The Natural and the Spiritual

I. A Difficult Verse -- Baptism for the Dead v. 29

A. The Mormon Error

B. Grammatical and Contextual Considerations

C.  Theories on the Meaning  

A suggested paraphrase from Ciampa and Rosner's commentary
“Now if there is no resurrection, what will be accomplished by those who
get baptized because of what they have heard about how our dead will be
raised? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people undergoing baptism
on account of them?”

D.  Romans 6:3-13
    

II. Paul's Personal Sacrifice for His Belief in the Resurrection 30-32

III. A Christian Proverb and an Exhortation 33-34

A.  A Christian Proverb  v. 33

B. Wake Up! V. 34