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Originally Posted by TGBTG

I see baptism as being identified with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Rom 6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

This clearly shows I was baptized into his death, which is another reason I believe emphatically that baptism should performed in the Name of The Lord Jesus Christ (not just FSH). Baptism identifies us with what Christ did for us

Rom 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.

Rom 6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

This clearly shows again that water baptism is what is being talked about.

Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

...And I have been crucified with Him (Amen)

Gal 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Amen. And notice verse 5. It says we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection if we have been in the likeness of his death. This is where resurrection comes into play. This is not the resurrection in our future, though. It is the resurrection that started our conversation. The reason I know this is a spiritual resurrection is because Romans 6:10-11 continues to teach that we are as much alive and risen from the dead as Jesus is. And that is the same resurrection noted in 6:13 where it says we need to present ourselves to God with the conscious awareness that we are "alive from the dead."

The resurrection of 1 Cor 15 is not the resurrection of Romans 6 because Paul said we ARE ALREADY alive from the dead and risen with Jesus when we got saved, but he had yet to experience the resurrection of 1 Cor 15 since he put that in the future tense.