Twelve Reasons 4 Baptism
Twelve Reasons
1. Children were never baptized in the Bible. To be baptized one must believe (Mark 16:16), repent (Acts 2:38), and be immersed in water (1 Peter 3:20-21; Matthew 3:16).
2. No one was baptized in the Bible by pouring or sprinkling. People were baptized (immersed) in the Jordan (Matthew 3:6). Jesus went up straightway out of the water (Matthew 3:16).
3. Nobody in the Bible was ever baptized in the titles Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thousands of people were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36-41; 8:5,14-16; 10:48; 19:1-7; 22:16; 1 Corinthians 1:11-13).
4. The Bible calls the devil father, son, and spirit (John 8:44; Mark 1:23-27; Colossians 3:17). Many people (Spanish and others) are called Jesus, but there is only one Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36; 13:6; Luke 3:29; 1 Corinthians 8:6).
5. Jesus did not tell the apostles to repeat the titles Father, Son, and Holy Ghost during baptisms. He told them to use the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. That name is Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:36-38; Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:31; Colossians 3:17; Philippians 2:10: Acts 4:10-12; John 1:1-2,14; 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:19).
6. Only one verse in the Bible (Matthew 28:19) mentions father, son and Holy Spirit in connection with baptism, but no baptism was ever performed as like Matthew 28:16-20. Matthew and the other apostles knew that the name of the son is Jesus (Matthew 1:21), the father is the Holy Spirit (John 4:24; Luke 2:35) and has the same name as the son (John 5:43; 14:8-10; 1 John 5:20).
7. According to Matthew 28:16-20, the first apostles were commissioned to baptize people. They never baptized anyone in the titles of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. They ordered everyone (Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles) to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36-39; 8: 5, 14-17; 10: 24, 48; 19:1-7).
8. The apostles were filled with the Holy Ghost before they baptized about 3000 people in the name of Jesus Christ on the day of Pentecost. The Holy Ghost, which is the Spirit of God, was at that time in them, teaching and guiding them into all truth (Acts 2:4; 2:38-41; John 14:26; 16:13).
9. Jesus performed great miracles through the apostles, showing that he approved their ministry and their teaching about water baptism and other doctrines (Acts 3:1-8; 5:1-10; 5:15-16; 8:32-41; 12:6-11; 13:4-12; 14:8-10; 28:3-6; Hebrews 6:2). God wants everyone to obey the apostles teachings (Matthew 10:40; 28:20; John 17:20; John 4:1-2; 21:17; Acts 5:19-20; 1 Co 3:10-12; Galatians 1:8; Ephesians 2:20).
10. There are many false baptisms and false gods, but God has provided only one true water baptism through the apostles (Ephesians 4: 5-6, 1 Co 8: 5-6; 1 Corinthians 15:29; Acts 13:6; Acts 2:38). Believers who were immersed in the three titles must be immersed again in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 19:1-7).
11. The baptism in titles Father, Son and Holy Ghost comes from the Catholic Church, and not from God. Based on history, the Catholic Church removed the name of Jesus Christ from water baptism and replaced it with the three unholy titles in the third century after Christ (Matthew 5:34; Ga 1:8; Revelations 22:18-19; Proverbs 30: 5-6).
12. Don't be a Antichrist. If you love Jesus, repent and be baptized in His name today (Colossians 3:17; Acts 2:38; 2 John 1:10; Romans 3:4; Matthew11:25; 13:11; 2 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 10:7; Luke 24:49). In the spiritual application, you must put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Justin Martyr was the first recorded individual to baptize someone in something other than the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! "For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water. And this washing is called illumination, because they who learn these things are illuminated in their understandings. This is done because Christ said: Unless you are born again you will not enter the kingdom of heaven, and it is obviously impossible for anyone, having once been born, to reenter his mother's womb. An explanation of how repentant sinners are to be freed from their sins is given through the prophet Isaiah in the words, wash yourselves and be clean. Remove the evil from your souls; learn to do what is right." He is credited for introducing the first partial trinitarian formula with Jesus' name at it's center still. It is a breakaway or deviation from the Apostles historically known formula of Jesus, Lord Jesus, or the Lord Jesus Christ.
However the Apostle Peter taught, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:38). And the Bible states the following things. "Then those that gladly received his word were baptized" (Acts 2:42). Justin Martyr was the first to deviate from the apostles formula in such dramatic effect, but he was not to be the last.
Tertullian (a fellow Greek and bitheism adherent, also the first man to coin the word "Trinity" ) along with others will also further change the baptism formula from the apostles original formula. Dr. Hare says in his Church History: "Baptism as an initiatory rite was performed simply in the name of Jesus. As soon as the doctrine of the Trinity was developed, and the Gospel of Matthew brought from India to Egypt, trine immersion, with individual exceptions, became gradually the rule. To the use of the formula furnished by Matthew in the administration of trine immersion we have the testimony of Augustine (de Bapt., lib. vi, cap. 25), Cyprian (Epist. lxxiii), Tertullian (de Bapt., c. 13), and others." Notwithstanding, Tertullian acknowledges that it is through baptism we become Christians. In fact he wrote against those who would try to dissolve this truth.
Robinson, in his History of Baptism, says these things. "There is no mention of baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, in immediately post Apostolic times." This testimony, of a negative character, certainly becomes very strong and significant in view of the fact that Peter enjoined baptism "in the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 2:38). And that when Philip preached in Samaria, to which place Peter and John were sent upon hearing "that Samaria had received the Word of God," those who believed "were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8:5-16); and that under the instructions of Paul those who had been baptized "unto John's baptism" were "baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19: 3; 5).
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