Why would anyone think the thief was baptized? He was being executed because he was a very wicked person, to which he personally admitted. I see no reason to believe he was baptized.
And Jesus was being executed because every one in the whole world but him ---- is a very wicked person,, baptized or not.
baptism brings us into that wonderful forgivness won by christ on the cross Gods great exchage ..
what baptism does not do ----is make Christ death for us unimportant it . . Baptism is built by God on that death and perfet life of Jesus for us.
Colossians 2:11-13 (New International Version 1984, ©1984)
11 In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature,[a] not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
Romans 6:4 (New International Version 1984, ©1984)
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.
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature,
God made you[c] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
God's great exchange song
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