What does it mean, though, to say that believers have died to sin? Cranfield (1975: 299–300) nicely lays out the options. (1) We died to sin in God’s sight, that is, in a forensic or juridical sense; (2) we died to sin in a sacramental sense, in that we died with Christ and were raised with him in baptism; (3) we die to sin in a moral sense, in that we mortify sin in our bodies; (4) we die to sin when we actually die physically.4 View number 4 can be rejected immediately, for it makes nonsense