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NASB | Romans 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:4 We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. |
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Bible Note: I also heard this statement: Eph 2:8 'by grace are ye saved....;and Romans 3:22-27. Nowhere in these passages is baptism mentioned as a prequisite to salvation." While it is true that the passage referenced (Eph.2:8; Rom.3:22-27) do not explicitly mention baptism, neither does it mention any allusion to repentance. Are we to assume that repentance is not required for redemption? Surely not. It is rarely the case that a single context will totally exhaust the biblical material on a particular theme. It is the "sum" of the truth that counts (Psa. 119:160), not an isolated text, that may focus upon a limited point of emphasis. Acts 2:38 contends for repentance and baptism as "requisites" for "forgiveness," with no specific mention of faith. However, by means of that interpretive rule known as "analogy of faith," belief in the Lord must be implied as well. For example, the fact that God is said to be "one" (Dt.6:4) does not negate the biblical truth so abundantly affirmed elsewhere that God, i.e., the nature of deity, is possessed by three Personalities-father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Mt.28:19-20). A truth emphasized by additional information in other texts. This is a most fundamental principle of interpretation. While Ehp.2:8 mentions salvation by grace through faith, later, in the same letter, the apostle affirms that one is "cleansed...by washing of water with the word"(5:23). If one concludes that "saved" (2:8) is the eqivalent of "cleansed" (5:23), it then becomes obvious that salvation by "faith" is not independent of being "washed with water," (a phrase admitted by virtually all scholars to be a reference to baptism - Arndt, 481; Thayer, 382). Moreover, while both grace and faith are stressed in Rom.3:22ff- as means of "redemption"-three chapters later the inspired apostle affirmed that one is buried with Christ in baptism that he might walk in "newness of life" (6:3-4). Is "newness of life" a parallel descriptive for salvation? Of course it is. Clearly, then, salvation by grace and faith is not exclusive of other conditions specified in supplementary texts relating to justification. |