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 Actually that challenge is quite easy to meet and we would '''challenge''' message believers to '''find us one scripture where anyone was actually baptized in the triune name of the Lord Jesus Christ.'''
+Here are the relevant passages:
+:''Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Mt 28:19.</ref>
+:''Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 2:38.</ref>
+:''...they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 8:16.</ref>
+:''So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 10:48.</ref>
+:''On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ac 19:5.</ref>
+:''Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ro 6:3–4.</ref>
+:''for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 3:27.</ref>
 The Bible should be simply understood and therefore it seems quite obvious that William Branham has interpreted the scripture to say something that it clearly doesn't.  The phrase "Lord Jesus Christ" appears 6 times in the book of Acts so it would have been very easy for Luke to have stated clearly that people were to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  But since he didn't, it is not possible to make that claim.