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Laskar ago

The Roman Catholic Church did not exist before 1054. You are either ignorant or misinformed. The Church Fathers, The Nicean Creed, the Seven ecumenical councils, are all of the original, unbroken church. When the bishop of Rome decided he wanted to have authority over all of Christendom and when he changed the only Creed of the Christian Church which was codified at the council of Nicea, and appoint himself head of the church, he excommunicated all other Christians, including The entire Orthodox Christian Church, the Copts, etc. He removed himself from truth entirely. The Protestants (who are still "protesting" the heresy of the Roman Catholic Church) are even further from the truth, with no creed, invented dogmas, and they rely entirely on the ignorance of people about the True Church. The bible the "evangelicals" use--the Scofield Bible-- is a creation of a convicted forger who was paid by the Rothschilds to insert "notes" extolling the importance of their plan as outlined in the Balfour declaration of September 11th, 1917. The "mass" is an adulterated, truncated version of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. It is far from what the true church has used for nearly tow thousand years. The head of the Orthodox Church is Christ, not some pedo warlord, in an unbroken apostolic succession since Pentecost in 33 AD. Here is a chart which will make this easier to understand: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dxi_zxOGFKc/T-k96XepRMI/AAAAAAAAAGI/1Fi8sOusjz0/s1600/orthodox-christian-timeline.png

EloquentOgre ago

So what is a proper Orthodox bible in English?

Laskar ago

The New King James version is closest to the original Koine Greek of the New testament and the Greek of the Septuagint for English speakers today. There is an Orthodox Study Bible, available from many sources, even Amazon. More info: The Orthodox Study Bible uses the New King James Version of the Bible as the basis for a fresh translation of the Septuagint text. The Septuagint is the Greek version of the Bible used by Christ, the Apostles, and the early church.The new Orthodox Study Bible contains the entire Old Testament of the Orthodox Church, including the "Deuterocanonical" books. Based on the New King James Version, it offers a fresh translation from the Greek text of the Septuagint. The Orthodox Study Bible includes: New Testament from the New 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 Additionally, the most recent edition (released in 2008) contains a number of improvements over the original edition: The Psalms have been re-translated from the Septuagint. The notes for the Psalms have been greatly expanded. The NT notes have been revised slightly. The liturgical notes at the top of the New Testament pages have been expanded and placed into their own section at the foot of the page. The index to the notes at the back, as well as the glossary, have been expanded. New study articles have been added to the back of the Bible.