1 Peter 3:20-21
“...God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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 believe the water mentioned in 1 Peter 3:20-21 pertains to water baptism for the following reasons:
“...God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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 believe the water mentioned in 1 Peter 3:20-21 pertains to water baptism for the following reasons:
antitupos: struck back, corresponding to
Original Word: ἀντίτυπος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: antitupos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-teet'-oo-pon)
Definition: struck back, corresponding to
Usage: typical of, representing by type (or pattern), corresponding to, an image.
HELPS Word-studies
499 antítypon (from 473/antí, "corresponding to" and 5179/typos, "type") – properly, an antitype which corresponds to (fulfills) a type (a predictive symbol). See 5179 /typos ("a theological type") for extended discussion.
1.The water was the means God used to carry Noah and his family to safety.
The water represented DEATH by drowning. Just ask the rest of humanity in Noah's day. And animals, birds, etc.
Even the title of this thread is in error. 1 Peter 3:21 doesn't say "saved by water". It says "saved THROUGH water". The literal water didn't save anyone. The ARK saved 8 people. The literal water KILLED the rest of mankind. All of them.
The sin of the world was washed away in the flood waters.
2. Notice verse 21 makes specific mention of the process having nothing to do with the removal of filth from the flesh.
(This is a reference to bath water) Thus, the comment points to a spiritual transaction taking place.
John the baptizer said this about baptism:
Mark 1:8 - I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
This is clearly explained in Acts 10 and 11-
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44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.
What then followed was the ritual of water baptism, which was AFTER Holy Spirit baptism.
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15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
3. The scripture mentions that baptism is the answer of a good conscience toward God. Our own behavior, and in this particular case getting baptized, is what prompts a good conscience.
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