[LearsFool]

And it doesn't do anything else either, except get us wet.

So you say. But the apostle Peter says baptism saves us.

Do you believe I Peter 3:21?

[CynicalBear]

>>So you say. But the apostle Peter says baptism saves us.<<

No, he does not. He says the water is a symbol or antitype of what saves us.

1 Peter 3:21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

[Iscool]

So you say. But the apostle Peter says baptism saves us.

Do you believe I Peter 3:21?

But it's not water baptism...It is the Spiritual baptism he's referring to...It is the 'belief' (the answer of a good conscience toward God) which results in the indwelling of the Holy Ghost...That's the baptism that saves us...

Act_11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.