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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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bd134f  No.729268

I've been seriously considering converting to Eastern Orthodoxy

you could even say I'm already on the road to becoming a catechumen; I've just recently bought the Orthodox Study Bible and an Orthodox Pocket-Bible

While researching Orthodoxy on the internet recently I came about the "Gospel of James", and it seems as though the Orthodox Church is pretty chill with it–even recognizing some ideas which are completely unique to the Gospel of John as entirely true–despite every other church denying its authenticity. Could anyone explain this to me?

c398d4  No.729293

Catholics also like the infancy gospel of James.

But the Church Fathers universally recognize it as apocryphal and not one list of canonical texts includes it (while 1 and 2 Clement, the Apostolic Constitutions, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas are in fact included in some canons).

It's a respected document because it testifies to traditions that always were part of the Church of Jerusalem to begin with, concerning the life of Mary. But the actual text itself only appeared late, and so the obvious lack of authenticity was sufficient to exclude it from the list of texts that should be read by the faithful.

It's not like you'll go to Hell for reading it but everything in it that's true is already part of our liturgical tradition, so it's not like you're missing out on anything.




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