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  1. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    Christ Baptizes you into Himself through His Servants... As Ananias Baptized Saul into Christ... Your future is predicated on your willingness to continue in the Faith of Christ... And how much you do so, and for what reasons... Salvation is your personal relationship knowing Christ... eg...
  2. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    The Kingdom of Heaven was never entered into under Mosaic Law... Because it had not yet been introduced upon this earth... Christ incarnated, and it is Christ Who IS the Kingdom of Heaven... We are Baptized INTO Christ, you see - The Risen Christ! Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Eastern Orthodox Only What makes an icon an icon and not just art?

    Iconography is the Sacred Art of the Church... It is "written", which means that every element in the icon's images carries a meaning from the Gospel of Christ... We cannot depict the Holy Trinity in an Icon... Nor God the Father... Nor God the Holy Spirit... For these are without Image...
  4. Arsenios

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    Elder Aimilianos, former Abbot of Simonopetra Monastery on Mt. Athos died... A very major person in my world, though I never met him... Here is a small window into a great Saint in the Orthodox Faith... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5uTbaQibSk I will try to find more... A.
  5. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    The Gospel of Christ is: "Be ye repenting, for the Kingdom of the Heavens is at hand!" For those who hear and take up their cross repenting... Baptism is their ENTRY INTO the Kingdom of Heaven... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    God will judge the Living and the dead - eg Those Baptized into Christ and those not Baptized into Christ... Many of the former will be saved... Many of the latter will not... The Dread Last Judgement is the final Salvation... The stakes are Life or death... This life determines for us our...
  7. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    There is only One Who was perfectly Saved, Menno... And He did not NEED Salvation... Because even though He was man, He IS God... AS man, He was not God... AS God, He was also man... Because God the Person became man the Person... The SAME Person, both God and man... Your charge of...
  8. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    No, not correct... You are INITIATED BY GOD INTO CHRIST... You are ENTERED INTO Salvation... In THIS life, you can STILL turn from what you have received... Eternal Life in Christ CAN be forsaken BY YOU but ONLY in THIS fallen life... Baptism is ENTRY into Salvation... It is NOT completion...
  9. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    You are saved from destruction by Christ destroying those intent on your destruction... He does this by making you a member of His Holy Body, the Church... Had Adam not sinned, Man's elevation into the Body of Christ would NOT have been through the Cross... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    God Saves YOU by Baptizing you INTO Christ Who IS our Salvation... God Saves you by Baptizing you into Christ... That Salvation is eternal... It CAN be turned away from in this temporal life... Which is why Scripture records Christ saying: Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for...
  11. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    Pharoah's Army, the Typos of demons, was destroyed... Baptism begins with the Prayers of Exorcism... Destruction means banishment from one's presence... You see, Salvation is FROM mortal dangers... These dangers are the rulership of Death in this fallen creation... Death is administered by...
  12. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    Indeed, another example taken from the "Doctrine of Baptisms" Paul refers to in Hebrews... The original was Noah and the flood... Destroying all mankind save 8... From which God repented... And we have the Sign of the Rainbow confirming His repentance... Then we have the Typos of Moses in...
  13. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    I am sorry you are sorry... :):):) Sometimes things are just sad... Sniff... Sniff... Once we have had a good, long cry we will feel much better... Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    I think I may put a thread up especially for you on Scriptural explication... Unless I forget! Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    It breaks prior to birth... Only if you have taken it upon yourself to re-write Scripture... Born OUT OF Water and Spirit is correct... I think that you are arguing that his understanding limited the meaning of Christ's answer... And I also think that you will agree that this whole little...
  16. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    The point of Christ's words in the Greek construction is that "OUT OF" includes both Spirit and Water together... Hence from a strictly exegetical [eg grammatical] point of view... Water and Spirit TOGETHER comprise the new Birth from above... Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    Proving my dyslexic friends insistence right that: "There IS a doG!" That was too funny! I owe you one! Thank-you! Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    Water Baptism

    The Greek combines water and Spirit under the preposition EX = "out of", or "from" εξ υδατος και πνευματος out of "water and Spirit"... Water and Spirit are what we are to be reborn FROM... Arsenios
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    Water Baptism

    Do you bring your 3 year olds to services? Or do you put them in nurseries? Or in Sunday school? You see, if you prevent a little child from being Baptized INTO Christ, Then you are disobeying Christ... Children are not consensually Baptized... At 40 days, they usually complain loudly...
  20. Arsenios

    Happy Easter!

    LET GOD ARISE! LET HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED! LET THEM THAT HATE HIM... FLEE FROM BEFORE HIS FACE! CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD! TRAMPLING DOWN DEATH BY DEATH! AND UPON THOSE IN THE TOMBS... BESTOWING LIFE! Arsenios
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