Hi Ron,
Welcome to the forum, nice first topic also. Here are some Scripture that can help with that question of baptism. The reason you are here is because your eyes are being opened to understand beyond the basics of this fiery walk through life.
Like other members have counselled; do settle in for a long, bumpy but awe inspiring ride through Scripture, with The Spirit Of GOD And our Lord Jesus Christ taking you all the way. Heb 5:1-4 (GNB)1 Every high priest is chosen from his fellow-men and appointed to serve God on their behalf, to offer sacrifices and offerings for sins.
2 Since he himself is weak in many ways, he is able to be gentle with those who are ignorant and make mistakes.
3 And because he is himself weak, he must offer sacrifices not only for the sins of the people but also for his own sins.
4 No one chooses for himself the honor of being a high priest. It is only by God's call that a man is made a high priest---just as Aaron was.
Heb 5:5-14 (CLV)5 Thus Christ also does not glorify Himself by becoming a chief priest, but He Who speaks to Him, "My Son art Thou! I, today, have begotten Thee,
6 according as in a different place also He is saying, "Thou art a priest for the eon according to the order of Melchizedek,
7 Who, in the days of His flesh, offering both petitions and supplications with strong clamor and tears to Him Who is able to save Him out of death, being hearkened to also for His piety,
8 even He also, being a Son, learned obedience from that which He suffered."
9 And being perfected, He became the cause of eonian salvation to all who are obeying Him,
10 being accosted by God "Chief Priest according to the order of Melchizedek,
11 concerning whom there are words, many and abstruse, for us to say, since you have become dull of hearing."
12 For when also, because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need again of one to teach you what are the rudimentary elements of the oracles of God, and you have come to have need of milk, and not of solid nourishment."
13 For everyone who is partaking of milk is untried in the word of righteousness, for he is a minor."
14 Now solid nourishment is for the mature, who, because of habit, have faculties exercised for discriminating between the ideal and the evil."
Heb 6:1-6 (CLV)1 Wherefore, leaving the word dealing with the rudiments of Christ, we should be brought on to maturity, (not again disrupting the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith on God,
2 of the teaching of baptizings, besides the imposition of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and of judgment eonian)."
3 And this will we be doing, that is, if God may be permitting."
4 For it is impossible for those once enlightened, besides tasting the celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy spirit,
5 and tasting the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the impending eon,
6 and falling aside, to be renewing them again to repentance while crucifying for themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to infamy."
george.