1 Corinthians 1:11-17 For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
How could Paul ignore baptism and refuse to baptize if it were necessary for so called original sin to be dealt with?
And notice that CHRIST was the one who sent Paul NOT TO BAPTIZE, but to preach.
Why?
Romans 10:14-17 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Faith does NOT come through baptism.
Exactly. getting baptized is an symbolic outward manifestation of your faith, your new life in Christ that your sin has been washed away by the blood of Christ.
Strangely, none of my six children asked to be baptized while they were infants. All they did was cry and poop themselves.
When they came of age and recognized they are sinners, they ask for baptism...