“for in one Spirit we were all BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and all were made to drink of One Spirit”
IN ONE SPIRIT. We were baptized IN ONE SPIRIT into one body.
Anyone who has not been immersed in the Spirit is not a Christian. Anyone who has, is. For Jesus baptizes his own in the Holy Spirit.
I’m a baptist, and strongly believe in water baptism for a new believer - but it isn’t water that saves, as Peter noted:
“Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ...”
Baptism, according to Peter, corresponds to the flood waters that separated Noah from the sinful generation God destroyed. Water baptism has value for sanctification, but not for justification.
as RR said, there you go again.
you introduce the unbiblical term “water baptism”, as if there is an “unwater baptism”. the Scriptures only use the term baptism, because there is only one baptism.
Peter flatly says baptism now saves you. he then explains it saves you not by the washing of the outward body, but of the washing of the soul.