This article addresses the question of what it means to be accountable to God based on a baptismal theology that we find in the New Testament. It argues that various passages in the New Testament lead us to the view that we are accountable to God in Christ. Such a view is not straightforward, and so much of this article will be spent unpacking what this could mean. To do so, I elaborate on what it means for God to create humanity to find fulfilment in and through Christ. This leads me to argue that humans experience fulfilment in and through the body of Christ into which baptism initiates a person. It is by participating and finding belonging in the life of the Church that humans can begin to discover what it means to be accountable to God in Christ, and, in so doing, form the virtue of accountability.

本文基于我们在新约中发现的洗礼神学，探讨了对上帝负责意味着什么的问题。它认为，《新约》中的各种段落使我们得出这样的观点，即我们在基督里对上帝负责。这种观点并非直截了当，因此本文中的大部分内容都将花在解释其含义上。为此，我详细阐述了神创造人性并在基督内并通过基督获得成就对神的意义。这使我认为，人类在基督的身体中和通过基督的身体经历了满足，受洗使一个人进入了基督。通过参与并发现教会生活中的归属，人类可以开始发现在基督里向上帝负责的意义，并由此形成了责任的美德。