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To: piusv

**I’m sorry, but what about Jesus’ command to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost do these folks not understand?**

The scriptures show that Peter, Philip, and Paul, all baptized in the name of Jesus, in following the Lord’s command found in Matt. 28:19.


62 posted on 08/30/2015 8:15:06 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel
The scriptures show that Peter, Philip, and Paul, all baptized in the name of Jesus, in following the Lord’s command found in Matt. 28:19.

This would contradict your claim then, because in your view Jesus is a created individual. Yet to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is summed up in that verse in Acts by the name of Jesus. In other words, the Apostles had no problem with equalizing the Son with the Father and Holy Spirit.

That said, those verses do not teach that Christians did not baptize in all three names. Christ name is merely given prominence, but without the exclusion of the other, because the Jews had worked so hard to reject Him. The Christian church in History always baptized in all three names. For example, from the Didache, which dates from the late 1st century to early 2nd:

"Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before."(The Didache, Ch. 7)

74 posted on 08/31/2015 3:21:25 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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