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It is also interesting to note that only in the book of Acts are there actual references to the baptismal formula. We can't really know what any of the other apostles said when they baptized converts? What did Matthew say? We don't know. | It is also interesting to note that only in the book of Acts are there actual references to the baptismal formula. We can't really know what any of the other apostles said when they baptized converts? What did Matthew say? We don't know. | ||
==When did the baptismal formula change?== | ==When did the baptismal formula change?== | ||
When was the first person baptized in the Trinitarian baptismal formula? Again, we don't know. But it was certainly hundreds of years earlier than the date proposed by William Branham. Could it have been the some were baptizing in the Trinitarian formula during the time of the disciples? That is definitely possible. | |||
==Why did the baptismal forumula change?== | ==Why did the baptismal forumula change?== | ||
''Since, therefore, from the preaching and testimony of Christ Himself, the Father who sent must be first known, then afterwards Christ, who was sent, and there cannot be a hope of salvation except by knowing the two together; how, when God the Father is not known, nay, is even blasphemed, can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?<ref>Cyprian of Carthage, “The Epistles of Cyprian,” in Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. Robert Ernest Wallis, vol. 5, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1886), 383.</ref> | If the primary formula for baptism changed, it was likely that it had to to with attempting to counteract false teaching on the Godhead. | ||
There was error around when the apostles were still on the earth. However, those false teachings later developed into false doctrine and the church counteracted that with "orthodoxy", which simply means "right teaching." | |||
Cyprian (c. 210 – 258 AD) was a bishop of Carthage in North Africa. He wrote the following: | |||
''Since, therefore, from the preaching and testimony of Christ Himself, the Father who sent must be first known, then afterwards Christ, who was sent, and there cannot be a hope of salvation except by knowing the two together; how, when God the Father is not known, nay, is even blasphemed, can they '''who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?'''<ref>Cyprian of Carthage, “The Epistles of Cyprian,” in Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, trans. Robert Ernest Wallis, vol. 5, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1886), 383.</ref> | |||