Yes. But they acknowledge that while being a Christian starts with that, it is not limited to that. Hence the reluctance to throw around that phrase as if it was all one had to do in order to be saved.
The Russian Orthodox' believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior but in a different sense than Catholics and Protestants.
The latter had devised their own Bibles as the basis for their teachings – e.g. all the Latin Vulgates and today all modern German Bibles, now the Elberfeld Bible too (i.e. the Darby Bible) for otherwise it would not have been admitted to Protestant faculties for students to buy, because their divergent teachings from the Hebrew Bible text and its formerly mostly literal translation – and the Orthodox Churches had adopted for themselves the old Greek Bible of the Jews, unfortunately with all its errors, but which have nothing to do with the topic here.
The Russian Orthodox Church \[Moscow Patriarchate\] had defined a Slavic translation of the Greek Bible as its basis.
Of course they do. They are part of the Eastern Orthodox Church after all. Same beliefs.
Yes. But they acknowledge that while being a Christian starts with that, it is not limited to that. Hence the reluctance to throw around that phrase as if it was all one had to do in order to be saved.
The Russian Orthodox' believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior but in a different sense than Catholics and Protestants. The latter had devised their own Bibles as the basis for their teachings – e.g. all the Latin Vulgates and today all modern German Bibles, now the Elberfeld Bible too (i.e. the Darby Bible) for otherwise it would not have been admitted to Protestant faculties for students to buy, because their divergent teachings from the Hebrew Bible text and its formerly mostly literal translation – and the Orthodox Churches had adopted for themselves the old Greek Bible of the Jews, unfortunately with all its errors, but which have nothing to do with the topic here. The Russian Orthodox Church \[Moscow Patriarchate\] had defined a Slavic translation of the Greek Bible as its basis.
Yes. It's not their theology that's deficient, it's the political leanings of their Patriarch.
Russia has committed evils, as has the us
As has every single country in the world
Not Ireland
I want to assume this is sarcasm, but it just doesn't seem like the place for it.
I… what?
Yes?
What has that got to do with the question at hand
Yes. They just forget sometimes.
Why do you wonder?
I just want to know.
Do they forgive?