if asked by the Heavenly Hosts as to WHY I should be allowed into communion with God, I would answer
“Because my Lord Jesus Christ died and paid for my sins. I claim only the blood of Christ covers me and makes me presentable”.
Not because I was baptized. I could be an unbeliever who gets baptized for some reason. Or I could be an infant baptized by my parents.
Is baptism a commandment? Yes. Does that make a pre-requiste or the act upon which my salvation rests? No.
Christianity is the ONLY religion based not on what a PERSON does, but what God has DONE.
Jesus said it is finished. The work is done.
Knowing this, it should change our hearts as the Spirit works in our lives. We should turn away from the dead things, and to the spiritual things. We should love light, and not darkness.
Now I’m curious. Just what does a person do to be saved?