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With attention to selected terms: grace, obedience, works, dead, alive, raised, circumcision of Christ, faith, baptism, baptized, forgiven, sins, saved, new life, crucified with Christ. Nowhere does Paul, the “works” theologian, even hint... more

With attention to selected terms: grace, obedience, works, dead, alive, raised, circumcision of Christ, faith, baptism, baptized, forgiven, sins, saved, new life, crucified with Christ. Nowhere does Paul, the “works” theologian, even hint that baptism is a work of personal merit that cannot save, even in writing Galatian Christians who are condemned for turning aside to a different gospel. This alone is evidence that for Paul, the grace of Christ includes baptism in water.