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On at least 3 of 8 occasions recorded in the book of Acts, people were saved
without being water-baptized.

Campbellites will rest on Acts 19 (and their interpretation of Acts 22),
assuming that since those are the last "baptisms" in the book of Acts, they
are the example to follow today. But many conversions occurred after these
events that are not recorded in the book of Acts. We can determine the mode
of these later conversions indirectly by the doctrine explained in Paul's
epistles.

About three years after Acts 19, Paul told the church at Corinth that the new

birth comes "through the gospel" (1 Corinthians 4:15), which by definition
is NOT through water-baptism.

1 Corinthians 1:17a "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
gospel..."

Water-baptism is SEPARATE from the gospel.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 "...I declare unto you the gospel... how that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried,
and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"

About a year after that, Paul said the Holy Spirit is received "through faith"
(Galatians 3:14), NOT water-baptism. It doesn't take any faith to get water-
baptized. Unbelievers do it all the time!

About four years later Paul wrote:

Ephesians 1:12-13 "...Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,"
That could only mean that we are sealed (i.e. Spirit-baptized)
IMMEDIATELY after we believe in our heart (as the Gentiles in Acts 10).

Just two years before Paul wrote Ephesians,
when explaining "faith" in Romans 10:8-13, he narrowed the manifestation