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Repentance is required for salvation (I’m sure you agree). Yet it is not specifically mentioned in Romans 10. Doesn’t have to be, for the saints at Rome had already been born again (Rom. 1:7,8; 6:3,4,17; 16:17-20), and knew the details.

Repentance is a work:
Matt. 11:21; 12:41; 1 Cor. 7:10; Acts 26:20 (to name a few).
The Lord told the adultress to “go and sin no more”, which would be repentance in action. The sinner woman, that anointed the Lord’s feet, was a display of repentance. The thief, whose time was running out, displayed his repentance in rebuking the unbelieving thief and asking mercy of the Lord.

GotQuestions opinion of John 20:23 is the same “old, tired, beaten down road” of ‘dodge city’ (truth mixed with private interpretations). I haven’t looked up GotQuestions interpretation of 1 Cor. 10:2, but I suspect their opinion, of being “baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea”, isn’t exactly a type and shadow of the rebirth commanded by Jesus Christ. Yet, Moses was a type and shadow of Christ. And the Red Sea was not in the Israelites plan for going to the promised land.

Exodus 14 shows how God turned them from the well traveled land route, that would have had them fleeing the Philistines and returning to Egypt. (Obviously, God could have utterly destroyed the Philistines, but chose not to.) Therefore, to save the Israelites, God made it clear that crossing the Red Sea was not an option: it was made mandatory, for Pharaoh and his partially depleted army were not completely destroyed at the angel’s passover; just the firstborn. And the Israelites obedience to the passover instructions was a form of repentance, for they had not offered any sacrifices to God for many years. It is no coincidence that ‘salvation’ is mentioned in verse 13, and ‘saved’ is mentioned in verse 30.

Did Jesus not command baptism? Paul wasn’t a flip flopper on water baptism, for he even baptized a few in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:14,16). But most likely his assistants performed many more than him (where strong muscles are an good asset). His foremost God-given skill was preaching, and he knew he was ordained to do it.

Does dealing with the old, tired, beaten down road of folks dodging inconvenient scriptures weary me? Not much. I’ve written a 270 page bible study and commentary that deals with conversion views; of which almost 200 pages examines Godhead views from trinitarians and modalists who have the same dodgy habit.

And a good day to you!