One who is baptized professes to have a good conscience toward God, with his sins forgiven. If that is not true, he has no right to be baptized and baptism is a lie and an empty pretense. Baptism is only for saved people, the answer of a conscience that is already cleansed and forgiven.
1 Peter 3:21 WEB, NLT
One is saved or set apart to answer the call in making a public declaration that one's conscience has been already cleaned by God. It is a public testimony of what God has done for you.
It doesn't make any sense to say that you have been saved from being smelly or dirty. What does physically being cleansed have to do with anything spiritual?
1 Peter 3:21 WEB, NLT
(a) "This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, (b) but as a response to God from a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ."
One is saved or set apart to answer the call in making a public declaration that one's conscience has been already cleaned by God. It is a public testimony of what God has done for you.
It doesn't make any sense to say that you have been saved from being smelly or dirty. What does physically being cleansed have to do with anything spiritual?
not by removing dirt from the body....if it does not say that ...show where it does...because it seems pretty clear to me...i you choose not to change your belie that is up to you...but let God be true....respect the word...
[h=1]1 Peter 3:20-21New Living Translation (NLT)[/h] [SUP]20 [/SUP]those who disobeyed God long ago when God waited patiently while Noah was building his boat. Only eight people were saved from drowning in that terrible flood.[SUP][a][/SUP] [SUP]21 [/SUP]And that water is a picture of baptism, which now saves you, not by removing dirt from your body, but as a response to God from[SUP][b][/SUP] a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.