

Someone in the Church must not have gotten the message.

3,781 posted on 01/04/2007 6:16:49 AM PST by HarleyD ("No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him..." John 6:44)
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