RE: Romans chapter 6-7
Biscuit Eater, (BTW, great name!)
Chuck 's answer is excellent! I'll add just a little to it. Romans 6:1-7 "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin."
After baptism for the remission of our sins we are united with God in Christ. It's a spiritual "death" the old sinful person is down in the bottom of the "watery grave" dead. And the new Christian is alive in Christ!
Trae
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