However, when the Joint Declaration asserts several times over, as though to ensure no-one misses the point, that ???Persons are justified through Baptism as hearers of the Word and believers in it??? (27), that salvation is a gift granted by the action of the Holy Spirit in Baptism (25), and ???In Baptism the Holy Spirit unites one with Christ, justifies, and truly renews the person??? (28,29,30)