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Originally Posted by DAII
Is this a good time to offer another 100 bucks for anyone who can find a baptism in the bible in which the baptizer invoked the proper name "Jesus Christ" or explicitly states that such an invocation by a third party using his transliterated Greek name is mandatory, efficacious and effectuates sin remission?
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I've heard preachers offer a reward if you could show them anywhere in the Bible where anyone baptized using the FS&HG formula of
Matthew 28:19.
Actually, there is no place in our KJV where it is recorded that anyone said, "I baptize you in the name of........."
In the AESV Bible in
Acts 15:25-29 it says:
And concerning baptism, ((you shall)) baptise in this manner:
Having first taught all of these things, baptise in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water.
But if you have no living water , baptise in other water ((preferably cold)); and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm.
But if you have neither, pour water three times upon the head in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
but, even there, it does not say, "I baptize you in the name of ......."
This passage proves nothing more than
Matthew 28:19. Different people can read it and come away with a different understanding.