So the blood of Jesus was in effect to wash away sins when He died,which the thief was still alive and the blood could be applied to his life.
I wrote that the blood of Jesus was in effect to apply to the thief's life because Jesus died before the thief,so the thief was saved,but that it not true,and cannot be.
The blood of Christ must of been in effect before He actually died on the cross,at the beginning of the preaching of the Gospel,because not everybody that believed the Gospel during Jesus' three and a half years ministry could have lived until Jesus died on the cross,because some might have been 80 years old and believed at the beginning of the ministry,but only lived 2 years after that,and I'm sure they would of not perished.
5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God(John 3:5).
Jesus said you must be born of water and Spirit,to be saved.
20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him(1 Peter 3:20-22).
These scriptures are definitely talking about water baptism,for it compares Noah and his family as being saved by water,to the saints being saved by water,and it says water baptism does save us.
In the book of Acts,Gentiles,Jews,and Samaritans,were all baptized in water,and Peter preached that water goes with the salvation plan of God.
With all the water baptism they did after Jesus died,if it is not necessary for salvation,then what was the purpose of it,for God does not do anything in vain.People cannot say it shows loyalty to a Church,or the Church,or to Christ,because saying you follow Christ is enough,so what is the purpose of water baptism,and if it is required like they tried to stress in the book of Acts,then it has to be part of salvation seeing it is required,or is it an option,and if an option that makes no sense,that God would say you can be baptized or you do not have to be baptized,for with God it is either you have to be baptized or not be baptized,there is no options with God when it comes to water baptism,and they did it a lot in the book of Acts,everybody was water baptized.