The Path to Salvation

[Jan001]

I dust my feet...

Because you don't want to answer my question?

 

[Jan001]

And again, Father, Son, Holy Spirit are titles, whereas Jesus is a name. I don't understand why this is so hard to comprehend.
As mentioned previously, your name is Jan. You can be a mother, are a daughter and have a title related to your occupation. But mother, daughter and your occupation designation are titles., not your name.

I comprehend that Jesus commanded his apostles to call upon these names while baptizing: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus didn't command his apostles to call upon these titles: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit while baptizing.

Matthew 28:19

 

[Jan001]

God is three divine persons. These three divine persons have divine names corresponding to their relationship with each other. Their divine names are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, respectively.

The Son is also a human being, and so he was given another name, Jesus, aka Jesus Christ, which means "Yahweh saves" or "the Lord is salvation." Matthew 1:21

Jesus commanded his apostles to make disciples for him by baptizing them in God's three divine names, not in his human name alone.

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. See also Acts 10:48.

Why did Peter say to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ?

John the Baptist had previously preached the "baptism for the repentance of sins." Peter was now preaching the "baptism for the forgiveness of sins." This new baptism became known by its idioms to differentiate it from John's baptism. Acts 13:24

One of the idioms that was used:

Acts 19:3-5 And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” 4 And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Other idioms that were used:

Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?


When the apostles actually baptized people, they called upon his divine name, Son, along with the other two divine names, Father and Holy Spirit, according to Jesus' command in Matthew 28:19. They did not baptize using the idioms.