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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

1 Corinthians 1:17

"For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void."

Here we see Paul differentiating between "baptism" and "the gospel" - a distinction that illustrates that baptism, while an ordinace for the believer, is not a part of the gospel - that is, has nothing to do with salvation.

Most of us don't need it spelled out like that, since a plain reading of scripture shouldn't lead one to that conclusion (nevertheless some people trip over Acts 2:38...)

Water Baptism doesn't save us.

posted by Daniel @ 2:39 PM

2 Comments:

At 3:17 PM, April 12, 2006, Jim said…

"but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech..."

Amen! Let us have more straight forward gospel preaching and less cleverness.
At 10:15 AM, April 13, 2006, Daniel said…

The wealthy egyptians were entombed in sarcophogi, but I don't think the majority of the people were buried or entombed in boxes? It -is- interesting however.