Read th NT book of Ephesians for the Bible’s authoritative teaching on the NY church. You will find no priests, no incense, no icons, no cult of the saints. Without the Bible as your “plumb line” you will not recognize Christ’s design and plan for his ‘ekklesia,’ or ‘called assembly.’. All the liturgical churches base their religious exercise on Fifth not First century practices, and thus imported many residual pagan practices of the waning Roman empire. Ortgidoxy (maintainin upright glory literally) distinctive is “We have the original recipe.”. My loving reply is the Bible, and the first Century practices of the early church described in Acts are to be our guide.
You wouldn’t have a Bible at all if it weren’t for those “liturgical churches”. They preserved it for you through all those centuries when there was no printing and little literacy.
hmmm, Średnik - why are you only look at the book of Ephesians?
Look at the book of the Apocalypse of St. John i.e. Revelation.
In the book of Revelation, we start with a Divine Liturgy, it moves to the Divine Eucharist and ends with a blessing - it is a liturgical book.
In that book you have priests, incense, saints.
hmmm, Średnik - why are you only look at the book of Ephesians?
Look at the book of the Apocalypse of St. John i.e. Revelation.
In the book of Revelation, we start with a Divine Liturgy, it moves to the Divine Eucharist and ends with a blessing - it is a liturgical book.
In that book you have priests, incense, saints.
Also, well, priests, incense, saints are part and parcel of the Bible, not just non-Judaic religions.
Any religion that disappeared for 1200 to 1800 years and has to be restored like a dinosaur skeleton was never true to begin with.