The only form of God's word that we have today is in the form of the Holy Bible. The Bible does not have to have all truth in for it to be God's only truth today. As for Church Traditions many Church including the EOC falled in to the trap of the Pharisees. I agree that some churches have fallen in that trap, but this doesn;t mean that all churches did. The Pharisees were very holy and zealous people who really wanted to uphold the word of God, but they fell into that trap and focusse more on the traitions an the letter of the law rather than on the spirit of it. This shoul not be the case, an we shoul focus on the meaning an spiritual message of the traditions we have exactly as the previous saints did. They were driven by the Holy Spirit, as well. So a tradition is not a man sitting down contemplating and comes up with an idea, which is then considered law, or more important than the Holy Bible. It is basically, a way of living your faith, or a way of manifesting this faith. When we talk about fasiting, as an example, it is a way of manifesting your love to Christ (by disciplining your body and devoting more time to focus on praying). Man made traditions are not apart of God's Word. ( Matthew 15:3 ) This specifically refers to the traditions of the Jews that led people away from God and the essence of His love and word to His chosen people. It does not refer to God's word (which is passes down from generation to generation in the spoken and practised form rather than written). The church leaders used a list requirments that each book must meet before it could become apart of the Bible and a lot of documents did not meet the requirments. They did not pick and chose the one's they just liked. That is very true. After all, they were led by the Holy Spirit for the benefit of all believers.
Yes the Protestants took out the Apocrypha, I'm not sure they should have done that. But the Apocrypha are pre-Christian book So i assume you reject the Psalms, Genesis, Isaiah...etc. as these are pre-Christian Books. I don't think so. The Lord Christ Himself believed in these books and quoted many times from them. Just because part of the Bible was written before the Lord Christ does not mean it is pre-Christian and is not binding to Christians. He Himself said something to the effect that he didn;t come to contradict the law but to complement it. So who are we to contradict it (by law He meant the Old Testament and the Law of Moses). After all, the entire scripture is useful for teaching and is the inspired word of God. We cannot pick and choose. and having them or not having then does not change Christianity. Christians or only under the New Testament. With all due respsct, i disagree for the simple reasons mentioned above.
