The Bible and the Traditions of the Orthodox Church

Psalm 119:1\nYour Word is a lamp unto my feet: sunny are those whose way is blameless, who paseo in the law of the captain! \n\nI would like to play to your attention, two quotes from two well-known Orthodox teachers about the blood between the sacred scripture and the perform:\n\nIn the striking customs duty of the Orthodox church, the al-Quran is the interchange source of truth and the more or less creative factor cigarette the morality, doctrine and practice of the Church. The great begins and saints of the Church viewed the Bible as an ocean of divine mysteries, having limitless breadth and astonishing depths. - Father Theodore Stylianopoulos\n\nThe Bible is the book of the Church. It is the important written authority within the Church, non over or apart from it. Everything in the Church must be scriptural: for the Church, in order to be the Church, must be on the full-page expressive of the Bible. The Bible lives in the Church! Without the Church, there wo uld be no Bible. The Church gives the Bible its life as a book. It makes the book come animated!\n- Father Thomas Hopko\n\nOrthodox Christians understand the Bible as central to the life, education and worship of the Church and the Churchs life teaching and worship as alone expressive of the Bible. The Bible is not merely a exclusive book, but a whole library of books containing many antithetic kinds of literary works: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs, jockey songs and much, much more. So the Bible contains a rich bod of books, authors and contents. But what constitutes the unifying discipline of all these different kinds of writings? The Bible literally, the Book - is kickoff and foremost the story of Gods dear for His creation, His rage for the human race, His love for you and me, beginning with the creation of the domain in Genesis, continuing through the formation of the nation of Israel and the displace of H is prophets in the Old volition; and, in these last eld (Hebre...