May you truly find the Truth of God. Your statements are factually false. What will it take for you to truly understand and accept the Word of God?
Christians have always interpreted the Bible literally when it declares, “Baptism . . . now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 3:21; cf. Acts 2:38, 22:16, Rom. 6:3–4, Col. 2:11–12).
Thus the early Church Fathers wrote in the Nicene Creed (A.D. 381), “We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.”
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “The Lord himself affirms that baptism is necessary for salvation [John 3:5]. . . . Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament [Mark 16:16]” (CCC 1257).
https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-necessity-of-baptism
“May you truly find the Truth of God. Your statements are factually false.“
I thank God for His Indescribable Gift of Christ and forgiveness of all sin and eternal life.
His Word records all that a soul needs for salvation and maturity.
Unfortunately, not a single passage you referred to means what you claim. No doubt somewhere told you that. They misled you.
“Christians have always...”
No, but it would be entertaining to see someone try to prove that universal claim.
“Thus the early Church Fathers wrote...”
Who were not inspired, nor authoritative.
“And the Catechism of the Catholic Church states”
Not inspired, nor authoritative.
You mean the early church fathers who preached salvation by grace through faith and not by works, in blatant contradiction to what modern day Roman Catholicism teaches? THOSE church fathers?
I've never understood this.
Just what Jewish LAW was Jesus referring to here??