WATER BAPTISM (IMMERSION) IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION BECAUSE IT IS ONLY A SYMBOL?

Symbols are important and are required to be obeyed or fulfilled. By themselves, these symbols do not possess the power to forgive and to save, but these symbols are requisites before the grace of God operates on the individual truth seeker.

Is it true that water baptism (immersion) is not essential to salvation because it is only a SYMBOL of an inner reality which is the spiritual transformation of a disciple?

Symbols are important and are required to be obeyed or fulfilled.  By themselves, these symbols do not possess the power to forgive and to save, but these symbols are requisites befor…