Church Rite Not Jesus’.
The witty inventions of Constantine outlived the Roman Empire and the passages of the Greek New Testament manuscripts that were changed to agree with his sacraments continue to be printed in even the Protestant Bibles today.
These are the ones that appear in the gospel of Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, John 3:22/26, and John 6:51-58. These four change the whole meaning Jesus message. While the first three passages had only the word baptize added to each the fourth had had three words inserted: flesh, blood, and drink. The latter introduced the Emperor’s Eucharist by turning the last eight verses on the Bread of Life upside down.
The Galilean apostolic commission at the very end of the first two gospels quoted above, conflicted with each other. Matthew invoked three names of the godhead (trinity), in a rite unknown to the apostles at Pentecost who never practised such an invocation, using only the name of Jesus Christ. Mark’s baptismal commission not only differed greatly from Matthew in its compulsion under threat of damnation, but is generally discredited by most of the Christian literati as a substitute for the lost original ending of the book.
As Jesus and his apostles never practised a baptismal rite on believers in their forty months together, Peter’s rite at Pentecost merely revived John’s baptism, despite Jesus abandoning it after he began his four years of ministry. Philip, Ananias and Paul used Peter’s baptismal rite, each differing from the other in varying nuances. Peter never again repeated the link between water and remission, though Ananias of Damascus took a more extreme position making water the agent of remission, similar to the water of separation in Numbers 19. Paul never endorsed that assertion and in Caesarea and Samaria the Lord showed that Peter’s and Philip’s baptismal rite had nothing to do with Jesus’ baptism of fire concomitant with regeneration.
In fact Paul later abandoned Peter’s baptismal rite (1 Corinthians 1:17). Instead he majored on the one baptism needed, of which John the Baptist and Jesus had prophesied. (See: Acts 1; Luke 24; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:5; Matthew 3:11 etc). Paul’s use of the word in the epistles allude to the baptism of the Spirit. Even Peter (1 Peter 3:21) did likewise referring to the operation of the Holy Ghost through the power of the resurrected Lord in figurative metaphorical usage.
This was a problem for Constantine so in the third reference above (John 3:22 /26) one word was added to the rumour that either Jesus or the Twelve were baptizing believers in competition with his cousin John the Baptist. Completely unsubstantiated by the four gospels the rumour was partially dispelled a few verses later (John 4:1-2).
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The prophecies of John the Baptist, Jesus, the ascension angel, and the Old Testament (Zechariah 14) establish four important things:-
1. The place of the Lord’s ascension was Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives (Mt. Olivet),
2. This also was the place of the only apostolic commission which was given by Luke in Luke 24, and Acts 1, and corroborated by John 19-20, notwithstanding the Epilogue chapter (John 21).
3. The sole apostolic commission was not from Galilee as posited by Constantine by changing Jerusalem to the word Galilee six times (Matthew 26;28;Mark 14;16), but from Judea’s Mount of Olives by Jerusalem
4. The baptism of fire was intended to supersede John’s baptism of water, confirmed by prophecy of John and Jesus.
