There is a difference between what you say and what the Word actually expresses. The Word of God requires everyone to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sin. Therefore when a person trusts that what God's Word says is true and responds in obedience to the command a spiritual reality occurs. This is only made possible through the shed blood of Jesus on Calvary.
Being baptized into Christ is in fact water baptism. (Romans 6:4-6, Col. 2:12-13) Think about what you, yourself, pointed out. "As you go down into the water you are buried with Christ, as you come up out of the water you are resurrected with Christ, a new man." This is a picture of one being reborn. A person must die in order to be born again. To relegate the rebirth experience in water baptism to a mere public display is to err.
Being baptized into Christ is in fact water baptism. (Romans 6:4-6, Col. 2:12-13) Think about what you, yourself, pointed out. "As you go down into the water you are buried with Christ, as you come up out of the water you are resurrected with Christ, a new man." This is a picture of one being reborn. A person must die in order to be born again. To relegate the rebirth experience in water baptism to a mere public display is to err.
You have turned the salvation of God into works of a man, it is no longer grace, it will not be accepted by God!