Have you ever heard someone (or maybe it was you) respond to the Bible’s requirement of baptism, “Well, that just doesn’t make any sense! How can that have anything to do with being saved? So, you’re saying that if I’m not baptized that I will still be lost? I can’t accept that”?
For just a moment, consider if the blind man in John 9 had taken this approach. When Jesus “saw a man who was blind from birth…He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam'” (John 9:1, 6-7). The man was blind. Jesus was his only hope of ever having sight. Suppose he
said in response, “Well, that just doesn’t make any sense! How can that mud ball and that pool have anything to do with being able to see? So, you’re saying that if I don’t wash in that pool that I will still be blind? I can’t accept that.”
Here’s what you know: if that blind man had not done exactly what Jesus told him to do, he would have remained blind. It follows then, doesn’t it, that if a lost man does not do exactly what Jesus tells him to do (including being baptized) that he will remain lost?