Hi OC,
I owe you an apology to. Forgive my ignorance of the Orthodox Catholic church as opposed to the Roman. It isn't a church we see much of in Scotland (I have never seen one although suspect it may be represented in one of our cities). I know little of it beyond the most superficial history of the original split with Rome.

Please bear with me as I digest your last post. You raised some very interesting points and from such a different perspective that it takes me time to think through the ramifications.
As I said in the first post in this thread, my aim is to try to understand (shorthand -why is everyone else wrong? HaHa!...Joke (honest)), sorry...to understand just where we depart into the covenant theologies we feel so strongly are right. Many seriously earnest and Godly souls hold divergent views and it is difficult to find irenic accounts of the differences.

Best Regards,
Dan