1 Pet 3:21 English > "...baptism doth also now save us...."
1 Pet 3:21 Greek > "...baptisma sōzō kai nyn sōzō hēmas..."
NO verse in Acts 10 or 11 or anywhere else say one has to first be saved before he can be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38 it is water baptism that remits sins, not baptism with the Holy Ghost, so theywere lost until they obeyed the command to be water baptized.
Again, from Acts 11, Peter rehearsed BY ORDER the events that happened and the HS fell upon them as Peter BEGAN to speak, so Peter had not told them the words whereby they would be saved when the HS fell upon them.
1 Pet 3:21 Greek > "...baptisma sōzō kai nyn sōzō hēmas..."
NO verse in Acts 10 or 11 or anywhere else say one has to first be saved before he can be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38 it is water baptism that remits sins, not baptism with the Holy Ghost, so theywere lost until they obeyed the command to be water baptized.
Again, from Acts 11, Peter rehearsed BY ORDER the events that happened and the HS fell upon them as Peter BEGAN to speak, so Peter had not told them the words whereby they would be saved when the HS fell upon them.
Peter preached the gospel, the words they heard - "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom thy slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; . . . " The Gentiles believed what they heard (faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God) and the holy Spirit fell on all them which heard - they were saved, born again of the Spirit at that moment. So in all actuality - the water was not needed for salvation (they were already saved) except for the symbolic nature of the act - dying with Christ and being raised with Christ.