Are we saved by water baptism or Holy Spirit baptism?
Acts 19:3-5
So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?John's baptism," they replied.
Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus."
On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Salvation is through Jesus. So neither water nor the Holy Spirit save.
Expressing scripture and our views of its meaning is encouraging. You seem to be wanting something else, what is that?
You said, "yes it can be answered with one word". I hope I have shown this is simply not true.
Now that is a LOADED QUESTION! If the diversity was not present in all the denominations of the world, IT COULD BE TRUE, AS LONG EVERY PASTOR TAUGHT THE SAME SERMON, and never deviated from the PLAN. Sense we got a multitude of denominations, I will answer the question, I will answer with my Personal view, KNOWING when they read what I wrote, many will like TO THROW STONES.
I will tell you how conservative evangelicals will answer this question.
No one is SAVED BY WATER, unless you count the EIGHT People on the ARK. So with that Statement: All Catholics, All the Lutherans, and Some of the Mainline Christian Denominations are ready to throw Stones.
1 Peter 3:20-22 (NKJV)
20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
21 There is also an
antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.
Okay, answering this question further, will make most of the Pentecostal, Charismatics, and Believer's that
Tongues are for today, ANGRY. In fact some will what to throw BIG ROCKS when I say what I have to say, TO ANSWER THE Question. NO, SPIRITUAL BAPTISM has NOTHING TO DO WITH SPEAKING IN
TONGUES. When you actually read the Scripture, the Holy Spirit is the ONE DOING BAPTIZING, and HE IMMERSES {BAPTIZES} US INTO THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF CHRIST HIMSELF.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 (NASB)
12 For even as the body is one and
yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body [NOT IN WATER], whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
That is what it says, and WE BELIEVE IT WHOLE HEARTEDLY.
HE Immerses us in the the Spiritual Body of Christ, HE Pours GOD's LOVE into our Hearts (human spirit), HE births our once dead Human Spirit into Eternal LIFE, HE gives us a loving CHANGE in our HEARTS (human spirit) to were we have AGAPE LOVE FOR GOD and the Brethren, HE gives us an insatiable appetite FOR THE WORD OF GOD, and so many other wonderful things.