The New Testament presents at least two primary purposes for water baptism. According to Romans 6:3, when a person is baptized into Christ (invoking Jesus’s name over the person), their old sinful life is put to death through participation in Christ’s death. Likewise, on the Day of Pentecost, Peter proclaimed that repentance and baptism in the name of Jesus Christ are necessary for the removal (or remission) of sins. Therefore, water baptism functions as a means of identifying with Christ’s death and the remission of sins. For this reason, the name of Jesus is invoked when the person being baptized is fully immersed in water, affirming that salvation is grounded in Christ alone, whose sacrificial death and cleansing blood provide the only basis for taking away of humanity’s sins.