Why do we do things not written in the Bible?

ARBITER01 · Feb 19, 2026

Bro.T said:
Pentecost is basic knowledge to those who understand, remember the Church started in the Wilderness in Acts 7: 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

You probably need to go over to the controversial section and hang out there, because nothing you're saying here is remotely orthodox.

Act 2:41 Those, therefore, who gladly received his word, were immersed; and there were added to them on that day about three thousand souls;

Act 2:47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to them daily those who were being saved.

Dan Perez · Feb 19, 2026

ARBITER01 said:
You probably need to go over to the controversial section and hang out there, because nothing you're saying here is remotely orthodox.

Act 2:41 Those, therefore, who gladly received his word, were immersed; and there were added to them on that day about three thousand souls;

Act 2:47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to them daily those who were being saved.

And I try not to be controversial and when checking the GREEK Text in. Acts not reads that they were BAPTIZED

BAPTIZED and not m IMMERMED. , WHY. ??

dan p

The Liturgist · Feb 19, 2026

Hentenza said:
When I thought I’ve heard it all this shows up. No, the church started at Pentecost depicted in Acts 2 right after they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Indeed. This belief, with minor variations relating primarily to the economy of salvation and the continuity of the true religion from the time of Adam and Eve, is universal. The idea that the Church began with Moses is very unusual; I’ve never seen that idea before.

From an Eastern Orthodox perspective, you might find the following very reassuringly Orthodox:

The Church of Christ received its existence with the coming to earth of the Son of God, when the fullness of the time was come (Gal. 4:4), and with His bringing of salvation to the world.

The beginning of its existence in its complete form and significance, with the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, was the day of Pentecost, after the Ascension of the Lord. On this day, after the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, in Jerusalem there were baptized about three thousand men. And, further, the Lord each day added those being saved to the Church. From this moment, the territory of the city of Jerusalem, then of Palestine, then of the whole Roman Empire, and even the lands beyond its boundaries, began to be covered with Christian communities or churches. The name “church” which belongs to every Christian community, even of a single house or family, indicates the unity of this part with the whole, with the body of the whole Church of Christ.

Being “the body of Christ,” the Church increaseth with the increase of God (Col. 2:19). Comparing the Church with a building, the Apostle teaches that its building is not completed, but continues: All the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord (Eph. 2:21). This growth is not only in the sense of the visible, quantitative increase of the Church on earth; in even greater degree, this is a spiritual growth, the perfection of the saints, the filling up of the heavenly-earthly world through sanctity. Through the Church is accomplished the dispensation of the fullness of times foreordained by the Father, so that He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth (Eph. 1:10). In the sense of its earthly growth, the Church develops in the spheres of Divine services and the canons; it is made richer by Patristic literature; it grows in the outward forms which are necessary for its earthly conditions of existence.

The Church is our spiritual Home. As with one’s own home — and even more than that — a Christian’s thoughts and actions are closely bound up with the Church. In it he must, as long as he lives on earth, work out his salvation, and make use of the Grace-given means of sanctification given him by it. It prepares its children for the heavenly homeland. As to how, by the Grace of God, spiritual rebirth and spiritual growth occur in a man, in what sequence these usually occur, what hindrances must be overcome by him on the way of salvation, how he must combine his own indispensable labors with the Grace-given help of God — special branches of theological and spiritual learning are devoted to all these matters. These are called moral theology and ascetic theology.

Dogmatic Theology proper limits the subject of the Church to an examination of the Grace-given conditions and the mystical, Grace-given means furnished in the Church for the attainment of the aim of salvation in Christ.

Excerpt From
Orthodox Dogmatic Theology
Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky as translated by Fr. Seraphim Rose

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