The Bible and the Traditions of the Orthodox Church

Psalm 119:1\nYour Word is a lamp unto my feet: joyous are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the gentle! \n\nI would like to induce to your attention, two quotes from two well-known Orthodox teachers about the family between the rule book and the church:\n\nIn the striking customs duty of the Orthodox church service, the book of account is the primal source of truth and the about creative factor prat the pietism, doctrine and practice of the Church. The great tiros and saints of the Church viewed the Bible as an ocean of divine mysteries, having outright breadth and astonishing depths. - Father Theodore Stylianopoulos\n\nThe Bible is the book of the Church. It is the primary(prenominal) written authority within the Church, not over or apart from it. Everything in the Church must be scriptural: for the Church, in order to be the Church, must be entirely expressive 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 book. It makes the book come quick!\n- Father Thomas Hopko\n\nOrthodox Christians understand the Bible as central to the life, program line and worship of the Church and the Churchs life teaching and worship as wholly expressive of the Bible. The Bible is not merely a maven book, but a unhurt library of books containing many disparate kinds of publications: poetry, prayers, hymns, historical narratives, biographies, prophecies, letters, proverbs, warmth songs and much, much more. So the Bible contains a rich garland of books, authors and contents. But what constitutes the unifying matter of all these different kinds of writings? The Bible literally, the Book - is offset printing and foremost the story of Gods hunch forward for His creation, His recognize for the human race, His love for you and me, beginning with the creation of the macrocosm in Genesis, continuing finished the formation of the nation of Israel and the displace of His prophets in the Old volition; and, in these last age (Hebre...