It's right there, and a hundred other places...You can not get into Christ by getting wet...It's a spiritual operation...
Baptism does not mean water...Baptism means immersion into something...
When you get baptized 'with water' then baptism is water baptism...When you get baptized with the Holy Ghost, then it is spiritual...No water involved...
1. Any plain reading of Acts 22:16 shows Pauls sins were not forgiven until he was baptized.
The plain reading shows there were two events...
Act 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, (1st event)...
and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.( that's the 2nd event)...
The clincher is the and...Washing away thy sins is connected to 'calling on the name of the Lord'...
” it’s right there”
Where? Where does the Bible say baptism is symbolic? You say hundreds of places, I am only asking for you to show me one.
When you get baptized with water, you got baptized.........no such term in bible as water baptism.