Baptism is dying with Christ and rising with Him

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III




Baptism is dying with Christ and rising with Him as the Apostle explained in his Epistle to the Romans: "For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection" (Rom.6: 5) and "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him" (Rom.6: 8). In this matter no one may depend on his own thoughts and stray from the Church’s teaching, saying that death is useless but resurrection is beneficial. The Holy Bible says: "Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life"(Rom.6: 3,4),