I think you will find more of us disagreeing with you than agreeing with you. If as you say, “ANY path to salvation MUST include baptism” Then my Dad who gave his heart to the Lord and said the sinners prayer days before passing away in Hospice, never made it. He burns. Soldiers and accident victims in their last moments of life with a priest or minister leaning over them asking if their heart is right with God, are wasting their last breaths responding if they were never baptized.
I can show you dozens of commandments and examples from the Bible that support Baptism.
Can you please show me just one reference to this “sinners prayer” you speak of?