DID PAUL TEACH BAPTISM IS A WORKING OF MAN OR OF GOD?

from Daniel Keeran, MSW

Victoria, Canada
A new theology says Paul taught that baptism is the working of man rather than the working
of God. The following thoughts from Paul may provide some insight:

Romans 6:3-4
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order
that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too
may live a new life.

1 Corinthians 1:13
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?

1 Corinthians 12:13
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or
Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Galatians 3:26-27
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were
baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Ephesians 4:5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism

Philippians (see Acts 16:33)

At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then
immediately he and all his household were baptized.

Colossians 2:12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.