Orthodox theology has borrowed much from Catholic and Lutheran theology in recent centuries, but it has not ceased to be Orthodox.

In the same way, one can take a lot from the Orthodox world while remaining a Protestant (although, perhaps, no longer a "Southern Baptist").

9. Now we can proceed to a discussion of the problems that Protestant theology creates for itself, that is, to a discussion of the internal contradictions of Protestantism.

The most important of them is an attempt to tear the Bible away from Tradition, from the Church.

The addressee of the revelation is the Church. The author of the canon is the Church. The Bible is compiled on an extra-biblical basis. By whom exactly are these books included in the Scriptures? –Church. The Church as a liturgical community is more primary than the Church as a community that hears the reading of Scripture. And when the New Testament books had not yet been collected, and even when they had not yet been written, the Church already existed, and the Eucharist was already in it.

Now we first listen to the reading of the Gospel, then take communion. But in the apostolic era it was different: first the oral preaching of the apostles and their disciples (tradition), then Communion, and only much later – the receipt of a copy of the "Gospel from..."

The Church began to take communion before it began to read the New Testament. And the canon of the New Testament was in harmony with the Eucharist, and not vice versa.

We do not partake of Communion because the New Testament says so. The Christians of the first centuries recognized the New Testament because in its pages they recognized the same spirit that they had felt at their Suppers. And to oppose the book of the Church to the life of the Church, to her Tradition, is still illogical.

In the end, it is a question of what Christ left behind Himself: a book about Himself or Himself?

Protestants say that Christ left a collection of memories of Himself; the Catholics, that He had left the Pope as His deputy.

The Orthodox assert that He Himself simply remained with us "always, even to the end of the age."

Protestants seal Christ's mouth and say: "Do not add a word!" For Protestants, a book is the only way to communicate with God, the only way to know God, the only door through which they allow God to enter human life.

Orthodoxy says that the Spirit breathes where and how it wills, and this breath of His is imprinted in the history of Christianity as Tradition. Christ transmits Himself, and not His merits, which the Father agrees to consider as ours and attributes them to all generations.

Among other oddities of Protestantism, one can note the one-sidedness of the doctrine of "salvation through faith."