text: why do some christians believe you don't have to be baptized to be saved? chist was baptized, and what about the trinity, if god looked down on chist and was pleased when he was baptized and the holy ghost decended like a dove how can you belive that they are one? (i am a later-day saint) please don't just say that i am wrong, i just want to know why you belive the way you do i personally believe that baptism is just an outward expression of an inward change.  baptism is important as a symbol of your new birth through christ and should be followed through by new believers, but i believe that if theoretically, someone died in between accepting jesus and the baptistery, they would still go to heaven.