Alan Gross
Well-Known Member
What? Oh, you think that I Corinthians 12:13a has something to do with Salvation and not that it makes I Corinthians 12:13c an unintelligible redundancy.
You base this new form of salvation on the preposition 'by', which is changed to 'in' in modern versions, since they have gone ahead and changed the word of God to accommodate the misinterpretation you have been told to hold.
Since, the context is all the teachers and gifts The Holy Spirit is the Divine Executive Administrator in supplying the Lord's churches, it may be possible that The Holy Spirit is also Big enough to be the One responsible for Superintending the Guidance of SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS to be added to particular church bodies.
Because, how would they be added to one local body? By water baptism.
Otherwise, there is a new form of salvation created from and dependent on a preposition, instead of leaving salvation as The New Birth from above.
Might as well go with an obscure preposition interpretation to invent the only instance of baptism being by the Spirit and go ahead and make up a new kind of body, different than the 10 others, in the immediate context.
WAIT! I hadn't seen. You have already done that and pretend there is something called, "One Church", here below. Where'd you get that at?
Who cares? Make it invisible if you want to.
I think you have shown that adding to the scriptures is pretty abominable and God knows it, because He said so.