It\'s ironic that you used the word \"crux\"--Latin for cross. That is the \"crux\" of our belief! But it also includes how that belief was manifested by the earliest Christians unbroken to the present. The laying on of hands at Ordination doesn\'t just pass on a hierarchial lineage going back to the Apostles and to Christ, it also reflects an assurance of doctrinal purity unbroken to the beginning. Isn\'t that what \"Orthodox\" means? \"Orthos doxa\"--\"right belief\" or \"right worship\" or \"right glory\". That is true Orthodoxy, the assurance by the laying on of hands that \"we have seen the True Light, we have received the Heavenly Sprit, we have found the True Faith, by worshipping the Undivided Trinity, for they have saved us.\"
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