… in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Summary: Understanding Paul’s language requires understanding the reality of the spiritual realm.
If being “buried with him in baptism” is a metaphor for spiritual things, how much more is the rest of Paul’s sentence?
Actually, Paul’s sentence is more of a “mixed metaphor.”
The last part, where he writes “the working of God, who raised him [Jesus] from the dead,” is literal and true. God did raise Jesus from the dead. This same Jesus whom God raised to life two thousand years ago is alive today.
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