I was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
**I was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.**
So was I, as a 12 yr old in the Presbyterian church. Then God sent a witness when I was 24, telling me that baptism was in the name of Jesus, and that it’s done for the remission of sins, I refused to obey, thinking I was quite well educated in the Word, and could quote Matt. 28:19 instantly.
Rebaptism is scriptural. In Ephesus (Acts 19) Paul encountered 12 disciples who had obeyed the baptism that John the baptist taught. He rebaptized them in the name of Jesus.
In 1Cor. 1:10-17 we read where Paul rebuked the Corinthian church members that were bragging about WHO baptized them instead of who they were baptized INTO, saying in vs 13, “..was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?”
You see, ‘trinity’ baptism has been performed for as long as men with carnal understanding of the Godhead have been a place of authority,....since some blockhead decided that God should be compartmentalized into ‘three separate and distinct persons’. One argument for ‘trinity’ baptism is the “Well, I’d rather obey the words of Christ than the words of Peter and the other apostles”, as though Christ had utterly failed to instruct them on who he was: The only all-powerful, infinite God, dwelling in the body of a man that he created, complete with the mind a man. In Jn 4:24 the Christ defined God as a spirit, not three of anything.
Earthly understanding says that for a man to exist, there must be another man for a father. But to be born of God, one must be born of the water, and of the Spirit. The result being a man (or woman) filled with the spirit of God; just like Jesus Christ, except that only he was born sinless, and only he has been given the fulness of the Godhead.
If the RCC wants to take credit for proclaiming the concept of the ‘three separate and distinct persons of God’ aka the ‘trinity’, then any water baptism using the three titles as the name of God is connected to the RCC, whether you’re Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Foursquare, etc.
Jesus didn’t fail to teach his disciples, and they didn’t fail to teach his baptism. The first sermon on the birthday of the Spirit filled church is climaxed with this interruption by the convicted souls of the lost, “Men and brethern, what shall we do?” Then Peter said unto them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the NAME of Jesus Christ for the REMISSION of SINS, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” Acts 2:37-39