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St. Victor, hold also that such baptism would be valid. The authority of Pope Stephen I has been alleged for the validity of baptism given in the name of Christ only.”
Emperor Theodosius, The Theodosian Laws, AD 380: “We shall believe in the single Deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, under the concept of equal majesty [or co-equal Persons] and of the Holy Trinity.
We command that those persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment."
H. A. Drake, Professor of History at the University of California states, “With heresy, both imperial and Episcopal agendas came together. Punishment of improper worship was one action that Constantine would have been prepared by centuries of imperial procedure to take, and one that, in his eyes, a new and important constituency had the most right to demand.”
Three or many Gods?
Early Roman Catholic Theologians that invented their so-called Christian Trinity doctrine literally believed in three Gods!
Justin's First Apology “Jesus Christ . . . we reasonably worship Him, having learned He is the Son of the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place, and the prophetic Spirit in the third . . ."
Tertullian insisted on a person being immersed or sprinkled three times in three titles to three Divine Persons or Gods. Tertullian in his Adversus Praxean c. 26 said: “And it is not only once, but thrice, that we are immersed into the three persons, once at each several mention of their names.”-See The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia 1960 Under: Formula of Baptism page 392.
Were did Tertullian get his teaching for an adult person or infant being baptized three times in the three titles or in the names of the three High Gods?
On the Heavens book I by Aristotle, 350 BC: “A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnitude, because the three dimensions are all that there are, and that which is divisible in three directions is divisible in all. For, as the Pythagoreans [Cultic mathematicians] say, the world and all that is in it is determined by the number three, since beginning and middle and end give the number of an 'all', and the number they give is the triad. And so, having taken these three from nature as laws of it, we (Pagans) make further use of the number three in the worship of the Gods.”
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