[John Leland 1789]

Forget whatever "Church" it is you are talking about that you say has taught for 2,000 that the only baptism is water. It is obviously operating under a private interpretation of Scripture, and an illogical one at that.

If the only baptism is water, and baptism saves, then all the wicked in Noah's day will be in heaven.

Set aside what that "Church" has been teaching for, as you say, 2,000 years, and LOOK, LOOK, OPEN THE PAGES AND LOOK, at 1 Peter 3:21.

WHO GOT WET ????? WHO, IN NOAH'S DAY, IN THAT PASSAGE, GOT BAPTIZED ????

Okay, I'll help you. The WICKED. The UNSAVED. Those WHO REJECTED THE TRUTH. They were all baptized in a watery judgment.

WHO WAS SAVED BY WATER ???

I'll help you again. Believers, eight of them, on an ark, WHO NEVER GOT WET; WERE NEVER IMMERSED, POURED ON, DAMPENED; THEY STAYED DRY.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

“forget whatever “Church”.....”

i am only aware of ONE CHURCH in the NT. I can’t find the First Baptist Church of Corinth there, but i do see the UNIVERSAL CHURCH which history shows has been here for 2,000 years and will be here until Jesus returns.

i do find it STUNNING that one can’t find any Christian who understood baptism from 95ad til the 16th century. simply stunning.