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On Not Reading the Bible

· Fr. Michael Gillis 1 Leave a Comment on %s
“Quit worrying about corroborating your sources–it’s not as if anyone is going to take all this literally.” A friend of mine, a fairly recent Orthodox Convert from Protestantism, asked me to read an article by an Orthodox scholar that discussed a certain construct for interpreting the Old Testament. My friend was struggling with “how to understand” many passages in the Old Testament, and he was wondering if he should be reading the…

Hebrews 10:24

· Fr. Michael Gillis 4 Leave a Comment on %s
“And let us consider one another to stir up love and good works.” (NKJV) “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” (NIV). For many years—most of my adult life really—I read the NIV translation of the Bible. This verse in Hebrews played an important role in how I understood relationships among Christians were supposed to work. That is, I thought we were supposed…