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<h1><span style="font-size: 24pt;">In Whose Name Are We Supposed to Baptize?</span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In Matthew<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2028:19&amp;version=NIV"> 28:19</a> as it reads today, we read:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in&nbsp;the<strong><em> name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Thus, this uses the Trinitarian formula of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Is this how it originally read?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Based solely upon the Greek text tradition, all evangelical scholars as well as several Catholic authorities admit this bolded portion was added to the original Matthew. This is despite the fact no Greek text omits it -- but all Greek surviving texts of this verse post-date the Trinitarian controversy that began in 325 AD and ended in 381 AD. (See below "Matthean Text Changed After 325 AD")</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">There are several early versions of Matthew in Aramaic, Hebrew and Latin which omit this trinitarian formula. In fact, the Hebrew version of Matthew (which long predated 325 AD) was quoted without this text. The early 'fathers' such as Jerome, Origen, etc., called it the Gospel According to the Hebrews (by Matthew) which they spoke about with reverence.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">First Proof of Addition to Matthew 28 from Hebrew Matthew</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The original Hebrew Matthew does not have what we read in present-day Matthew 28:19.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">What we read in the <em>Hebrew Gospel of Matthew</em> printed by Professor Howard is:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"19 Go</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">20 and teach them to carry out all things which I have commanded you forever."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This parallels the similar passage in Mark 16:15: "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Thus, if the Hebrew Matthew is the accurate original, there was no command from Jesus to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (For reason to believe many other variants in the Hebrew Matthew are more original, see our discussion of the "<a href="/topicindex/132-hebrew-matthew-introduction.html">Hebrew Matthew</a>.")</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">All Other Scripture Says To Baptize Only In Jesus' Name</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Everywhere else in the NT (except present-day Matthew 28:19), it says that baptism is in the name of the Lord Jesus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, when we look at our current Scripture other than Matthew 28:19, it exclusively teaches us to baptize in one name: that of the Lord Jesus. And this is a strong proof of the <em><strong>invalidity</strong></em> of the trinitarian formula in the Greek canonical Matthew 28:19.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>Biblical Evidence</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">First, Acts<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2019:5&amp;version=NIV"> 19:3-5</a> teaches: "On hearing this, they were baptized<strong><em> into&nbsp;the name of the Lord Jesus</em></strong>." Likewise in Acts <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%202:38&amp;version=NIV">2:39</a>, Peter teaches:&nbsp;"Repent and be baptized, every one of you, <em><strong>in the name of Jesus Christ</strong></em> for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." In Acts<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%208:16&amp;version=NIV"> 8:16</a> "because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into&nbsp;the <strong><em>name of the Lord Jesus</em></strong>." In Acts <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2010:48&amp;version=NIV">10:48</a>, we read: "So he ordered that they be baptized in the <strong><em>name of Jesus Christ</em></strong>." In Acts <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2022:16&amp;version=KJV">22:16</a>, we read: "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the <em><strong>name of the Lord</strong></em>."</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Early Church Only Baptized In Jesus' Name</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">What confirms that the Acts formula is authentic, and the post-Hebrew Greek version of Matthew 28:19 is inauthentic, is that any notion of baptism in a name in the early church was solely in the name of Jesus Christ, and not the Trinity formula.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The Protestant authority <em>T</em><em>he New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge</em> (Funk &amp; Wagnalls, 1908) at&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=l-oVAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=schaff%20religious%20knowledge&amp;pg=PA435#v=onepage&amp;q=must%20be%20disputed&amp;f=false">435</a> agrees that Matthew 28:19's trinity formula is a false addition:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"Jesus, however, <em><strong>cannot have given His disciples this Trinitarian order</strong></em> of baptism after His resurrection; for <em><strong>the New Testament&nbsp;knows only one baptism in the name of Jesus </strong></em>(Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:43; 19:5; Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3; 1 Cor. 1:13-15), which still occurs even in the second and third centuries, while the Trinitarian formula occurs only in Matt. 28:19, and then only again (in the) Didache 7:1 and Justin, Apol. 1:61...Finally, the distinctly liturgical character of the formula...is strange; it was not the way of Jesus to make such formulas...<strong><em> the&nbsp;formal authenticity of Matt. 28:19 must be disputed</em></strong>...."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">An equally important Protestant authority agrees. &nbsp;In <em>The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</em> (ed. James Orr)(1915) Vol. 4 at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Tn4PAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=only%20canonizes%20a%20later%20ecclesiastical%20situation&amp;pg=PA2637#v=onepage&amp;q=only%20canonizes%20a%20later%20ecclesiastical%20situation&amp;f=false">2637</a>, under "Baptism," it says:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"Matthew 28:19 in particular only <strong><em>canonizes a later ecclesiastical situation</em></strong>, that its universalism is <strong><em>contrary to the facts of early Christian history</em></strong>, and<strong><em> its Trinitarian formula (is) foreign to the mouth of Jesus</em></strong>."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The opinion of all leading Christian scholars agree. Christian Henry Forney in<em>The Christian ordinances: being a historical inquiry into the practice of&nbsp;&nbsp;trine immersion, the washing of the saints' feet and the love-feast</em> (Board of Publication of the General Eldership of the Church of God, 1883)&nbsp;at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=W_ErAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=baptismal%20formula%20was%20changed%20from%20the%20name%20of%20Jesus%20Christ&amp;pg=PA83#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">83</a> explains that there was one and only one early practice: baptism into the name of Jesus Christ:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Neander, the prince of modern ecclesiastical historians, says that the<span class="gstxt_hlt">formula </span>of baptism which is regarded as the older is the "shorter one which <strong><em>refers only to </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>Christ</em></strong></span><span class="gstxt_hlt">, </span>to which there is allusion in the New Testament." Dr. Hare also says in his <em>Church History</em>: "Baptism as an initiatory rite was performed <strong><em>simply in the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>name </em></strong></span><strong><em>of </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>Jesus</em></strong></span><span class="gstxt_hlt">." </span>This sentence occurs in his chapter on the "Apostolic Church," in his " <em>History of the Christian Church</em>." Robinson, in his <em>History of Baptism</em>, says: "There is<strong><em> no mention of baptizing in the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>name </em></strong></span><strong><em>of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost</em></strong>,'' in immediately post-Apostolic times." This testimony, of a negative character, certainly becomes very strong and significant in view of the fact that Peter enjoined baptism "in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Jesus Christ.</span>"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The <em>Encyclopedia Brittanica </em>(1911)&nbsp;Vol. 26 at<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=uDQEAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=baptismal%20formula%20was%20changed%20from%20the%20name%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20brittanica&amp;pg=PA774#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"> </a><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=uDQEAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=baptismal%20formula%20was%20changed%20from%20the%20name%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20brittanica&amp;pg=PA774#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">774</a> explains that analysis of Matthew 28:19 supports that it did not originally have the Trinity formula we see today, matching how other passages in the NT read:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">There are traces in the New Testament of a&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptismal </span>confession<strong><em> simply of the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>name </em></strong></span><strong><em>of </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>Christ</em></strong></span><span class="gstxt_hlt"> </span>(1 Cor. i. 13, 15; Rom. vi. 2; cf. even the late verse Acts viii. 37), not of the threefold&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name. </span>Moreover, textual criticism points to an<em> </em><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>early </em></strong></span><strong><em>type of reading in Matt, xxviii. 19 without the threefold </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>formula</em></strong></span><span class="gstxt_hlt">.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The <em>Methodist Review </em>(January 1906) Vol. 88 at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=VMdWAAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=early%20church%20always%20baptized%20in%20the%20name%20of%20the%20Lord%20Jesus&amp;pg=PA148#v=onepage&amp;q=early%20church%20always%20baptized%20in%20the%20name%20of%20the%20Lord%20Jesus&amp;f=false">148</a> details the history that calls into question whether Matthew 28:19 originally read to mention Father, Son &amp; Holy Spirit for the baptismal name to use:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mark and Luke have <strong><em>no baptismal command whatever</em></strong>, and the spurious ending of Mark contains no reference to baptism, but only to preaching the gospel to every creature. And there is <strong><em>reason to believe that originally</em></strong><span class="gtxt_body"><strong><em> the commandment in Matthew referred only to baptism in the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>name </em></strong></span><strong><em>of Christ</em></strong></span><span class="gtxt_body">. This reading, which can be traced down as far as the fourth century, would correspond with the</span><span class="gtxt_body"><strong><em> fact that in the apostolic age and beyond baptism was administered in the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>name </em></strong></span><strong><em>of Christ</em></strong></span><span class="gtxt_body">. The Acts of the Apostles leaves </span><span class="gtxt_body"><strong><em>no doubt</em></strong></span><span class="gtxt_body"> on this point. Peter exhorted his hearers to repent and be&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptized </span>in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Jesus </span>Christ that they might receive the Holy Ghost (Acts 2. 38). ...[B]aptism in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of Christ is ...[in] Acts 8. 16, where Peter and John are represented as praying for the converts of Samaria who had been&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptized </span>in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Lord Jesus </span>that they might receive the Holy Ghost;...Again in 10. 48 Peter exhorted the heathen to be&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptized </span>in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of Christ. In Ephesus (Acts 19. 5) Paul&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptized </span>the disciples of John in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Lord Jesus, </span>while his language in 1 Cor. 1. 13 implies, and in Rom. 6. 3 declares, that the Christians were&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">baptized </span>only in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Jesus. </span>The&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">early </span>Christian book, <em>The Shepherd of Hermes</em>, speaks repeatedly of<em><strong> baptism in the </strong></em><span class="gstxt_hlt"><em><strong>name </strong></em></span><em><strong>of the Son of God</strong></em>. and a hundred years after the trinitarian formula was established in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">church </span>there was lively discussion as to whether baptism in the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">name </span>of&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Jesus,</span>which was still practiced by some, should be recognized as valid. When and under what circumstances the longer formula came into use we do not know; even as we do not know how Matthew's "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" took the place of the formula "God,&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Jesus </span>Christ, and Holy Spirit." It is entirely probable that a formula with three numbers arose in connection with the custom of trine immersion,....</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In agreement is the additional following resource:&nbsp;Maurice Arthur Canney, <em>Encyclopedia of Religion</em> (Routledge, 1921) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FRoMAAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=early%20church%20always%20baptized%20in%20the%20name%20of%20the%20Lord%20Jesus&amp;pg=PA53#v=onepage&amp;q=early%20church%20always%20baptized%20in%20the%20name%20of%20the%20Lord%20Jesus&amp;f=false">53</a> which says:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Persons were baptized at first in the "name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 2:38, 48) or in the "name of the Lord Jesus." (Acts 8:16;19:5.) <strong><em>Afterwards, with the development of the doctrine of the Trinity</em></strong>, they were baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Cf. Justin Martyr, <em>Apol.</em> I,61.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Matthean Text Changed After 325 AD</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This change in Matthew likely first took place after the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. We can infer this from the changes in Eusebius's quotation of this passage after the Council. Ross Drysdale explains why:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Eusebius lived between 264-340 A.D....He had the advantage of being much closer to the original of Matthew 28:19. Yet he <strong><em>never quoted it in the Triune formula</em></strong>, but in all his citations (which <strong>number eighteen </strong>or more) he renders it: "Go and make ye disciples of all the nations IN MY NAME, teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you....Perhaps the most compelling evidence is that<em><strong> after his visit to Constantinople and his attendance at the Council of Nicea</strong></em>, he changed his references to Matthew 28:19 and began quoting it in the Triune formula. Thus <strong><em>h</em><em>e switched to the Trinitarian rendering immediately after Nicea</em></strong>, with its imperial threats of banishment to all who reject the newly officialized Trinity doctrine. He never knew or quoted any other form but the MY NAME rendition until his visit to Nicea. Discretion appears to be the better part of valor in his case. (Quoted in Oneil McQuick, <em>The Voice</em> (2005) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=J4fZeuyXWXEC&amp;lpg=PA459&amp;dq=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;pg=PA459#v=onepage&amp;q=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;f=false">459</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Scholar Edmund Schlink in<em><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=sXDQPAAACAAJ">The Doctrine of Baptism</a></em> (Concordia, 1972) at 28,&nbsp;concluded the variance between Matthew 28:19 and the repeated reference in Acts to simply baptizing in Jesus's name points to a deliberate alteration: "[It] must be assumed that the text has been transmitted in a <em><strong>form expanded by the church</strong></em>."&nbsp;(Quoted in Oneil McQuick,&nbsp;<em>The Voice</em> (2005) at&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=J4fZeuyXWXEC&amp;lpg=PA459&amp;dq=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;pg=PA459#v=onepage&amp;q=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;f=false">459</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The article "Baptism, Early Church," in&nbsp;<em>Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics</em> (1963) at 1016 concluded: "The cumulative evidence of these three lines of criticism (textual, literary and historical) is distinctly <strong><em>against the view </em></strong>that Matthew 28:19 <strong><em>represent the exact words of Christ</em></strong>."&nbsp;(Quoted in Oneil McQuick,&nbsp;<em>The Voice</em> (2005) at&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=J4fZeuyXWXEC&amp;lpg=PA459&amp;dq=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;pg=PA459#v=onepage&amp;q=HASTINGS%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20RELIGION%20trinitarian%20formula&amp;f=false">459</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Catholics even appear to admit their mischevious change in Matthew 28:19.&nbsp;The <em>Jerusalem Bible</em> (N.Y.: 1966), a scholarly Catholic work, states&nbsp;at 64 note<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=O8yr3eoDyVIC&amp;lpg=PA14&amp;dq=so%20far%20as%20the%20fullness%20of%20its%20expression%20is%20concerned%2C%20is%20a%20reflection%20of%20the%20liturgical%20usage%20established%20later&amp;pg=PA14#v=onepage&amp;q=so%20far%20as%20the%20fullness%20of%20its%20expression%20is%20concerned,%20is%20a%20reflection%20of%20the%20liturgical%20usage%20established%20later&amp;f=false"> g</a>:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"It may be that this formula, [<em>i.e.</em>, the&nbsp;Triune Matthew 28:19) so far as the fullness of its expression is concerned, is <strong><em>a reflection of the liturgical usage established later<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></em></strong>in the primitive community. It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptizing "in the name of Jesus,"...."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">We should not be thus surprised that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope, may have admitted four years after the Jerusalem Bible's statement -- in 1970 --- that Rome created and added the Trinity formula to the liturgy of Baptism. Talking about the baptismal formula in the apostle's creed, he wrote:&nbsp;"The basic form of our profession of faith took shape during the course of the second and third centuries in connection with the ceremony of baptism. So far as its place of<strong><em> origin is concerned</em></strong>, the text came <strong><em>from the city of Rome</em></strong>." (Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, <em>Introduction to Christianity</em> (1970) - <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LJlkwvExekkC&amp;lpg=PA84&amp;vq=city%20of%20rome&amp;pg=PA83#v=onepage&amp;q=city%20of%20rome&amp;f=false">viewable quote</a>.) He does go on to say it was based fundamentally upon Matthew 28:19, yet at the same time, he appears to speak like the Jerusalem Bible that the "profession" in Baptism -- the Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- had its origin at Rome in an evolution centuries after Christ.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The crack in the Catholic position began long prior to the<em> Jerusalem Bible</em>. In 1923, Bernard Henry Cuneo wrote <em><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Lord_s_command_to_baptise.html?id=motbAAAAMAAJ">The Lord's Command To Baptize: An Historical Critical Investigation</a></em> as part of the Catholic University's <em>New Testament Studies</em> (No. 5)(Washington DC) where at page <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=motbAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=later+development#search_anchor">27</a> /<a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/MN41385ucmf_3/MN41385ucmf_3_djvu.txt"> archive.org</a> we read:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The passages in Acts and the Letters of St. Paul. These passages seem to point to the earliest form as baptism in the name of the Lord...Is it possible to reconcile these facts with the belief that Christ commanded his disciples to baptize in the triune form? Had Christ given such a command, it is urged, the Apostolic Church would have followed him, and we should have some trace of this obedience in the New Testament. <strong><em>No such trace can be found. </em></strong>The only explanation of this silence, according to the anti-traditional view, is this the short christological (Jesus Name) formula was original, and <strong>the longer trine formula was a later development</strong>."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Thus, even the Catholic scholars and leaders recognize the compelling evidence that had Matthew 28:19 included the trinity-formula for baptism as Jesus's own command, we inexplicably have abundant NT quotes that baptism was only in Jesus' name.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The truth is obvious. The Trinity baptism text of Matthew 28:19 did not originate from the original Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33. It was <strong><em>a deliberate forgery</em></strong>, apparently added after 325 A.D. to support the emerging Trinity doctrine.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">&nbsp;STUDY NOTES</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This issue over Matthew 28:19 is discussed in S. Rives, Original Gospel of Matthew (2d Ed. 2014), in Appendix J in volume 2. We have excerpted it <a href="/topicindex/633-matthew-28-19-in-original-gospel-of-matthew.html">here</a> with authorizaiton.</span></p> </td>
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