Col 2:12-13 | TNotes | STEP | 2:12 you were buried with Christ when you were baptized: As in a roughly parallel passage (Rom 6:3-6 ), Paul assumes a strong identity between believers and Christ. In God’s sight, we really were with Christ when he was buried and raised , so we experience the benefits of what Christ did for us. Paul can link that identification with Christ to baptism because water baptism was so closely related to conversion in the early church.

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‏ Colossians 2:12-13

2:12 ^a you were buried with Christ when you were baptized: As in a roughly parallel passage (Rom 6:3-6 ^b), Paul assumes a strong identity between believers and Christ. In God’s sight, we really were with Christ when he was buried and raised, so we experience the benefits of what Christ did for us. Paul can link that identification with Christ to baptism because water baptism was so closely related to conversion in the early church.