Baptism in the name of Jesus Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Views == The views of [[mainstream Christianity]] to Jesus' name baptism is varied. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] states that only Trinitarian baptisms are valid.<ref>{{cite web |title=A New Response of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Validity of Baptism|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20080201_validity-baptism-miralles_en.html|url-status=live|access-date=9 January 2022|website=www.vatican.va|quote=Baptism conferred in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit conforms to the command of the Lord found at the end of Matthew’s Gospel: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19). The Church has no right to change what Christ himself has instituted. Therefore, any Baptism is invalid when it does not contain the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity, with the distinct expression of the three Persons with their respective names.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309093639/http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20080201_validity-baptism-miralles_en.html |archive-date=9 March 2012 }}</ref> While it does consider other baptismal formulae to be acceptable, since they were accepted by theologians of the past, the key requirement is that the baptism must have been performed by a church which (or, a person who) believes in the Trinity. [[Pope Nicholas I]] wrote to the Bulgarians that a person is not to be [[rebaptism|rebaptised]] who has already been baptised "in the name of the Holy Trinity or in the name of Christ only".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia - see section on "form" |website=New Advent |access-date=15 May 2014}}</ref> [[Martin Luther]] in his ''[[Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church]]'' describes disagreements over the wording of the baptism as "pedantry," arguing that baptism "truly saves in whatever way it is administered, if only it is administered not in the name of man, but in the name of the Lord." On baptisms specifically in the name of Jesus, Luther notes, "it is certain the apostles used this formula in baptizing, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles," citing Acts 2:38; 10:48; and 19:5.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annotated Luther, Volume 3: Church and Sacraments|author=Erik H. Herrmann|editor=Paul W. Robinson|date=1 August 2016|publisher=Fortress Press|page=66|isbn=1451465092}}</ref> Among other Trinitarian or mainstream Christians (specifically [[Protestantism|Protestants]]), ''The Baptist Standard Confession of 1660'' declares baptisms in the name of "Jesus Christ" to be valid (both statements by Luther and Baptists predating Oneness Pentecostal theological underpinnings as Trinitarians, by their understanding on Jesus' authority in contrast with Oneness theology).<ref>{{cite web|author=Sam Hughey |url=http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/tsc.htm |title=The Baptist Standard Confession of 1660 |website=The Reformed Reader |access-date=15 May 2014}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page