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 On what verse of Scripture is the Orthodox position based?

            Orthodoxy bases its position on John 15:26. Christ stated: “When the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me.” Christ sends the Spirit (this is the temporal mission), but the Spirit proceeds from the Father (this is the eternal procession).

            This teaching is the clear and infallible teaching of Christ, of His Holy Church, of Sacred Scriptures, and of the Church's Creed, and this teaching was adhered to by Rome itself until its illicit addition of one word to the Creed. Nowhere does the Bible state that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son, but the Roman Catholic Church begs to differ with Christ, with Scriptures, with the Ecumenical Councils, and with the Creed which the undivided Church produced under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.