Man and Church
An Orthodox Perspective on Bible Study
Scripture belongs within the Church’s living Tradition. Reading it with the Fathers deepens our faith and strengthens our missionary witness.
For several years I’ve hosted an Orthodox Christian Bible Study at our local university’s Barnes & Noble campus bookstore on Sunday afternoon.
Browsing the shelf of Bibles at the bookstore, I’ve joked that, in order to help fund our Orthodox mission parish, we should consider a multi-million-dollar class-action lawsuit against the bookstore chain for false Bible advertising.
That’s because it sells the King James Bible promoted as a classic from 1611, even while the book is missing a big section from the original without notice.
Yes, in the 19th century “sola scriptura”-loving Protestants removed the so-called Apocrypha books of the Bible from the King James Version and most English Bibles, although they are part of the Orthodox Scriptures.
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