RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
November 14, 2018 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2018 at 2:49 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(November 14, 2018 at 11:47 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Just a minor point, but if I were commanded to do something in the name of the acting attorney general, I would be safe in either doing so with reference to either "Matthew Whitaker" or "The Acting Attorney General". "In the name of" is an idiomatic phrase meaning to invoke the authority of the person or office, so invoking either is the same thing. It doesn't literally mean to say the name of the person. It's figurative. So this argument that the father, son, and the holy ghost are titles and not names simply doesn't wash. Saying the name of Jesus alone doesn't do anything.
Considering there are 51 people who go by "Attorney General", you're bound to cause confusion...
Jesus gave Peter the Keys to the kingdom of Heaven...
Jesus told Peter what ever he bound on earth would be bound in Heaven, and what ever he looses on earth would be loosed in Heaven...
When asked how to get to heaven, Peter said to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ...
How one should baptize really isn't debatable, because even if you're Catholic (who also use the trinitarian formula), which claim that Peter was the first pope, and that the Pope is infallible, they should then be baptizing the same way their first "Pope" did...
(November 14, 2018 at 2:32 pm)Astreja Wrote:(November 14, 2018 at 2:24 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Maybe you should learn to follow the flow of a conversation, we're like 25 pages removed from the OP.
Reported.
