Some teach that you can’t be saved without being baptized, but the thief on the cross never made it down to the water. “Baptism now saves you” means what baptism stands for: repentance, death to the old self, and complete faith in Christ alone. It’s an outward sign of an inward commitment, a command every believer who is not providentially hindered should obey. It is not the thing that saves.
Scripture: 1 Peter: 3:21-22
