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I am still learning. Are you?

Absolutely, but I am a purist in that I like the unaltered version rather than opinions. Just my style of learning, I guess.

But I am somewhat puzzled that you have a "church" that you follow, as an organization.

I don't follow a just-me-and-my-bible religion. I am a church member and took an oath. As a member of the OPC, I find comfort that other saints have come before me; I don't need to blaze new trails. I am a member of a church that has creeds, the Westminster Confession of Faith, Large and Small Catechism, the Book of Church Order, and theological books written by scholars much smarter than I am. However, the source of all OPC "tradition" is the written word of God and the doctrines are biblically referenced. There is no oral tradition and the doctrines are not in flux.

I am Orthodox, kosta. ;)

Absolutely, but I am a purist in that I like the unaltered version rather than opinions.

Unaltered? You have originals?

I don't follow a just-me-and-my-bible religion. I am a church member and took an oath

Sounds Catholic to me! :)

As a member of the OPC, I find comfort that other saints have come before me; I don't need to blaze new trails

Now you are sounding patristic! :)

I am a member of a church that has creeds, the Westminster Confession of Faith, Large and Small Catechism, the Book of Church Order, and theological books written by scholars much smarter than I am

I will give you a little secret: the Church had the Creed centuries before your "saints" blazed new trails...and they had books written by people who walked with the apostles and were much smarter than all of us, including the Calvinist scholars.

However, the source of all OPC "tradition" is the written word of God and the doctrines are biblically referenced

Am I supposed to understand that as a veiled affront on the Church as somehow "not" being biblically referenced? If so, you are embarrassing yourself.

There is no oral tradition and the doctrines are not in flux

There is no flux. Eastern Orthodoxy is a living fossil of the early church. Our Divine liturgy used most of the year is 1,600 years old. It is a shorter version of the liturgical service served on fourteen special occasions during the year, which predates this one by at least another 100 years. And both are but slight variation of the earliest liturgy of St. James (the Just) of Jerusalem.

What the Patristic wrote, and how we celebrated the Eucharist at the end of the 1st and beginning of the second centuries, is what is still taught and practiced to this date in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Where is the flux?

I am Orthodox, kosta. ;)

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