[FourtySeven]

Baptism does NOT save.

1 Peter 3:21 Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you

[metmom]

The WHOLE sentence says this.

1 Peter 3:21-22 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, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

NOT water baptism.

If baptism saves, then Christ died for nothing.

But, again, only blood can atone for sin. Water can't do it. Water represents the Holy Spirit into whom we are baptized when we believe.

Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Additionally, the interpretation that baptism saves directly contradicts other clear teaching of salvation by believing, thus rendering it a wrong interpretation.

[Elsie]

1 Peter 3:18-22

 

 

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

¹⁹ After being made alive,^[d] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— ²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, ²¹ and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.^[e] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

 

 

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