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For Latter-day Saints, the first ordinance or sacrament of salvation is baptism by immersion. It is not optional; it is mandatory. It is an evidence of one’s acceptance of the death and resurrection and atonement of Jesus. As the initiate is immersed completely beneath the baptismal waters, he or she participates symbolically in Christ’s descent into the tomb of death and His rise to newness of life in the resurrection. “Know ye not,” the Apostle Paul asked, “that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 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. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.” (Rom. 6:3-5)Share
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