“The baptized Christian has ceased to belong to the world and is no longer its slave. He belongs to Christ alone, and his relationship with the world is mediated through him.

In baptism, a man dies together with his old world.

The old man and his sin are judged and condemned, but out of this judgement a new man arises, who has died to the world and sin.

Baptismal death means justification from sin. The sinner must die that he may be delivered from sin.

Forgiveness of sin does not mean that the sin is overlooked and forgotten, it means a real death on the part of the sinner and his separation from sin. But the only reason why the sinner’s death can bring justification and not condemnation is that this death is a sharing of the death of Christ." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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