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Brendan Byrne has this to say about Paul\u2019s description of baptism as baptism into the death of Jesus: \u201cbehind the expression here lies the characteristically Pauline idea of the risen Lord as personally constituting a sphere of influence or milieu of salvation\u2019into\u2019 which believers are drawn through faith and baptism, henceforth to live \u2018in Christ\u2019 . . . Christ does not lose his individual personal identity, but, nonetheless, as risen Lord and \u2018life-giving Spirit\u2019 (1 Cor. 15:45), he somehow \u2018contains\u2019 within his person, in a comunal sense, the messianic community destined for salvation. The present allusion to this truth goes beyond earlier presentations . . . in its suggestion that baptism involves not simply a being joined to Christ in a static \u2018spatial\u2019 sense but also a dynamic insertion into what might be called his overal \u2018career\u2019 ?Edeath, burial, and risen life. It is this conformity to the \u2018career\u2019 of Christ that lies at the heart of Paul\u2019s insistence, negatively, upon Christians\u2019 \u2018death\u2019 to sin, and, positively, their orientation towards a new, righteous life.\u201d <\/p>\n
That is very well put. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brendan Byrne has this to say about Paul\u2019s description of baptism as baptism into the death of Jesus: \u201cbehind the expression here lies the characteristically Pauline idea of the risen Lord as personally constituting a sphere of influence or milieu of salvation\u2019into\u2019 which believers are drawn through faith and baptism, henceforth to live \u2018in Christ\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-nt-paul"],"yoast_head":"\n