1. What particular things does the Eastern Orthodox Church practice that is not found in the bible or is contradictory to the bible?
"some say correct interpretation of scripture is a super natural thing. so many things i have witnessed i am forced to believe thats a true statement"
2. to be clear do you mean "supernatural" as in above nature or that is is very natural or very intuitive or "first nature" when you say "super natural" here?
3. This seems to imply any intuitive intereptation of scripture is correct, and if I come to the position that the Eastern Orthodox Church is the valid Church and you ought become a member of the body of Christ through scripture is this not valid? Just saying "it's super natural" to have correct interpretation would mean heretics like Arianism were correct, or it's just completely subjective because it was their natural interpretation.
4. If I come to a completely different conclusion reading the text you do, how do we determine who is correct if your methodology is "correct interpretation... is a super natural thing"
5. The Church compiled the bible, how do you come to the conclusion the Church was right here, but wrong today and the Church has failed? Most Christians in history did not have access to the bible and for hundreds of years there was no completed version of the bible at all, were none of these people Christian?
6. a few issues here but i'd mostly like to focus on the above things with one other clarification, the Word isn't the bible. The Word is a person, the Logos is Jesus Christ.
i numbered your stuff to make things easier to follow
1. i pretty much dont know anything about the eastern orthodox church.
2. supernatural as in guided by the positive spiritual realm
3. supernatural as in guided by the positive spiritual realm. (i am not sure what you are trying to say here)
4. difference of opinion are best addressed by conversation.
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some say correct interpretation of scripture is a super natural thing. so many things i have witnessed i am forced to believe thats a true statement
by "supernatural" lets say something else is at work. i have witnessed to many strange things and these strange things force me into the above statement.
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KJ21 1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who perish; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.
i remember a popular antitheist once said as he was complaining about scripture "its all jibberish to me"
5. were did they get the information to compile the bible. are you certain the church was the 1st to canonize?
6. ok
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the first new testament?
This post was edited by TiStuff on Oct 30 2025 05:29am