Understanding the Trinity vs Three Manifestations: Under what name should I be baptized? (Acts 4:12, ...

Understanding the Trinity vs Three Manifestations: Under what name should I be baptized? (Acts 4:12, ...: I Corinthians 1:6-31 Under what name were you baptized? This is another occasion wherein Paul admonishes the saints to speak the same th...

Under what name should I be baptized? (Acts 4:12, Colossians 3:17)

I Corinthians 1:6-31

Under what name were you baptized? This is another occasion wherein Paul admonishes the saints to speak the same things. The Church had started to be divided because some of the saints were talking about whose teaching and whose discipleship they were under. Paul let them understand that Christ is not divided, and he, Paul, was not crucified for them. Verse 13-15. Paul lets them know that they were not baptized in the name of Paul.

This lets us know that the baptisms were carried out in a person’s name. Therefore, Paul is giving us an indication that the apostles baptized in the name of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is the one who was crucified for their sins (Acts 2:38, 4:12, Colossians 3:17).

Jesus will destroy the wisdom of the wise. How will Jesus destroy the wisdom of the wise? We have theologians, writers, unbelievers and disputers who will try to use the wisdom of this world to prove that Jesus is not the one and only true God (Revelation 1:8). They will for example, use the Trinitarian doctrine to try to prove that there are three persons in God and that Jesus Christ is just one of the three.

Paul says in II Thessalonians 2:9-11 that Satan will deceived them because they would not believe. God will send them strong delusions so that they will believe a lie rather than the truth. God will take the knowledge of all these brilliant theologians, scholars, professors, preachers and evangelists who don’t believe Jesus is the only God and show them how foolish they are. These “so called,” brilliant minds will try to explain who Jesus is and how to be born again. Not realizing that their teachings are the complete opposite to the teaching of Paul and the apostles (Galatians 1:8-9).

In Romans 16:17-18, Paul warns us to avoid them because they don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ. They will have great speeches which will satisfy themselves. These same speeches will also deceive simple people. In II Timothy 4:10, Paul wrote to Timothy that there would come a time when they won’t endure sound doctrine and they will turn away from the truth and will believe fables. The Trinitarian doctrine is a doctrine of fables. It is not a sound doctrine, its not in the Bible, it can’t be explained and it can’t be understood. This paganistic doctrine is not a cohesive doctrine.

The foundation of the Trinitarian doctrine is that there are three persons that make one. It’s incomprehensible how scholars can believe in such a doctrine because it’s definitely not true. Simple logic tells us that three persons can’t be one God. There is only one God and one Person in the Godhead – period. (Hebrews 1:3, Colossians 2:8-9). How many times must God say it? When will we believe God’s report? Three persons in one God is "an assumption", "a figment of man's imagination" made at the Nicean Council 325AD. God never said He is three persons and the apostles never taught nor heard of a trinitarian doctrine (Galatians 1:8-9).

Look at Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 2:11, Hebrews 1:3. Do you see one Lord and one Person? Why is it that scholars and theologians will try to develop their own method of salvation, using a Trinitarian formula in speech and baptism? They will tell you, all you have to do is to say, “Lord Jesus come into my life,” and you are saved. They don’t say anything about repentance, baptism in Jesus name for remission of sins, nor the reception of the Holy Spirit according to the first act of salvation in Acts 2:38. They will baptize in the titles of God and not his name because they don’t know him. – Matthew 28:19. God’s method of salvation is foolishness to them.

They have perverted the gospel and the foundation which is based on the name of Jesus Christ "Baptism in Jesus name" is “The Rock of our salvation" and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the baptism in Jesus name. (Matthew 16:18-19)

Jesus Christ is the only God and the only name whereby we must be saved. Again, Jesus Christ being the only God and that you must be baptized in his name is foolishness to them that are without. They will never understand who Jesus is because of their traditions of unbelief. (I Corinthians 1:20, 2:14, Colossians 1:19, 2:8-9).

In the end, Jesus will destroy the wisdom of the wise and prudent and make them look like fools. He will prove that there is one God and that he is that one God and his name is Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour (Isaiah 43:10-13, Luke 2:11, I Corinthians 10:4, Acts 9:5). If Jesus Christ has to prove the gospel to you at his coming, how will you explain your unbelief at the time of his visitation?

The wisdom of this world doesn’t know God, therefore, he will tell them who he is by the foolishness of preaching and it will please the Lord to save them that believe. Why is preaching foolishness? (I Corinthians 2:7). It’s foolish because believers already know and understand that salvation is in Jesus name and that Jesus is the only true God (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 2:11, Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1-14, I Timothy 3:16, I John 5:20, Jude 25, Revelation 1:8, 22:13). Preaching is for sinners to come to Christ and he will save them if they believe. On the other hand, if you don’t believe, preaching won’t help you (Mark 16:16).

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