Calling on the Name of Jesus - Chapter 1 quote

Here is the first quote from my book Calling on the Name of Jesus.

Chapter 1: The Baptismal Formula in Church History

p. 19-20,

Michael Servetus (A.D. 1511 – 1553) taught that the entire Godhead was in the one person of Jesus Christ, and that baptism should be “in the name of Jesus.”

“In Jesus Christ, therefore, is the fulness of the Godhead bodily, as Paul teaches; and Servetus, with his usual keen perception, noticed that the Apostles, when baptizing in the name of Jesus Christ alone, actually fulfilled the Lord’s last injunction to baptize all nations ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ for in Christ all these are One.”31

John Calvin petitioned the tribunals to sentence Michael Servetus to burn at the stake, as a heretic for re-baptism and for publishing his book On the Errors of the Trinity.

“After much argument and mutual vituperation, the court found Servetus guilty of anti-Trinitarianism and anabaptism, 26 October 1553, following the provisions of the Justinianian law, and condemned him to be burned at the stake.”32

Jason L. Weatherly