[scouter]

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Baptism is how you get saved.

[SaveFerris]

Baptism is your public announcement after you get Saved by Believing (IMHO)

Mark 16:15-16
New American Standard Bible

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation.

16 The one who has Believed and has been Baptized will be Saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2016%3A15-16&version=NASB

John 3:17-18
English Standard Version

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the World might be Saved through him.

18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the Only Son of God.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203%3A17-18&version=ESV

[MayflowerMadam]

“Baptism is how you get saved.”

Nowhere in Scripture does it say baptism saves a person. The ordinance of baptism is a public confession of faith in Jesus Christ. It is the next step AFTER salvation.

It’s a SYMBOL of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection.

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

Be wary of religions that make up stuff.

[fidelis]

John 3:3-5
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicode′mus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. 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 clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

[bray]

Baptism is not salvation. Asking for Salvatoin and believing is Salvation. Baptism is just an sign of your belief.