[kosta50]

We Baptists insist on baptist by immersion. But we only dunk once. I have to admire the thoroughness of the Orthodox on this one

Thanks. The triple submersion goes back almost 2,000 years. Again, the Didache (c 70 - c 100 AD) specifically talks about this ritual of the primitive Church:

"But concerning baptism, thus shall you baptize. Having first recited all these things, baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in living (running) water. But if you don't have living water, then baptize in other water; and if you are not able in cold, then in warm. But if you have neither, then pour water on the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

The Orthodox Church still performs baptism in this way

So many of us do, in fact, have a bit in common with the Orthodox, via Erasmus and the Textus Receptus, the Reformation translators at Geneva and the King James translators

That is wonderful to know. Thank you. :)

[George W. Bush]

But if you have neither, then pour water on the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

Eeek! I was doing fine up to this. ; )

And the solidarity of the West's Reformation with the ancient texts of the East is a rather sweet thing, a wonderful story of sciptural preservation and tranmission. While you in the East preserved the text so faithfully for all, and we in the West translated your text and gave it to the common people to throw off the hideous Roman yoke, Rome was floundering around with Jerome and some dead language. Rome's interest in her own Vaticanus and Sinaiticus was roused only by these dubioius modern versions in the West in the last century.