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way. We must have the assurance and the reali zation that as we baptize people we are putting them into Christ. Once we realize the signifi cance of baptism we will not allow it to degen erate into an outward form or ritual. Baptism is an act in which we put the members of Adam into death, thereby transferring them out of Adam and into Christ. People are baptized into Christ. Even the King James Version uses the word "into" in Romans 6:3. How people have missed the mark regarding baptism in their divisive arguments about forms and methods! Whenever we baptize people, we only care that we put them into Christ. It is awful to perpetu ate a ritual, but it is wonderful to baptize people into Christ.
Praise the Lord that we have been baptized into Christ! Although we were born in Adam, by baptism we have been identified with Christ in His death and resurrection. Through death and resurrection Christ was transfigured from the flesh into the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). Even Christ Himself needed death and resurrection to trans form Him from the flesh to the Spirit. Like wise, through identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, we have been transferred out of Adam and into Christ. When we were