How does baptizing in the name of Jesus violate the instruction to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity?
Jesus is the 2nd person of that Trinity. That is why Mary IS the Mother of God, in that she is the mother of the incarnate 2nd person of the Trinity.
It doesn't...but how does quoting a baptismal formula prove the nature of the Godhead? Especially considering that scripture never shows a figure called "the holy spirit" present and reigning on a throne with the father and son. For example:
Rev 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 7:10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
These boneheads forgot the holy spirit!
Rev_5:13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!"
EVERY creature on heaven and earth AGAIN forgot to give any credit at all to the creature called "the holy spirit". Idiots. :-)
And let's not forget that infidel Daniel:
Dan 7:13 "I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.
Dan 7:14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
Nuts...no kingdom for that "holy spirit" guy here either.
Of course I'm tweaking a bit here, but the holy spirit isn't another, or a different, person in the Godhead. It IS the spirit of the father and/or the son.