One of the reasons for baptism by immersion is that going under the water symbolizes our going into the grave - associating us with the death of Christ, and indicating our 'death' to our previous life of sin and ignorance.
Moja ya sababu za ubatizo wa maji mengi ni kwamba kuzama ndani ya maji kunaashiria kuzikwa kwetu kaburini- tunajiunga na mauti ya Kristo, na kuonyesha ‘kufa’ kwetu kwenye maisha ya kwanza ya dhambi na ujinga.