Page 5 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

centuries in which the Trinity was developed as a tenet of belief included several religious and philosophical systems with similar beliefs.”
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edited by James Hastings Edinburgh, 1909, page 384 Under Early Christian Baptism ii Method of Baptism; “The (baptism) formula used was ‘in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ’ or some synonymous phrase: there is no evidence for the use of the triune name.”
There is no Biblical or historical evidence for Trinity baptism in the time of the early Church of the Bible! If the early Church believed in a Trinity then why did they not baptize into the Triune names? Why are the terms Trinity/Trinitarian not found in the Bible?
The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible 1962, page 351 “The evidence of Acts 2:38; 10:48 (cf. 8:16; 19:5), supported by Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3, suggests that baptism in early Christianity was administered, not in the threefold name, but “in the name of Jesus Christ” or in the Name of the Lord Jesus.”
Rev. George Serle, Paulist Fathers, Pamphlet: “How to become a Catholic” States that: “If the Minister baptized you repeating the titles: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, He did not make you an Episcopalian or Presbyterian, but he did make you a CATHOLIC...” A Catholic is someone who believes in or has been baptized into the Trinity!
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Vol. 12, page 456, edited by James Hastings “At first the Christian Faith was not Trinitarian. It was not so in the Apostolic and sub- Apostolic ages, as reflected in the New Testament and the early Christian writings.” (The early Church was not Trinitarian!)
Bishop Smallridge Sixty Sermons, No. 33, page 348: “It must be owned, that the doctrine of the Trinity as it is proposed in our Articles, our Liturgy, our Creeds, is not in so many words taught us in the Holy Scriptures. What we profess in our prayers we nowhere read in Scripture, that the one God, the one Lord, is not only one person, but three persons in one substance. There is no such text as this, 'That the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped'. Not one of the inspired writers hath expressly affirmed, that in the Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another.”
The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. 1, 1992, page 585. "The historical riddle is not solved by Matthew 28:19, since, according to a wide scholarly consensus, it is not an authentic saying of Jesus, not even an elaboration of a Jesus-saying on baptism" (The key trinity text is even spurious!)
The Dictionary of the Bible, 1947, page 83: "It has been customary to trace the institution of the practice (of baptism) to the words of Christ recorded in Matthew 28:19. But the authenticity of this passage has been challenged on historical as well as on textual grounds. It must be acknowledged that the formula of the threefold name, which is
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