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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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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

**In other words, the Apostles had no problem with equalizing the Son with the Father and Holy Spirit.**

“In other words?”....Is it so hard to admit that the name of Jesus is the only name they used in baptism? And that the Son inherited it?

**That said, those verses do not teach that Christians did not baptize in all three names. Christ name is merely given prominence..**.

“three names”?

Matt. 28:19 doesn’t use the word ‘name’ in the plural. And the verse isn’t worded this way: “..baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the name of the Son, and the name of the Holy Ghost”.

**the Didache, which dates from the late 1st century to early 2nd:**

I’m guessing that he wasn’t in the upper room. It’s not the titles that the Devil hates, it’s the NAME. I don’t have time to check right now, but I don’t recall the devils ever addressing the Son by his proper, inherited, name. Interesting.


101 posted on 09/01/2015 7:05:48 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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