What ortodox churches believe about children place in their churches?
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What exactly do you mean by "orthodox"?\n\nAs to a child's place in the church, Deuteronomy  31:12 says - "Congregate the people, the men and the women AND THE LITTLE ONES and your alien resident who is within your gates, in order that they may LISTEN and in order that they may LEARN, as they must fear Jehovah God and take care to carry out all his words. "\n\nSo, according to the Bible, children should be with their parents while attending congregation meetings.  They should all be learning together, unlike many churches where the children are removed and taught separately.\n\nFor additional scriptures about a child's place see the following:\n* Deteronomy 6:6,7\n* Exodus 20:12\n* Colossians 3:20\n* Ephesians 6:1-4\n* 2 Timothy 3:15\n* Proverbs 22:6\n* Deteronomy 8:3\n* 1 Timothy 5:8\n* Proverbs 20:7\n* Proverbs 8:33\n* Hebrews 12:4-11\n* Proverbs 22:11\n* Proverbs 29:15\n* 1 Corinthians 15:33\n\nand many more.  When you search the Bible, you will find out how God feels about children in the church.
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Yes and no.\n\nBelievers are considered to be part of the Bride of Christ.  Perhaps this is why girls wear bride-like dresses for their First Holy Communion and boys wear white suits or special ribbons.\n\nOften, children participating in First Holy Communion rites are following a beautiful ritual whose meanings may be much deeper than they understand.  I've heard it said that the Bible, or Christianity, or things of God, are like an ocean: shallow enough to wade in, yet deep enough to swim in.  The average child is just wading.\n\nI wouldn't tell a child receiving First Holy Communion that he/she was now married to God.  I might tell them that those who believe in Jesus are part of his Bride.  The first sounds like a heavy commitment that the average child can't make; the second is a more mystical, poetic statement whose full meaning is yet to be understood.
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Church is the place where people in formal cloth do a brainwash to a foolish people\nhttp://wade3.jeeran.com/How.htm
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http://www.gospellight.com/children/kidsontherock.html
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It would be idealistic to think they would act like angels and follow in their parents footsteps, but we all know that children have a mind of their own.  \n\nPreachers children "should act" just like anyone elses children do.  Some of them grow up seemingly without a hitch, so to speak.  While others rebel and stumble.\n\nThe congregation should realize this and try to be understanding of any unacceptable behavior.. just as they would of any of the other children at church.  Trying to FORCE them to act a certain way would only push them in the wrong direction.  Let your example guide the way.
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ok no offense but about 75% of christains dont even go to church sundays or wenesdays. most dont kno about stories from bible because they have never read it but they do hear about scientific theories in school so i would say that from my age group about 26% believe in bigbang, 30% believe  in God created world and rest dont care
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ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: "Baptism in the Holy Spirit" following salvation with speaking in tongues. Believe Christ's death provided healing for the body. Worship: informal, sometimes spontaneous testimonies. www.ag.org\n\nAFRICAN AMERICAN METHODIST: Bible contains the Word of God. Major emphasis on Christian living. Two Sacraments. \n\nROMAN CATHOLIC:  Church structure is a hierarchy.  Pope is Christ's vicar (representative) on earth. 7 sacraments.  No female priests. Communion theology is transubstantiation. www.nccbuscc.org\n\nEPISCOPAL: English politics divided this church from the Romans.  Currently undergoing major upheaval because they have an openly gay bishop.  (7 congregations left and joined with Episcopal church in Bengal) Like Romans, claims a line of succession in priesthood dating back to Peter, through a laying on of hands. Liturgical, Accepts Apostles' and Nicene Creeds.  www.ecusa.anglican.org\n\nJEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: Reject Trinity. Christ was first creation by God. No eternal hell.  Evil souls are just annihilated. Believe that they alone use the Bible and not human traditions as basis for belief. Services are largely Bible study and sermons. www.watchtower.org.\n\nPRESBYTERIANS: Bible is a "witness without parallel" to Jesus Christ. In Communion Christ is really present, but received spiritually. People remain in pews to recieve communion. Accept Nicene and Apostles' Creeds, the Scots Confession, The Heidelberg Catechism, the Second Helvetic Confession, The westminster Confession, and 3 others. Desire to do all things "decently and in order". www.pcusa.org\n\nSOCIETY OF FRIENDS: Scriptures as inspired but not exclusive revelation of truth. Belief in sacredness of all human life, does not allow anyone to exploit or destroy another.  Pioneers in peacemaking and social reforms. Worshippers may speak or pray as they feel inspired during service. www.quaker.org\n\nLUTHERANS: Mark their beginning at 1517.  Largest Protestant deminination in the world. Democratic structure. Key verse: "Saved by grace alone". Bible is the written witness to God's actions. Practices infant baptism. Communion theology is best described as consubstantiation. Three Creeds: Nicene, Apostles' and Athanasian. Individual encouraged to read and interpret scripture for themselves. 17 different Lutheran groups within US. Used to be 117. Liturgical worship. www.elca.org\n\nCHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: Accepts bible AND Science and Health (by Mary Baker Eddy). Believe sin, sickness and death result for ignorance of God. Healing of body through spiritual means.www.tfcc.com\n\nUNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: Openly accepts gays. Most accept Trinity. No creeds. Stress on Christian living; Most believe in Christ's presence in Communion. www.ucc.org\n\nCHURCH OF GOD: three ordinances: baptism of believers by immersion, communion, and foot washing. People grow through the Spirit. www.cogic.com\n\nBAPTISTS Communion is memorial.  Literal interpretation of scipture. Believer's baptism. (infant baptism is therefor excluded.) Infants are dedicated.  Baptism by immersion. Some conservatives are very literal in bible interpretation, some not. worship differs from congregation to congregation. Stress personal conversion.  Opposed to mixture of church and state. www.sbcnet.org\n\nCMA/CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE: Bible had no errors when originally given. Believer's Baptism. Accept Trinity. Worship is informal. Emphasis on preaching gospel to all nations. www.cmalliance.org\n\nDISCIPLES OF CHRIST/CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Communiion is a memorial, believe division in Christ's church is a sin so they push for Christian unity. Deny original sin. Members admitted when the reach age of accountability, make public statement of faith. www.disciples.org\n\nCHURCH OF THE BRETHERN:  practice" believer's baptism, anointing, love feast includes foot washing, meal and communion. Teaches pacifism.
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Child baptism is a church tradition that was started somewhere in Middle Ages because of high infant mortality. Parents wanted to make sure their children were burried in a christian way and the church would not do that except they were baptised. Godparents were the ones who accepted the responsibility to raise the child in christian ways in case something happened to the parents.\n\nA brethren church believes in biblical baptism - the way John the Baptist did baptise. He baptised the adults, the babies were dedicated at the temple and the parents themselves had in charge to raise the children under jewish tradition.\n\nIt is based on the fact that the baby cannot decide himself if he/she wants to follow the christian faith, so the parents are charged during the dedication to raise the child in a christian way until the age when the child can decide for himself whether wants to live in a christian way: baptism is the outward sign of his decision (something similar with what the lutheran church has for teenagers, called confirmation, did you have it?).\n\nDedication has the same spiritual value as baptism and the parents are in the role of godparents.\n\nI also was baptised as a baby in a traditional church, then I had the confirmation and at 25 I joined a protestant church which had adult baptism and baby dedication - so I got baptised again. It was great.
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Hebrews 10:25 God speaks to us about the importance of Christians gathering together and sharing in the things of the Spirit. \nBack in Jesus times people gathered in a house of a fellow believer, but no we can not do that anymore; so we to build churchs, Halls, ect........ to welcome more followers.\n\n** But remember church is only one spot you can worship GOD, everyday evey moment give him glory**\n\nDEMOCRACY IN HEAVEN
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The bible verses you quoted are the ones I would use as well.  \n\nBut for me, Christianity is so much more than parroting Bible verses...\n\nEqual doses of Scripture, Tradition and Reason work best when researching such a divisive subject.  The argument never arose until the Middle Ages.  Not until the 1520s did the Christian Church experience opposition specifically to infant Baptism. Under the influence of Thomas Muenzer and other fanatics who opposed both civil and religious authority, original sin and human concupiscence was denied until the "age of accountability." Although there is no basis in Scripture for this position, a considerable number of Swiss, German and Dutch embraced the Anabaptist cause. So offensive was this position that Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Reformed alike voiced strong warning and renunciation. It was considered a shameless affront to what had been practiced in each generation since Christ’s command in the Great Commission (Matthew 28: 18-20) to baptize all nations irrespective of age.\n\nBefore that time...The Church ALWAYS Baptized infants.\n\nLook at what the Fathers of the Church have said since the beginning:\n\nIrenaeus\n\n\n\n"He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age" (Against Heresies 2:22:4 [A.D. 189]). \n\n"‘And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan’ [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes, even as the Lord has declared: ‘Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’ [John 3:5]" (Fragment 34 [A.D. 190]). \n\n  \nHippolytus\n\n\n\n"Baptize first the children, and if they can speak for themselves let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them" (The Apostolic Tradition 21:16 [A.D. 215]). \n\n  \nOrigen\n\n\n\n"Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants. If there were nothing in infants which required the remission of sins and nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of baptism would seem superfluous" (Homilies on Leviticus 8:3 [A.D. 248]). \n\n"The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit" (Commentaries on Romans 5:9 [A.D. 248]). \n\n  \nCyprian of Carthage\n\n\n\n"As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born" (Letters 64:2 [A.D. 253]). \n\n"If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned m
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a lot of churches will baptize children, the church of Christ insist on it.\nif your current church puts you down, then change churches.\nlife is too short.
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Good Question! The ones you speak of are not true followers of Christ! And also because of this, I personally don't set foot in a building someone calls church. We are not called to go to "church", but rather " be the Church.
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www.agnosticandathiestgoats4kids.com
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Christian protestant churches teach Scripture.  The bible is the authority.\nOrthodox churches teach some Scripture, but much like the Catholic church, they teach traditions as well.  \nThe Orthodox make a big thing about Mary and their Icons as well.
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Many of the Saints in the Orthodox Church had children they were not forbidden to have children.  I know that some popes had children so some saints probably did too.
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We as individuals can lose salvation and local churches can fall into apostasy (fall from favor). The church that was established in the 1st Century has never totally disappeared from the earth. As you read the New Testament though, you see that false teachers were already popping up in the church and leading many astray to be lost in eternal damnation. The TRUE church that Jesus rules over, His Spiritual kingdom, worships just as is described in the NT. They are organized just as described in the NT. They do not have any book of creeds or doctrines. The Bible is their only guide. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact me.
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too many children are made to go to church, and never really know why, it is just something the their parents do, going to church and being religious, however does not make you a christian.\nand these as thy grow up thing that they are Christians, but have never felt the presence of God, so they turn away and do not believe.