prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism in the Old Testament were given to authorize ...

Baptism is a significant moment in a Christian's life, marking the beginning of their journey in faith and their belonging to the Church of Christ.

At the same time, students idealize baptism as a subjective ... with him in a resurrection like his. (Rom. 6:3–5) Baptism drowns the old self, the flesh ensnared by sin and death.

This points to baptism symbolising an old way of life dying and a new way of life being raised as someone goes down into the water and then back up from it. The dying of an old way of life is only ...