Is baptism essential unto salvation?

[clgustaveson]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

One does not get baptized to get saved, but because you are saved.

However, it grieves me that there are folks who have been deceived into thinking that they don't have to be baptized.


I compare it to the guy who was in the highway and hedges who was beckoned to come to the wedding after the original invitees rejected their invitations.

The guy showed up-- but he didn't have the right clothes on. He was cast out of the wedding feast, if I'm not mistaken.



It's the attitude of the person getting baptized that I address when I say, "No, you don't get baptized to get saved", but indeed, as a person who is saved, we must obey the scriptures.

Water Baptism by full immersion, with the invocation of the Name of Jesus, is CLEARLY A BIBLICAL COMMAND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED UNTO SALVATION!

Your logic doesn't make sense (again don't take this as a personal attack) but you say it is something you do because you are saved, therefore you don't have to do it to be saved... but you change your stance and say people still have to do it... if you really believed what you said first you would have said "should" rather than "have"...

I just don't think ritualism is enough to make me feel compelled to get baptized... (while I have been) I just don't think ritualism or simply because everyone else did it is a good enough answer to imply it must be done...