• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

If baptism is so important...

Status
Not open for further replies.

anawim

Senior Veteran
Aug 24, 2004
3,105
183
71
NY suburbs
Visit site
✟27,465.00
Faith
Catholic
Politics
US-Republican
DrDaveMD said:
Then why didn't Christ call Saint Paul, one of the first Christian leaders to baptize?
"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. 1 Cor 1:17, NKJV"




I've always wondered what Catholics had to say about this verse.


Maybe for the same reason that priests normally baptize, not bishops. There is always an ordinary minister, and an extraordinary minister designated for administering a sacrament.
 
Upvote 0
Status
Not open for further replies.