Christ is born!   One of the many things that continues to hold me to Orthodoxy without the least bit of hesitation, is that we hold very strongly to believing what was always believed, everywhere and by all...  In finding myself in situations where I am speaking to those of other Christian confessions, I notice while there is a lot that is similar, one things that is strikingly different is the absolute lack of this in other Christian confessions.  I mean, all will say that they hold to what was always believed, in their own way - but if asked to give a few examples, they tend to have a hard time with this.  The Latins are sometimes close with this, but then again, anything is changable at what has been called "the whim of the Pope", and this thing which I do not comprehend called the Magisterium.  [I profess my ignorance here - corrections are welcome]  This historical continuity - this self-conscious viewing of history, not as long ago events but as ever present - is something that I adore about the Chur
ch.  My question is this:  Are there other Christian confessions which have this self-conscious manner about them?  Which are they?  My secondary question (not as important, but pure curiousity) is what religions/philosophical-outlooks-on-the-nature of things, have a self-conscious view of history.  Is this the case in some of the Eastern religions?  Judaism?  Islam perhaps?  Thank you!  Christ is born!!  -Kenneth  -- Each day,     it seems I begin again to be made pure,           to see. **************In a fathomless abyss,           in a measureless heaven, **************who can find a middle                          or an end? [[1][log in to unmask]]                 St Symeon the New Theologian

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