25 Baptism does wash away original sin allow me to quote: "Rise and be baptised Wash away your sins and call on his name"(Acts 22:16)
Thanks. Please permit me 2 quote in rebuttal: "baptism, NOT a putting away of the filth of the flesh" (1 P 3:21, emphasis added). In addition, u properly quoted Ac 22:16. "Sins," plural. Not sin, original sin, sin nature, singular (unlike Ac 2:38; 1 Jn 1:9). Sin, although the element and cause of sins, is not an identical concept. Nor word. One has an 's' at the end. The other does not. "Sin," singular, at times may refer to an individual act of sin, or even sins plural. But "sins," plural, never is used for sin as an element (original sin, sinful nature within man) singular. Lastly, Ananias' command to Saul in Ac 22:16 is not meant intrinsically nor in God's legal sense b4 God. Only the Lamb's blood washes away (justifies from) sin (Ac 13:39; 1 Jn 1:7, 9; Rm 3:24-26; Rv 22:14). This can, and should, transpire b4, during, and after baptism. It's not dependent either on baptism nor on the water of baptism. It's the basis, reason, and cause for the forgiveness mentioned in Ac 2:38 and the washing mentioned in Ac 22:16. Not vice versa. As much as the rest of the Bible's interpreted in the light of Ac 2:38 and/or 22:16; even more 2:38 and 22:16 are interpreted properly in the light of the rest of the Bible and its context. As Paul the apostle wrote in Romans 3:25 concerning Christ and His physical blood: Whom God set forth as a propitiation place through faith in His blood...
1 Peter 3:19-21 does show baptism does give you the grace of salvation. "Baptism now saves you" Hence the Holy Spirit Works(saves) through water.
Baptism saves and's gracious. This is absolutely correct and accurate (cf also Mk 16:16). However, the word "saves" has different applications depending on its context. For instance, baptism saves in 1 P 3:21 in the way 3:21 says it does: as "the appeal of a good conscience to God." That is, out of obedience (cf Lk 7:29-30). As Peter the apostle wrote: "Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh." Baptism neither does, nor can, "eradicate" the sinful element from believers' flesh. As John the apostle wrote in 1 Jn 1:8 concerning believers: "If we say that we do not have sin, we are deceiving ourselves." Through 'baptism,' as Peter's example shows, Noah judged the world and was separated from it (1 P 3:20). Paul shows likewise. "By faith Noah, having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen and being moved by pious fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which's according to faith (Heb 11:7). Incidentally, 11:7 also shows that baptism requires faith. Personal faith. On the part of the one(s) baptized. Without such faith, baptism is not baptism. Hence so-called infant baptism is not baptism, never will be, never was, and never could be. Not to say it's a crime or heresy. It's not. It's simply not baptism.
Mark 16:16, the Lord's words, show likewise. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved. This salvation here, strictly speaking, is not the salvation of justification. B4 God. Rather it's the same specific salvation Peter speaks of in 1 P 3:20-21. I.e. salvation from the world. Of course the latter requires, is dependent upon, and's based on the former. Not vice versa. Our Lord continued in Mk 16:16 "but he who does not believe shall be condemned." The way to escape, be saved from, eternal condemnation is simply faith in God's Son, who is God, who died and rose for the sins, and life, of the world. The way for further, or development of, that started salvation is to be baptized in water. In fact: that's the immediate, next step after believing into Jesus. As the New Testament (and Old) shows. Mk 16:16's thought is also matched by the same Lord's words in John 3:18. "He who believes into Him isn't condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he hasn't believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God." Of course the remedy for such condemnation's simply to believe into, and receive, God's living Son, the living, crucified and resurrected Christ. Jesus. Of Nazareth.
Lastly, Paul and Moses also duplicate the same thought concerning 2 different aspects of initial salvation in Heb 11:28-29 and Ex 12 and 14, typologically. "By faith he instituted the Passover and the pouring out of the blood so that the one destroying the firstborn would not touch them." This references eternal forgiveness, justification, and salvation through faith alone. "By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, in which the Egyptians, while making the attempt, were swallowed up." This references baptism. Following faith. Requiring faith. Based on faith. Issuing in more faith. And constituting a salvation from Satan's sinful world, cosmos ("Egypt"). Likewise with the salvation Israel experienced from God's judgment of the death angel (Ex 12). Followed by Israel's salvation, escape, rescue, from Satan's world and system (Ex 14). Baptism
Peter is right, this baptism does not cleanse you from physical dirt, its not that type of bath. Its the Bath of regeneration(Titus 3:5-7) this bath cleanses you from spiritually, your consious and your soul.
Baptism, like any physical plunging in water, does and can wash away physical dirt. It's...unavoidable. To say that water doesn't wash away dirt is plainly dumb (no offence, please don't take it as such). Maybe i should ask first: is there something special, or specially weird, about baptism-water that it can't affect dirt?
In any case, neither the apostle Peter, nor his (at least original) readers should have been so silly as to tell folks, or understand, that baptism's purpose isn't to wash away physical dirt from the baptized's body. It appears that that's the claim the dear poster's comment above is seeking to make. The "filth of the flesh" in 1 P 3:21 is identical to the same thought in the rest of Peter's 1st epistle. "Don't be fashioned according to the former lusts" (1 P 1:14). "Be holy because I am holy" (1:15). "Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ" (1:19). "Fleshly lusts" (2:11). "No sin, nor was guile found in His mouth" (2:22). "Our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins" (2:24). "Pure manner of life" (3:2). "Incorruptible adornment of a meek and quiet spirit" (3:4). "evil for evil" (3:9). "Guile" (3:10). "Evil" (3:11, 12). "Good manner of life" (3:16). "Good...evil" (3:17). "Sins" (3:18). "Filth of the flesh" (3:21). "Sin" (4:1). "In the flesh in the lusts of men" (4:2). "Desire of the Gentiles...licentiousness, lusts, debaucheries, carousings, drinking bouts, and lawless idolatries" (4:3). "Flood of dissoluteness, slandering" (4:4). "Murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler" (4:15). "Ungodly and the sinner" (4:18). "Base" (5:2). "Proud" (5:5).
This's the same throughout the NT. Eg James 1:21 "Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice [ill will], receive in meekness the implanted word which's able to save your souls." Revelation 22:11 "Let him who does unrighteousnessdo unrighteousness still; and let him who's filthy be filthy still; and let him who does righteousness do righteousness still; and let him who's holy be holy still."
Gracias