Great anti-Catholic Evangelizator, bots or bait. Please read all

Okay, there's a very popular YouTuber on YouTube who makes videos about Christianity but doesn't recognize Catholicism (he wants us to give up a few things to become more like Protestants). He used to talk about orthodox Christianity, supposedly, but his latest videos are about Catholics and his typical content. And now he's made a short in which he claims that baptism is not necessary for salvation, despite the Apostles saying the exact opposite. Christ teaches that it is necessary. And his argument with the Good Thief can be explained by the Catholic teaching on three baptisms: blood (a martyr for Christ who didn't receive water baptism), water (typical, and the Apostles focused on it with Christ), and will (you want to be baptized, but you died beforehand, and that's probably the baptism of the Good Thief)

Many people who claim to be Catholic agree with him, that we are saved only through faith alone, which the Bible never teaches, and these things are literally written in the Bible. I tried to fight heresy as best I could. When I saw a Catholic who agreed with him, and sometimes they admitted they were young, I sent a message composed of a fragment from Catholic Answers and my explanation about the three baptisms in our country. I also sent this in general, hoping someone would see it. And I'm not sure if he's so convincing that people are leaving Catholicism to follow him. This could also be a result of poor explanation and teaching of the faith, because we focus so much on teaching and little on defending the teaching. Are these bots, because some names had such strange endings, or was it a bait? Honestly, I don't know. Unfortunately, when I checked their comments, the last ones were praising his films, so I can't say anything for sure. What do you think about this defense?

This youtuber thinking: You have to accept Jesus. Believe in him in your heart and confess with your lips.”

Catholic: “Yes, we Catholics believe that is necessary, but there is more to it than that. In addition to believing and confessing with our lips, we need to be baptized. At the beginning of Romans 6, St. Paul actually explains how we share in the death and new life of Christ: It is through baptism.”

The beginning of Romans 6 says, “Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” This idea that we are made one with Christ through baptism is reiterated by Paul in Colossians 2:12, and in Galatians 3:27 he likens baptism to “being clothed with Christ.”

Furthermore, the fuller idea of salvation being a union with Christ fits with much more of the New Testament, which speaks time and again of being in a profound union with the living Lord—rather than simply being saved or justified by a personal belief in Christ.

The sacrament of baptism takes the believer from the simple repentance, belief, and profession of faith into a more mysterious identification with Christ, in which he is the vine, and we are the branches, in which we die with him so that we might rise to new life. Baptism is not simply the addition of a meaningful symbol to the act of faith: It is an action which takes the believer’s whole body, soul, and spirit into a new relationship with God.

The passage in Romans 6 (backed up by Colossians 2) is not the only evidence from the New Testament that baptism is effective and therefore necessary for salvation. The apostles Peter and John confirm St. Paul’s teaching. In Acts 2, when St. Peter is preaching at Pentecost, his hearers ask what they must do to be saved, and he replies, “Repent and be baptized.” In 1 Peter 3, Noah’s ark is referred to as a type of baptism, and Peter writes, “In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 3:20-21).

The most famous New Testament evidence for the efficacy and necessity of baptism is in John’s Gospel. When Nicodemus comes to visit Jesus by night, Jesus says that a person cannot enter the kingdom of God without being born again. Nicodemus asks how a man might enter again into his mother’s womb and Jesus corrects him, saying, “No one can enter the kingdom of heaven unless he is born of water and the Spirit” (John 3:3-5). From the earliest days of the Church this passage has been understood to refer to baptism, and this interpretation is virtually unanimous down through history.

I try to be substantive; I don't want to offend anyone, because Christ commanded us to love everyone, because everyone is our neighbor. Therefore, when someone wrote from Catholics that they agreed with him, I wrote: "You shouldn't," and I posted this defense. I don't want to sin against love for neighbor. I did the right thing, because many contemporary saints around my age focused on works of mercy, not on defending the faith in writing.

Additionally, at the beginning of the video he posted an edit calling him a "heretic" and said: you know what about Catholicism, no matter what Scripture you show, they will think that you need all of it for salvation (he probably means sacraments, baptism and faith) and you can show them any verse, they will take it out of context and argue it out of context (at least that's how I understood it, sorry, English is not my first language). I don't even know if this is a Catholic edit, because it could just as well be Orthodox.