{"id":547,"date":"2009-10-06T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-10-06T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:17:35","slug":"paul-water-baptizing-people-at-corinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/547\/paul-water-baptizing-people-at-corinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul water baptizing people at Corinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John, I received this question from the web site.\u00a0 I know Paul regretted doing so and that he only baptized a few, but I couldn&#8217;t find anything that specifically addresses this man&#8217;s question.\u00a0 Crispus was Jewish, Stephanas was of the firstfruits of Achaia and quite likely Jewish as Paul started in the synagogue and I can&#8217;t see any details regarding Gaius of Corinth.\u00a0 Any other thoughts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">djc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">================<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Web Comment:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi.\u00a0 If Paul states that water baptism is not required, why did he still baptize the Corinth believers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Name: Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">================<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Damien:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Paul baptized those Jews in Corinth (and then taught the Gentiles that water baptism was useless) for the same reason he circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:1-3) and then taught the Gentiles that if they submitted to circumcision, they were backslidden and were &#8220;fallen from grace&#8221; (Gal. 5.4).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>This is why we cannot use the book of Acts to formulate any doctrine.\u00a0 The Law of Moses was not quite dead yet (Heb. 8:13), and much confusion resulted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I received this question from the web site.\u00a0 I know Paul regretted doing so and that he only baptized a few, but I couldn&#8217;t find anything that specifically addresses this man&#8217;s question.\u00a0 Crispus was Jewish, Stephanas was of the firstfruits of Achaia and quite likely Jewish as Paul started in the synagogue and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}