Salvation: 1st, what is it and were you truly saved to start with and if so, saved from what?
Salvation is initially being saved from the sins you've committed, not those you may commit in the future.
How are you saved according to scripture?
When you put ALL pertinent scriptures together...
You are not reading or understanding the scripture correctly. Baptism has nothing at all to do with cleansing flesh, that's what it means in the part that's in parenthesis. Baptism washes sin not flesh and sin is a stain against your soul not your body. So yes, Peter is NOT making a reference...
No problem with Romans, or Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, Mark 16:15-16, and a whole lot of other scriptures that add other requirements to Romans. What part of them do YOU have a problem with? All them apparently, in their entirety.
You shouldn't rely solely on one translation. I personally like and use the kjv, but recognize there are some flaws in it. I also go back to the original language text for clarity such as found in the interlinear.
People haven't found the blatently obvious messages let alone secret ones. Concentrate on gospel truth which most have yet to find, and seeking and saving the lost. That's what's important, not 'secret messages'.
You're at odds with scripture. Water baptism is absolutely necessary for salvation.
1 Peter 3:21
21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ...
By unregenerate you mean saved? You can't be saved until you hear the gospel and have your sins forgiven. So number one is hearing. You must somehow become aware of Christ and the good news. If you then believe it, you'll do what is required in order to be saved, namely, confession of belief...
Physical hearing is how you hear the word. By preaching. You then either accept or reject it. Accepting it is believing and that goes hand in hand with faith which then prompts or compells you to be obedient to the gospel which causes you to repent of your sins and being baptized into Christ...
I DON'T SAY salvation is dependent on baptism, God's Word clearly does. You can claim and believe you were saved prior to baptism, but you really weren't as it's 100% unscriptural..believe what you like
You believe and have faith with your body; your brain, your heart, it's all done by and through your physical body although faith itself isn't tangible or physical but the means by which it's created within you is.
You've bought into a bunch of man made-up nonsense with so-called works based salvation. Baptism is a command that must be obeyed; does it require something physical? Yes. Everything we do here is physical. So what? Preaching the word is physical. Baptism is not a work of the flesh nor of the...
It's at work today all around us. Many false religions, the false teachings within denominational Christianity, the acceptance of doctrines contrary to God's word, i.e.; homosexuality, the general upside-down nature of today's world wherein good is bad and bad is good, etc., etc.
Mat 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.