So is Water baptism A sacrament/Command/Ordinance to baptists?

[JesusFan]

The water baptism is us putting our light on a candlestick/lampstand. The candlestick/lampstand is the church. So we are showing the world that we belong to God by being baptized in the water, as a symbol of the death, burial, AND resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The water baptism is the doorway into the local church, where we can work for God, and witness to a lost and dying world. This is an ordinance, and dare say I, a sacramental occurance as well.

How is there a sacramental aspect to water baptism?

 

[convicted1]

How is there a sacramental aspect to water baptism?

when Jesus told John "It beometh us to fulfill all righteousness", that shows me that the water baptism is a righteous act. Now, it doesn't save, but is symbolic of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So I tend to think it has a sacramental aspect to it.

 

[Tom Butler]

My understanding of a sacrament is that is a "means" of grace. That is, it is salvific, and is an act by which we appropriate God's grace in order to be saved.

Or.

Stay saved.

That's why I would not describe the ordinances as sacramental.