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Originally Posted by Ohio
Admittedly I know little about the Orthodox Church other than their obsession with icons and vestments.
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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
Icons and vestments are an external side, not internal. Some people can become obsessed with icons and vestments when they don't understand what they are for. But these things come from the earliest times. BTW, even Judaic priests in the Temple wore vestments.
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That to me is not good bible study. It confuses the NT with the OT.
There is no justification whatsoever in the NT for vestments. They were part of an old system of types, shadows, and figures which point us to Christ, the reality. I'm not buying from any system which focuses so much attention on what can be seen, weakly justifying this with OT credentials.
They can write lengthy articles about wearing black, much the same as the western church loves its white and red vestments. Just the fact that color has been made the center of attention shows they missed the mark.