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Originally Posted by Steven Avery
Many of these are not scholars at all.
So they lose all their scholastic capital fighting the simple truth of Matthew 28:19.
Note that the Treatise on Rebaptism affirms the traditional text of Matthew 28:19 AND strongly affirms baptism in Jesus name.
We need better apostolic scholars. |
I have come to see
Matthew 28:19 in a way that is "Godhead-view" neutral. In
Matthew 28:18, the Son declares that all AUTHORITY has been GIVEN unto him (by God). In verse 19 he tells the disiples to go in that AUTHORITY (the Father's authority, given to the Son, demostrated by the Holy Spirit) and teach/baptize. By the time
Acts 2 rolled around, the words of
Matthew 28:18 had been fullfilled. Peter knew this. He thus invoked and evoked the name of the one who had been GIVEN all authority rather than the one who GAVE the Son all authority. This makes sense even from a Trinitarian standpoint. This is why Trinitarians use the name of Jesus. But they simple cannot make the connection on verse 19 and misread it as a vocal formula.