In Acts 2:38 Peter said to be baptized for remission of sins (salvation).
In Acts 2:38, "for the remission of sins" does not refer back to both clauses, "you all repent" and "each one of you be baptized," but refers only to the first. Peter is saying "repent unto the remission of your sins," the same as in Acts 3:19. The clause "each one of you be baptized" is parenthetical.
In Acts 2:38, repentance is the means of receiving forgiveness and baptism is the symbol (in reference to) true repentance and forgiveness.
Acts 3:19 -
Repent therefore and
be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. *What happened to baptism?
Acts 10:43-47 - To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever
believes in Him will receive remission of sins. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the
gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. For they heard them
speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, "Can anyone
forbid water, that
these should not be baptized who
have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" *What happened to baptism in verse 43? Water baptism
followed believing, receiving the Holy Spirit and conversion.
Acts 11:17 - If therefore God gave them the same
gift as He gave us when we
believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?" When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles
repentance unto life. *What happened to baptism?
Acts 15:8,9 - So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by
giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made
no distinction between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith. *What happened to baptism?
Faith in Jesus Christ "implied in genuine repentance" (rather than water baptism) brings the remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 10:43-47; 11:17,18; 15:8,9). *Perfect Harmony*
In 1 Pet 3:21 Peter said baptism saves, so both verses speak of the one baptism of Eph 4:5 that saves, and they are both the human administered water baptism of the great commission.
Peter went on to say, "not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The Greek word “antitupon,” as used in I Peter 3: 21, is “an adjective, used as a noun,” and denotes, in the NT, “a corresponding type,” being “said of baptism.” “The circumstances of the flood, the ark and its occupants, formed a type, and baptism forms “a corresponding type,” each setting forth the spiritual realities of the death, burial, and resurrection of believers in their identification with Christ. Noah was saved by the ark “through (via) water.” Water was not the means of their salvation, but the ark. The ark is what both delivered and preserved them. Christian baptism pictures salvation and reveals, symbolically, the gospel. The word “antitupon” identifies baptism as a figure. So baptism does not save us in any sense other than as a figure. It is the figure of “the death, burial and resurrection of Christ by which we are actually saved.” A symbol is not the reality but a picture of the reality.
Ephesians 4:5 - one Lord, one faith,
one baptism.
1 Corinthians 12:13 - For by
one Spirit we were all baptized into
one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to
drink into one Spirit. This is clearly
Spirit baptism, not water baptism.
Notice in John 4:10, Jesus said "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a
drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you
living water." Water baptism is not living water by which we drink into one Spirit. You seem to have trouble making a distinction between Spirit baptism and water baptism.
OT type: saved by water
NT antitype: saved by water
Peter said 8 souls saved by/through water. Peter did NOT say 8 souls saved in an ark, as many change verse 20 to say.
Again, just as the eight people in the ark were "saved THROUGH water" as they were IN THE ARK. They were not literally saved "by" the water.
Hebrews 11:7 is clear on this point
(..built an ark for the SAVING of his household). Are you trying to change Hebrews 11:7? Who came in contact with the water and did it save them?
The NT antitype (antitupos) is a mirror reflection of the OT type: they were saved by water > we are saved by water. So it cannot some "spirit baptism" under consideration for the world was not flooded by spirit, but by literal water. Again, the NT antitype: water is a mirror reflection of the OT type; water. No spirit here. No ark here.
The Greek word for "figure" is "antitupon." Vine, in his Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, defines the word as "a corresponding type." He says, "It is not a case of type and antitype but of two types, that in Genesis, the type, and baptism, the corresponding type." (Vol. 2, page 96). Cremer's Lexicon says the word signifies an "image or similitude." Thayer's Lexicon defines it as "a thing resembling another." The flood symbolizes baptism and baptism symbolizes salvation. The flood was a figure of baptism in that in both instances the water that spoke of judgment (in the flood the death of the wicked, in baptism the death of Christ and the believer). Baptism is a symbol of salvation in that it depicts Christ's death, burial and resurrections and our identification with Him in these experiences. In reality, believers are saved by what baptism symbolizes--Christ's death and resurrection. You continue to confuse the symbol with the reality. You also disregard the ark (a type of Christ) as saving Noah and his family and Spirit baptism in Ephesians 4:5 and 1 Corinthians 12:13.
After Peter says baptism saves he say what baptism is NOT for, it is "not the putting away of the filth of the flesh". Obviously Peter is talking about water baptism, water being used to clean the filth of the flesh.
Peter said that baptism now saves you-
not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes dirt from the body--that is not the part which saves you), "but an appeal to God for a good conscience" (that is, as an inward, spiritual transaction between God and the individual, a transaction that is symbolized by the outward ceremony of water baptism). We could paraphrase Peter's statement by saying, "Baptism now saves you--
not the outward physical ceremony of baptism but the inward spiritual reality which baptism represents."
Peter then says baptism is "the answer of a good conscience toward God". In water baptism, sins are remitted where one can have a good conscience toward God.
False. You have been misled. The genitive in the Greek text is correctly translated as the pledge of a good conscience, not for a good conscience. It is a pledge made from a good conscience. Baptism is a pledge to God made from a good conscience. It is that aspect of baptism (what is signified, “the answer of a good conscience toward God”) rather than the external rite (the sign, the application of water) that saves. The symbol and the reality are so closely related that the symbol is sometimes used to refer to the reality and that seems to be what is confusing you. A FLOOD OF CONFUSION.
In Acts 2, Peter convicted his Jewish listeners of the sin of curcifying the Christ. Their guilty conscience lead them to ask Peter what shall they do. The "answer" Peter gave them for their guilty conscience of sin was to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins.....answer > be baptized., their appeal to God for a good conscience would come through water baptism.
Remission of sins and their appeal to God for a good conscience came through repentance/faith, which was then signified (yet not procured) in baptism. Also see Acts 3:19; 10:43-47; 11:17,18; 15:8,9.
Coffman Commentary points out:
It was the water of the flood that separated Noah from the disobedient generation that perished; and it is the water of Christian baptism that separates between the saved of today and the disobedient who perish.
But what actually saved Noah and his family during the separation?
Again, the genitive in the Greek text is correctly translated as the pledge of a good conscience, not for a good conscience. It is a pledge made from a good conscience. Baptism is a pledge to God made from a good conscience.