If you’re going to appeal to the Early Church at 13:06 to understand the continuity of the Great Commission, it may also be prudent to appeal to their universal understanding of baptism. After all, if all the Church Fathers could be so wrong about the basics of baptism, what’s to say they weren’t also wrong about the Great Commission as a whole? As an aside, the Great Commission is not a list of sequential actions. In Greek grammar, the present participle form (baptizontes) conveys how the main action, making disciples, is to be carried out. Baptism is not a separate step after making a disciple, baptism is disciple-making. This is one of the most well attested to, foundational beliefs in all of Christendom from the very beginning of the Church
If you’re going to appeal to the Early Church at 13:06 to understand the continuity of the Great Commission, it may also be prudent to appeal to their universal understanding of baptism. After all, if all the Church Fathers could be so wrong about the basics of baptism, what’s to say they weren’t also wrong about the Great Commission as a whole?
As an aside, the Great Commission is not a list of sequential actions. In Greek grammar, the present participle form (baptizontes) conveys how the main action, making disciples, is to be carried out. Baptism is not a separate step after making a disciple, baptism is disciple-making.
This is one of the most well attested to, foundational beliefs in all of Christendom from the very beginning of the Church