tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post825648013112299442..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Russian Church lauds Biblical literacy of Protestant missionariesByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-37333741648209648062017-10-19T12:41:25.484-05:002017-10-19T12:41:25.484-05:00You don't know that. Your response is the very...You don't know that. Your response is the very essence of judging.bubbadave3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10768371711078523565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-33365490114918726492017-10-19T12:30:50.123-05:002017-10-19T12:30:50.123-05:00During many years of immersion into very american ...During many years of immersion into very american Christianity my knowledge of scripture was a source of pride.<br /><br />When I encountered and eventually converted to Orthodoxy I had already nearly abandoned any regular scripture reading or study, but rejoiced as I discover them anew in Liturgy and other services.<br /><br />It is like meeting old friends you knew as a child with a renewed appreciation and love for them along with a new relevance and context in my life.<br /><br />Patrick Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841521887066909045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-34855183959256620792017-10-19T08:02:46.811-05:002017-10-19T08:02:46.811-05:00It is very important to know Sacred Scripture. It ...It is very important to know Sacred Scripture. It is a good rule of thumb to read one verse per day from the New Testament beginning at St Matthew and ending at Revelation....in addition to one Psalm every day. Also, we should not neglect the Old Testament and read at least one of the recommended books during the Great Fast.<br /><br />But I will also add: It is equally important to know the proper interpretation of Sacred Scripture...and we glean this through the holy fathers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-87389151037597531272017-10-18T22:51:04.655-05:002017-10-18T22:51:04.655-05:00hahah I don't know why it double posted... I&#...hahah I don't know why it double posted... I'll delete one! <br />Donna Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-53379068572804177892017-10-18T22:46:11.286-05:002017-10-18T22:46:11.286-05:00I come from a Calvinist background, but attended L...I come from a Calvinist background, but attended Lutheran and Catholic schools growing up in the US. Here in Russia I am often surprised by the number of otherwise dedicated Orthodox Christians who don't seem to read the Bible at all. They read the Fathers, they know a lot of quotes, but they seen to treat the Bible as a source that only the Fathers should delve into. Many priest-authors have been addressing this lately, and the Moscow Diocese organises an annual year-long event with daily readings to be able to finish the Bible in a year. We're already a month and a half in now, And it's wonderful!Matvey Casshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14121365910878071505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-79492720056733228412017-10-18T21:25:02.329-05:002017-10-18T21:25:02.329-05:00You can say that again, Matushka.You can say that again, Matushka.Deacon Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808015295973601427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-30923299475253022122017-10-18T20:14:35.591-05:002017-10-18T20:14:35.591-05:00I think we should worry more about evangelical con...I think we should worry more about evangelical converts who -don't- know the Bible. Many of today's 'evangelicals' in the so-called 'emergent' churches know very little about the Bible, not even in the slanted, historically ignorant way of an earlier generation of evangelicals. But Met. Hilarion is right to recommend Orthodox believers study the scriptures. These are -our- scriptures-- shouldn't we be embarrassed that non-Orthodox know them better than we do? Often the anti-Protestant and anti-convert things I sometimes hear strike me as mere sour grapes.<br /><br /> But what do I know? I'm just one of those evangelical converts-- only been in the Church three decades now. We passed through Anglicanism-- having gone there because, hmm, the Baptists and Pentecostals who taught us to believe the Bible somehow didn't believe the Bible when it said "This IS my body" and suchlike..... We kept moving east because we discovered Anglicanism was going farther away from the apostolic faith just at the same time as we were travelling ever deeper into that faith....only to find Orthodoxy had kept that apostolic faith very much alive all these centuries. Maybe here in Canada our evangelicals aren't quite the same as in the US, who knows... :)Donna Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-91748782820324687222017-10-18T20:11:27.369-05:002017-10-18T20:11:27.369-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Donna Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-80297399354238546992017-10-18T17:15:10.357-05:002017-10-18T17:15:10.357-05:00I think he is on to something. Many in American O...I think he is on to something. Many in American Orthodoxy have a critical attitude toward the Evangelical convert. I watched Dr. DB Hart's presentation at Fordham recently, and he is very concerned that these Evangelicals are going to give a character to American Orthodoxy that, well, he does not like. I don't share his concern on several levels (not the least in the obvious pride he takes in his worldly intellectualism), but he also fails to grasp several positives that these Evangelical converts usually have as a natural part of their background. Met. Hilarion is seeing the positive.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-79718515075542161712017-10-18T16:05:11.759-05:002017-10-18T16:05:11.759-05:00Know the words, unquestionably. Know the Spirit an...Know the words, unquestionably. Know the Spirit and the Person who animates the Scripture, not so much. <br /><br />Michael Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025213649848660526noreply@blogger.com