Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
I Peter 3:21 The 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:
Peter says in Ac. 2:38 " the remission of sins" but in
1 Pt. 3:21 he writes that it does not "put away the filth of the flesh but does provide a "good conscience toward God."
Would a correct interpataion be that baptism allows us to have a "good conscience" to serve God; that it gives us the will (want to), but that it does not "wash away" our sins; it does not "put away the filth of the flesh."
Therefore, remission of sins in baptism=not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but a conscience toward God.
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