Inner Resurrection for Corinthians

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse, the ‘dead’ are not persons far away but states of consciousness that you have buried under fear and habit. Baptism for the dead becomes a ritual of hope when inner life is uncertain; Paul asks you to awake to a more intimate truth: if you do not believe in the rising of your own life, all your acts appear self-contradictory. The question invites you to revise your building of reality from the ground of your I AM, the awareness that cannot die. When you stand in jeopardy hour after hour, you are really standing at the edge of a doorway—one you can pass through by the conviction that the inner man is alive now. Your daily risks reveal the curtain between old limits and new possibilities; the “dead” rising is a symbol for the re-birth of your attachments, your fears, and your sense of separation. See every trial as a bell announcing the nearness of your own resurrection. To “baptize for the dead” is to baptize your own past into the certainty of a living, indestructible self that you now choose to identify with.