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It is not required for salvation, because salvation is dependent on God's grace alone: "By grace are we saved through faith, not of ourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works lest any should boast." But baptism, being personal identification with the death and resurrection of Christ, is an important part of our developing sanctification. It is our declaration to the world that our faith is in the finished work of Christ on the Cross and the promised that as He was resurrected, we will be resurrected to life when Jesus comes again.
 
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If baptism is not required, then is it optional?
I answered that in the latter half of my post. Although one doesn't have to be baptised as part of his salvation, if one is genuinely born again of the Spirit, then he would want to be identified with the death and resurrection of Christ, and therefore would happily choose to be baptised.

There are some who believe in baptism as regeneration, hence infant baptism. I don't. I go along with believer's baptism, where one is already regenerated by God's grace and the work of the Spirit causing one to be born again. Therefore, baptism is for those who are already regenerated by faith in Christ. Anyone who has been genuinely converted to Christ will say, as the Ethiopian eunuch, "Here is water. What does hinder me to be baptised?"
 
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I answered that in the latter half of my post.
Yes you did and I stand corrected. As you said, "[baptism] is an important part of our developing sanctification." I should have read your post better. I do have senior moments.

I do have difficulty with other statements you have made, which I may comment on tomorrow. I don't know.
 
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