By Metropolitan Innokenty (Usov) Preface Only that faith or church is true and salvific which was founded by Christ Himself and the Apostles and which continues uninterruptedly until the last days. All other faiths, confessions, churches, sects, or religious societies are nothing but delusions or human inventions, even if they are based on Holy Scripture,…
T.S. Tulupov Until the year 1054 A.D., the Greek Eastern and the Roman Catholic Churches were united in faith and formed a single Church. But in that year, all the Eastern Churches excommunicated the Roman Catholic Church for many innovations in faith that were contrary to the Word of God, and chiefly for the Catholics’…
T.S. Tulupov When engaging in conversations with Baptists, it is best to begin from a historical perspective—that is, by indicating the time when the sect under discussion appeared and identifying its founder. After this, one should move on to clarifying the dogma of Holy Tradition, with the goal of firmly establishing the teaching of the…
In discussions of questions of faith, Baptist sectarians acknowledge only Holy Scripture as the sole source of doctrine and always demand proof “from the line of Scripture.” Therefore, when conversing with them about Holy Tradition, one must first of all demonstrate the insufficiency of Holy Scripture as the sole source of doctrine, and explain to…
T.S. Tulupov It is necessary to baptize children. All people are sinful—corrupted by the leprosy, the sickness of sin. “There is no man that sinneth not upon the earth,” says Solomon (3 Kings 8:46), or in another of his expressions: “There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes…