[kosta50]

I know that's just my testimony so it doesn't count as "proof" for you, but I'd bet anything that a lot of other Christians would say something very similar

Lots of people have seen and even recorded the Loch Nest Monster and the UFO, FK. The lots-of-pople-do-it-so-they must-be-right approach is not a certificate of authenticity. Just because multitudes approve of something doesn't make it right. Hitler was put in power by a democratic process; he was elected. Democracy doesn't guarantee that the person elected is necessarily good, but simply that the majority of the people (or delegates) votes for him. History as well as present-day reality tells us that the majority can be and has been wrong.

[Forest Keeper]

FK: I know that's just my testimony so it doesn't count as "proof" for you, but I'd bet anything that a lot of other Christians would say something very similar.

Lots of people have seen and even recorded the Loch Nest Monster and the UFO, FK. The lots-of-pople-do-it-so-they must-be-right approach is not a certificate of authenticity. Just because multitudes approve of something doesn't make it right.

But, isn't that EXACTLY how the Orthodox Church authenticates a teaching? That is, you see if the laity accepts it? Now, I do not believe that gang acceptance necessarily equals truth either, it is just one thing to look at. But I am surprised that you would throw it out when I think your Church RELIES on it so much, at least much more than we do.