Ufonium: My apologies if i touched a nerve, i am merely seeking to learn and enquire. Thankyou for showing me why i really need to carefully word my posts. I didn't mean pedantically every word and every idea, i guess this is all new so i like to know where i stand. I know that the orthodox put great stock in the Nicene Creed. Let's see if I can ask a little more clearly what i want to know.
Where does the Divine Liturgy originate from? I was looking around orthodox wikipedia but i couldn't find an answer to this or i overlooked it. Where does the reverance (for lack of a better word) for the symbology and the saints originate from?
Just a side note, actually I think that I hold my own church services under a powerful microscope and scrutinize every aspect of it. I always check against the bible anything that the pastor says or I talk to my fiance's father who was an Elder for years. I am not trying to tear holes in Divine Liturgy or anything I am just trying to be thorough in my questioning of all this because it is all so new and forgive me, alien and strange to me. So much different to the way protestant churches are run from what little I have read.
Please forgive me if my questions seem strange but I am really only seeking to learn
As for PowerPoint, amen to that!
God bless you all and I very much appreciate any light you can shed on the subject at hand, hope my darling fiance doesn't mind me hi-jacking.