Against Baptism By Pouring

Because of my rank I am obligated to watch everything and see that everything be preserved fully and is not altered. Firstly, I draw your attention to Holy Baptism, which is the door to all the mysteries, the beginning of our salvation, the absolution of sins and reconciliation with God. It is the gift of adoption since in baptism we become the sons of God and the heirs of Christ, putting on Christ our Lord, by the word of Holy Apostle Paul: “As many of you that have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.” Without this, salvation is not possible. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”(John 3:5)

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Orthodox Sponsors Or God-Parents

ORTHODOX SPONSORS OR GOD-PARENTS

Translated from the Greek original by Fr. George Dion. Dragas

1. Baptism: the first necessary and mandatory Sacrament. As we all know and experience, our Holy Orthodox Church, the Body of Christ, is the Church of the Sacraments.

The first of these Sacraments, the introductory one, which introduces us and makes us organically members of the Church is the sacrament of Baptism.

In the OT we have the types of the real Baptism, the last of which is the baptism of repentance of St. John the Baptist who closes the Old Testament and opens the New One. “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, i.e. Jesus” (Acts 19.4).

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