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We do? Sola Scriptura produces everything from really loving people, to the Westboro baptists, each convinced that theirs is the correct interpretation and neither having any more or less reason than the other to base that on.

Sola Scriptura (only the scripture) completely ignores the issue that the early church did not have a set canon of scripture, not until some three hundred years later after the Romans stopped persecuting us and the church leaders of the day were able to meet safely and work this stuff out. 2...

You're making a leap in logic and saying that just because YOU don't interpret the New Testament as saying that relics have been acted on and used by God must therefore mean that it will never happen again even though it never says that and states quite clearly in the Old Testament that it did...

That's not what we've done and you also can't reject and re-write what you don't understand or don't like

So do Il I also hope and pray that we do not try to limit God to our own understandings. He acted through objects in the OT times and He can now. No where in scripture does it say that He never will again but it does say that He has before.

The whole reason that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is unforgivable is hardly anyone who commits it would recognize they were wrong and repent

So why not obey Him when He said that the Church should be one and to be vary of anyone teaching differently than what was once and for all delivered to the Saints?

We do have a King James Version of our own that includes the full canon. My own parish uses the Orthodox Version of the NKJV. Anyway they actually do establish two very important doctrines, it is from them that most of the biblical evidence for Theosis and intercession of the saints comes. To...

1. Then what did Christians do for the first 300 years when there was no widespread official canon yet? 2. The Unified church from which BOTH Catholicism and Orthodoxy descend GAVE us the canon so if we're wrong about everything why trust us about that? 3. Even if you're right, that begs the...

No one denies that the holiness of the saints is not because of them but because of Christ, we venerate them precisely because their examples lead us straight back to Him. Objects, such as Jesus' robes are also holy because of Him no matter who they belonged to. This might even be what some have...

Then what do you call God's orders for the Temple and ark of the covenant to be decorated with gold and angels and doves and fruit?

How is wanting dialogue and not reacting toward difference with hate diminishing Jesus when it's exactly what He would have done and tried to do by reaching out to the broken, rejected, and the misguided men of power? (thou the latter failed to listen) no where in that video did I see a call for...

I actually agree with you about the Papacy There are legitimate reasons to think so while it isn't explicitly said Again, on the Papacy I'm right there with ya burning at the stake no, identifying many of the ideas of the reformation as heresy yes No and they don't do that anymore, it was a...

First of all, indulgences were a corruption and an abuse that has been dealt with and to my knowledge no longer exists There is strong evidence that Iconography dates back to the earliest days when the Church was an underground movement and had yet to cut its ties with Judaism entirely...

Well perhaps, I'll be the first to admit that I know Orthodoxy far better than Catholicism and that I haven't looked into the RCC as much, especially when it comes to the things that are so similar between us.