I can't find it now, but there was a recent thread (more than one, probably) where it was said that, when you are baptized in the name of Jesus, you take on the name of "Jesus". You are given the name "Jesus".
I did find this, which is a related idea, but it's not the thread I am talking about:
I think to take on the name is more or less to walk in his footsteps. Our salvation is also referred to as an adoption in Ephesians 1:5.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
I believe this is why there is so much pressure on christians to do what is right. Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
I believe that these things are only so pertinent because we are supposed to be walking representations of God just like Jesus. So God manifesting himself into a flesh to show us how to live, and then requesting us to take on his name in baptism, should lead one to conclude that we are to do exactly as he done (seeing as we are dying and being resurrected in that moment spiritually in the like manner of Jesus, with the sin debt of blood being paid by his flesh), "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect." "These things you shall do and even greater things."
So unto god I believe you are technically to him a Jesus when you are baptized, how else could we pray in his name if he did not give it to us to do so with? Why would it be called an adoption if we keep the family name we had before? However, Unto the world and the law of man you will always be your earthly name simply because the world/flesh know nothing of the spirit, also we are not to offend and those who do not understand the concept, it can turn them away in an instant because they will believe you are claiming to be God, when you are not, just claiming to be his Son in the same fashion Jesus was (and you saw how that turned out, "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin".), and this would coincide with the infilling of the Holy Spirit. If the Spirit of God dwells in your earthly vessel as did Jesus and you are walking upright and perfect blameless before God as did Jesus (as are we commanded. Job done it, he was just a man), Would it be a sin to claim the name Jesus whom told us to do all these things and offered his name unto us to be called Gods children just as Jesus was? (I am not claiming to be perfect or walking blamelessly, it is a constant work in progress, however I will never say it is impossible to be perfect or like jesus or he wouldn't have asked us to do so.)
Yes, we are called by his name, and known as "Christians"
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,..."
In view of this statement I am persuaded to believe we MUST "take on His Name" that we might become a member of His "family" that is present on the earth.
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