We are simply discussing your conclusions about the meaning of God's word. And as always, you seem to want to deny that you draw conclusions. The Bible speaks for itself. The Bible speaks for itself. The Bible will produce Christians Only not other Faiths.
People creat other faiths.
If you are willing to consider faith in this sense, you should also be able to consider baptism similarly. That's an interesting proposition. The role of the Holy Spirit I would say that the help of the Holy Spirit is essential in drawing correct interpretations from the Bible and in understand how a particular passage effects me personally. Paul said that if you read it you can understand it, in one of his letters. I guess in principle I would agree with the idea of some illumination by the H.S. but be leary of situational ethics and carring the idea to extremes.