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And by that same token, some listen to the inner voice of "Cephas" or "Paul", no? Even if the Jesus/Christ message was the original one they heard.

How does it imply that? The text says one person follows Cephas and still another person follows Christ.

If text said something like "One follow's Christ through Peter, one through Paul" etc. then it would imply they all follow the same Christ. But it doesn't.

That's not clear at all, Ulan, because it says one follows one and another follows another. Surely, you at least recognise the earliest churchgoers could easily have got their gospels mixed up. Even if Jesus/Christ was the original one.

Can anyone speculate?

Could it be that the "Crucifiction" part of the message arrived after the Corinthian church was set up? And that they were more taken with Jesus Angel resurrection story?

The sense is not that they all follow the same belief, Ulan, because it says there is division and that one person follows Peter, one follow, Apollos, and one follows Christ.

Clearly everyone did not baptise in that name, Ulan, because that's the very behaviour he's aghast at : ("No one may say that you were baptised in my name") Is it really so impossible to imagine that early believers got their saviour figures mixed up even if Jesus/Christ was the original m...

What's the significance of the baptising here, MrMacSon?

But then how are they including Christ in this list of competing apostles?

Not really, because "I follow Christ" is included amongst these other figures followed by members of the Corinthian church.