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To: BillyBoy

Your question is this — would it be ok to host a Bible answer man show as an Eastern Orthodox if the question were all about the bible?

As I said before, how can it satisfy the show’s original supporters when he see’s the bible through the prism of the Orthofox church?

The program cannot divorce itself from the premises the host himself holds. If he holds tradition and give it equal weight as authoritative with scripture as he has to as an Eastern Orthodox believer, then rventually he has to be prepared to answer questions that will make him endorse and defend ideas not found in scripture, or he has to insist that they are.... things like purgatory, prayers to Mary, etc.

Those topics WILL eventually be touched on. This is a 5 day one hour program and those questions cannot be avoided.


84 posted on 07/15/2017 5:23:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
If he holds tradition and give it equal weight as authoritative with scripture

Do you listen to BAM much? They have, for years now, pointed to something they call "the historic Christian faith" as an arbiter of what the Bible can, and can't, mean.

The "historic Christian faith," as far as I can tell, is BAM's name for a somewhat-truncated version of Sacred Tradition. They don't call it that to avoid giving evangelicals a stroke. As any Catholic or Orthodox Christian can explain, that tradition isn't authoritative over the Bible, but is certainly a contributor to the discussion about which competing interpretations of the Bible are legitimate, and which aren't.

87 posted on 07/15/2017 5:37:00 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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