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Re: Baptism in the Name of the.....
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Originally Posted by Timmy
Signing a check that way is very different from speaking the titles over a baptism. There's no way of knowing who signed the check, since there are billions of men that those "titles" could apply to. But in the latter case, there is no doubt Who is meant (unless you argue that there was doubt who Jesus meant when He gave that command!). Observers would know, the baptizee would know, and God would know.
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Sorry Timmy, my mind is made up on this one. If you're going to get baptized, why wouldn't you want to have the NAME of Jesus Christ invoked?
I understand your argument here, but this one is pretty straightforward to me.
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