Significance of Names and Persons

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

Is the name, "Father", the name we are hallowing? Or is the name of the Father, Jesus, and the name we are to reverence is the name of Jesus?

Well that is another issue from this. I had a topic like that on NFCF.

Here though how can we honor His name and that be honorable to Him unless Honoring His name refers to honoring Him personally?

[Sojourner Trut]

Matt. 28:19 "...baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," means different things to different people, mainly because of semantics. Trinitarians say there is only One God, triune, with 3 "persons" in the One Godhead. Oneness Apostolics say there is only One God, but there are 3 "manifestations" in the One Godhead. It's odd that the writer of the "Foreward" in the UPCI Ministers' Manual writes, "In the days of Tertullian (A.D. 207)...the gifts and manifestations of theApostolic church were much in evidence as the revival spirit swept over the country." (p.23) Tertullian was the first person recorded to use the word "trinity" and also to speak of "Persons" in the Godhead. He's interesting. Google him and see that he was "hard" and "harsh" in defense of the developing Roman Catholic Church, persecuting Jewish Christians for playing sofars, and celebrating feast days, even though they were worshipping as devoted Christians. He made it his life's work to punish "heretics"--that is, all who didn't belong to his brand of Christianity. (That would have been you and me.) Think about it. For your own sake, for your children's sake, for God's sake, do some research. Think about what you're ascribing to, and stop lightly discussing things you know little about. As to whether Matt. 28:19 means one or three names, it could mean three. It reads in the Name of the Father *and* of the Son *and* of the Holy Spirit." That could mean three different Names. Yaweh is the Hebrew Name of the Father, Jesus is the Name of the Son. Now we have a problem. What is the Name of the Holy Spirit? The argument over baptismal formulas makes as much sense as the ancient argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Get over yourselves. Go, preach Christ and Him crucified. Stop driving people away with nonsense and attract them to the One True God, by being learned, sensible, loving, and truthful. Lead by example, exhibit the fruit of the Spirit. People will come to you. Will you be ready to show yourself a workman that needs not to be ashamed, as Paul instructed Timothy? Or will you be too busy defending doctrines you have not studied for yourselves?