Laying Down a Baptismal Formula

H.F. asks: “Can you explain this verse? If the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of the Father, why are men to be baptised into this manifestation as well as into the Father?"

We are not at all surprised that many people see in this verse an early allusion to the Triune God as taught in the doctrine of the Trinity. Those of us, however, who (Matthew 28:19) definitely reject that doctrine on Scriptural grounds feel that there must be another explanation, which does not involve a belief in a Triune God.

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Author: P. H. Adams

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Bible reference(s): Mat 28:19, Acts 2:38, Acts 8:12, Acts 8:16, Acts 10:48, Acts 19:5

Source: “Baptising Them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” The Testimony, Vol. 24, No. 277, January 1954, pp. 31-2.

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