Is Baptism Necessary For Salvation?

BIs Baptism Necessary for Salvation ?
Mark 16:15-16
An honest statement??
“Nowhere does the Bible teach that a person must be baptized to enter the kingdom of God ..”
Baptism one of most common practices of all religious groups claiming to be Christian ..
General agreement God wants us to be baptized ..
A very common view today ...
“Baptism is immersion of a person by putting him under water. Baptism does not help a person be saved. However, Jesus told his followers to be baptized. It symbolizes the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, a pictorial testimony of what has already taken place in the Christian life - death to his old life, its burial, and his resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.”
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1st.. Jesus and baptism ...
Must be born again .. Jn 3:3-7
unless born again, cannot see kingdom of God.
unless born of water and the Spirit, cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Water refers to baptism ...
Matthew 3:4-7 Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him 6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
John 3:23 John was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there.
1st.. Jesus and baptism ...
The Great Commission .. Mk 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Req. for salvation: Belief + Baptism
To be lost: Not believing
1st.. Jesus and baptism ...
Making disciples .. Matt 28:19-20
Matthew 28:19-20 Go make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you ..

2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Peter)
Peter on Pentecost .. Acts 2:38,41
Repent and be baptized for remission of sins
3000 baptized, added same day ..

For (eis) = in order to or because of ?
Matt 26:28 blood shed for rem of sins
2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Peter)
House of Cornelius … Acts 10:44-48
Can any forbid water that these should not be baptized …
Commanded them baptized in the name of the Lord

2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Philip)
To Samaritans … Acts 8:12
they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Philip)
Ethiopian eunuch … Acts 8:36-38
Here is water, what hinders me being baptized?
Went down into water, baptized him, came out of water, went rejoicing
2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Paul)
Philippian jailor … Acts 16:30-34
Told to believe on Lord Jesus
Spoke word of Lord, jailor and household baptized same hour
2nd.. Preaching of Apostles (Paul)
Paul’s own conversion.. Acts 9:6, 22:16
Go into city, told what you must do
Told not to delay, arise be baptized, wash away sins
3rd.. Letters to churches (Paul)
Romans 6:3-5 as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? .. buried with Him through baptism into death.

3rd.. Letters to churches (Paul)
1 Peter 3:21 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,


3rd.. Letters to churches (Peter)
Galatians 3:26-27 as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Colossians 2:12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.


An honest statement ..
“Nowhere does the Bible teach that a person must be baptized to enter the kingdom of God ..”
Commanded by Jesus
Preaching of apostles
Letters to churches
Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation ?
Mark 16:15-16