Potential issues against Baptism being necessary for salvation
So, the point I was trying to make last night has to with my understanding of conditional statements and baptism, that is, I believe baptism is a sufficient condition for salvation but not a necessary and sufficient condition for salvation. I’ll try and explain what I mean using symbolic logic. The reason for symbolic logic is that language can be somewhat ambiguous but symbols must always mean the same thing. They are inherently unambiguous. So in order to make sense of what is logically implied by certain sentences in the bible, we should translate the sentence into symbols that act as stand ins for the propositions and solve to see if our reasoning is valid. So, I believe baptism, and the five conditions for salvation, can be diagrammed as such. If one believes, repents, confesses, is baptized, and perseveres, then one is saved. Using symbols, we can state it as such (B, R, C, Ba, P) ® S, where each lette...