Do some claiming to be a Bible believer's ignore what John 1 records?
19And
this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed,
“I am not the Christ.”
21And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23He said, “
I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
25They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26John answered them,
“I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
27even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
28These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’
31I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
32And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
33I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain,
this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
I, as a Bible believer, can certainly state that not all baptism is with H20 (water).
Here is another that is not about water at all.
18For
Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but
made alive in the spirit,
19in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
20because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as
an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Peter is clearly not declaring water saves, but the work of the SAME Holy Spirit corresponds to both Christ and the believer. Believers are alive because Christ is alive, and both Christ and believers benefit "
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." Such baptism "now saves you" because the experience of the life and resurrection, not because one got wet.
Baptism in the simplest terms means to be immersed.
One may be immersed in a number of ways that do not involve water.
Here are a few:
study
work
fire
emotions
thought
A Bible believer will acknowledge that "baptizo" though often associated with water carries no meaning obliging exclusivity to water and is simply used to mean immersing or being immersed.
Does anyone baptize a turkey for thanksgiving?
