So, as has happened frequently in the process of writing Close Your Church for G00d, I'm cutting almost everything I have written so
far about baptism in the book of Acts, and am summarizing it with the following:
Not exact matches
All of the posts so
far show an extreme lack of understanding of Mormonism and it's doctrines
about baptisms for the dead.
Cyprian, having made the point
about water and
baptism, goes on to look at
further scriptural examples, including merging Isaiah 48:21 with John 19:34, to make the point that water from the split rock indicates Christ, «who is the rock, is split open during His passion by a blow from a lance.»
But, so
far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes
about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his view of the terms on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (
baptism / faith in Jesus without taking on Jewish observance of Torah).