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Sadly, human passions, pride, and misunderstandings of the Bible and the Church’s teaching due to bad translations as well as external factors (political, nationalistic, etc.) have tried to alter the faith and life of the Church. Some people have broken away by cutting off continuity in the Eucharist, the living faith and truth. Some others have created their own problematic Churches, not founded by the Holy Spirit, the apostles, and their successors. They are condemned as heretics, and a clear distinction must be made by calling the Church “Orthodox,” i.e., it glorifies God in a correct, not a wrong, way. The Church respects local traditions, allowing participation in social events (festivals, marriages, funerals, etc…).