[StormPrepper]

Baptism? I don’t recall Jesus, while dying on the cross, asking the thief to his right if he had been baptized in the church. I do remember the thief confessed his sins to Jesus, repented, and accepted Jesus as the true son of GOD. And Jesus assured the thief, HE would go and prepare him a place in paradise today.

You're assuming the thief hadn't already been baptized.

[Texicanus]

You're assuming the thief hadn't already been baptized.

That's right...

[Iscool]

You're assuming the thief hadn't already been baptized.

And we're also assuming he wasn't wearing a pair of Red-Ball Jets...

[imardmd1]

Texicanus: I do remember the thief confessed his sins to Jesus, repented, and accepted Jesus as the true son of GOD.

StormPrepper: You're assuming the thief hadn't already been baptized.

Please note that the malefactor was one of, if not the, last soul saved under the Mosaic/Davidic Covenant, for whom water baptism was not an issue. He was saved by faith alone in Jesus alone, the same way that people are saved under the New Covenant. However, obedience to the command of Christ to be inducted into the Company of The Committed, His Bride, is to submit oneself to the baptismal rite of accepting the role as a disciple under the New Covenant.

That was not a role urged for the malefactor. He is a friend of The Bride.