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Acts 2:38-39 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Matt 28:18-19 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Luke 24:45-47 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Please note that name is singular. Matthew was a Jew. He knew that
Hear O Israel the Lord our God is One Lord.(Deut 6:4)
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles. They are not names.
May I submit to you this question? If being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ is for the remission of sins, then if you haven't been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, are your sins remitted? Or will they follow you to judgement? Please think on this!
According to the Word of God, you must be baptized in the name of Jesus for your sins to be remitted!
Don't take what someone else has told you as gospel, please study this for yourself -- your soul is at stake!
The Bible says II Tim 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Word or Deed - wouldn't that mean baptism also? Isn't being baptized a deed?
When you baptise someone aren't you saying words over that individual during baptism? So when you speak those words shouldn't the Name of Jesus be the words that are spoken over that individual?
Eph 4:4-6 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
As the scripture says, there is one baptism - the only correct way to baptise is the way the Apostles baptized - in the Name of Jesus.
John 5:43 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Matthew 1:21-23 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Em-manu-el, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
If there are three persons in the Godhead, how could the son be called The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace?
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Who was Jesus' Father? God the Father or God the Holy Ghost? (We know there is only One God as stated plainly in the Bible). Therefore, Jesus Christ was the son of God and the son of the Holy Ghost because they are the one and same Spirit. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of Christ was God manifest in the flesh.
John 14:8-9 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, According to the above scriptures Jesus and the Father are the same. When you have seen one you have seen both John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. 1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
I John 5:7 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one (May I submit to you that you could read this as: and these three are one Spirit). The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of God - the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God. When you say you have the Holy Ghost, do you have three spirits inside of you or just one? When you say you have God in you, or when you have Jesus in your life, or when you have the Holy Ghost, aren't you saying that all three are in your life as one Spirit? Then, they must be all the same God, not as three persons in the Godhead, but as the only one true God. Col 2:8-9 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. I Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. The above scripture states there is no argument -- great is the mystery of godliness. But it doesn't leave us hanging. It goes on to explain who God is.
Again you see God manifest in the flesh
He shall send Jesus Christ to dwell in you as the Prince of Peace.
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
At the time Jesus was talking to the disciples, he was with them, but he was telling them after his resurrection he would come back as the Holy Ghost (the Spirit of truth) and dwell in them.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Acts 8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Gal 1:8-9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
The Apostles preached baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. If any man preach other than that which the Apostles preached, let them be accursed according to the above scripture.
1 Thess 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Many times in the scripture it mentions the gospel of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. The scripture does not differentiate in the gospel of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the gospel of the one true God.John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
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