it is disappointing to find its scholarship rather weak and misguided
That only means you haven't found their scholarship.
Case in point:
While we can agree that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth (Jn. 16:13), the Orthodox believe that He works only in their lives
This is ignorance, plain and simple. You have learned exactly nothing, and have no business forming an opinion on the topic. Nothing else you might have to say is worth reading.
The only thing you can learn now is that you have an evil heart, and God also has the solution for this:
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26)
Also:
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15:5)
That's your problem right there. In many different ways God tells us the same things, hoping that one way or another we might get it.
All your attempts to play internet gotcha with the Most High will fail, but the time to do that is NOW; get all the nonsense out of your system. You must do that before you can ever learn of Him. The only variable is how much you have to suffer first.
That only means you haven't found their scholarship.
Case in point:
This is ignorance, plain and simple. You have learned exactly nothing, and have no business forming an opinion on the topic. Nothing else you might have to say is worth reading.
You assume much, and know little.
"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
The only thing you can learn now is that you have an evil heart, and God also has the solution for this:
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26)
Also:
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15:5)
That's your problem right there. In many different ways God tells us the same things, hoping that one way or another we might get it.
All your attempts to play internet gotcha with the Most High will fail, but the time to do that is NOW; get all the nonsense out of your system. You must do that before you can ever learn of Him. The only variable is how much you have to suffer first.