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1. The plain reading, KJV or DRB shows that Saul is to Your interpretation of Acts 22:16 does not follow the Greek syntax nor the doctrine of Paul's Gospel, and therefore is anathema. The versions KJV, DRB, Amplified, NIV, Young's all plainly say that the washibg away of sins were to be done by Saul hinsel, and thus cannot refer to conversion nor baptismal regeneration/salvation. In all, I believe that your gospel has another Jesus of the same kind, but still another than the Christ of the Bible; and that your interpretation is another of a different kind of hermeneutic that denies oven the construction of the sentence, let alone the context of the Bible plan of salvation.

You still haven't answered my challenge for you to tell me how, where, by whom, and for what purpose Peter was baptized.

2. Your interpretation of 1 Peter 3:20-21 is so warped that it neither admits that Noah's spirit was in communion with God's Spirit, saved by faith long before the flood came; and that when the flood did come, Noah's soul and body were saved from physical death not in the water, but kept out of the water. "In the like figure" means this is a figurative expression with water baptism being symbolic of the flood waters, and if you are not a dunce, Peter's language there is not literal, it is figurative-literal.

3. Unless you were different from anybody else, your body and spirit did not leave your body during the rite of baptism. The one baptized dos not literally die, but is subjected to a rite that figuratively exhibits the pre-baptism spiritual rebirth of the believer by comparing it to the literal truth of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and it cannot be plainer that baptism is symbolic. And if your baptism was not immersion, it wasn't even a New Testament baptism. Come on, wake up! The literal fact, of which the reborn child of God is intimately familiar, is the new life imparted by the Baptism of the Holy Spirit upon the believer at the moment when conviction, repentance, and total commitment to the Risen Christ, Lord, and Eternal High Priest join to produce a new-born Spiritual man-creature, all things being new, forever belonging to the Lord, and neither the believer's soul and spirit and faith ever to be seized from nor escape out of His grasp.

This is symbolized by the figure of death, burial, and resurrection of the believer in the conduct of the ordinance of the Disciples' Baptism into service to the King. "Baptism into Christ" is an expression where "Christ" is a metonomy representing the sense of "the service of Christ." It means "baptism into the service of Christ." That also is figurative-literal language.

4. Your church relying onthe writings of "Apostolic Fathers" (who are not the real, literal students of Jesus who saw, heard, and touched Jesus before death and after His resurrection), products of the false teaching of apostolic succession, is a denomination, and I would say a false one, an apostate from The Faith of the Bible, claiming authority over and above the Written Word, but not faithful to it. In fact, the whole failed hermeneuutic of that errant denomination is based on allegorical methodology deriving from worldly Platonic philosophy and introduced subsequent to the accession to influence of Gentiles who introduced catholicism, and not the Scripture-based literal, grammatical, historical, contextual, cultural hermeneutic displayed by Jesus and His Apostles. Paul himself, trained both by Gamaliel and later by Gentile scholars, stayed far away from the your kind of interpretation. THis hermeneutic was literal, pragmatic, and needed no translators to deliver the faith to the Greek-speaking population of his day. The reliance of your dogmas on fallible, errant men, many of whose actual heresies are recognized, are not the footing that I want to choose upon which to base my journey into eternal life with The God of the Bible and His Only Begotten Son.

Summary: Your enumerated points here are not only illiterate and unproven, but actually nonsensical. You look at a rite that is not only ripe with symbolism, and claim it is not, just like other rites and rituals invented to explain away secrets of God to which the denomination has never had access, but which are open to the regenerated believer-disciple through the Word of God and spiritual discernment (1 Cor. 2:13-16).

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

Greek syntax? Lol, I am sure the Greek Catholics understood Greek better than you.
1 Peter 3 needs no interpretation, it flatly states baptism does now save us.

The comment about physically dying shows a total lack of understanding of the historical Faith. In baptism, we are placed in Christ. Christ died for our sins, and He will never die again. All those in Christ therefore will never die spiritually.

You can attack the Church Fathers all you want, but isn’t strange that after the Apostles died, the universal faith believed by those all thru the world bears absolutely no resemblance to the strange doctrines and beliefs you hold.