Arena...are you going to quote the same scriptures over and over to support what you think. Water Baptism itself does NOT save anybody. And water baptism isn't the only doctrine of God's words...which Lord Jesus has spoken. It is essential to be baptized for the Lord Jesus Christ because it gives us a good conscience towards God. But only if we love Him with all of our heart, soul and mind. It doesn't give us a good conscience towards God if we only trust that doctrine and ignore the rest of God's Words to save us.I Peter 3:18-22 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.Lord Jesus did indeed command Christians to be baptized.Mark 16:16 - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.But if you think that Water Baptism itself saves people. You are dead wrong. This is not the only God's words in the bible. Can I remind you of 2 verses?John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.Luke 4:4 - And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.Lovest thou in Christ Jesus (Yahushua) our Lord and Saviour.