Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: boris@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Acts 2:38 and how to become a Christian Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 90 03:54:38 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: ucb Lines: 41 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lotus!rmurtha@uunet.uu.net (Rob Murtha - Lotus) writes: >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? John 10:17 says: "This is why the Father loves me, because I surrender my soul, in order that I may receive it again." I think what you are quoting from is John 10:30. This quote is clarified in John 17:20-22 where it says: "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me though their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one." I am not interpreting anything into scripture. In light of these scriptures what Jesus was saying is that he and the Father are united in purpose, for certainly the apostles are not also God. >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. I am not saying that baptism in Jesus' name is incorrect. I was merely commenting on what you said initially, about Matt. 28:19. I was showing you the grammatical construction of the sentence, and why your conclusion was incorrect. +==================================================================+ + Boris Chen || Berkeley, CA || boris@ocf.berkeley.edu + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + "And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares, and... + + neither will they learn war anymore." ---Micah 4:3 + +==================================================================+