Exactly.
If a person does not believe, then baptism, as Christ commanded it, will not follow. The negative regarding baptism does not have to be stated in the second half of the passage.
Scriptural baptism? Where is that coming from?
To me, immersion is a God designed and required response to the gospel unto the forgiveness of sins. Some people believe in sprinkling or pouring, and some believe that immersion follows the forgiveness of sins, thus giving it a purpose not found in scripture.
Apparently you want to believe that for one to be saved, he must not only believe but must be baptized. If that were the case, then we would expect that the two will always be mentioned whenever the matter of getting saved is spoken of. And that also, when either of the two is not done by one, he will be condemned. Yet clearly, even in Mk. 16:16, that is not the case.
Clearly? If it was so clear, there would be no debate.
Okay, so your position is that everything that must actually be "done" by the candidate for salvation must be mentioned in every context about salvation, right?
Repentance is almost universally accepted as necessary for salvation, but it is not always mentioned, so you can throw it out as unnecessary, going by your standard. It is not mentioned, for example, in Mark 16:15-16 or Romans 10:9-10.
Faith is almost universally accepted as necessary for salvation, but it is not always mentioned, so you can throw it out as unnecessary, going by your standard. It is not mentioned, for example, in Titus 3:4-7.
Confession of Jesus is almost universally accepted as necessary for salvation, but it is not always mentioned, so you can throw it out as unnecessary, going by your standard. It is not mentioned in most contexts.
On God's part, grace is almost universally accepted as necessary for salvation, but it is not always mentioned, so you can throw it out as unnecessary, going by your standard. It is not mentioned, for example, in Mark 16:15-16 and Romans 10:9-10.
The fact of the matter is, nothing is mentioned in every passage or context. We have to learn how to read the scriptures holistically, as well as contextually, and understand the message of salvation as a whole. We have to read all of these contexts and learn what God has done, and still does for us for our salvation, and what He requires of us to receive that grace.
Consider this:
Acts 16:30-31
30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Why was baptism not part of the answer in v. 31 to the question in v.30?
Verse 31 was just an introduction in the instruction given to the jailer. The next verse tells us that the word of the Lord was taught to him and to his household. Then the jailer and house were immediately baptized.
Acts 16:31-34.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately. And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.