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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin
But your explanations are missing my point. If baptism was so important, ( and I believe it is important) as to be a heaven or hell issue, I think it would have been better for Paul not to have said the things he said. I wasn't sent to baptize sounds like it wasn't as important to Paul as present day Pentecostals have made it. He couldn't even remember how many he had baptized. Present day preachers keep a long list of how many got baptized in their revival. The churches post at the end of the year how many were baptized that year. That's good. But Paul didn't seem to place that much importance on it. Why? And yes, I heard some of your explanations, but they seemed rather flimsy to me! Just my opinion!
Someone said we need to keep "the main thing, the main thing", and it would seem to be that Paul was putting much more importance on the cross, than a 3 step plan of salvation, that he was not sent to do part of. To me the "main thing" was not a 3 step plan but the preaching of the cross!
What say you? And thanks for responding.
Been Thinkin
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I'm sorry. I thought you were asking for an explanation of why Paul said it. As far as making any comment on whether baptism is important for salvation, My personal stand is. Why would anyone not want to. With me it isn't an issue reflected to salvation and never should have ever been discussed or debated as such by any man of God any where or at any time through out history, I mean that even if it were the apostle Paul debating it. Our Lord said teach it, preach it, and if people believe then baptism them in his authority of the New Testament which is written with his name across it.
Endless issue. If someone came to me and said; Do I need to be baptised in Jesus name to be saved. I would reply, isn't that what He told you to do if you believed in Him? Why take away from the scriptures here and there. If you start cutting out pages of scriptures then in time there won't be a bible at all. I'm sorry not trying to be smart,I'm not a UPC but I believe in baptism in Jesus name because it's his covenant that I am joined to with his testomony binding it together.Everything I do I do in His name, and everything I own has His name on it.