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Originally Posted by Praxeas
In the context sure. But generally speaking people or persons have names. Names represent persons. The name of Jesus represents Him as well as it represents His authority given to him.
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Context is all that matters.
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In Matthew 28 Jesus starts off with "All power in heaven and earth is given to me...THEREFORE" and what follows the therefore is the part about baptising in the name.
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But notice it says that because all power (which one could say also includes authority) has been given to Jesus, we are to baptize in that power and/or authority. It has nothing with saying the name "Jesus" like some magical incantation as some people insist.
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When He was born it was said "shall call HIS name Jesus for HE shall save HIS people from their sins"...
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Yes, and the Aramaic form of that name is essentially the same as the name of Moses' successor following the Exodus: Yehoshua or (to use the English equivalent) Joshua.
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The only reason in Acts they could use names to count persons is because of that principle....persons have names and we give names to persons. The name represents that person, who they are. And in the case of Jesus it represents what he is (savior) and that name represents the authority given to Him personally
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But there is nothing particularly special about the fact that Luke just happened to refer to the names to count persons any more than there is something particularly special about referring to people as "souls" (as in "the ship sank and all the souls onboard were lost").