312. Is it possible for an unbaptized person to be saved?
Yes. Only unbelief condemns. Before the institution of Baptism, Old Testament believers were saved through faith in the promise of Christ. Those who believe the Gospel and yet die before Baptism are not condemned, because they "have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding Word of God" (1 Peter 1:23). However, faith does not despise what hte Lord promises and gives in Baptism. The unbaptized should not delay in receiving Baptism.
Read Luke 23:39-43. Although Christ had not yet instituted Baptism, the thief on the cross was saved through the Word of Christ.
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