1 Peter 3 [For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive,
d he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and
this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.
e It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.]
Now before any church baptizes any more infants and lead masses into the great fall let them understand they are just pouring water on babies for nothin'. How can an infant pledge a clear conscience towards God? How can an infant know the difference between sin and righteousness? How can an infant be cleansed from anything? The stain of Adam was, "Back-breaking pain when having a child, working yourself off to earn bread and going back to the dust man came from," and you still baptize them and we still go to labor, we still work, and we still say, from ashes to ashes and dust to dust. So what stain are you referring to? If it's eternal redemption, the mind of an infant is not with any sin to lead it to damnation! But the weakness of flesh, is inevitable regardless of the time a man is baptized. The sooner the man is able to tell the difference between good and evil, the sooner he needs the SEAL OF THE COVENANT, the Holy GHOST! :/