I agree with you, but Hyper Dispy place it strictly under the Old Covenant now for the New
That is correct.
It is my opinion of the totality of Scriptures, that baptism is an important step
of obedience for a Christian, but I adamantly reject baptism as being required for the salvation experience.
I have stated here and other places that each and every Christian should be water baptized by immersion because it is what Jesus told us to do.
What Baptism illustrates is a believer’s identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Those who demand and teach that baptism by immersion in water are in fact saying that somehow the dirty water of a river, or a pool has MORE saving power than the shed blood of God!
Water baptism to be saved is a classic example of not understanding the CONTEXT of Scriptures and then inserting into them what we/they want those Scriptures to say because of the bias we hold for water baptism.
May I say here that this is the very same problem with the idea that divorced men can not be deacons. Well meaning but unlearned men READ INTO the Scriptures what that "Thought" the Scriptures said and simply could not unlearn that false teaching.
NO WHERE in 1 Timothy does Paul say that a divorced man can not be a deacon. It says literally...."Husband of One wife".
Anyone who does the study of history in those days knows that polygamy was rampant in those days. Pauls direction was clear as a bell......"Husband of one wife"!