What is your basis in your statement?
1 Peter 3:21
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
Mathew 3
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
So do you chose to ignore the words of Jesus?
“Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.