Unit 1, Choice 3 Baptism Romans 6

Review Romans 6:1-14 and answer the following questions in writing:

What must be done with sin before baptism can occur? Purged from our lives. We must be dead to sin.

What events from Christ’s life are symbolized in baptism? His death and resurrection.

Considering this symbolism, why couldn’t someone be baptized by sprinkling? Being baptized by immersion is symbolic of dying and rising from the dead, there is no symbolism in sprinkling. Christ gave everything when He gave His life for us, a complete sacrifice. Baptism by sprinkling is not a complete baptism. It is only complete when done by immersion.

What do these verses teach us about how we can maintain the “newness of life”?

 In the footnotes it says that “newness of life” also means “walking with God”. In order to walk with God we must keep ourselves clean from sin. We must also be alive in Christ, putting off the natural man and coming unto Him continuously. 

According to Mosiah 3:19, what part of us would ideally die at baptism?

 The natural man. We would become as little children.

Study Romans 6:14-23. Write a paragraph that describes how we know whose servant we are, Them write a statement identifying the true source of freedom.

We know whose servant by the fruits of our actions. All good things come from God and if we are doing good we are His servant and will reap eternal life if we endure to the end. If we are servants of sin, we will reap death. The true source of freedom comes from righteousness! When we are sinning we are in the hands of satan and subject to him. When we keep the commandments we are blessed with more freedom and blessings that we can even imagine.

I completed this assignment by reading, reviewing, and contemplating the scriptures. I decided to do this assignment because I have been reading a lot of missionary letters about baptism and realized that baptism is always one of the primary answers that we give when we don’t know what else to say but we never really talk about after our own baptism. I loved that this assignment, especially Mosiah 3:19 connected to my other choice assignment about living like the Saints. It was fun to see the Bible and Book of Mormons support each other. I could research more about what baptism by sprinkling means to those who do it and why they think that is the correct way. I think that would be interesting.