Your right,
it does not remove sin, it does not remove the filth that is in us, and holds us dead to Christ. thus it can never make us alive in Christ, who were dead in trespasses and sin.
Your wrong,
Acts 22:16 (NKJV)
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16 [/SUP]And now why are you waiting? Arise and
be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
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Revelation 1:5 (NKJV)
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5 [/SUP]and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,
There are not two ways to wash away our sins, Paul shows us how we come into spiritual contact with His cleansing blood, Acts 22:16, it is water baptism,
We know there is only one baptism
"Ephesians 4:5 (KJV) One Lord, one faith,
one baptism," and Peter in 1 Peter 3:20-21 says it is water :
1 Peter 3:20-21 (NKJV) [SUP]
20 [/SUP] who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was being prepared, in which a few,
that is, eight souls, were saved through water. [SUP]21 [/SUP] There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
An "antitype" is like your face in a mirror only the opposite. Like in the days of Noah, where water washed the sins of the world, Peter says "water now saves us" its called "baptism" with water. And just so people like you don't mix this up with a regular bath, he expounds (not the removal of the filth of the flesh...)
You can see that, you just have to either reject it or the dogma of your man made religion, and you won't let go of the man made religion so guess which one you reject, the truth.