Smvoice:
The GOSPEL that the 12 were sent to preach INCLUDED BAPTISM for remission of sins. The Gospel of the Kingdom
I'm gratified that you believe that in the Gospel baptism is for remission of sins.
If Paul did not preach and perform baptism for the remission of sins, --> this is a false statement as Paul himself says in 1 Cor 1:14 "[14] I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you
but Crispus and Caius; " and 16 "
[16] And I baptized also the household of Stephanus"
Paul DID baptise and Paul did preach that baptism is for remission of sins, and here is what Paul said Acts 2:38,
| 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Acts 22:16;
| 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. |
Rom. 6:1–4;
| 1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. |
1 Cor 6:11,
| 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God |
1 Cor 12:13;
| 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. |
Gal. 3:26–27;
| 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ |
Eph. 5:26;
| to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, |
Col. 2:11–12;
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[a] was put off when you were circumcised by[b] Christ,
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. |
Titus 3:5;
| 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, |
One cannot even say this was a symbol -- look at all of the examples above, look at the language, consistently same the same in each, that in baptism we are saved and buried with Christ, washed of our sins by this and born again
