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Who Will We Worship?
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Here is a quick synopsis of video #1 titled "The Final Warning?" The three angels messages are the central theme of this video. It focuses on the God who created all things, He is the one that all worship should be directed to. The three angels messages are the following:

1. “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”
2. “Babylon[f] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
3. “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

So the central issue of the three angels message is who we are to worship. The whole reason the three angels messages are to remind us who we are to worship. It is doing so because God's people have forgotten who the true God is. The three angels messages are not directed to the world at large, it is directed specifically to God's people. It is we, His chosen people who need reminding because somehow we have gotten Him confused with someone else. Pretty much the three angels messages can be summed up in the following manner:

Angel message #1 is referring to the right God.
Angel message #2 is referring to the right movement or the right church.
Angel message #3 is referring to the right worship.

There is a difference between the Father and the Son. It is the Father who created everything that exists. He created everything "Through His Son". Christ was the channel by which everything came into existence. We find that in order to worship the true God, we must recognize that God is "ONE" individual being. This being, "The Father" has a "Son". 

This is the gist of the video. It also clarifies that the idea of a Triune God is a man-made doctrine that came into the Christian church by way of the Council of Nicaea convened by emperor Constantine. It became the basis of the Catholic church. The Trinitarian doctrine as we know it today is found nowhere in scripture. Its origin is Pagan and it was voted into the church and it is now the main doctrine of most Protestant churches.

For more detail on this information, please watch the video.

The Final Warning

I am so happy that God looks at the penitent heart above all things and the life we live based on the light we have received. I came across this explanation of what happened to the baptismal formula from a former Catholic who studied Christianity and Islam. It would have been great to have a perspective from Judaism as well.

The Gospel of Matthew is believed to have been composed between 80 - 90 AD.
This is an ongoing controversy since the fourth century. The Trinitarian belief and baptism in the Trinitarian formula has become an entrenched dogmatic belief amongst Christians. To even suggest otherwise, would have resulted in death at the stakes as an heretic in the middle ages and beyond.
No known manuscripts written in the 2nd, 3rd centuries are available today to make comparisons. There is an absence of 300 years between the original and the available manuscripts. Baptism in the three fold name appears in two of the earliest manuscripts, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus of the 4th century.
It is believed by some that third century manuscripts of Matthew in the Greek, from which translations were made into Latin may be stored in the vaults of the Vatican. To what extent that may be true, I do not know.
An early church father Eusebius, the Bishop of Caesarea in his writings quotes Matthew 28:19 several times, but does not quote it as it appears in Matthew 28:19. He writes that Jesus said ‘baptise in my name”. .
Dr G. Reckart of the Apostolic Theological Bible College, claims that there is evidence which indicates that changes were made to Matthew 28:19.
The Hebrew Matthew Gospel is a manuscript that was preserved by the Jews from the third century. It is handwritten in Hebrew. It is referred to as the Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew’s Gospel. In the Shen Tov manuscripts, the text at Matthew 28:19 does not contain the trinitarian formula for baptism, and this raises the suspicion that this was a later addition.
In the Bible Catechism “Meaning for Man’s Existence” and the new Revised Vatican II Bible and Life Today edition, the Catholic Church declares that the baptismal formula changed from the name of Jesus to the trinitarian formula in the fourth century. It states that Christians in the first 300 years baptised in the name of Jesus.
The James Moffett New Testament translation, footnote on page 64 reads as follows: “It may be that this formula, so far as the fulness of expression is concerned, is a reflection of the (Catholic) liturgical usage was established later in the primitive community. It will be remembered that Acts speaks of baptising in Jesus’s name”.
The New Revised Standard Version, regarding Matthew 28: 19 states as follows: “Modern critics claim this formula is falsely ascribed to Jesus and it represents later church tradition, for nowhere in the Book of Acts is baptism performed with the name of the Trinity formula”.
Dr. Peake in his Bible Commentary 1991, page 723, states as follows: “The command to baptise into the three fold name is a late doctrinal expansion. Instead of the words baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, we should probably read simply ‘into my name’”.
The Catholic Encyclopedia II, page 263 admits that the baptismal formula was changed from the name of Jesus Christ to the words Father, Son and Holy Spirit by the Catholic Church. This is also allegedly confirmed by the New Testament study guide number 5 of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. in 1923.
The Tyndale New Testament Commentary 1, on page 275 states: “It is often affirmed that the words of Jesus in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, are not the ‘ipisissima verba’ of Jesus, but a later Liturgical addition”.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-evidence-that-Matthew-28-19-baptise-in-the-name-of-the-Father-Son-and-the-Holy-Spirit-a-later-insertion-into-the-Gospel

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