What Peter Actually Meant by “Baptism Now Saves You”
When most evangelicals hear “baptism now saves you,” they assume Peter must be speaking loosely—or that he’s been mistranslated. But Peter means exactly what he says. We just need to understand how baptism saves.
The phrase comes from 1 Peter 3:21, where Peter calls baptism an “antitype which now saves us.” Just before this, he mentions Noah’s ark, which saved an entire family through water. That’s a freebie for the sacramental position, but it doesn’t really answer the question.