<p>2:20 <i>If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances?</i>- The aorist tense of &ldquo;you died&rdquo; refers to a one time event, surely our baptisms into Christ's death. Likewise 3:1 refers to our one time rising with Christ in baptism. They were &lsquo;subjecting themselves&rsquo; to the Jewish ordinances, the legalities of Judaism, &ldquo;as though&rdquo; they were living in the Jewish world. Submission to Judaism was inappropriate for those who had died with Christ in baptism. The salvation by faith through grace experienced in Him meant that they had died not only to sin, but to the law which brought about sin.</p>