“12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”
“for in one Spirit we were all BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and all were made to drink of One Spirit”
again no symbolism here, it says WE WERE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY.
NO SYMBOLISM, BAPTISM PLACES US INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. Paul says the same thing in Romans 6:3 and Galatians 3:27.
NO SYMBOLISM, NO FIRST ACT OF OBEDIENCE.