Water baptism is not vital for salvation?

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by houston

Forgiveness of sins. Circumcision of the heart. Identifying with His burial and resurrection.

Baptism into his death!

.. so that we're dead and therefore freed from sin. This means sin shall not have dominion over us any more. And it's what Peter said about baptism in 1 Peter 3 through 4, where we put on the mind of Christ and realize that if we died with Him we need not live to sin any more.

[Jito463]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Baptism into his death!

.. so that we're dead and therefore freed from sin. This means sin shall not have dominion over us any more. And it's what Peter said about baptism in 1 Peter 3 through 4, where we put on the mind of Christ and realize that if we died with Him we need not live to sin any more.

Exactly. I mean, Peter couldn't get much clearer than this:

1 Peter 3:20-21

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

I guess ol' Petey was just mistaken.