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'''VI.'''

'''VI.'''

Because of this  understanding, and practice, of what is entailed by "the Church", in the understanding of the Eastern church, the biblical teaching concerning the responsibilities of bishops, priests/pastors, and deacons, and the hows of the safeguarding and perpetuating the teachings concerning the Person and Work of Christ the Savior and concerning the Holy Trinity,  Higher Critical theories have less power to shake up the churches than where there is little understanding of the Biblical thrust concerning Authority. This Authority is not "Papal", but, rather, the understanding that Christ has commissioned the Apostles and then they, those after them, to say it like it is, to speak (and write) the truth to be believed in, and to defend it.

Because of this  understanding, and practice, of what is entailed by "the Church", in the understanding of the Eastern church, the biblical teaching concerning the responsibilities of bishops, priests/pastors, and deacons, and the hows of the safeguarding and perpetuating the teachings concerning the Person and Work of Christ the Savior and concerning the Holy Trinity,  Higher Critical theories have less power to shake up the churches than where there is little understanding of the Biblical thrust concerning Authority. This Authority is not "Papal", but, rather, the understanding that Christ has commissioned the Apostles and then they, those after them, to say it like it is, to speak (and write) the truth to be believed in, and to defend it.