Baptism in Eastern churches

[coconutty]

So, I was just curious…
I’ve heard from many sources that Eastern Catholicism rejects the doctrine of original sin. They still baptize infants however, for the removal of sin. But I don’t understand why they need to be cleansed from sin if it is a tiny baby that obviously cannot sin and has no original sin (according to their beliefs)
Do Eastern baptisms have significant theological symbolism behind them, or is it more of an event to welcome the child into the Church?
Also, do Eastern Catholics believe original sin is completely false, and therefore the Roman Catholic Church is false in this regard? Or do they just believe original sin exists, but cannot be removed??
Thanks for checking this out!​

Ora pro nobis, Nostrum Eternus Era!
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[Vico]

So, I was just curious…
I’ve heard from many sources that Eastern Catholicism rejects the doctrine of original sin. They still baptize infants however, for the removal of sin. But I don’t understand why they need to be cleansed from sin if it is a tiny baby that obviously cannot sin and has no original sin (according to their beliefs)
Do Eastern baptisms have significant theological symbolism behind them, or is it more of an event to welcome the child into the Church?
Also, do Eastern Catholics believe original sin is completely false, and therefore the Roman Catholic Church is false in this regard? Or do they just believe original sin exists, but cannot be removed??
Thanks for checking this out!​

Ora pro nobis, Nostrum Eternus Era!

We inherit the consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin, death, both in physical and spiritual ways, without any personal fault. In the Eastern view “We remain creatures while becoming God by grace, as Christ remained God in becoming man by the Incarnation.” – Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (London: James Clark and Co., 1957), pp. 85-86, 87.

That is to say becoming Christlike, not an intellectual process, rather by living in the likeness of Christ our God.

Although there is a difference in the terminology used in Eastern teaching or tradition compared to the Latin, it nevertheless remains true that infant baptism is practiced, by tradition, and that it is necessary, as Saint John Chrysotsom stated that infants are baptised: “that they may be given the further gifts of sanctification, justice, filial adoption, and inheritance, that they may be brothers and members of Christ, and become dwelling places of the Spirit”.

We need sanctification and justice, which are what are described as grace in the Latin doctrines, so there is essential agreement about the need for baptism to provide what is missing for an infant or adult.

 

[Nine_Two]

Baptism is for the remission of sins (as the Creed states). That isn’t past sins, or Original Sin specifically, but all sins.

 

[Little_Boy_Lost]

As soon as we are born, we are influenced by evil; the misdeeds of our parents, of our ancestors and family, the society which we are formed in, the very world itself, is sick with humanity’s sinfulness. It would seem impossible to seek Christ in the face of these ills if we did not have help. Through the washing away of all this, and the readying of ourselves for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

 

[wjp984]

Baptism is a sacrament of initiation, or as the East calls it, a mystery.

Unlike the West, all three sacraments of initiation (baptism, confirmation and communion) are all given to an infant in Eastern tradition.