glorydaz
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Respective members of the boc are reckoned to be "crucified with Christ."
Thus, when the Lord Jesus Christ died, we died with Him. We were there. How's that, wacko John W? Survey the book of Ephesians, specifically(although it is a theme in all 13), and memorize "in Him," or "in Christ"-it is employed as a constant state of existence. Saints, members of the boc, are "in Him," not outside of Him watching, not walking beside Him. Saints are in Him. Our justification /salvation is in Him, not somewhere outside His existence.
Same with when the Lord Jesus Christ was buried-we were reckoned as being buried "with him," because we are "in Him"-united. We were not outside the tomb, but in it.
Colossians 2 KJV
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Thus, not only was the Lord Jesus Christ buried, but saints/boc members were buried with him, because we are in Him .
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