For the better part of 2000 years, the question of who gets to interpret Scripture has been the key challenge to the Church.

The answer to questions of faith, doctrine, and praxis often depend on the interpretation and application of a particular text or passage of scripture and have historically resulted in

fierce disagreement. In the face of this uncertainty, a variety of new institutions and movements,

often cults have sprung up in the last several hundred years claiming divine authority to interpret

the scripture, either by virtue of a supposedly

restored apostolic succession or by some form of continuity within the early church.

The Mormon Church claims their quorum of the 12 apostles is the restored priesthood

of Christ on earth.

Jehovah's witnesses assert that first century biblical Christianity was restored through

the New World translation of the Bible and the watchtower and track society in Philadelphia.

And in recent years, in the West, an old authority is seen renewed interest

and conversions, the Eastern Orthodox Church, which claims to be the one true church and to alone

possess the authority to interpret Scripture. But does their claim of direct continuity with apostolic and early church

practice hold up to scrutiny?

Tune in now as we discussed.

All right, so this is what we're doing today.

Before we get started, we're going to be talking about Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church.

And Wes is going to be leading us in this discussion.

He's done a lot of research, but a couple things that you need to be aware of if you are just kind of tuning into right response, this YouTube page, our ministry, and you

don't really know how things go. Well, this is how it goes. If you want the article, every single

Wednesday we live stream at 4 p.m. Central Time, a variety of topics. This will be at least one week.

It may end up being a multiple part series that we do in sequence consecutively, or it may be something that we break up.

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