26- He confessed to one baptism... What is baptism - Baptism is in brief: 1- Descent into the baptismal font to bury the old man […]
21- And in the one church, the waw is a conjunction. “Church” is connected to what came before it, meaning: “I believe in the one God the Father... and in the one Lord Jesus.”
20- And with the Holy Spirit, the letter “waw” and “waw” are the conjunctions. “The Holy Spirit” is connected to what came before it, meaning: “I believe in one God, the Father, and one Lord.”
لقد استعمل المسيحيون الأولون العبارة اليونانية ecclesia للدلالة على هذه الحقيقة الجديدة المجيدة التي كانوا يشعرون كل الشعور بأنهم ينتمون
The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”
The heavenly birth that Christ speaks of is “the washing of regeneration and renewal that comes from the Holy Spirit,” that is, receiving the Holy Spirit through baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity. It is the presence of the Holy Spirit that renews the birth of man. This presence takes place within the Church through the sacrament of baptism and the other sacraments.
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ليس الروح القدس غريباً عن طبيعة الآب، فهو يأتي من جوهره، أي أن كلاهما من جوهر واحد. لا يستطيع الإنسان أن يصل إلى هذه الحقيقة بمفرده، ولا بدّ أن يرشده الروح القدس نفسه، ولا نستطيع أن نضع له حدوداً، أو أن نفصله عن الآب والابن.
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Text: 1 And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together with one accord, 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing noise.
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The plan for the salvation of mankind: Since God was good and perfect in goodness, He granted goodness and was entirely good, and - for the reason of the abundance of the riches of His goodness -
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Pentecost in the Old Testament The word “Pentecost” in the Hebrew calendar refers to the holiday that the Jews celebrated fifty days after Passover.
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