Please study the baptism of Christ, which shows three distinct divine persons involved. Just like in your family the father cannot be the Son, so in the Godhead each divine Person is distinct, yet they are all one God. This is the Mystery of God, so human reason does not prevail.
@Nehemiah6,
I HOPE YOU ENJOY TRUTHFUL FACTS!!
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, II, page 263:
"The baptismal formula
was changed from the name of Jesus Christ to the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by the Catholic Church in the second century."
(2)
Edmund Schlink, The Doctrine of Baptism, page 28:
"The baptismal command in its Matthew 28:19 form can not be the historical origin of Christian baptism. At the very least, it must be assumed that the text has been transmitted in a form
expanded by the [Catholic] church."
(3)
The Bible Commentary 1919 page 723:
Dr. Peake makes it clear that: "The command to baptize into the threefold name is a late doctrinal expansion. Instead of the words baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost we should probably read simply-"
into My Name."
(4)
The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. 1923, New Testament Studies Number 5:
The Lord's Command To Baptize An Historical Critical Investigation. By Bernard Henry Cuneo page 27. "The passages in Acts and the Letters of St. Paul. These passages seem to point to the earliest form as baptism in the name of the Lord." Also we find. "Is it possible to reconcile these facts with the belief that Christ commanded his disciples to baptize in the trine form? Had Christ given such a command, it is urged, the Apostolic Church would have followed him, and we should have some trace of this obedience in the New Testament. No such trace can be found. The only explanation of this silence, according to the anti-traditional view, is this the short christological (Jesus Name) formula was (the) original, and
the longer trine formula was a later development."
(5)
"The Demonstratio Evangelica" by Eusebius:
Eusebius was the Church historian and Bishop of Caesarea. On page 152 Eusebius quotes the early book of Matthew that he had in his library in Caesarea. According to this eyewitness of an unaltered Book of Matthew that could have been the original book or the first copy of the original of Matthew. Eusebius informs us of Jesus' actual words to his disciples in the original text of Matthew 28:19: "With one word and voice He said to His disciples: "Go, and make disciples of all nations
in My Name, teaching them to observe all things whatsover I have commanded you." That "Name" is Jesus.
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James Moffett's New Testament Translation:
In a footnote on page 64 about Matthew 28:19 he makes this statement: "It may be that this (Trinitarian) formula, so far as the fullness of its expression is concerned, is a reflection of the (Catholic) liturgical usage
established later in the primitive (Catholic) community,
It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptizing "in the name of Jesus, cf. Acts 1:5 +."
(7) [THIS ONE IS IMPRESSIVE BECAUSE THIS MAN BECAME THE CATHOLIC POPE AFTER ADMITTING THE CATHOLICS CHANGED THE VERSE FROM ...BAPTIZE IN MY NAME...to the unholy trinity!!
Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger:
He makes this confession as to the origin of the chief Trinity text of Matthew 28:19. "The basic form of our (Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian) profession of faith took shape during the course of the
second and
third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text (Matthew 28:19) came from the city of Rome." The Trinity baptism and text of Matthew 28:19 therefore did not originate from the original Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33. It was rather as the evidence proves a later invention of Roman Catholicism completely fabricated. Very few know about these historical facts.
basically what these are stating: the ORIGINAL Matthew 28:19 stated from Yeshua to baptize in HIS NAME ONLY.
the 12 Disciples used Acts 2:38 like Peter preached on day of Pentecost to Baptize in NAME of YESHUA.
the early church baptized in the NAME of YESHUA.
and then the CATHOLIC CHURCH changed it in 2nd century to the unholy trinity!!
that is a FACT!!
