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I\'m coming from an evang:/luth. background and am baptized in that church. I know and accept, that there is only \"One Holy Catholic and Apostolic\" Church and that other churches and christian (maybe \"christian\") communities are not \"branches\" of this one church, but - to take the other description of the church - cutt off limbs of the body of Christ.
But on the other hand, also in the roman-cath. church and even in the protestant church there are people to be found, who are true christians, even if there is the lack of the full christian truth. And therefore I think, that even there is somethink to see from the working of the Holy Spirit.
If this is true (if I\'m wrong, then forget my question), is it then correct, to name the (rom)catholics and the protestants \"haeretics\". Are they not just \"schismatics\"?
Is a rom/cath. or a protestant who truely beliefs and tries to follow Christ Jesus a brother or is he not?
If I was for over 50 years of my life a haeretic, then I was not a christian, then also my baptism is invalid. But how is it then possible for my Church to acknowledge my protest. baptism and to receive me into the Orthodox Church (\"only\") true chrismation? Or is it only \"kat\' oikonomian\" that I as haeretic am acknowledged as christian with a valid baptismn?
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