Why must you ask such silly questions.So, if a soldier is in a battle..and comes to know Jesus when his soldier friend presents the gospel...believe it...then is killed 10 min later with out being baptized.....is he going to hell?
If a person hears a street preacher and believes.....then dies on the way to the baptismal....is he going to hell?
Just as silly as believing baptism is just a symbol.
Some just do not believe what the NT teaches.
Acts 22:16
16And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
1 Peter 3:21
21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Mark 16:16
16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
