baptism and rebirth

(baptism and rebirth) 『Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.』 (Colossians 2:12) You have to be born again. It is my choice that the mind(soul) of the body dies. God gives life to the spirit when the mind of the body dies. So the soul is associated with death of Jesus on the cross. The death of the cross is not suicide. Salvation is not eliminating sin. “Old self” that the root of sin has to die. This is the circumcision. 『In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ.』(Colossians 2:11) Circumcision is a sign that removes the body as “old self” . “Old self” of all man is a lump of sin. “Old self” is the son of the devil, every man has an “old self” that want to be like God another name for the soul is “old self”. We must remove the “old self”. When an “old self” is removed, a new self is born.『Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.』 (Colossians 2:12) God does not forgive “old self”. So “old self”must die. As long as “old self”lives, he can not enter the kingdom of God. “Old self” loves the world. 『For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.』(Romans 6:6-7) If “old self”dies, God forgives sin. Repentance is the death of “old self”.

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