Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lotus!rmurtha@uunet.uu.net (Rob Murtha - Lotus) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Acts 2:38 and how to become a Christian Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 90 01:18:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Lotus Development Corp. Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [I'm unable to find the original postings here, and the quotations in this submission didn't have any of the posters' names. But the discussion is on requirements to be a Christian. Someone apparently said you had to believe that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. There was a response that it was only necessary to accept him as the only means of salvation. --clh] Read John 1:1-14 [Someone had cited Mat 28:19, the great commission, which talks about baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. >>Notice that name is singular! This refers to the name of Jesus, which is the >>name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The response was that this is three separate requirements: the name of the Father, the name of the Son, ..., and that references to being baptised in the name of Jesus are a subset of this. --clh] All of the apostles where present when Jesus issued this command, they then baptized in the name of Jesus throughout the book of Acts The sentance is only one just as the name is only one; Jesus said in John 10:17 "I and my Father are one." Why would you think that there is some sort of parallelism that you must interpret into the scripture? Acts 4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other: for ther is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." I don't know exactly where you got you're theory that you can break up Matt 28:19 into three sentances and therefor declare that baptism in Jesus's name is a subset of this, but I challenge you to study the scripture and provide scriptural evidence that baptism in Jesus's name is incorrect. Sincerely Rob Murtha rmurtha@voyager.lotus.com