Hi and BAPTISM / BAPTIZO were part of the message to Israel and are NOT part of the Gospel of Grace !!
I call them Acts 2 , because they use a FEAST DAY of Israel , PENTECOST !!
Jews are in the Body of Christ IF they are saved by Grace and not until then , and then lose there IDENtity in Christ as Gal 3:28 says !!
When you get a chance , say what 1 Cor 1:17 means as scripture to you ??
dan p
Hi and read Acts 19:5 and tell how Paul BAPTIZED them ?
dan p
I'm not sure exactly why I need to answer this, as you seem to have contradicted yourself all by your lonesome.
If Christ didn't send Paul to baptize (1 Cor 1:17), why does Paul baptize in
ANY way in Acts 19:5? After all, it's only a part of the message to Israel that had been somehow retracted by then, right?
But let's look more closely at 1 Cor 1:17, although when I've done so in the past with you, you jump to some other text.
1 Cor 1:17 doesn't stand on its own. The context is pretty clear that Paul was concerned that people were lining up on his side of some kind of disagreement or division ("there are contentions among you" vs 11)--and that them doing so was hurtful to the cause of Christ("lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect" vs 17)! So he said he was glad he didn't baptize
many of them. But he did baptize some! And if Christ did not send him to baptize, why did he baptize some? Wasn't he disregarding Christ's commands?
Let's talk about how they were baptized. Acts 19:5 explains "in the name of the Lord Jesus". Does that mean "not with water"? Maybe. But there's little evidence to suggest that when the many were baptized in Corinth, including some that Paul baptized, that it was without water. The fact that Paul didn't baptize everybody that was baptized is evidence that it was water, because a baptism by the Holy Spirit would not be something that would be separated out, saying that some were baptized by one and some by another, since the Holy Spirit would be the one doing the baptizing.
And
Danoh's comments notwithstanding, "it stands to reason" is the same way you and he are approaching this topic, making inferences from the text. How else does one read and understand the bible?