Mark 16:15–16 He said to them, "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned."
In order to save your soul:
1. You must accept the one, true faith, given to us in its entirety from Christ's Apostles:
The Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church
https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Filaret_Moskovskij/the-longer-catechism-of-the-orthodox-catholic-eastern-church/#0_2
2. You must enter Christ's Church, His Body, through the Sacrament of Baptism.
Echoing the words of St. Paul, it was St. Cyprian of Carthage who wrote "there is no salvation outside the Church":
St. Cyprian of Carthage, Epistle 72: To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics, par. 21: Can the power of baptism be greater or of more avail than confession, than suffering, when one confesses Christ before men and is baptized in his own blood? And yet even this baptism does not benefit a heretic, although he has confessed Christ, and been put to death outside the Church, unless the patrons and advocates of heretics declare that the heretics who are slain in a false confession of Christ are martyrs, and assign to them the glory and the crown of martyrdom contrary to the testimony of the apostle, who says that it will profit them nothing although they were burnt and slain. 1 Corinthians 13:3 But if not even the baptism of a public confession and blood can profit a heretic to salvation, because there is no salvation out of the Church, how much less shall it be of advantage to him, if in a hiding-place and a cave of robbers, stained with the contagion of adulterous water, he has not only not put off his old sins, but rather heaped up still newer and greater ones! Wherefore baptism cannot be common to us and to heretics, to whom neither God the Father, nor Christ the Son, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the faith, nor the Church itself, is common. And therefore it behooves those to be baptized who come from heresy to the Church, that so they who are prepared, in the lawful, and true, and only baptism of the holy Church, by divine regeneration, for the kingdom of God, may be born of both sacraments, because it is written, Unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
1 Cor. 13:3 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
In the past, converts' external form of baptism has been accepted by Bishops through economy, and candidates have entered through chrismation. The western form of pouring baptism, however, is not considered canonical, and souls enter the Church through triple immersion Baptism.
3. You must enter the True (Orthodox) Church, and persevere within it:
John 6:54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you shall not have life in you.
Matt. 24: 11-13 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.
The True Orthodox Church of Greece, under the omophorion of His Beatitude Stephanos, Archbishop Of Athens and All Greece, continues to remain faithful during this time of world-wide apostasy. In addition to its large presence in Greece and Cyprus, it has parishes in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Cameroon, United States and Canada:
True Orthodox Church of Greece
Sacred Association of the Clergy in the United States and Canada
https://www.gocinna.com/(I believe Rev. Fr. Neophytos of Quebec is serving all the North American parishes at this time. America has suffered the loss (not from the jab!) of two bishops and a priest in the past few years.)Cathedral Church of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God26-37 12th StreetAstoria, NY 11102-3723Tel. (718) 626-7719Greek Orthodox Church of Holy Trinity2502 North 28th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85008Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity1565 Boul. Cure LabelleChomedey, Laval, Quebec, H7V-2W5, CANADATel. (450) 682-8855Orthodox Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross
618 Birchmount RdScarborough Ontario M1K 1P9, CANADA
Tel. (647) 345-6657
Le Site des Vrais Chrétiens Orthodoxes (VCO)
(The Site of the True Orthodox Christians - French Speaking)
http://orthodoxievco.net/Ermitage S' Etiene (Hermitage of Saint Stephen)
66 500 Prades, Clara, FRANCE
ἀ. Archimandrite Fr. Cassian Braun
(61) 680-4541Fr. Cassian also serves:Church of Saints Fanourios and IreneosDominikanenlaan 73, 3600 Genk, BelgiumTel. (89) 303-735, (499) 719-139Chapelle de St. Maurice.Chemin des Vergers 9 1907 Saxon (Valais)Tel. (27) 744-3626
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