Quiz about basic knowledge of Christianity

Baptism is a Sacrament in which the believer, by immersing the body three times in water with the invocation of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, dies to a carnal, sinful life and is reborn by the Holy Spirit into a spiritual, holy life. Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5).

Holy Baptism is like a door through which those being baptized enter the Church of God. Faith in Christ, the Son of God, is like the key that opens this door of salvation.

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk

Through baptism, the grace of God is mysteriously given to a person and lives in him secretly; as the commandments are fulfilled, it is revealed in the believer. Baptism is also the washing away and destruction of original sin.

Baptism is the seed of eternal life, which can grow abundantly, may lie unclaimed, and may even perish. It depends on the person himself. The further life of a person consists in the development of that seed of eternal life, which is planted in baptism. A person is gradually cleansed of sin, gradually improved and strengthened in goodness, and rises to the age of a perfect man.