The Bible tells us to avoid foolish genealogical work.
1 Tim 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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1 Tim 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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KEVIN WROTE:
If Baptism is essential to the Gospel & Salvation, then why does Paul say?
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel
They are 2 separate things, on the one hand Baptism (NOT sent), the other Gospel (sent).
If baptism was an essential part of the Gospel, then he would have been "sent" to perform such. Instead he was sent to Preach the Gospel.
BLAINE: Now, who is trying to make a doctrine from a single scripture? Kevin, maybe? The doctrine of Baptism, and it's being necessary for one's salvation, is made clear--very clear--in various places. None more clearly though than when the Lord himself said,
"Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (John 3:5) Who was greater, Paul, or the Messiah himself? I'd say you better go with the statements attributed to Jesus Christ, and go from there to figure out what Paul was trying to say. I am sure he did not mean what he said to be taken as an "out" from the need for Baptism. As I said, Kevin has his own religion, which is not even Christian.
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