Significance of Names and Persons

Originally Posted by Praxeas

This is part of an old thread at NFCF...unfortunately I don't remember exactly what I posted

Here is another interesting thing I posted at the old and now defunct NFCF...."names" is used in scriptures to show number of persons

Act 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about a hundred and twenty,)

A.T. Robertson says
Multitude of persons (ochlos onomatōn). Literally, multitude of names. This Hebraistic use of onoma = person occurs in the lxx (Numbers 1:2; 18:20; 3:40, 43; 26:53) and in Rev_3:4; Rev_11:13.

I am just wondering if perhaps if a Trinity is intended why not say "names" in places like Matt 28:19

I'm not convinced that there is any real significance in the phrase "the number of the names" in Acts 1:15. It appears to be more along the lines of "there were x number of names listed on the membership roll." In Matthew 28:19, the use of "name" seems to suggest authority and not personage, e.g. "stop in the name of the law" is simply a command to stop and provides the authority to issue the command (the authority being "the law").

I have not come across any modern Trinitarian who can adequately explain how the Bible "proves" that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are, to quote some of their statements of faith, "co-equal, co-eternal divine persons."