SYMBOLS
Baptism is like a wedding ring: they both symbolize transactions. A wedding ring symbolizes marriage, just as baptism symbolizes salvation. Wearing a wedding ring does not make you married any more than being baptized makes you saved. To extend the parallel, if a person, especially a woman, does not wear a wedding ring you can almost always assume that the person is not married. So it was in New Testament times. If a person was not baptized, you could probably assume that he or she was not a believer. But, like a wedding ring, lt is such an effective symbol that it should never be taken for granted. Michael P. Green, ed., “Illustrations for Biblical Preaching.”
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