How To Baptise Christians
Does Acts 2:38 mean to baptise in the name(s)of father son and holy ghost? Or does it mean to baptise in the name Jesus Christ? When we marry don't we take on the family "name", isn't Jesus the family name?
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---MpcTruth on 3/25/08
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The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not what John did (the spirit had not yet been given, John 7:39).
John baptized with H2O, but we should be baptized with the living water of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5 and 11:16, John chap. 4, John 7:38, Revelation 7:16). This is the water that flowed from Christ's side at the cross and will be POURED out in the last days (Acts 2:17).
The living water is our guarantee (1 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5, Ephesians 1:14). We shall not live by the bread of life alone, but by His spirit also (Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4) and learn the "depths of God" (1 Corinthians 2:10).
All verses are from the RSV.
Institutional Christianity never understood this, but we must have a NEW Covenant devotion. |
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---more_excellent_way on 7/12/08 |
John The Baptist baptised with water. After he baptised Jesus to fulfill prophesy, John told his followers that his time had ended and they were to follow Jesus. John told them that Jesus will baptise with fire and The Holy Spirit. From that moment, water baptism became nothing more than tradition. |
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---Ken on 5/30/08 |
Pt.2
Acts 8:
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same SCRIPTURE, and PREACHED unto him JESUS.
36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain WATER: and the eunuch said, See, here is WATER, what doth HINDER me to be BAPTISED?
37 And PHILIP said, IF thou BELIEVEST with ALL thine Heart, thou MAYEST. And HE answered and said, I BELIEVE that JESUS Christ IS the SON of GOD. |
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---Duane_Dudley_Martin on 5/14/08 |
Pt.3
Acts 8:
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and THEY went down BOTH into the WATER, BOTH Philip and the eunuch, and HE BAPTIZED him.
39 And when they were come UP OUT of the WATER, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and HE went on his way REJOICING.
40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. |
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---Duane_Dudley_Martin on 5/14/08 |
Pt.1
Acts 2:
38 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.
39 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. |
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---Duane_Dudley_Martin on 5/14/08 |
In Matt 19, Jesus instructs the diciples to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Gost and to make diciples of all nations. |
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---jody on 5/9/08 |
If the people in Acta 19 had been baptized in the Name of Jesus--which means in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit--they would at least have HEARD that there was a Holy Spirit, but this was totally new to them. |
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---Jack on 3/26/08 |
To be baptized one must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 28:19. Now what Acts 2:38 is saying that these people were already baptized by John, and John was telling them here comes one mighter than I who shoes I cannot fill who shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. It starts in Acts 1:5-16 and Acts 2:1-18. The 120 people in the upper room were baptized by the Holy Ghost and with fire. |
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---Rebecca_D on 3/25/08 |
MpcTruth
1) John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
We are to be baptized into the "Word of God", As the Father Son & Holy Spirit was in the beginning.
If you are looking for a family name to take on, it is the "WORD" of God that will be your family name. |
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---Shawn.M.T on 3/25/08 |
2) It is the "WORD of God" that created all things, even Jesus Christ who is the Word of God made flesh.
God Himself took on the "WORD" in John 1:1, if you are of His family then you will take on the same? |
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---Shawn.M.T on 3/25/08 |
** It is the symbolism of the baptism and what it testifies of that is really important.**
To whom would it have testified?
First off, following the precedent of the mikveh, the candidates were baptized in the nude. The only others present would be the bishop or presbyter, sponsor, and maybe a deaconess when women were baptized.
Second, they were NEVER baptized in the presence of non-believers. |
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---Jack on 3/25/08 |
Baptism should be done in the Name of Jesus. There are no instances from Acts on where we see anyone baptized in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, they were all baptized in the Name of Jesus. I also don't believe that we need to get in a major discussion over the Name as long as the water baptism takes place. It is the symbolism of the baptism and what it testifies of that is really important. |
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---Debbie_Jo on 3/25/08 |
To baptize "in the name of Jesus" is to baptize as He commanded (as opposed to John's baptism).
How did Jesus command baptism to be done? "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit/Ghost." |
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---Jack on 3/25/08 |
If you believe in the trinity then you believe that Jesus has all of the authority given to Him by the Father. The Father manifested His Son to remit our sins. Whether you say Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, or just Jesus, you are including ALL. Why split hairs? |
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---pgfdottie on 3/25/08 |
Personally I think you could do either and you're still baptizing in the name of the same God.
Now if you were baptizing in the name of Bhudda or some other God there'd be issue, but really Jesus and the Father are one and there's no line where Jesus ends and the Father begins. |
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---pharisee on 3/25/08 |
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