Baptism
Baptism is a public sign of something that has already happened inwardly. Christians differ on the details, and those differences are real, but the shape of it is agreed: going down into the water pictures a death, and coming up pictures a new life.
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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.
Romans 6:4KJV
Paul explains what the water is a picture of.
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