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What is immersion? They say it's the same as Baptism? I would like to hear the correct answer.
Immersion is one of the most important elements of Baptism. Immersion of the baptized person in water means that he dies, as it were, to a carnal, sinful life and is born to eternal, spiritual life. In addition to immersion, pouring is allowed, which symbolizes that sins are removed from a person.
Is it necessary to baptize children born to people who are not married to a church?
What is the fault of the unfortunates? Let's look at the parents and find out why they did not marry in church and, again, why they want to baptize their children. This is what we will proceed from. They also have their own reasons. We need to see how parents motivate their situation. Perhaps they have experienced something that they are now looking for help. It is like a screw: if you do not press, it will not screw well (Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain).
It seems to me that I teach others a lot how to live. Is it good for my salvation?
To teach one's neighbor is just as contrary to humility as to rebuke him (St. Pimen the Great).
To what epoch does God correspond to the hypostasis of the Holy Trinity and what name does He bear in the Old Testament:
1. The God of the Age of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob?
2. The God of the time of Moses and the kings of Judah?
God, the Creator of heaven and earth and the Provider of the universe (Gen. 1:1; Jn. 1:1), has various names in the Holy Scriptures:
a) Jehovah (I am that I am) (Exodus 3:14) is an original, independent, unchangeable, unconditional, eternal Being (Rev. 1:8);