Not Just The "Other" Pentecostals

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>>>>> "LAURA" == LAURA M ALLEN <LSVH37A@prodigy.com> writes:

    LAURA> BROTHER STEVE: I stand corrected Brother Drost!  How about
    LAURA> defining "orthodox" Pentecostals as those Pentecostals who
    LAURA> embrace the doctrine of the Trinity and baptize using the
    LAURA> formula found in Matthew 28:19?

    LAURA> Thanks for the criticism,

    LAURA> Steve

    LAURA> ME: Whoa!  :-) Not picking...but what formula do you think
    LAURA> we baptize in?  "Baptizing in the name of the Father, and
    LAURA> of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."  JESUS.  Try re-wording
    LAURA> ONCE more...because, if they baptize using the formula in
    LAURA> Matt 28:19, they would say "I baptize thee in the name of
    LAURA> Jesus".  :-) thanks

No quite!  In one case you are baptizing by *QUOTING* the formula; in
the other case, you are baptizing by *SOLVING* the formula.  The quote
presents a puzzle -- an well formed formula, or WFF, that must be
resolved with the set of support, or SOS, of the rest of the body of
scripture.  The resolution is completed by matching the clause "name
of the (father, son, holy ghost)" with the symbol "Jesus".  We then
substitute the pattern match back into the original WFF to get the
equivalent WFF "...in the name of Jesus".  Its a simple exercise in
first order predicate calculus.  QED

But in actuality, we could also understand this heuristicly by means
of the many examples of baptisms performed by the Apostles after the
day of Pentecost

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