I like how you left out "one baptism" in verse 5, and its in the Greek... "βαπτισμα" and you missed it....
I already explained how one gets into the one body, it is by water baptism, you're buried in water putting you "into Christ" that puts you in spiritual contact with the cleansing blood of our Savior :
Romans 6:3-6 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? [SUP]4 [/SUP]Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. [SUP]5 [/SUP]For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, [SUP]6 [/SUP]knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Yes, Eph 2:8-9 says the Jewish law will not save you, but Titus 3:5 "through the washing of regeneration" and "renewing of the spirit" or in other words "water baptism" we are saved.
The, "One baptism", was the subject that we were discussing, So there was no point in putting that in.
One does not get into the body through water baptism, 1 Cor 12: 13, says it's by the spiritual rebirth,
By one SPIRIT we are baptised into the body, NOT by ONE baptism.
How did you get saved, And how did you get baptised in water?. Please tell me.
As for Rom 6: 3-6, Baptism is just the symbol of our ALREADY death, burial and resurrection with Christ.
One has to die to self, be buried with Christ and raised up with Christ before they can be baptised.
Eph 2: 8--9 says NO WORKS will save us, NOT the Jewish laws.
Titus doesn't say anything about water baptism, It says the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
The Greek word for, "Washing", in Titus 3: 5, is "Loutron", Not "Baptisma" [Baptism].