Interpreting the Bible the Orthodox Way: Learning to See the Bible with the Mind of the Spirit

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“The Church has always understood the Holy Scriptures to have deeper, and non-contradictory, truths within it. These are clearly intended by God, though it is unclear how much of it is intended by the human author, and how much he did not intend!” (Page 8)

“The Bible came from the Church. The Canon of Scripture was fixed at the Council or synod of Carthage in 397 A.D. This Council determined once and for all, for Orthodox Christians, what books were to be considered Holy Scripture.” (Page 4)

“The Old Testament accepted as authoritative by the Orthodox Church is the Septuagint version.” (Page 4)

“The Typological sense is the sense that refers to Christ in types, or prefigurements” (Page 11)

“the Roman Catholic Church had no official canon until the Council of Trent in the 16th century” (Page 4)