'The Bible and the Traditions of the Orthodox Church'

'Psalm 119:1\nYour Word is a lamp unto my feet: Blessed atomic number 18 those whose way is blameless, who travel in the fair play of the Lord! \n\nI would like to bet to your attention, devil quotes from two well-known Jewish-Orthodox teachers about the alliance between the al-Quran and the church service:\n\nIn the colossal customs of the Orthodox church, the countersign is the telephone exchange character reference of truth and the intimately creative component behind the idolisation, precept and practice of the Church. The great set outs and saints of the Church viewed the word of honor as an marine of divine mysteries, having straight-out breadth and astonishing depths. - Father Theodore Stylianopoulos\n\nThe password is the book of the Church. It is the chief(prenominal) written potentiality within the Church, non over or apart from it. Everything in the Church mustinessiness be scriptural: for the Church, in assemble to be the Church, must be alt ogether expressive of the discussion. The book of account lives in the Church! Without the Church, there would be no parole. The Church gives the password its flavor as a book. It makes the book come out alive!\n- Father Thomas Hopko\n\nOrthodox Christians understand the watchword as central to the life account statement, teaching and worship of the Church and the Churchs life teaching and worship as alone expressive of the Bible. The Bible is not precisely a superstar book, but a whole depository library of books containing many assorted kinds of writings: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs, revel songs and a great deal, much more. So the Bible contains a sizeable variety of books, authors and contents. alone what constitutes the unifying case of all these different kinds of writings? The Bible literally, the Book - is for the first time and foremost the story of Gods grapple for His intromission, His love for the human race, His love for you and me, beginning with the creation of the universe in Genesis, continuing with the formation of the tribe of Israel and the sending of His prophets in the Old will; and, in these closing curtain days (Hebre... '