THE VEXED QUESTION OF BAPTISM SERIES: (1 of 9)

THE VEXED QUESTION OF BAPTISM SERIES: (1)

    Mt. Olivet’s waterless apostolic commission

THE GALILEAN COMMISSION Matthew 28:20.
“…baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost…”. Though practised since the first Church of Rome in the early 4th century there is no evidence from the baptisms in the book of Acts that this triune commission was ever known to the eleven apostles. Peter, Philip, and Paul baptized merely in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Matthew records this apostolic commission and ascension taking place on an unnamed mountain in Galilee. Yet Luke and John list the events and a separate non-baptismal apostolic commission at Mount Olivet, adjacent to Jerusalem, some sixty miles to the south of Galilee. The church accepts the ascension mount to be the Mount of Olives (Olivet), but there is a choice here between the two mounts and two baptisms: one in water, or the other in fire. The latter, predicted by the prophet John (Matthew 3), was integral to Jerusalem’s ascension commission.

Old Testament prophecy only alluded to Mt. Olivet. In three and a half years of ministry Jesus had not baptized a single person. He even refused John the Baptist’s request for baptism. The contradictory rumour (John 3) was dispelled in John 4. Neither did Jesus, nor any apostle baptize any believer in the three Synoptic Gospels or the rest of St. John. The rumour of baptisms by the Lord, then the apostles, is more likely associated with two of John’s former disciples helping the prophet again, while Jesus was nearby on the banks of the Jordan River.
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