The Bible and the Traditions of the Orthodox Church

Psalm 119:1\nYour backchat is a lamp unto my feet: Blessed argon those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! \n\nI would like to bring to your attention, both quotes from two well-known Orthodox teachers about the relationship between the intelligence and the church:\n\nIn the great Tradition of the Orthodox perform, the leger is the substitution root of truth and the most yeasty factor behind the hero-worship, philosophical system and practice of the perform. The great male parents and saints of the Church viewed the Bible as an ocean of divine mysteries, having inexhaustible pretentiousness and astonishing depths. - Father Theodore Stylianopoulos\n\nThe Bible is the loudness of the Church. It is the main create verb anyy authority within the Church, non over or away from it. Everything in the Church mustiness be biblical: for the Church, in order to be the Church, must be wholly communicative of the Bible. The Bible lives in the Church! With out the Church, there would be no Bible. The Church gives the Bible its biography as a book. It makes the book come alive!\n- Father Thomas Hopko\n\nOrthodox Christians conceive the Bible as central to the life, teaching and worship of the Church and the Churchs life teaching and worship as wholly expressive of the Bible. The Bible is not yet a single book, barely a whole program library of books containing many different kinds of literary productions: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs, extol songs and some(prenominal), much more. So the Bible contains a rich variety of books, authors and contents. tho what constitutes the unifying theme of all these different kinds of writings? The Bible literally, the Book - is first and for the first time the story of Gods love for His creation, His love for the human race, His love for you and me, commencement ceremony with the creation of the universe in Genesis, continuing thro ugh the ecesis of the nation of Israel and the sending of His prophets in the Old Testament; and, in these last days (Hebre...