There is only one Lord, one Faith and ONE BAPTISM (Eph. 4:5) There is only ONE BIBLE WAY to be baptized. Have you been baptized right?
"Can any man forbid WATER that these should not be baptized?" (Acts 10:47)
According To Church Leaders
JOHN CALVIN - Presbyterian
"The word 'baptize' signifies to immerse. It is certain that immersion... was the practice of the Primitive Church."
MARTIN LUTHER - Lutheran
"Baptism is a Greek word and may be translated 'Immerse.' I would have those who are to be baptised, be altogether dipped."
JOHN WESLEY - Methodist
"The Bible term 'Buried with Him by Baptism' alludes to the ancient manner of baptizing by immersion."
WALL - Episcopal
"Immersion was in all probability the way in which our blessed Saviour, and for certain, the way in which all early Christians were baptized."
BRENNER - Catholic
"For the first thirteen hundred years, baptism was an immersion of the person under water."
STOUDZA - A native Greek
"The verb 'baptize' has only one meaning. It signifies to plunge. Baptism and immersion are identical. To say baptism by sprinkling would be to say immersion by sprinkling."
JEREMIAH - A Greek Patriot
"The ancients did not sprinkle the candidate, but immersed him."
WHITFIELD - Methodist
"It is certain that the word 'buried' in the text, Romans 6:4 alludes to the matter of baptizing by immersion."
In the light of the Holy Bible
WATER -
"Can any man forbid WATER that these should not be baptized?" (Acts 10:47)
MUCH WATER -
"John also was baptizing at Aenon beacuse 'there was MUCH WATER there.' (St. John 3:23)"
INTO THE WATER -
"And they went both down INTO THE WATER, both Phillip and the Eunuch; And he baptized him." (Acts 8:39)
OUT OF THE WATER -
They came up OUT OF THE WATER" (Acts 8:39)
BURIED IN WATER -
"We are BURIED with Him by BAPTISM into death." (Rom. 6:4)
PLANTED IN WATER -
"We have been PLANTED together in the likeness of His Death." (Rom 6.5)
Jesus said. "He that believeth and is BAPTIZED shall be SAVED." (Mark 16:16) Peter said, there were eight saved by water in Noah's time, "the like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now SAVE US. The answer (response) of a good (repented) conscience toward God." (1PETER 3:20-21)
Peter having the keys to the Kingdom said, "Repent, and be BAPTIZED EVERYONE OF YOU in the name of Jesus Christ for the REMISSION of SIN. - (ACTS 2:38) Since BAPTISM is important to Salvation and that IMMERSION and not SPRINKLING is the BIBLE method, don't you think you should be baptized right before it is too late?
Baptism In Jesus Name
According To The Bible
JESUS TAUGHT - Luke 24:47
"That REPENTANCE AND REMISSION of sins should be preached in HIS NAME beginning at Jerusalem."
PETER OBEYED - Acts 2:38-39
"REPENT and be BAPTIZED everyone of you in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the REMISSION of SINS."
SAMARITANS - Acts 8:16
"They were BAPTIZED... in the NAME of the LORD JESUS."
BAPTISM COMMANDED - Acts 10:48
"He COMMANDED them to be BAPTIZED in the Name of the LORD JESUS." (RV)
PAUL RE-BAPTIZED - Act 19:3-5
"When they heard this they were BAPTIZED in the NAME of the LORD JESUS."
EVERYTHING DONE IN JESUS NAME - Col. 3:17
"Whatsoever you do in word or in deed do ALL in the NAME of the LORD JESUS."
NO OTHER NAME FOR SALVATION - Acts 4:10-12
"There is NONE OTHER NAME under Heaven whereby we must be saved."
SAVED BY BAPTISM - 1Peter 3:21
"BAPTISM doth also now SAVE us. The answer (response) of a good (repented) conscience towards God."
According To History
BRITANICA ENCYC. - 11th Edition, Vol. 3, p. 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 Third Century."
BRITANICA ENCYC. - Vol. 3, p. 82
"Everywhere in the Oldest sources, it states that baptism took place in the Name of Jesus Christ."
CATHOLIC ENCYC. - Vol. 2, page 263
"Here the Catholics acknowledged that Baptism was changed by the Catholic Church."
CANNY ENCYC OF REL - Page 53
"The early Church always baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus until development of the Trinity Doctrine in the 3rd Century."
DICT. OF THE BIBLE BY SCRIPTURE - Vol. 1, page 241
"The original form of words were into the name of Jesus Christ, or Lord Jesus. Baptism into the Trinity was a later development."
HASTINGS ENCYC. OF REL. - Vol. 2, p. 377-378, Vol. 2, p. 389
"Christian baptism was administered using the words 'in the name of Jesus.' The use of a Trinity 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 Maryr when Triune Formula was used."
HASTINGS ENCYC. OF REL. - Vol. 2, page 377 on Acts 2:38
"NAME was a ancient synonym for 'person.' Payment was always made in name of some person referring to ownership. Therefore one being baptized in Jesus-Name became His personal property. 'Ye are Christ's.'"
NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYC. - Vol. 22, p. 477
"The term 'Trinity' was originated by... Tertullian, a Roman Catholic Church Father."
The above Scriptures are not given to refute Matt. 28:19, where Jesus told Apostles to baptize in the name of the Father , and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. They merely show how the Command was interpreted and obeyed by them.
The Apostles knew what most religious leaders fail to recognize. First: That the LORD JESUS CHRIST is the FAMILY NAME. (Eph. 3:15) Second: That FULLNESS of the GODHEAD (Deity or God) dwelleth bodily in Christ. (Col. 2:9) Third: That baptism must be preformed in the name of the one crucified. (1Cor. 1:13)*
They knew the name of the Son was Jesus. (Matt. 1:21). They knew that the Son came in the Father's name. (St. John 5:43). They also knew that the Holy Ghost was the Spirit of Christ and would come in Jesus name. (St. John 14:26).
The name JESUS means JEHOVAH SALVATION. (Faussets Bible Encyclopaedia, p. 359)