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What is the sacrament of baptism?

Q676 · The Sacrament of Baptism

First: This sacrament is declared by the faith of the Church in the Orthodox Creed.

Second: The one who being baptized is immersed in water three times in the name of the Holy Trinity.

Third : He accepts being buried with Christ to enjoy the resurrected life and dies to the life of lustful sin. He then lives a life that is appropriate of the children of God with respect to Christ’s holiness and righteousness by the power of the divine grace. Christ Himself

declared that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5).

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