Were any saved without baptism in the Christian age?

Question:

Was there anyone saved after the dispensation of Christ in the New Testament that was not baptized?

Answer:

"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me'" (John 14:6).

Children are born without sin (Ecclesiastes 7:29) and are not held accountable for sin until they mature enough to have the knowledge of good and evil (Deuteronomy 1:39). Therefore, they do not have sin to be saved from.

But once sin takes hold, there is only one way out of sin and that is through Jesus.

  • "Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (I Peter 3:21).
  • "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ" (Galatians 3:26-27).
  • "Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin" (Romans 6:3-7).

It there was some other way to salvation, then Jesus would not have needed to die. But Jesus did have to die and it is through baptism that we connect to that death.

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