Comments on: Why Do the Orthodox Baptize Infants? https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/05/why-do-the-orthodox-baptize-infants Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:51:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Ivan https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/05/why-do-the-orthodox-baptize-infants#comment-532 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:51:10 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=22622#comment-532 In reply to Stephania.

Thank you for your comment. If I am not mistaken, The doctrine of the original sin was accepted by the Orthodox Church on Carthage council, which was confirmed once again on Council in Trullo (691). I have to check it up. Yes, the children born innocent, because they have no personal sins. However, it is the doctrine of the Orthodox Church that the children born with “original sin”, because everybody born with it ad it is our heritage from Adam and Eve who have fallen and contaminated the human nature. That is why we all and the children too do need to be baptized. To be in the state of the original sin does not mean to be responsable for this. If I am not mistaken, the original sin in Orthodoxy is inherited stained and corrupted nature that cause us difficulties in life and push us to sin. This corrupted nature is healed during the baptism, however it is a long process of sanctification and partaking the Eucharist that leads us toward salvation in Christ.

Please forgive me, if I am wrong.

]]> By: Stephania https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/05/why-do-the-orthodox-baptize-infants#comment-529 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 20:19:26 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=22622#comment-529 I have a different understanding of the Orthodox position on “original sin” — that we believe instead in “ancestral sin” (that infants are born innocent, unstained by original sin, yet having the ancestral tendency to sin, and which “stains” them once they willingly sin). This seems an important difference, especially in regard to free will and the choices of the Theotokos.

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