the Script. teach water baptism is to a penitent believer is essential to salvation from alien sins.

Thank you to DAN123 for his contribution. I am short on time, so I shall be brief.My opponent responds to my examples by constructing an imaginary situation in which a person has left all of their money to their son, with certian conditions. He claims that prior to death that person is able to change the terms of the inheritance, but after that persons death the terms are locked.This would be a solid point... if my opponent denied the resurrection of Christ. The fact is this. A "Last Will and Testament" is only "Last" because you are dead, and cannot change it. If Christ wished to change his testament now, he could do so... because according to the Bible, he lives.Furthermore, just because Christ COULD change the terms, does not mean that he DID change the terms. My opponent has done nothing to show that there was an actual change in the terms. Furthermore, the terms contained in the New Testament are the same as the Terms in the Old Testament. Allow me to demonstrate:My opponent quotes James 2:24-26, however he does not complete the quote. When we look at the "works" that Abraham was justified according to (as opposed to faith alone). In verse 23 James writes "and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness" and he was called a friend of God." (ESV) James here is quoting Genesis 15:6 when he comments that it is Abraham's faith justiified him. The nuance is that James uses a different word here for "believed" which means "entrusted." (epistuen) This is the way that Paul uses the word "pistis/pistuo"." For James, pistis is is simply an intellectual asccent, it is this intellectual asscent that the demons do.The point is this, we see that Abraham was justified by a radical and complete trust in God. He trusted him, and that was credited to him as righteousness. All throughout the Old Testament we see that people who trusted God were saved. Just as in the New Testament, explicily in my examples, faith in God saved people. It made them whole and complete.I know that I have not responded to my opponent's red hearing regarding obedience, and Paul's salvation. Nor have I responded to my oppoenent's rebuttals concerning the Ordo Saluts or Acts 2:38. The simple fact is that I do not need to. My opponent has not demonstrated that te means of salvation were different after Jesus' death, while I have demonstrated that they are the same from before his birth, during his life, and after his life. After all, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (Heb 13.8, ESV) Unless my opponent was able to prove that he DID change his Testament and not mearly that he COULD change his Testament, my point still stands.In summary, I have shown 4 cases in the Gospel accounts where a person was saved (specifically the term saved was applied) without having been baptised. I have presented a 5th case in the Old Testament of Abraham, but could present many more. In addition to this, my opponent has supplied the case of the Thief on the Cross as a 6th case. Needless to say, there are examples all over scripture of persons who were indeed saved without the act of baptism. As such, the resolution that "the Script. teach water baptism is to a penitent believer is essential to salvation from alien sins." has been shown to be negated. The Scriptures clearly teach by mean of example that a penitent believer is saved by their faith. While I acknowledge that Baptism is a necessary requirement, the example's I have shown that Baptism is not essential to salvation.For these reasons I urge you to vote Con.Thank you and God bless.