"We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost" (Acts xix, 2). This was many years after the death of Jesus. Either this colloquy is false, or the story of John the Baptist is false. If John was the forerunner of Christ, as claimed, his disciples became followers of Christ; and if they became followers of Christ they were acquainted with the doctrine of the Holy Ghost--if it existed at this time. 459 When did Jesus' disciples begin to baptize? Matthew and Mark: Not until after his resurrection (Matt. xxviii, 18, 19; Mark xvi, 15, 16). John: At the beginning of his ministry. "After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized" (iii, 22). "The Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John. (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.)" (iv, 1, 2). 460 What form of baptism is Jesus said to have prescribed for the use of his apostles? "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew xxviii, 19). The apostles did not baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, but in the name of Christ alone. "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts ii, 38). "They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (viii, 16). "He commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" (x, 48). "They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (xix, 5). Concerning this Greg says: "That this definite form of baptism proceeded from Jesus, is opposed by the fact that such an allocation of the Father, Son, and Spirit, does not elsewhere appear, except as a form of salutation in the epistles; while as a definite form of baptism it is nowhere met with throughout the New Testament. Moreover, it was not the form used, and could scarcely, therefore, have been the form commanded; for in the apostolic epistles, and even in the Acts, the form always is 'baptizing into Christ Jesus,' or, 'into the name of the Lord Jesus'" (Creed of Christendom, p. 191).