1 Peter 3:18-22 18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
let’s all read verse 21 together:
“baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you......”
baptism saves us??? really? how can that be?
yes, baptism saves us, because it places us into Christ, we receive remission of our sins and we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
so yes my friends, the Bible teaches us that baptism does save us!!
it saves us not by washing the outer man but the soul!
Paul tells us this in Titus 3:5
“he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteouness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit”