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At 10:38 AM 3/17/97 -0800, Dave wrote:
>Since you reference "World Book Encyclopedia", it in direct contradiction to
>all Church Historians who major in the subject.
>
>If you would, please cite a quote of the "change" from "Oneness beliefs to
>Trinity" at that council. This has caught my attention, since you gathered
>this information from an encyclopedia. This would be the first time that
>such activity is reported from an encyclopedia.

I think that your looking for something besides this, but I'll send it anyway.

TYNDALE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARIES: "... the true explanation why the
early church did not at once administer baptism in the threefold name is that
the words of Mat 28:19 were not meant as a baptismal formula. [Jesus] was not
giving instructions about the actual words to be used in the service of
baptism, but, as has already been suggested, was indicating that the baptized
person would by baptism pass into the possession of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost."

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA, 11th Ed. Vol. 3 Page 365-366, "The baptismal
formula was changed from the name of Jesus Christ to the words
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost by the Catholic Church in the 2nd
Century." Vol. 3 Page 82 "Everywhere in the oldest sources it states
that baptism took place in the Name of Jesus Christ."

CANNEY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION, Page 53 -- "The early church always
baptized in the Name of Lord Jesus until the development of the
trinity doctrine in the 2nd Century."

1913 CATHOLIC ENCLOPEDIA, Vol. 2, page 365, Here the Catholic
acknowledge that baptism was changed by the Catholic Church.

HASTINGS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION, Vol. 2 pages 377-378-389, "The
Christian baptism was administered using the Name of Jesus.  The use
of the trinitarian formula of any sort was not suggested in the
early church history, baptism was always in the Name of the Lord
Jesus, until the time of Justin Martyr when the trinity formula was
used."  Hastings also said in Vol. 2 Page 377, commenting on Acts
2:38, "NAME was an ancient synonym for person.  Payment was always
made in the name of some person referring to ownership.  Therefore
one being baptized in Jesus Name became his personal property."  "Ye
are Christ's." I Cor. 3:23.

NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vol. 22 Page 477, "The term
"trinity" was originated by Tertullain, Roman Catholic Church father."

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS, James Hastings, p.384, "there is no
evidence [in early church history] for the use of the triune name."

Using Matthew 28:19 to baptize people was invented to defend the
Trinity doctrine which slowly developed in the third and fourth centuries by
men, primarily Tertullian.

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