HASTINGS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
Vol 2, Pg 377 on ACTS 2:38
NAME was an ancient synonym for "person". Payment was always made in the name of some person referring ownership.
Therefore, one being baptized in Jesus Name became his personal property. "Ye are Christ’s."
A woman cannot be married to a man unless she has taken on his name.
But, by using the name of Jesus, Peter had a new baptism with the authority of a new name, Jesus, which effectively bound and ended John’s nameless baptism.
ACTS 19:5 "When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."
The best way for Satan to oppose this new baptism was to somehow get rid of the name Jesus.
MATTHEW 28:19 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"
The churches call this the baptismal formula.
But we were not asked to be baptized in a formula. We must be baptized in a name.
Baptism in the name of Jesus fulfills Matthew 28:19 as Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost describe the fulness of God.
But the fullness of God dwells bodily in Jesus Christ.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."
So, the human name of the fullness of God is Jesus.
Thus, the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is Jesus.
Jesus is God, coming down (Jordan) to our level.
The apostle John died around AD 100. With his death, there was no recognised authority who could establish what was truth.
Ambitious churches wished to dominate others and made certain changes to establish their authority.
As time went by the church wanted to convert pagans with their trinity beliefs and this became easier if the church adopted a Trinitarian belief.
The church fathers, after the deaths of the apostles, used Greek philosophy to merge Christianity and paganism. This made it easier for pagans to feel at home in the church.
Greek philosophy paganized Christianity to make the church acceptable to the pagans.
Over the centuries, this new concept of Trinity evolved from its pagan roots.
"The basic form of our (Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian) profession of faith took shape during the course of the second and third centuries (between AD 101 – 299) in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of origin is concerned, the text (Matthew 28:19) came from the city of Rome."
Source: Cardinal Ratzinger, Joseph (1968. Introduction to Christianity, Munich, pp. 82,83)
Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict 16 from 2005 to 2013.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
"The baptismal formula was changed from the name of Jesus Christ to the words Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by the Catholic Church in the second century." (p. 263)
Notice the term "words" because Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not a name.
Pope Pelagius (556 - 560) "There are many who say that they baptise in the name of Christ alone and by a single immersion."
Source: Burrage, H. S. (1879). Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, p. 38.
The Pope was admitting that some Christians still obeyed the New Testament apostles, even though the Pope no longer did so.
Catholic Catechism "Into Christ. The Bible tells us that Christians were baptized into Christ. They belong to Christ. The Acts of the Apostles (2:38; 8:16; 10:48; 19:5) tells us of baptizing "in the name (person) of Jesus." — a better translation would be "into the name (person) of Jesus."
Only in the 4th Century (AD 300 – 399) did the formula "ln the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" become customary."
Source: Kersten, J. C. (1973). Bible Catechism. NY., N.Y.: Catholic Book Publishing Co., p. 164
The term Trias was first used by Theophilus of Antioch (c AD 180) Council of Nicaea: The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 solidified the use of the Trinitarian formula in the administration of baptism, affirming the equality of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit within the Godhead.
In AD 325 the Roman Emperor Constantine forced the Bishops at the Nicene Council to accept the Trinity doctrine.
BRITANNICA ENCYCLOPEDIA
11TH edition, Vol 3, Pg 365-366
The baptismal formula was changed from the name of JESUS CHRIST to the words Father, Son, & Holy Ghost by the Catholic Church in the second century.
BRITANNICA ENCYCLOPEDIA
Vol 3, Pg 82
Everywhere in the oldest sources it states that baptism took place in the name of Jesus Christ.
CANNEY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
Pg 53
The early church always baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus until development of Trinity doctrine in the 2nd century.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Vol 2, Pg 263
Here the Catholics acknowledged that baptism was changed by the Catholic Church.
HASTINGS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
Vol 2, Pg 377
Christian baptism was administered using the words "In the name of Jesus".
Vol 2, Pg 378
The use of a Trinitarian formula of any sort was not suggested in early Church history.
Tertullian (ca. 165-220) asserted the threeness aspect of God, being the first to use the word Trinity. However, he did not have a full and accurate understanding of the Trinity.
The Bishops were still trying to work out the contradictions of trying to prove that three Persons are in one God. Each of the three Persons is God but there is only One God.
Despite centuries of probing, the Trinity remains a mystery, a puzzle that cannot be solved.
St. Anselm, who in his Augustinian spirit proclaims 'Three I know not what' (tresnescio quid)
(St. Anselm, in Marsh 1994:133).
Billy Graham, the best-known evangelist, spoke on the Trinity and admitted that he did not understand it.
But a day will come when it should be possible to understand the mystery of the Godhead.
"Should be", if we are not too brainwashed by the churches’ impossible and unscriptural three-in-one that they got from the ancient pagans.
REVELATION 10:7 "the mystery of God should be finished"
When the mystery of the Godhead is revealed, then obviously, God will be a single Person and not a Trinity (that cannot be understood).
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