By St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology
The FIRST EVER Orthodox examine Bible provides the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible.
Orthodox Christianity is the face of historic Christianity to the trendy international and embraces the second one biggest physique of Christians on the earth. during this first-of-its-kind examine Bible, the Bible is gifted with remark from the traditional Christian viewpoint that speaks to these Christians who search a deeper event of the roots in their faith.
Features Include:
- Old testomony newly translated from the Greek textual content of the Septuagint, together with the Deuterocanon
- New testomony from the hot King James Version
- Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians
- Easy-to-Locate liturgical readings
- Book Introductions and Outlines
- Subject Index
- Full-color Icons
- Full-color Maps
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For two thousand years the Orthodox Church has by God舗s mercy kept the faith delivered once for all to the saints. Within her walls is the fullness of the salvation which was realized when 舠God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life舡 (Jn 3:16).
This issue, with the Pope departing from the Orthodox doctrine of the Church, became another instrumental cause separating the Roman Church from the historic Orthodox Church, the New Testament Church. THE GREAT SCHISM Conflict between the Roman Pope and the East mounted舒especially in the Pope舗s dealings with the bishop, or patriarch, of Constantinople. The Pope even went so far as to claim the authority to decide who should be the bishop of Constantinople, in marked violation of historical precedent.
He denied the eternal-ity of the Son of God, claiming contrary to the apostles舗 doctrine that the Son was a created being who came into existence at a point in time and thus was not truly God. This deadly error struck the Church like a cancer. Turmoil spread almost everywhere. The first Church-wide, or Ecumenical, Council met in Nicea in AD 325 to address this issue. Some 318 bishops, along with many priests, deacons and laymen rejected the new teaching of Arius and his associates, upholding the apostles舗 doctrine of Christ, affirming the eternality of the Son and His consubstantiality with the Father.