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==Derivation from a Oneness Christology== | ==Derivation from a Oneness Christology== | ||
Questions like these stem from a lingering adherence to message theology which was strongly influenced by the Oneness Pentecostal movement. | |||
According to oneness teaching, the only valid baptism is in “Jesus’ name” and not “in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Trinitarian baptism is seen as a Roman Catholic error that was forced on the church in the Nicean Creed in A.D. 325. Therefore, anyone who received Trinitarian baptism was not fully Christian.<ref>Vinson Synan, The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), 141.</ref> | According to oneness teaching, the only valid baptism is in “Jesus’ name” and not “in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Trinitarian baptism is seen as a Roman Catholic error that was forced on the church in the Nicean Creed in A.D. 325. Therefore, anyone who received Trinitarian baptism was not fully Christian.<ref>Vinson Synan, The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), 141.</ref> | ||
Please go to our article on Oneness theology for detailed information on the teaching. | |||
==What is the purpose of the question?== | |||
Is the object of the question the rejection of everyone who was baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in accordance with Matthew 28:19? If so, then the list of people who would be excluded from Christianity would include: | |||
#John Wycliffe, d. 1384 | |||
#Jan Huss, d. 1411 | |||
#William Tyndale, d.1536 | |||
#Martin Luther, d. 1546 | |||
#Menno Simons, d. 1561 | |||
#John Foxe, d. 1587 | |||
#Jacob Arminius, d. 1609 | |||
#John Bunyan, d. 1688 | |||
#Isaac Watts, d.1748 | |||
#Jonathan Edwards, d. 1758 | |||
#George Whitfield, d. 1770 | |||
#John Wesley, d. 1791 | |||
#John Newton, d. 1807 | |||
#Francis Asbury, d. 1816 | |||
#William Wilberforce, d. 1833 | |||
#William Carey, d. 1834 | |||
#Elizabeth Fry, d. 1845 | |||
#Adoniram Judson, d. 1850 | |||
#Phoebe Palmer, d. 1874 | |||
#Charles Finney, d. 1875 | |||
#Catherine Booth, d. 1890 | |||
#Charles Spurgeon, d. 1892 | |||
#George Müller, d. 1898 | |||
#William Gladstone, d. 1898 | |||
#Dwight Lyman Moody, d. 1899 | |||
#James Hudson Taylor, d. 1905 | |||
#Clara Swain, d. 1910 | |||
#William Booth, d. 1912 | |||
#Harriet Tubman, d. 1913 | |||
#Fanny Crosby, d. 1915 | |||
#Oswald Chambers, d. 1917 | |||
#Fanny Crosby, d. 1915 | |||
#Pandita Ramabai, d. 1922 | |||
#Billy Sunday, d. 1935 | |||
#C. S. Lewis, d. 1963 | |||
#Billy Graham, d. 2018 | |||
These are just a few of the giants of the Christian faith who were baptized "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." | |||
If you can't exclude these people, why would you exclude anyone baptized currently in the "Trinitarian baptismal formula"? Our view is that you can't. | |||
William Branham and his followers have a multi-tiered view of Christianity with a focus on getting people into the elite community that they refer to as the "Bride". | |||
=The Scriptural Witness= | =The Scriptural Witness= | ||