Your comment: “Obviously Peter was not saying that a person has to be Baptized to be saved but that it would save us.”
This is what Jesus said:
Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.d 6What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.e 7Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above. John 2:5-7
Jesus answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.d 6What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.e 7Do not be amazed that I told you, ‘You must be born from above. John 2:5-7
ὕδωρ, ὕδατος
hudōr hudatos
hoo'-dor, hoo'-dat-os, etc.
From the base of G5205; water (as if rainy) literally or figuratively: - water.
You can be born in water...
You can drink water...
You can wash your clothes in water...
You can wash yourself in water...
You can cool a radiator with water...
You can grow a garden with water...
You can be baptized in water...
Water DOES NOT mean
being born,
drinking,
washing,
cooling,
growing,
or baptizing...
Hopefully you guys will figure that out one day...