Baptism does not make you saved. The blood of Christ received by faith is what makes you saved. I am reading scripture correctly. ALL of it. Not just isolated parts of it, but all of it as a whole.
If you believe you are addressing ALL of scripture then why do you keep ignoring the scripture I post?
Baptism does not make you saved. The blood of Christ received by faith is what makes you saved.
We are saved by faith AND baptism - Jesus says so.
As to the blood of Christ:
The blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1Jn 1:7)
To him [Jesus] who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood (Rev 1:5)
It is through the blood of Christ that our sins are forgiven.
Jesus shed his blood by his death on the cross.
One soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. (Jn 19:34)
To have our sins washed away we must come into contact with the blood of Christ that he shed on the cross. How do we do that?
Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (Rom 6:3)
When we are baptised into Jesus’ death we spiritually come into contact with his blood and we are cleansed from sin. Baptism is the way we can do this. When Ananias told Paul
‘Get up and have yourself baptised and your sins washed away, calling upon his name.’ (Acts 22;16), it was by Jesus’ blood that Paul’s sins were washed away.
You have no understanding of baptism.
Ultimately, the person who does not get baptized is lost because disobedience is unbelief. They are not lost because they failed to do something that makes them saved. They are lost because they are in unbelief.
Baptism is not a work that makes you saved. No work does that. Only the blood of Christ received by faith can do that. That's what "righteousness apart from works" means (Romans 4:6).
Baptism is not a work that makes you saved.
It is in baptism that
God saves us.
It is
God's work.
In baptism God renews us.
“..he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.” (Titus 3:5)
“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” (Rom 6:3-4).
Romans continues in verse 5:
For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. If we are not united with Christ in his death (by baptism), we will not be united to him in the resurrection.
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n him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead (in) transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; (Col 2:11-13)
Through baptism we are brought into the new covenant
“In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Col 2:11-12) This clearly links a “spiritual circumcision” with baptism, a link from baptism to the covenant, not through physical circumcision (as in the Old Covenant) but a spiritual one.
This is why we must be “born from above”. Jews were born into the Old Covenant. When we are born from above we are born into the New Covenant.
Converts to Judaism had a formal conversion process which involved undergoing the ritual bath (in a
mikvah) and for men circumcision. For Christians last requirement was dispensed with at the council of Jerusalem in Acts 15. But the ritual bath remained as baptism.
In baptism our sins are forgiven
Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. (Acts 2:38)
Now, why delay? Get up and
have yourself baptised and your sins washed away, calling upon his name. (Acts 22:16).
You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead (in) transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; (Col 2:11-13)
baptism makes us children of God
For through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendant, heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:26-27)
Paul tells us in Romans 9:8
“That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.” It is in baptism (with water) that we become children of the promise; we are made children of God.
