I did mean objective morality, as opposed to subjective. What do you mean by absolute?
I dunno, I guess I might've meant objective. I was thinking objective was subjective so I got a little confused. I guess what I meant was cut and dried, non debatable, not open to interpretation by humans.
I didn't realize that Lucifer was in charge of music (Of all things)! Where do you get that from?
Ezekiel 28 13
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."
Worship in heaven is liturgical, everything is sung. This is why the divine liturgy in orthodoxy is all singing. Even the gospel reading is sung. Only the sermon is spoken and unlike your average protestant church where the sermon can last 45 minutes or an hour or more, an orthodox sermon is generally about five minutes, but that is really up to the priest giving it. Overall though, and orthodox sunay is longer lasting than a protestant service because liturgical worship rather than talking is the focus, with holy communion being the central feature.
You read the bible and interpret it according to your views, or the orthodox church's view, and another christian will do the same. Likewise I read it and understand it differently. I know you believe the Orthodox Church's interpretation is correct in an absolute sense, but I just don't see it that way, and hopefully you can appreciate that the whole matter is not as easy as the simple logic of 2 + 2 = 4, for example.
The orthodox Bishops run in an unbroken chain since the apostles, through the laying on of hands, and the apostles walked with Christ and received direct instruction from him. In protestantism one church believes on way, another church believes another, each person reads the bible and makes their own interpretation, which is what you said you do. Another reason I hold protestantism in disdain. In orthodoxy it's all be laid out in canon law. Cut and dried. Any discrepancies are decided by ecumenical councils, a gathering of many bishops, where dogma and forumula is determined. Those are very infrequent, and usually called to deal with heretical ideas that gain popularity through individual bishops within the church. Nestorious for example So it is that simple. Other forms of christianity are purely speculative, or borrow from different denominations as it suits them. Orthodoxy does not.