God is a God on our side. God didn’t put this in place to keep people from being saved, rather so that people would understand and admit they needed God to save them, namely through Jesus Christ, aka the Good News.
God also says He will save who He wants to save. If He wants to save a little child, who is able to tell God He cannot save that child? Or anyone, for that matter.
The thief on the cross couldnt be baptized but Jesus saved Him. People can be saved without being baptized. Its n9t that they are rejecting baptism, they just are not yet baptized.