Yes, it is faith in the operation of God that does take place when a person is saved in water baptism.
Acts of the Apostles 2:38-39 gives an absolute promise found nowhere else in scripture of the Holy Ghost being given...to those who receive baptism in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth for the remission of sins as an identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and as a confession of Jesus before men.
This is answered by the word "if" in 1 John 2:1.
Romans 7:14-25 is Paul using the literary tactic of IDENTIFICATION...he identifies himself as carnal in order to define carnality in order to win the carnal person to Christ (see 1 Corinthians 9:22).
That Paul himself is no carnal, and is not in the predicament himself that he describes in the passage, should be evident in 2 Peter 1:21....because Paul is penning holy scripture he is a holy man of God in the midst of his penning of holy scripture.
It should be clear that it is possible to graduate out of Romans 7:14-25 to begin living in Romans 8...
That the Romans 7:14-25 lifestyle is not the lifestyle of a saved/born again individual should be evident in that those who are in the flesh do not belong to Christ (Romans 8:9) and that Romans 7:14-25 describs those who are in the flesh (Romans 7:5, Romans 7:23) "in my members".
Paul is saying here that in his flesh he is utterly sinful and that his life before coming to Christ was utterly sinful.
But that we do not have to live by the flesh should be evident (Romans 8:4).
The element of sin in the flesh can be rendered dead (Romans 6:6, Galatians 5:24, Romans 7:8) so that it no longer has any kind of say over our behaviour (Romans 6:14).
Of course, I did not only reference John 3:9 to substantiate my viewpoint. I also referenced 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (kjv), Hebrews 10:14 (kjv); 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:3, 1 John 2:6; Jude 1:24, 2 Peter 1:10, 1 John 2:10; 1 John 3:6, 1 John 2:17; Romans 6:6 (kjv), Colossians 2:11 (kjv), (NLT).
Some of these verses teach us that if we do certain things, we will never stumble or fall.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 teaches rantismal regeneration (where rantism is the alliteration of the term for sprinkling).
The ark was in fact baptized (submerged in the water) before it came up out of the water over the fact that it was able to float.
The 120 were in fact water baptized (John 4:1-2); and Abraham was not water baptized because his life occurred before the Cross. Water baptism is a response to the Cross and it is an identification with the death on the Cross, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ.
Also the kjv.
I suspect that you will even denounce the kjv in order to support your doctrine.
Yes, sprinkling is in fact valid as a method of applying water unto salvation.
Eze 36:25, Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Eze 36:26, A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27, And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
All of this being said, I will make it clear that infant baptisms do not cut the cake, so to speak; because in order for a baptism to be valid, it must be that the person being baptized is making a confession of Jesus Christ before men in an identification with His death, burial, and resurrection. It must be the decision of the one being baptized that he is going to be baptized; it cannot be valid if it is merely the decision of the parents.