Reading the Bible as an Orthodox Christian - Dr Jeannie Constantinou 

I was an evangelical for 37 years and studied the Bible in the Greek and Hebrew text. I learned a lot on my own and mostly just disagreed with people in the modern church and I finally stopped going to church all together. I know my experience was not the same for everyone but after many years of study I finally came to the conclusion that there will be more people in Gods kingdom that were illiterate than there will be Bible scholars. Im orthodox now, I still study a lot but keep it to myself. Liturgical worship is what I needed all along. I’m speaking for myself here.

Great speech! Greetings from a Romanian, we are proud Christian Orthodox

I love her point about not getting drawn into, and participating in, pointless discussions.

☦📲 Amen. Reading the Orthodox Bible each day is so empowering. It makes me a whole new person, and it sets the start of my week just right ❤.

She is a great defender of Orthodoxy. Memory Eternal Kevin Allen. Thank you for all you did for our faith.

Поздрав из Православне Србије !!! Greetings from orthodox Serbia !!!

This is a very revealing talk. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I became Orthodox 2 years ago on 15 Apr 2017. I have learned a great deal today by watching this video. Thank you Dr Jeannie Constantinou for your devotion to our Heavenly Father.

As an ERITREAN ORIENTAL ORTHODOX Church follower, we are blessed to still be able to memorize the entire bible and we have a lot of bible interpretation handed down to us. There are ways to read the bible and study it in the right way.

Thank you so much presbytery Jeannie! I have come back to this talk several times & listen to search the scriptures daily. Thank you! I have no background of the Christian faith & am very new to Orthodoxy. You have helped me connect dots while encouraging me to just get to church!

Wow A WOMAN TEACHING ❤

from the Newage to orthodoxy I've to say this is a holy church very inclusive guidelines. I wish the truth sickening person to find this church. GOD BLESS

This was wonderful. God bless the Orthodox Church.

I love Dr. Jeannie. She's my hero. I've learned sooo much from her in the last 4 years from her podcast Search The Scriptures.

I love her work. I was introduced to her archived content where she went through all the scriptures prior to AFR picking up the program

Dr. Jeannie is my hero. I've learned so, so much from her in her Search the Scriptures podcasts. My Chrismation was last Sept. and I just love listening and learning from her. She is truly a blessing and The Lord is using her in so many ways. Wish there were more of her talks on you tube.

Thank you for this great channel. I had been searching for Orthodox resources for some time now and I finally found it. The presentations here are thorough, informative, witty and also easy to digest. Thank you again!

magnifico!! This is wonderful...please bring Jeannie Constantinou back for us

I learnt a lot; thank you the lecturer and the parishioners. Keep it coming.

I think this talk is excellent and very enlightening. Thank you.

Very good thank you. Good to hear someone speak much that I have concluded and believed.

As a linguist, I have to thank you for saying that we must be very careful with translations. Overall, a fantastic talk, really enjoyed this.

I love to learn more about the orthodox Church. Trying to absorb what phonima means. I am not interested at this time about our divisions of the Catholic Church or Protestant at this point in my life. Maybe been there and done that and returned to Orthodoxy. God bless all!! kyria Allison/God have mercy

Love this!

I loved your point about knowing when to shut up and accept the mystery as just that. I think that is why in the West protestants have a problem with scientific theory and creationism whereas, in the East we don't. We don't mix apples and oranges. We know how to separate the sin, from the sinner, hating the sin, but loving the sinner. No confusion. Knowing how to discern between things with humility.

God bless you!

My family left Orthodoxy before I was born. I was thinking of coming back to the fold so I was glad to find this and a few other videos with good explanations. This really helped me make my decision to pursue my evangelistic path. I appreciate your input.

God bless you Presbytera Jeannie I wish I had been able to hear your wonderful explanation when I was in college and encountering Evangelicals for the first time questioning me if I was born again, I was so confused and I knew they were wrong but I didn't know how to explain how I knew that...

Very insightful. Thanks so much to this introduction to orthodox thought.

Hey from the Russian Orthodox. I remember one Russian priest once said about the Latin church: Latins try so hard to understand and interprete what God meant in the Bible, and we, we don't have to understand.. we just have to believe!

St Paul. We have the mind of Christ. The heart of Jesus. The blood of His life death and resurrection i.e. THE HOLY SPIRIT. ."No one can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Spirit". The CHURCH is composed of people baptised in the Spirit and guided by Him.

Thank you Dr Jeannie, been listening and learning by Osmosis. Been listening since Converting in 2016. Feel like I know you. Ordered your new book from AFB store. Cant wait!

you are brilliant and amazing and I appreciate you.

When it comes to memorizing the psalms, I get hung up trying to choose a translation. At the moment I'm using the Holy Transfiguration Monastery psalter (it's the little green one). A Psalter for Prayer is also one of my favorites; it's the Coverdale corrected to the LXX, which maketh glad my heart. Even better though, it has the traditional prayers for each section 🥰

great talk, tnak you and God bless

beautiful teachings and exhortations !

Very compelling!

Thank you for sharing your information I really loved it. I am new to American Orthodoxy you really helped with understanding and knowledge of scripture. I love the gospel thank you.

Prespatera well done 👏 good scholar

This is awesome.

Thank you for this video... Presbytera Jeannie did a Sermon at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Tucson, AZ and it was excellent... About Forgiveness. Make sure you forgive everyone!!!!

May Father YAHweh bless your understanding.

Dr Jeannie, thank you so much for all the work you have done and are doing. I love all your podcasts and videos and have been edified by them. God bless you!

I wish I heard this 24 years ago as a new Evangelical. But now I’m Orthodox.

Fantastic lecture! Greetings from Iowa

Wow, what a message, this is important! Thanks dear teacher and thanks to God. Greetings from Iceland.

37:20 Guilty! When I first started watching I had the thought "her arms are uncovered in Church?!" Oh, dear. I have a long way to go. Thank you for posting this! Obviously I needed to hear it.

1'17'20 the hole meaning of orthodoxy is there!! Keeping the moment of pentecost!!! Not changing anything!! Wow!! Thank you presvytera!! Simple explanation yet full of knowledge!!

She is magnificent. She came to our Orthodox church in October 15, 2022

SO learned. SO refreshing to hear that it is ok to use a translation that we can understand. Granted, it is wonderful to go back to the Greek, but for us converts who are working on this it is so comforting to hear from such an educated Bible scholar (yes, I read her educational background -- it just goes on and on). Dr. Constantinou has a JD and went on to study theology. How inspiring to see someone go on from another profession to be a theologian. What a blessing to listen to this...

Yes, there is some kind of individualism in protestantism, the reading, interpretation and meditation part but we need to be in concordance with history and theologians that were before us too.

Thank you Amen

Please, invite her again! ❤🌟🙈 there are very few videos of her on RU-vid 🙈

Love our Orthodox Church, this is a great video! 🙏

😯 GOOD STUFF FOR A NEW CONVERT

Two words: 1. Blown 2. Away. The Holy Spirit just did this to me!

25:42 - THANK YOU! It was rubbish like this that made me stop going to church as a teenager. Now I’m orthodox I know that this is, as you say, completely missing the point! Let us hope that others will come to realise this as it really is a huge barrier for some people

She is one of the bright minds in Christianity

The Saints , Fathers of Ortodox Church, were the light guides and source of renewed inspiration and believe that with God all things are possible. That keeps the Church on a right path despite the prosecution that lasts to this day!

Great

Wow she is good. Knows her stuff. 🕊️🇳🇮

I love it

Bless you.

Спасибо, братцы!

God bless ❤

i am Greek Christian Orthodox, baptised an infant, but only, lately i came close to God and started reading the Bible. I had a smalll background from attending Church as a child and being tought at school but other than, very minimal proper knowledge. In the last couple of months, i studied Genesis through Numbers and i am so fascinated, but what really shocked me in this video, in a ggod and very revealing way, was that God who spoke to Moses, the cloud that was leading their way, was Jesus, and i still don't if i understood correctly, but to me that changes everything, my whole perspective and understanding....As a new Christian, that is what i consider myself to be, i realize now that we really need to be very careful of the commentaries and studies we read...

kyrie eleison! kyrie eleison! kyrie eleison! Glory to the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

I am not a so-called orthodox believer, but it seems that I already have this mind-set that the good doctor is expressing. I have always thought that what is missing in Western Christianity is the emphasis of it being a life-style, as St. Paul said, "for me to live is Christ..." That is missing, and the understanding of what it means to be the body of Christ. Other aspects are missing as well, such as, the Western church is so commercial and secular. Where is the sense of the holiness and fear of God? We are God's called out ones and not like the world, or that should be sensed. When we gather it is missing much of the time. We are in the midst of holy things when we gather as the Lord's people, but I don't see that much in the West.

I am an ethiopian. I know my grandfather know the bile in his mind.and I know it is not allowed to translate by our selves.instead there is a book for translation of the bible which is too old.maybe a thousand year ago.

How do you know intuitively? Phronema? It is translated as Indoctrination.

As an Inquirer to EO this channel has been such a blessing! 😊

2 Timothy 3:16 Every writing which is written by The Spirit is profitable for teaching, for correction, for direction and for a course in righteousness,

We in the West also wish to acquire the mind of the Apostles that's why we break it all down so hard. Theology matters.

56:55 - who was waiting for the “PATRICK” to be added onto the end there? 😂

Most Protestants don't believe that the scriptures were dictated. Many believe that the personality of the writer in no way is bypassed in the process of inspiration. That is clear when comparing the writing style of Paul the apostle to the writing style of John the apostle. However, it was all done under divine inspiration, which included the writers style and vocabulary.

Respect! For her energy! If going to traditional and the early church fathers way of believing and faith then why advising very loose in selecting the version of the Bible which one to stick on..Just reading the Bible verbally does not suffice, rather by reading any version available leads to loosing the whole message due to unending changes made in the process of translation. I know all translation have their pitfall too.

Pray for us, Saint Peter and Long Live Christ the King!

what about "kolifa" we get at a memorial of someone that has passed... is that tradition?...Dr Constantinou, says orthodox encourage reading the bible. Is reading the bible the same as reading a prayer? Dont interpret but read with the orthodox phronema, just like one reads a prayer with the cover of the orthodox phronema

Read and write the holy books in your heart, open your ears so Faith may enter; live the Hope every day and let Love be your true way to God trough Jesus Crist and the Holy Spirt. A let Our Holy Mother console you in the hour of our darkness. Above all breathe the name of Jesus.

44:34 The KJV and the NKJV translate "glory" in John 8:50.

Please set subtitle button. Can understand by reading. ....

Was that Fr. Dcn. Dr. Ananias that asked the question?

My existential problem , when someone keep saying its hard to explain , and I am not feeling it either , this abstract thinking makes me more abstract. The orthodox mentality of following the old Christian , even the bible ask as to renew our mind and be transformed .

36:09 to 37:00 I guess I'm still weak because I am tempted by the first part and not by the last part.

Orthodox- we are not blown around by every wind of doctrine . Our anchor holds fast. Spent 40 years as a Seventhday Adventist. We “knew” so much thru the lense of our 19th century prophet- Ellen G White- the latest word from heaven. Sense 1844ad- they still try to make her words form their agenda. Oh the peace to know my savior built a church for my healing- now and forever! The “spiritual buffet” in the liturgy after 27 yrs continues “ teaching them to observe “ ALL things” that He has commanded. Christ is risen and in our midst.🌈

That's modalism, Patrick!!

May wife Mary and I ATE NEW MEMBER S SINCE JAN 11. 2020 AFTER 5 YEARS OF INVESTIGATORS AND 1YEAR OF STUDY AT ST. GEORGE ORTHRODOX CHURCH IN BUFFALO, N Y. WE WANT SOME HISTORY OF EACH BOOK TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE PLUS SHOULD WE START AT JOHN. BLESSINGS. TONY AND MARY DIPIANO

Interesting talk. Though I would disagree on the merit of philysophical debate & apologetics. It's led to so many converting to Orthodoxy including myself & the Church father's themselves engaged such debates. I will have to see what my Church father says about it.

I have a problem with the Orthodox church still saying hail Mary full of Grace.

1:13:40 Norwegian Nous? Fr Dr Deacon Ananias.

Why isn't the Greek liturgy in modern Greek then? Why classical Greek? Or Old Church Slavonic in the Slavic countries??

1:18:08 Too late, he already has, they're just afraid of missing out on the ride that you say is not there.

what were Trinity, Christology, and notions of Mary as "Mother of God" if not speculative theology? Where are they in the bible??

1 Peter 4:11 Everyone who speaks, let him speak according to the word of God, and everyone who ministers, according to what power God gives to him, that God may be glorified in all that you do, by Yeshua The Messiah, whose glory and honor is truly to the eternity of eternities.

So you'll accept the traditional story about Mary growing up in the temple but not what Western Christians think went on at the crucifixion (selling the garmets etc)? Why?

I am a Westerner through and through, and I confess, apparently in typical Western fashion, that I do not see how having the 'mind of the Church' can relieve us of our characteristically human philosophical nature. The point of asking difficult probing questions about free will and so on, is that it expresses our human nature. We are born with very little practical knowledge or understanding of Nature, which allows us to learn about it as we encounter it in our growth and development. We can only understand Nature by interrogating it in the light of experience. Religious beliefs are formulated during the course of human development and necessarily reflect provisional understandings of Nature at particular historical moments. When those particular understandings deepen or are superseded, traditional religious beliefs must often be uncoupled from their original historical formulations in order to conform to new, more accurate understandings of Nature. In this way we may learn more about divine creativity, and, therefore, about God. To deny this, is to deny both human nature and the divine creativity which created it.

I will always keep the sabbath on Saturday, the 7th day of the week, as the commandments say to do. Why is that changed anyhow? What scripture is there saying it is changed to the first day of the week?

What if you read the in the early church fathers affirming predestination but some later church fathers or leaders calling it anathema in response to the reformation?

There were translations from the earliest of times of the Bible into the main local languages, contrary to what the presenter says.

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The True prayer of any value. ,* My spirit, you are all-knowing, all-capable, all-wise, all-truthly and all-loving in me. * Your name shall be honored. * Your realm shall incarnate in me. * Your power shall unfold in me, on the Earth and in the firmaments. * Your all-mightiness shall become the conscious distinctness in me, in my body and in all spiritual realms. * so I recognise my responsibility and I recognise the truth. * And do not lead me into confusion and delusion, but release me from erroneous assumption. * For yours is the realm in me and the power and the knowledge in eternity.