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Originally Posted by Esaias
WHEREIN ALSO...
The NLT isn't even a translation.
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It is a better interpretation of the verse than what you where presenting.
Romans 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
The newness of life that we continually walk in is what is representative of Christs resurrection. Baptism symbolizes burial, the putting away of something. Baptism symbolizes the burial but it is the new walk of life that really proves it.
Romans 6:2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
People that are baptized sometimes observe to the symbolic ordinance without actually experiencing the transformation that it represents to take place.