Ageof Knowledge
When are you folks going to show us one verse in the Scriptures where anyone was ever Baptized in "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? Argue, insinuate, Debate, accuse.
SHOW US ONE VERSE. Then we will see who's right.
Really weary of hearing about this scholar or this Bible School Dean, or this Early Catholic Church Father said this or that. Just us the one verse....I rest my Case
We've already seen who is right. Jesus' baptism is a perfect revealing of the functional roles and persons of the Trinity in union. Jesus then instructs his disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit before his ascension which the apostles do in the authority of Jesus.
Scripture teaches the trinity from OT to NT and the early church fathers followed it. Wolves came in with heresy and were excommunicated from fellowship because of heresy.
So why ignore scripture and twist scripture to say something it doesn't say, ignore history and twist history, and finally end with this level of myopic? Because you choose to. That's the only explanation left.
Your argument is nothing more than a genetic fallacy where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something's origin rather than its current meaning or in context with the discussion as any professor of philosophy will tell you.
The Bible doesn't list every star by name so therefore the ones actually not specifically identified by name don't really exist? Of course they do exist. Trying to show all stars actually exist using scriptural passages that show they do wouldn't work using your logic. Each star must be listed in scripture or it doesn't exist based on the logic you're employing here. Or how about since scripture doesn't list every particle or element in nature they don't exist... so goes the logic error of genetic fallacy.
Jesus said to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and scripture unequivocaly teaches God is three persons sharing the same essence of God but fulfilling different functional roles just as we see at Jesus' baptism.
Furthermore, in Paul’s letters and the book of Acts, baptism is typically represented as baptism “in the name” of Jesus to communicate unity in Christ as some in the body were saying, “I belong to Paul,” “I belong to Apollos,” “I belong to Peter,” or “I belong to Christ” (1 Cor 1:12). So we see that the phrase baptism “in the name of Jesus” is used to correct Christians who were using baptism to cause division.
Paul, with some indignation, asks, “Has Christ been apportioned to any single group among you?" To think Oneness Pentecostals take this and try to show that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit don't exist as persons in the God head is crazy.
“in the name” sets up a relation of belonging affirming that baptism in the name of the triune God grounds a relation between God and the baptized.”
In Apostolic times, there was no one refuting the belief that God was a Trinity, so they had no reason to systematically define the doctrine. Then certain heretics sprang up, like Arius, Noetus, Praxeas, and Sabellius, teaching doctrines contrary to those of Christ and the Apostles. So the Fathers, out of necessity, had to define what the Church believed. They did not invent anything as all of scripture clearly teaches.
Then in the 19th century an ignorant man started a fight over a baptism one day and suddenly someone in the audience has a "revelation" that night and starts a new sect denying the person of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit and is excommunicated from the Assemblies of God and misinformed people decided to follow their error and so we have what we have here today. It's a free country and you can even believe nonsense if you like. Doesn't mean educated people are going to go along with the nonsense. I'm not going to.
70 A.D. – A book called “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”, or “The Didache” (di-dah-kay), gives solid evidence of the early church’s belief in the triune God. This is remarkable considering Paul wrote several of his epistles between 60 and 64 A.D., which means only six to ten years had expired between the two. It is cited by Eusebius who lived from (260-341 A.D) and Athanasius (293-373 A.D.).
The following is a short list of church fathers who taught there was a plurality of persons in the Godhead:
110 A.D. – Ignatius of Antioch (Epistle to the Ephesians, 0:0).
151 A.D. – Justin Martyr (First Apology 13:5–6).
181 A.D. – Theophilus of Antioch (A letter to Autolycus 2:15).
189 A.D. – Irenaeus (Against Heresies 1:10:1).
216 A.D. – Tertullian (Against Praxeas 2).
225 A.D. – Origen (The Fundamental Doctrines 4:4:1).
228 A.D. – Hippolytus (Refutation of All Heresies 10:29).
235 A.D. – Novatian (Treatise on the Trinity 11).
262 A.D. – Dionysius (Letter to Dionysius of Alexandria 1).
265 A.D. – Gregory the Wonderworker (Declaration of Faith).
325 A.D. – The Trinitarian view was affirmed as an article of faith by the Nicene.
381 A.D. – The Trinitarian view was again affirmed as an article of faith in Constantinople.
Praise the Lord for revealing Himself to us in the teaching of the Trinity!
