Jesus says, "Go make disciples, baptize those disciples." So there is a responsibility on the part of the believer to be baptized, to publicly identify with the triune God of holy scripture. And incidentally, all of these texts indicate faith and baptism. >> It's not pal baptism. It's not infant baptism. They believed >> and were baptized. We could continue on. Acts chapter 16, the the Philippian jailer, what happens? They baptized him. So on and on over and over both descriptively and prescriptively I would argue for the latter. The book of Acts demonstrates not a long time between a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and baptism.
