Only the American protestant churches work like this, reading the bible and build a religion out of that. The historical Christian church, that lives on in bot

Only the American protestant churches work like this, reading the bible and build a religion out of that. The historical Christian church, that lives on in both the East and the West in the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, is a continuous tradition where the bible is just a small part. The Church's opinion on homosexuality, adultery or anything else is not _taken_ from the bible. To a large extent you can find _expressions_ of the tradition there, but it is not the source.