7- شهادة من مقالة : (معمودية الماء)
WATER BAPTISM

A PAGAN AND JEWISH RITE, BUT NOT CHRISTIAN
PROVEN BY SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY
CONFIRMED BY THE LIVES OF SAINTS WHO
WERE NEVER BAPTIZED WITH WATER

By James H. Moon



http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17222...ND_JEWISH_RITE

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فى صفحة 5-6 :

According to Matthew Christ commanded his disciples to go, teach all nations, baptizing them (not in the name, but) into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
No water is mentioned. He commanded them to baptize into the Divinity, not in water.
This harmonizes all the evangelists with both Peter and Paul.
If we reject this view and assume that in Matthew water baptism is intended to be understood, then we are compelled to believe that this interpretation of Matthew, with its formula for baptism, was conceived after the apostles' time; was unknown to them, and is a human conception and not a correct rendering of the teachings of Jesus. Because with water introduced, it stands alone and is out of harmony with the whole of Christ's teachings [Pg 6]upon other occasions, and because it conflicts with all our other six versions of the commission; and because (as we read), the apostles and first Christians never did baptize with the formula prescribed in Matthew, which is conclusive evidence that to their understandings Christ never commanded them to do so. And again, because the apostles and first Christians did continue to baptize with water, sometimes without formula but mostly in the name of Jesus Lord or Christ. This they would not have done in defiance of Christ's command to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Upon these and many other grounds we claim that Christ never did command his disciples to baptize with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, nor in any way whatever.

فى صفحة 9 :

Baptism with the formula, "In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" is not to be considered in connection with the apostles and first Christians, as they never mention it and evidently never practised it. Such formula was unknown at that time. It came in as an after[Pg 9]thought; a human invention of later date.

التعميد بصيغة الثالوث (بِاسْمِ الآبِ وَالاِبْنِ وَالرُّوحِ الْقُدُسِ) لا يجب ربطه بالرسل ولا بالمسيحيين الأوائل لأنهم لم يذكروا ولم ينفذوا هذه الصيغة أبدًا فمثل هذه الصيغة لم تكن معروفة فى هذا الوقت بل جاءت فى فترة تالية ولاحقة نتيجة أفكار واختراعات بشرية