We baptise children because baptism is necessary for their salvation. The Lord Christ said to Nicodemus, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit.” (John 3:5). We baptise children so that they become members of the church and benefit from Its spiritualities. They benefit from the church Sacraments, …
The Law commanded in the Old Testament keeping the Sabbath, but it also commanded to offer animal sacrifices for every sin and trespass (Lev 4), do this Adventist priest and his followers offer animal sacrifices in obedience to the Law? Does he offer these sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem? Or he breaks the Law …
1. The Lord’s body that is on the altar is the body born by the Holy Virgin Mary, the body that was crucified, buried and risen, that ascended into heaven and sat on the right hand of the Father. As for the Lord’s body, meaning the Church, it refers to the whole congregation of believers …
The death of the Lord Christ means the separation of His spirit from His body, not the separation of His divinity from His humanity. Death belongs to the body – to humanity alone. It is a separation between the two elements of humanity, i.e. the spirit and the body. This does not mean that divinity …
God cannot die. The divinity cannot undergo death. Thus, we say in the Trisagion, “Holy is God, Holy is the Powerful , Holy is the Living and Immortal.” However, the Lord Christ is not only Godhead, but He is united with a human body. He took on Himself a body of our human nature and …
