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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
Say what? I took what he said at face value.
..."everyone who has been baptized here over the past four years has been baptized in Jesus name"...
I believed in the context of the thread and above statement, that he does speak the name "Jesus" at baptism.
Do you know something I do not??
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His own comments!
To answer the questions:
- Yes I still believe in the oneness. My statement on this issue is that There is but one God and He is Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- I still baptize
in Jesus name,
but with a twist that most apostolics do not understand. Because it is recorded that Jesus commanded us to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost I baptize using these words: "Upon the confession of your faith in Jesus the Christ as your savior and upon the command of Christ,
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost I now baptize you
into the Lord Jesus Christ." (Incidently, I am on staff of a Charismatic church and when the senior pastor found out how I baptize he decided that everyone will be baptized that way and now I do most of the baptizing in our church).
There is a difference between baptizing "in the name of Jesus" and baptizing while mentioning his name. Will it matter in the end? Only God will be the judge but from a technical point "in the name of" means something and he only uses that with F,S,HS.