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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin
Sorry I've been away from the computer. Thanks for the responses. But again no one has responded to my question.... Why did Paul say ...... 1Co 1:17 [B] For Christ did not send me to baptize, .... I find it interesting that he would make this kind of statement concerning something so important.
Just wonderin
Been Thinkin (Too much)
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While I do not recall the name of the pastor of the church at Corinth, but whoever he was was given that charge. It would have been proper order for him to do the baptizing. Paul said that he was not sent there for the purpose of baptizing anyone. It seems to me that Paul simply recognized and acknowledged proper order. It doesn't seem too mysterious to me, especially since baptism is a work of the cross in a believer's life. Surely, Paul recognized that too since...his preaching
was the cross.
Paul is not saying that Christ did not commission him or sent him to baptize. We find that Paul was definitely sent by Christ to baptize from the account given in
Acts 19, passing through the upper coast he came to Ephesus. Baptism was so important to Paul that he rebaptized those Baptist in the name of Jesus. The commission to baptize was given to Christ's Apostles in Matt 28 and elsewhere. Certainly Paul knew his commission in seeing that believers were baptized. Obviously, he did not fail the commission at Corinth.