Wow, so many twists!~ First, in the sequence is what causes repentance: believing you ARE a sinner with a death sentence. Then repentance. That is the evidence of belief which is what activates GOD doing for the sinner what he/she cannot do for their self. THEN being baptized is the outward evidence that the belief is sincere. You Catholics are so wedded to works that you even twist that passage to support works for righteousness, speciously.
Thr poer you focus upon was given to the Apostles. Your religion's priesthood IS NOT Apostolic regardless of your insisyence. And again, you are so wedded to works to obtain righteousness thast you focus upon penance.
Catholicism is another religion. It is NOT Christianity.
Catholicism is another religion. It is NOT Christianity. It is, by far, the most thorough and accurate form of Christianity that ever existed.....and it is 1,600 years earlier than Protestantism....