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- Embed this notice@Crux_Invictus @BowsacNoodle @thefinn @zeke @Dagnar > It's not that tradition is of no value or that we should abandon anything that isn't just the Bible. It is that Holy Scripture is the standard by which all doctrine is measured.
I agree. Where problems arise, however, is when detailed historical specific Orthopraxes get simply written off as “unimportant” or “unBiblical”, simply because they aren’t specifically articulated enough in the Bible. Many, many such cases.
Baptism by Triple Immersion in the name of the Holy Trinity, for example (mentioned by Fr Josiah in the video). This practice is nearly universally abandoned within modern American Christianity (including, sadly, some who are “Orthodox” in name). The way this is removed is usually by asserting that it’s not specifically articulated in the Bible, and that it “cannot” be Salvationally Necessary - and may therefore be dispensed with.
This whole approach is entirely foreign to Orthodoxy - whether or not any specific Practice is “necessary for Salvation”. We see no valid basis for such reductionism, Scriptural or otherwise.
It might come across as a niggling detail; but on what basis is *this* judgment made? Churches split all the time over these details - it’s definitely not unimportant.