Apparently, you have continued to fail to study that very practice out in the OT; where it originated.
Until you do, there really is no point in responding to you for you will only continue in your obvious ignorance of this Israelite water cleansing/purification ritual under THEIR Law.
They even water baptized inanimate objects - in their practice of the TEMPORARY washing away of sin - as instructed to under THEIR God-given Law through Moses.
Never mind its repetition under the Law, there in Acts 21.
And never mind who it was who water baptized Saul, and why...
Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
Carry on, I hear it said that ignorance is bliss - have your nirvana, then.
It is what it is with your kind.
Nevertheless, and given your repeatedly obvious works based salvation error - Rom. 5:6-8 towards you.
I'll remember you in prayer.
Jesus is our Teacher and he was baptized; we imitate Paul who imitates Christ, and Paul was water baptized.
Paul says that he planted the seed and that Apollos watered it.
That is about Paul speaking the message and Apollos doing the baptizing.
1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow
Just because Paul did not do a lot of water baptisms does not mean he did not teach water baptism.
1 Corinthians 10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
Did you read that? Paul was speaking about water baptism.
Read what Paul says in the next two scriptures about water baptism:
Romans 6:3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Paul is describing water baptism. The believer comes to make the pledge to God, to die to the sins of the world; so now standing in the water the believer falls back, as if dead; then, the believer goes under the water, buried; then, the believer rises up out of the water, raises up to live a new life.
We were "buried" with him through BAPTISM into death and RAISED from the dead...raised to live through Christ.
1 Peter 3:20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.
That scripture does say water baptism is a symbol. Read how Peter says Noah and his family were saved through water, and that this water (the water of baptism that Christians do) is symbolic of the baptism (of the Spirit) that now saves you.
That scripture does say water baptism is a symbol. Read how Peter says Noah and his family were saved through water, and that this water (the water of baptism that Christians do) is symbolic of the baptism (of the Spirit) that now saves you. IT IS A PLEDGE to God.
Paul spoke about the water in the sea and the cloud concerning the time with Moses, and Peter speaks of the time of water with Noah. The water of the Christians time is water baptism. It is literal water about something SYMBOLIC.
