No,
Under yours you will never be able to be saved, Because your trying to pay your certificate of death of by your works. Which were never a requirement to be paid.
The penalty of sin is death. Not doing all these works.
yes, it is a separation from God, Obeying the Gospel (including baptism) reconciles you with God, God will not obey the Gospel for you.
No place in the OT or new did God say the penalty of sin is to be baptized. So when you are baptized, your certificate of debt is paid in full, and you are released or acquitted of this debt.
It says the penalty is death, Thus ONLY death can pay the certificate.
Trying to pay your debt by being good and being baptized is like trying to pay your bak loan off with monopoly money, Your works are useless (or as God calls them, As filthy rags)
You have a choice which death, Yours or Christs??
in regard to your ignorant comparison to "filthy rags" Isaiah 64:6, maybe you should back up and look at Isaiah 64:5
God will accept and bless those who "
worketh righteousness"
Isaiah 64:5-6 (KJV)
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Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. [SUP]
6 [/SUP]But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
No place in the bible is baptism called a penalty, it is a part of what is required to reconcile your self with God, nobody, not even God can or will do that for you.