Thanks.Originally Posted by metalman
No offense, but how does this passage apply to "Easter" except by vaguely mentioning resurrection? To me, the main jest of the passage is about BAPTISM and not resurrection. Yes, it does mention it, but it's basically explaining WHAT baptism is loosely about, not the resurrection.Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Again, this to me is referring to Baptism more than anything else. Again, yes baptism is related to resurrection, but I still fail to see how you are tying the ACT of baptism with Easter. Are you saying that during "Easter" we should all be baptised every year in order to celebrate? If so, wouldn't that then take away the meaning of Baptism which should only be partaken in once since its a symbolic way of cleansing our sins?Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
For the Christian baptism is symbolic of burial with Christ, which is the reason for full immersion, the baptism taught in the Bible, and coming up out of the water is symbolic of being raised from the dead to a new and eternal life.
What that passage is referring to is Communion and the Eucharist. What is the Eucharist to you? Isn't that what "this is MY body..." is? When you take communion it is exactly as the passage is saying to do....you are loosely reenacting the final supper in which Jesus asked his followers not to forget his teachings. Therefore, we are acting as the disciples we claim to be, just as the his original disciples did with him.....they shared a final meal before he was crucified. So when we take the Eucharist we are to think about and remember the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made for human kind. This is why the passage reads, "do THIS (communion) in rememberance of me (the sacrifice I'm about to make for all human kind)..."Secondly...
1 Cor 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1 Cor 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1 Cor 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.
According to Scripture the Lord's supper is a symbolic reminder, a memorial of the death of Christ. Keep in mind I am not refering to what is commonly called the Eucharist, that is not the same thing and to be honest is not Biblical, no offense to those who think it is.
I still don't see where in either of those passages it specifically details how we are to remember his resurrection unless you loosely assume that Baptism and Communion are the ways to do so.
I've never professed to be a bible scholar, so please don't take offense to my rebuttal. I was merely curious on what passages you were referring to, so I asked. I'm still no more clear on what you were inferring.
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