My response is quite accurate on the issue of your mentality towards this subject. You would never think this way toward other subjects like you are to this one.
Satan quoted scriptures....deal with it. He also used them in the same way you are, turning a general statement into a definitive event (Luke 4).
"this symbol points to baptism, which now saves you (1st Peter 3:21).
Salvation is not based on generalities but obedience to the Gospel of Christ.
More bloviated opinion it seems...
It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that BELIEVE....NO WATER mentioned
He that believes on the son is having everlasting life....No water mentioned
In the grace you are having been saved out of faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of GOD and not of works lest any man should boast.....No water mentioned
We conclude a man is justified by faith without works....No water mentioned
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy has he saved us.....No water mentioned
Abraham believed God and it was put to his account for righteousness...No water mentioned
David described the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without the deeds of the law....no water mentioned
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosever believes in HIM should not perish, but is having everlasting life...No water mentioned
They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." ...No water mentioned
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. ....NO water mentioned
And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." ..NO WATER mentioned
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. ...NO water mentioned
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; .....No water mentioned
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith......No water mentioned
so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. ....NO WATER mentioned
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life......No water mentioned
"For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day." ...NO WATER mentioned
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, ...NO WATER mentioned
but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name...No water mentioned
"Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins." ...NO water mentioned
And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." ...NO WATER MENTIONED
Seeing their faith, He said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you." ...NO WATER MENTIONED
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth...NO WATER MENTIONED
obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls...NO WATER MENTIONED
YOU can forget your Catholicized/WATERED down COC/ANGLICAN dogma.......ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, DAVID, MOSES, ABEL, JOB, HANNAH, and ALL the N.T. cited EXAMPLES above prove that water IMMERSION is not what saves a man and or forgives SINS........and UNTIL you open your eyes to CONTEXT you mouthy remarks = zero.........