You are confused if you are following one of the TWELVE apostles that will sit on TWELVE thrones judging the TWELVE tribes of Israel.
Paul is the ONE apostle for the ONE body. You should follow him AS he follows Christ.
As all of God's teachers tell us the same thing, that being: Love God with all your might and love your neighbor as you love yourself,
following any apostle would seem very profitable.
1Cor 4:16 (AKJV/PCE)
(4:16) Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
1Cor 11:1 (AKJV/PCE)
(11:1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.
Amen to that, and as Paul got baptized after seemingly turning from sin, and he received the gift of the Holy Ghost accompanied by the gift of tongues, just as Peter did, and continued on in the grace of God, I am happily following both.
The blood applies to me without ANY ceremonies, rituals, etc. etc. etc.
Got any scriptures for that?
Something saying, perhaps, that water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins has been rescinded?
No water needed for that.
That "baptism" has no water. You assume it does because you have water on the brain.
Absolutely! No water needed.
And yet you keep claiming that it does.
Nope. I just know the truth.
Words mean things. BY and WITH are NOT the same.
They are in Christ but NOT in the same way as the body of Christ is in Christ. I know you will not understand that, but that's your problem.
How can people who were baptized into Christ, not be "in Christ"?
Plain reading makes it clear that if you are immersed into something (someone) you are in fact in it/them.
That's OK. You're just wrong.
My "prophet" is the Bible... the Word of God.
Why then, don't you believe Jesus, Peter, or Paul?
Jesus said..."Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" (Matt 28:19)
Peter said..."Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)
And..."Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
48 And he commanded them to be baptized
in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days." (Acts 10:47-48)
Paul did say..."Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized
in the name of the Lord Jesus." (Acts 19:4-5)
Paul also wrote..."Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place
call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs' and ours':" (1 Cor 1:2)
Guess where those Gentiles called upon the name of the Lord? At their water baptism "in the name of Jesus Christ" for the remission of sins."
Paul also wrote..."And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified "
in the name of the Lord Jesus", and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Cor 6:11)
Who deprived you of your remission of sins by calling on the name of the Lord at your washing?
Paul IS writing to Gentiles in Corinth !