Baptism is not mentioned every time along with salvation in the New Testament. However, it in paired with believing often enough that God must have thought it was pretty important. Plenty like to discard it as unimportant. Not sure I want to take that chance. It is only a dunking in water at worst.
I was baptized at 13. The pastor that performed the baptism later was found to be fugking a woman in the congregation while supposedly giving her marital counseling. Within a year, our youth minister was caught banging a church member while his wife died of cancer, snd the head deacon was exposed to be having an affair.
