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Once someone becomes a Christian, they must ask forgiveness of their sins and God will forgive them.

Acts 2:38 says that baptism is "for the remission of sins". Can you become a Christian before your sins are remitted?

Acts 22:16 says that baptism "washes away sins". Can you become a Christian before your sins are washed away?

Galatians 3:27 says that "as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ". Can you become a Christian before you "put on Christ"?

So Jesus was wrong when He said, beleive in Him and have eternal life. What He really meant was believe in Him AND get baptized to have eternal life.

We can play Scripture tag all day long. There are passages that make no mention of baptism in regards to salvation and there are those that do. So we need to reconcile the two. Baptism SAVES you from the world, just as Moses' baptism saved them from the Egyptians. The angel of death did not pass over those who had been baptized, but over those who had believed and placed the blood of the lamb on the doorpost.

JM