Nice try.
Baptism does not save. And scripture does not say that. You’ve cherry-picked one verse and taken it out of context. Try reading it all. Try taking it ALL in context.
Hoss
If you can live with your interpretation, that’s fine. Just wanted to point it out to you.
You cant just wave your hands and say “context” to make hard parts disappear.
18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, 19 In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: 20 Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. 21 Whereunto baptism being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death, that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.(1 Peter 3)