Mark 16:16 disagrees with your opinion.
Believe + Baptism = Saved (Mark 16:16)
John 3:15,16,18; 5:24; 6:29,40,47; 11:25,26; Acts 10:43-47; 11:17,18; 15:7-9; 16:31; 26:18 etc..) disagrees with your opinion and biased interpretation. This is what happens when you isolate one half of one verse, build doctrine on it, then ignore the rest (flawed hermeneutics) which is
not properly harmonizing scripture with scripture.
Mark 16:16 - He who believes and is baptized will be saved
(general cases without making a qualification for the unusual case of someone who believes but is not baptized) but
he who does not believe will be condemned.
The omission of baptized with "does not believe" shows that Jesus does not make baptism absolutely necessary for salvation. Condemnation rests on unbelief, not on a lack of baptism. So salvation rests on belief. *NOWHERE does the Bible say "baptized or condemned."
*If water baptism is absolutely required for salvation, then why did Jesus
not mention it in the following verses? (3:15,16,18; 5:24; 6:29,40,47; 11:25,26). What is the one requirement that Jesus mentions 9 different times in each of these complete statements?
*BELIEVES. *What happened to baptism? *Hermeneutics.
John 3:18 - He who
believes in Him is not condemned; but he who (is not water baptized? - NO)
does not believe is condemned already, because he has not (been water baptized? - NO)
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.