[Elsie]

There is a whole lot of water baptism in Acts, and it was treated as a very serious and urgent matter.

HMMMmmm...

It's strange that St. Paul didn't seem to feel this way.

1 Corinthians 1:17
For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel,

[redleghunter]

1 Corinthians 1:17
For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel

Thanks you beat me posting the verse.

We can conclude from the above verse that water baptism is not the Gospel. We see this again in 1 Corinthians 15. Seems the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the focus of the Gospel message and those who believed this were baptized.

Why do people make this so difficult?