I wonder, how does he know that! I don't think it's double-speak. It's what he believes, and apparemtly what his Church teaches. No different than someone who tells me the Bible is the inerrant word of God.
"Religious" isn't necessarily a bad word. Man can possess faith in Christ or faith in himself. They're worlds apart, but they're both still faith
That faith in Christ is based on man-made tales, so here again we have man-made agenda.
I wish I could be around when you become a Calvinist. 8~)
Why on earth would I want to?!? You don't think Calvinism is a man-made "church," like the rest of them?
Nope. I sure don't.
"Church," like "religion," isn't a dirty word, either.
There is a "church" of Jesus Christ on earth and "religion" does its best to articulate the faith of that church.
Some succeed and some fail, depending on their adherence to God's word.
I'm never sure where you stand from one day to the next, Kosta. But it seems immeasurably sad your Orthodoxy has led you to denounce Scripture as "man-made tales."