Baptism

Jesus in his death and resurrection. This is the basis of salvation through
substitution – that the death he died he died for me
2Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose
again.
This symbolism had been appealed to by those who hold immersion is the
only form of scriptural baptism. So I also thought. This is because we are still
thinking in our own terms. When I die, I die lying on a bed with my face
looking up and I am buried in the like manner in the earth. I am covered with
soil. I expect to rise up from the dead emerging out of the grave when I am
called by Jesus. This is the physical aspect. Is that the way Christ died, buried
and rose again? We hardly think about it when we argue over the mode of
baptism. How did Christ die for my sins? He died on the cross standing up.
That is how he died for my sins. Blobs of blood trickled down from his brows
and hands and feet and also from his heart from where gushed out water and
blood. How can I be identified with my Lord in his death? What is the best
symbolism of baptism, than standing erect –as Jesus was (probably I should
extend my arms to replicate cross) – with water dripping from my head
trickling down my brows?
How was Jesus buried? He was never buried.
Luk 23:52 This man (Joseph of Arimathew) went unto Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus. Luk 23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and
laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was
laid.
Jesus was never buried. He was wrapped in clothes and then laid in a cave. .
In baptism we are buried with Christ in his tomb rather than Jesus being
buried with us in water. To symbolize being wound around with linen and
covered in a symbolic cloth cave would have been far easier than using water
and being dipped with the nose pinched. So also he never came out of the
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