Baptism

This week in my religion class, we've been tasked with writing a blog post on one of the topics we're studying. I chose baptism this week. 

I find baptism really fascinating, also I feel like the baptismal covenants which we make, are so amazing and profound. 

I think it is really important to understand what baptism symbolizes, we can learn more about that in Romans 6, specifically verse 4. It says "Therefore we are ^aburied with him by ^bbaptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the ^cdead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should ^dwalk in ^enewness of life." So basically Paul is saying that like christ died, we symbolize that as we enter the waters, and like he was risen from the dead as a glorified being, we symbolize that as we raise out of the waters of baptism.

But before that can even happen, we have to forsake our sins, and realize that we need to let them die, as we take on the symbolic death through baptism.

I think these two things together make baptism by immersion really important, because it only truly symbolizes Christ's death and resurrection, if we are buried in the water and then emerge again. 

Another amazing facet of baptism is that we are born again, we have a new life and new opportunity to live with Christ in our lives. We have let our sin die, and now can live in the glory of god.

Through all of this, I think we can learn that baptism is an essential and precious piece of life. Through it we can have freedom in this life, freedom from death and sin.