@EdJ Hi Ed,
Having submitted to water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ you tell others it is not required?

Gal 3.27
For all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ.
Gal 4.19
My children, with whom I am in labor till Christ and s formed in you-
Col 2.12
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him
Through faith in the working of God, Who also raised him from the dead.