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Originally Posted by ILG
The Biblical directive was to call upon the name in baptism. So why don't Jesus name preachers believe that it is enough for the person being baptized to do that?? ( Acts 22:16) Why do they think a 3rd party has to do it for them? I think it is legalistic to say that a 3rd party must utter the name for the recipient. I think it is extra-biblical to say that if a recipient calls on the name it is not enough. |
That's really the issue though isn't it? That's what I said before. You are assuming your biblical view is correct and ours is not and is therefore not up for debate.
You see Jesus commanded the Apostles to go out and baptize "in the name". We can wrangle over the meaning of the rest of that if you want but when Peter preached on Pentecost he said literally "Repent and get yourself baptized (Passive) in the name of Jesus"..
He was not to baptize Himself. He was to allow someone to baptize him "In Jesus name". So the biblical command was for the baptizer to do something and the baptizee to allow or submit to it.
I'll post something I wrote about why we say the name in the next post