[SIZE=10pt]Evidence against the Traditional Wording of Matthew 28:19[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Matt.28:19[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][19] Go you (11 Apostles) therefore, and teach all nations,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]baptizing them:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]>> ‘in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost[/SIZE].’ << (This was changed.)
[SIZE=medium]The Churches have been deceived for many generations[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]and were deprived of Spiritual Gifts.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Correct baptism calling on Jesus,[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt] from under the water,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]still works for everyone who does it.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Strait and narrow/ precise is the WAY that still works.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Original method that, the Jesus taught Apostles, followed:[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]The process of Baptism is counsel from the Israelite God (Jesus >> GOD)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and must be done correctly and respectfully.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Gentiles are coming to the Israelite God = Jesus.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]It is not complicated once it is known and understood.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Israelites are accustomed to baptizing, even to today.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Acts.22:16[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][16] Why tarry?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Arise, and be baptized and wash away your sins,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]calling on the name of the[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] LORD = (Jesus)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Pss.116[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][12] What shall I render to the LORD (the Father) for all of his benefits toward me?
[13[/SIZE]] I will take the cup of salvation
[13[/SIZE]] I will take the cup of salvation
[SIZE=10pt]and call upon the name of the LORD [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] (Jesus, his beloved Son)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]1 Cor.11[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][2] Now I (Paul) praise (compliment) you, brethren,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]that you remember me (Paul) in all things,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and you keep (obey) the (Christ given) ordinances (unchanged),[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]as I delivered them to you (includes baptism calling on Jesus from under the water[/SIZE].)
[SIZE=10pt]2 Cor.13[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][8] We (Christians) can do nothing against the TRUTH[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt] but for the TRUTH[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Jas.3[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt][17] The wisdom that is from above is first:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]pure[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]….[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]without partiality, (non biased)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and without hypocrisy.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The following research is not compiled by me but represent the truth.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]As to Matthew 28:19, it says: "It is the central piece of evidence for the traditional (Trinitarian) view. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]If it were undisputed, this would, of course, be decisive,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]but its trustworthiness is impugned on grounds of textual criticism, literary criticism and historical criticism."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The same Encyclopedia further states that:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The obvious explanation of the silence of the New Testament on the triune name,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and the use of another (JESUS NAME) formula in Acts and Paul, is that this other formula was the earlier,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and the triune formula is a later addition."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Edmund Schlink, The Doctrine of Baptism, page 28: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The baptismal command in its Matthew 28:19 form cannot be the historical origin of Christian baptism.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]At the very least, it must be assumed that the text has been transmitted in a[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]form expanded by the [Catholic] church."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, I, 275: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"It is often affirmed that the words in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]are not the ipsissima verba [exact words] of Jesus, but...a later liturgical addition."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Wilhelm Bousset, Kyrios Christianity, page 295: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The testimony for the wide distribution of the simple baptismal formula [in the Name of Jesus][/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]own into the second century[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]is so overwhelming that even in Matthew 28:19, the Trinitarian formula was later inserted."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Catholic Encyclopedia, II, page 263[/SIZE]:
[SIZE=10pt]"The baptismal formula was changed from the name of Jesus Christ[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]to the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by the Catholic Church in the second century."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Hastings Dictionary of the Bible 1963, page 1015: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The Trinity.-...is not demonstrable by logic or by Scriptural proofs,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The term Trias was first used by Theophilus of Antioch (c AD 180),[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt](The term Trinity) not found in Scripture...”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The chief Trinitarian text in the NT is the baptismal formula in Mt 28:19.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]This late post-resurrection saying, not found in any other Gospel or anywhere else in the NT,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]has been viewed by some scholars as an interpolation into Matthew……”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"Jesus, however, cannot have given His disciples this Trinitarian order of baptism after His resurrection;[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]for the New Testament knows only one baptism[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]in the name of Jesus (Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:43; 19:5; Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3; 1 Cor. 1:13-15),[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]which still occurs even in the second and third centuries,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]while the Trinitarian formula occurs only in Matt. 28:19,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and then only again (in the) Didache 7:1 and Justin, Apol. 1:61.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Finally, the distinctly liturgical character of the formula...is strange;[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]it was not the way of Jesus to make such formulas... the formal authenticity of Matt. 28:19[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]must be disputed[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]..."page 435.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Jerusalem Bible, a scholarly Catholic work, states: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"It may be that this formula, (Triune Matthew 28:19) so far as the fullness of its expression is concerned,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]is a reflection of the (Man-made) liturgical usage established later in the primitive (Catholic) community[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptizing "in the name of Jesus,"..."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, page 2637, Under "Baptism," says:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"Matthew 28:19 in particular only canonizes a later ecclesiastical situation,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]that its universalism is contrary to the facts of early Christian history,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and its Trinitarian formula (is) foreign to the mouth of Jesus."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]New Revised Standard Version says this about Matthew 28:19: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"Modern critics claim this formula is falsely ascribed to Jesus[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and that it represents later (Catholic) church tradition,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]for nowhere in the book of Acts (or any other book of the Bible) is baptism performed with the name of the Trinity..." [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]James Moffett's New Testament Translation: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]In a footnote on page 64 about Matthew 28:19 he makes this statement:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"It may be that this (Trinitarian) formula, so far as the fullness of its expression is concerned,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]is a reflection of the (Catholic) liturgical usage established later in the primitive (Catholic) community.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptizing "in the name of Jesus[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt], cf. Acts 1:5 +."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Bible Commentary 1919 page 723:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Dr. Peake makes it clear that:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The command to baptize into the threefold name is a late doctrinal expansion.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Instead of the words baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]we should probably read simply-"into My Name."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Theology of the New Testament:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]By R. Bultmann, 1951, page 133 under Kerygma of the Hellenistic Church and the Sacraments.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The historical fact that the verse Matthew 28:19 was altered is openly confessed to very plainly. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]As to the rite of baptism, it was normally consummated as a bath[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]in which the one receiving baptism completely submerged,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and if possible in flowing water as the allusions of Acts 8:36, Heb. 10:22, Barn. 11:11 permit us to gather,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and as Did. 7:1-3 specifically says.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]According to the last passage, [the apocryphal Catholic Didache] suffices in case of the need[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]if water is three times poured [false Catholic sprinkling doctrine] on the head.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The one baptizing names over the one being baptized the name of the Lord Jesus Christ[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]later expanded [changed] to the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]By Dr. Stuart G. Hall 1992, pages 20 and 21.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Professor Stuart G. Hall was the former Chair of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London England.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Dr. Hall makes the factual statement that Catholic Trinitarian Baptism[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]was not the original form of Christian Baptism,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]rather the original was Jesus name baptism.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]although those words were not used, as they later are, as a formula[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt].[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Not all baptisms fitted this rule." Dr Hall further, states:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"More common and perhaps more ancient was the simple, "In the name of the Lord Jesus or, Jesus Christ."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. 1923,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]New Testament Studies Number 5: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The Lord's Command To Baptize An Historical Critical Investigation. By Bernard Henry Cuneo page 27.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The passages in Acts and the Letters of St. Paul.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]These passages seem to point to the earliest form as baptism in the name of the Lord."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Also we find. "Is it possible to reconcile these facts with the belief[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]that Christ commanded his disciples to baptize in the trine form?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Had Christ given such a command, it is urged, the Apostolic Church would have followed him,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and we should have some trace of this obedience in the New Testament.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]No such trace can be found.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The only explanation of this silence, according to the anti-traditional view,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]is this the short Christological (Jesus Name) formula was (the) original,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and the longer trine formula was a later development."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]A History of The Christian Church:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]1953 by Williston Walker former Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]On page 95 we see the historical facts again declared.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"With the early disciples generally baptism was "in the name of Jesus Christ."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]He makes this confession as to the origin of the chief Trinity text of Matthew 28:19.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The basic form of our (Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian) profession of faith took shape[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]during the course of the second and third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text (Matthew 28:19) came from the city of Rome.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]“The Trinity baptism and text of Matthew 28:19 therefore did not originate from the original Church[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]that started in Jerusalem around AD 33.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]It was rather as the evidence proves a later invention of Roman Catholicism completely fabricated.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Very few know about these historical facts. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"The Demonstratio Evangelica" by Eusebius:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Eusebius was the Church historian and Bishop of Caesarea.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]On page 152 Eusebius quotes the early book of Matthew that he had in his library in Caesarea.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]According to this eyewitness of an unaltered Book of Matthew that could have been the original book [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]or the first copy of the original of Matthew.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Eusebius informs us of Jesus' actual words to his disciples in the original text of Matthew 28:19:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"With one word and voice He said to His disciples:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]"Go, and make disciples of all nations in My Name,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you. That "Name" is Jesus.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Time Magazine, Dec. 5, 1955: Record of a True Baptism in Rome 100 A.D. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt] "The deacon raised his hand, and Publius Decius stepped through the baptistery door.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Standing waist-deep in the pool was Marcus Vasca the wood seller.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]He was smiling as Publius waded into the pool beside him.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]'Credis?' he asked. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Credo' responded Publius.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]'I believe that my salvation comes from Jesus the Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]With Him I died that with Him I may have Eternal Life.'[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Then he felt strong arms supporting him as he let himself fall backward into the pool,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]and heard Marcus' voice in his ear,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]'I baptize you in the Name of the Lord Jesus'[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]as the cold water closed over (buried) him."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The above Baptism conforms to the Doctrine of the Christ taught Apostles. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The baptizer called upon/ over the candidate the 'name of the LORD Jesus, our Savior.'[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]The child of the Father, who is coming to the LORD Jesus, (the Arm of GOD)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]must >> also call on the LORD Jesus, from under the water, [/SIZE]or the only result is that you get wet.
[SIZE=10pt]Calling God (Jesus, the God of Israel) by his name, to get his attention and his response,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]was always the beneficial Israelite custom.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Gentiles must become aware of this fact and action it.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Happiness and many blessings follow.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]Grace to all.[/SIZE]
