To all a Happy Pentecost! About 3400 years ago, God gave His Law and made a covenant with the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai written on tables of stone. Then about 2000 years ago, God gave His called out ones--the church---His Holy Spirit and wrote the spiritual aspects of His Law on the hearts of all believers. Happy birthday to the Ekklesia. Celebrate the salvation we have through Jesus our Lord.
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In I Corinthians 1 Paul is addressing the division in the church. Notice Vs. 11 and in vs. 12 people were saying "I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Cephas (Peter) or I am of Christ." It wasn't that Paul didn't baptize, in fact he did baptize some of them. Notice in Vs. 14-16. He's not saying baptism wasn't important he was saying that whoever did the act of baptizing is not important. Lest people say "Well I was baptized by so and so" as if that meant more than being baptized by someone else.
Interesting you use 1Peter 3:21 because that is a confirmation of baptism. It goes right along with what Jesus said after His ressurection in Matthew 28:18-19.
And Peter in Acts 10 yes, witnessed the Holy Spirit falling on Cornelius and his household and then in Acts 10:47 says "Can any man forbid the water that these should not be baptized..."
Paul might have got caught up in the moment then realizing water immersion is a waste of time that does not do anything.
Baptism means immersion and immersed in what??? It has to be followed by a noun.
Baptized in water? In mud? In the Word of God? In the Holy Spirit?
The only Baptism that counts is Holy Spirit Baptism.
Peter is referring to a good conscience toward God like he witnessed at Cornelius home in Acts.
Like the thief on the cross. Lord will you remember me when I come into thy presence.
Peter said Baptism of the Holy Spirit not the putting away of the filth of the flesh saves us.
If your pastor is teaching you this false doctrine, cancel him out and find a better
congregation but good luck only around 3% of churches are any good.
Yes baptism in water baptizo in Greek which means Immersion. If you have a strong's concordance you can see which Greek word is used there in the original and we have thousands of copies of the originals.
Paul making a mistake about water baptism when he himself was baptized after seeing Jesus on the road to Damascus.
It is evident you haven't read the scriptures lin their entirety for you didn't know about Peter baptizing Cornelius and his family in water or Jesus' great Commission speaking about baptism, or those on the day of pentecost, or Ethiopian Eunuch the Philippian Jailer, or those in Acts 19 or those Paul baptized in Corinthians.
Instead of asking the question: "Water baptism and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit seem to go hand in hand, why the difference on different occasions?" You say "Paul was making mistakes and Acts isn't a doctrinal book book."
Hardly someone I would ever take seriously when it comes to scripture is someone cutting it up to fit a narrative.
And as for Peter saying baptism is not the removal of filth from the flesh he's speaking about the act of going in the water isn't for the physical cleanliness of the person but the spiritual as Paul talks about in Romans 6:1-4. That's why I'm very surprised you used that verse, many people against baptism stay away from it.
Well nothing I say seems to resonate with you so I have the distinct feeling that you are a member of the dispensational Baptist Church or Church of Christ because you're so stuck on water immersion.
Hopefully you will learn the errors of your way.