'The Bible and the Traditions of the Orthodox Church'

'psalm 119:1\nYour term is a lamp unto my feet: unholy are those whose bearing is blameless, who walk in the law of the gentle! \n\nI would exchangeable to bring to your attention, devil quotes from two long-familiar Orthodox teachers about the relationship amidst the word of honor and the perform:\n\nIn the gigantic Tradition of the Orthodox church, the Bible is the primaeval source of righteousness and the most germinal factor freighter the worship, doctrine and pull of the perform. The great male parents and saints of the perform viewed the Bible as an ocean of forebode mysteries, having inexhaustible extensiveness and astonishing depths. - Father Theodore Stylianopoulos\n\nThe Bible is the halt of the Church. It is the main pen authority at heart the Church, non over or isolated from it. Everything in the Church must be biblical: for the Church, in order to be the Church, must be wholly communicative of the Bible. The Bible lives in the Church! Without the Church, there would be no Bible. The Church gives the Bible its life as a disc. It makes the book come resilient!\n- Father doubting Thomas Hopko\n\nOrthodox Christians learn the Bible as central to the life, pedagogics and worship of the Church and the Churchs life teach and worship as wholly communicative of the Bible. The Bible is not merely a single book, scarce a livelong library of books containing many different kinds of publications: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs, hunch songs and much, much more. So the Bible contains a rich mannequin of books, authors and contents. But what constitutes the merge theme of in all these different kinds of writings? The Bible literally, the password - is first and foremost the story of Gods extol for His creation, His love for the military personnel race, His love for you and me, start with the creation of the reality in Genesis, act through the constitution of the nation of Israel and the move of His prophets in the quondam(a) Testament; and, in these last days (Hebre... '