So Paul missed it? He avoided water baptizing. He was not called to do that, but to preach the gospel. His preaching established many churches.
Paul could count on his fingers how many he water baptized. So Paul missed it? He avoided water baptizing. He was not called to do that, but to preach the gospel. His preaching established many churches.
Yet Paul only water baptized less than two dozen converts. How many folks do you suppose believed his gospel? Probably thousands. So they were left unsaved because he didn't accept a ministry of water baptizing?
Look at your scattered confusion, you're all over the place...
You say Paul said he was sent to preach the gospel, not baptize :
1 Corinthians 1:17 (NKJV)
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
Yet above you admit (and rightly so) the scriptures say he did baptize, in fact Paul said in the previous two verses :
1 Corinthians 1:14-16 (NKJV)
14 I thank God that
I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.
16 Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other.
Now either Paul was sent to baptize, or he sinned when he did (and he did baptize), he may not have been sent to Corinth to baptize, but he was commissioned to baptize just like everyone else (Matt 28:19-20), you as others lift scripture out of context to make your man made doctrine work, and fall all over yourself while doing it, you flop like a fish.
If you throw your man made doctrine out the window, you would find the contradiction you display now, would go out the window with it.
You would find Paul was only glad he did not baptize many in Corinth so those in Corinth could not boast that they were baptized by him as they were others that baptized them...
You so entrenched in your man made doctrine you fly right by the actual teaching of the text.