Krister Stendhal asserts that the word we translate as "baptized" carried the connotation of "drowned." If Paul is relying on this understanding, he is certainly making a strong contrast between life before baptism and life afterwards.
"What's happened to us," he says, "is like what happened to Christ Jesus. He died. He was raised. He has a new life. We have died, as he did. We will have a resurrection like his.
"With baptism our old life of sin has died. We are free from sin."
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