Since the author of the Sacred Scriptures of the Church is the parish (each Christian is always a member of a community-parish, not alone, but one of many, a collective personality, therefore everything he knows is not his experience, but the Eucharistic experience of communication of the Church (parishioners) in the Holy Spirit ), then only the Church knows what the authors of the books of the Sacred Scriptures of the Church are talking about! Parishioners (Christians, believers) of all times and epochs (despite social, cultural, age, etc., differences) have the same experience-knowledge of the Resurrected Christ and their resurrection in Him at the Eucharist in the Holy Spirit! Each parish has the same Eucharistic experience-knowledge of the Kingdom of God, which came two thousand years ago (although it was from the beginning) and is forever and ever (which will have no end)! Therefore, to know-understand the Scriptures of Christians (understand what they are talking about and testify), one needs to be a parishioner (i.e.,
a member of the Body of Christ, the Body of the Eucharist, a communicant of the Holy Spirit). Indeed, how can one understand what Christians are talking about, not being a Christian, i.e., a parishioner, living in the Body of the Church Eucharistic Divine life in the Holy Spirit! To become a parishioner
(Christian), to resurrect, to become one with the Resurrected Lord Jesus, one needs to be baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of the Church, which in turn is preceded by a meticulous announcement, which the Church performs over the candidate (announced) for membership in the Kingdom of Happiness, Eternal Life! Therefore, those who want to be Happy (i.e., Christians), the Church does not recommend reading books, but says with whom to communicate, appoints a Christian from the parish who will announce, prepare the announced for baptism into the parish (into the Church)! Therefore, first you need not to read books (besides your ignorance and self-love you will read nothing there!), but to communicate directly with the Spirit-bearers (who are still in the 2nd stage), members of the parish, who will announce you (see Acts – the Eunuch and Philip: how can I understand the Scriptures if no one instructs me…). By the way, the Sacred Scriptures of the Church are addressed only to members of the Body of the Church (Christians), so a pagan reading the Scriptures of the Church is ignorance (see Part I)! A sad sight: a pagan or even an announced (in other words, not a parishioner) quotes the Bible or other books of the Sacred Scriptures of the Church! What ignorance and self-deception! (And, perhaps, the saddest spectacle is so-called Orthodox spiritual academies and schools (where there are no parishes, i.e., neither teachers nor students partake of the Body of Christ, the Eucharist!?), where pagans teach and study theology, defend candidate, doctoral dissertations, even bear the title of academics, who do not even have an idea that, not being parishioners and not partaking of the Eucharist, they are pagans, not Christians, and their “theology”, better to say, empty talk, fantasies on the topic, or even ignorance – is a sad self-deception! A pagan teaches a pagan to believe in God!? About one such school I know for sure!). Therefore, if someone wants to understand the Sacred Scriptures of Christians, there is no other way but to become a parishioner! And you can be announced not by reading books, but only by communicating with living members of the parish, who will prepare for baptism or repentance-confession (if the unfortunate Christian has already been “baptized”). Self-announcement through books is ignorance! It is impossible to announce oneself by reading books! If there are guidebooks for announcement, they are not for the announced, not for self-announcement, but for those who announce (for parishioners-missionaries and catechizers). Therefore, the correct question: with whom to converse?, and not: what to read? And to the question: what to read? the correct answer: go to the Church and ask to be announced; and you will read the Scriptures only when you become a parishioner, because all the Scriptures of the Church are addressed to the Church, and only Christians can understand, quote, and interpret them (see Part I)! The Announced Church recommends reading books of moral content
– this is the maximum they can contain (see Part I). The revelation of the eyes of the mind for understanding the Scriptures occurs only at the Eucharistic Table (in its context) of the Kingdom with the Resurrected Jesus Christ and the Body of Resurrection – the parish (see Lk. 24)! Since the only key to understanding the Sacred Scriptures of Christians is the Sacrament of the Eucharist (Sacrament of the Church), therefore parishioners (communicants of the Body of Christ, the Eucharist) are the first and main (chronologically and logically) interlocutors, because only they know the essence of the indication of the Sacred Scriptures (and not the pagan scholastic academies with their godless “theologies”). Therefore, first of all, you need not to read books (or listen to audio recordings of lectures, conversations, sermons of preachers and teachers), but to look for parishioners or those who want to become parishioners and move in this direction (towards the Eucharistic parish life), and together with them read and listen to what Christians say. Therefore, your first and permanent interlocutors, advisor-friends should be:
PARISH and PARISHIONERS – those who before you embarked on the path of trusting the Church (we do not talk about believers – you won’t find them with fire in broad daylight), i.e., already (INTERESTED in the ‘ADVERTISEMENT’) began to verify with their lives whether the reality is as the Orthodox Church testifies; those who are more experienced than you in spiritual (Eucharistic) life and will announce you; those who are trying to create a parish, become parishioners and then together with them communicate with such interlocutors: