The Importance of Water Baptism

Dr. Heiser: Those who insist on immersion focus on a presumed motion involved in the term baptizo. Paul could very simply be using a word found in the Septuagint as we've seen that speaks of washing and then using it here as a metaphor for being cleansed from sin through the death of Christ, baptized into death. You don't need water baptism to talk about these things," he says.