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People are baptized because Jesus was baptized, and baptism is part of the Christian Walk. I Peter 3:21 states: "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.".

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