drewmeister2 wrote:Priest Siluan wrote: The GOC has always held fast to its ecclesiology and I know we won't waver in our stance. Let us pray, though, that the Cyprianites are able to see their error in this matter so that unity can happen 
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Dear Andrew,
In I think 1903 St John of Kronsdahdt gave a sermon in which he stated that there was a very real possiblity that the entire Russian Church would fall away. We cannot state catergorically that the GOC will not fall.
Indeed please read the second canon of the council of Carthage where you will find the false teachings of the videos that you posted that have the apparent blessing of the HOTCA Bishops Anathemized (i.e. those who hold them cut off from the Church).
"Likewise it has been decided that whoever says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or says that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin from Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration, whence it follows that in regard to them the form of baptism “unto the remission of sins” is understood as not true, but as false, let him be anathema. Since what the Apostle says: “Through one man sin entered into the world (and through sin death), and so passed into all men, in whom all have sinned” [cf. Rom. 5:12], must not to be understood otherwise than as the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration."
The danger of falling away is ever present especially in our evil times.
Theophan.
