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Originally Posted by Rico
I've always seen baptism as symbolic of burial, but something has to be dead for it to be buried, so there's obviously a connection between the two.
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There are two deaths. One your actions and life by turing away from them thus they become dead. That person is now turning "to" the cross thus through faith(positive active response) one is baptized into Christ's death. Repentance actually is part of baptism as to turn to Christ would be to identify with him and not the former self.