EARLY CHURCH WERE BAPTISED IN JESUS
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1.church at Jerusalem acts 2:38-41
2. church at samaria acts 8:12-16
3.Church at Philipi acts 16:14-33
4. Church at corinth Acts 18:8
5.Church at Ephisus Acts 19:1-6
6.Church at Galatia Gal.3:27
7.Church at Rome 6:1-4

#Different communities baptised in Jesus name :
👉*The Jews* , "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38).

👉 *The Samaritans* . "They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus' (Acts 8:16).

👉 *The Gentiles* ( Cornellius and his household). "And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" (Acts 10:45-48). (The earliest Greek manuscripts that we have say, "In the name of Jesus Christ," as do most versions today.)

👉 *The disciples of John (rebaptized)* . "They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:5).

👉 *The Apostles Paul* . "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord" (Acts 22:16).


#The changes in the baptism formula took place after the death of apostles in second century onward:#

BRITANICA ENCYCLOPEDIA
The baptismal formula was changed from the name of Jesus Christ to the words Father, Son & Holy Ghost by the Catholic Church in the Second Century. – 11th Edit., Vol. 3, ppg. 365-366.

CANNEY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
The early church always baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus until development of the Trinity Doctrine in the Second Century.

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Here the Catholics acknowledged that baptism was changed by the Catholic Church. – Vol. 2, pg. 263.

HASTINGS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
Christian baptism was administered using the words, "in the name of Jesus." – Vol. 2, pg, 389.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, page 2637, Under “Baptism,” says: “Matthew 28:19 in particular only canonizes a later ecclesiastical situation, that its universalism is contrary to the facts of early Christian history, and its Trinitarian formula (is) foreign to the mouth of Jesus.”
 
The Jerusalem Bible, a scholarly Catholic work, states:
“It may be that this formula, (Triune Matthew 28:19) so far as the fullness of its expression is concerned, is a reflection of the (Man-made) liturgical usage established later in the primitive (Catholic) community. It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptizing “in the name of Jesus,”...”

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