SHOULD INFANTS BE BAPTISED?

With A Comparison Between Circumcision and Baptism.

I believe infants should be baptised because they were circumcised at 8 days old. For this to be a proper practice, Baptism would have to be equivalent to circumcision.

Colossians 2:11-14 "In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made

without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the the flesh, by the

circumcision of Christ.

Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith

in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

And you , being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,

He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was

contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."

NKJV

COMPARING CIRCUMCISION & BAPTISM

                    CIRCUMCISION           BAPTISTISM

God Does Work In Spirit    Col.2:11       Col.2:12



Requires Sacrifice         Col.2:14,      Eph.2:13


                             
                                  Eph. 2:14-15    Rom.6:3-4


Requires Forgiveness      Col.2:13-14     Eph.2:13



Common Salvation          Eph.2:11-22     Eph.2:11-22



Newness of Life           Col.2:13        Rom.6:4


                             
                                   2Cor.5:17      2Cor.5:17


Abraham Is Father of Faith Gal.3:14&29    Gal.3:14&29



A Sign & Seal in Flesh    Eph.2:11        Acts1:5


                             
                                  Rom.4:11-12     Acts 8:26-39
      
                                         
                                              Rom.4:11-12

Scripture is telling us that spiritual circumcision=spiritual baptism, therefore it follows that the signs would also be equivalent. The outward sign of the cutting of the of the flesh and the using of water is a sign & seal of what has hopefully happened in the soul. It is an outward sign of inward grace; our union with Christ and purification from guilt and pollution of sin.

God is still a God of families like in the case of Abarahm. 1Cor.7:14 tells us that when there is a believing parent the children are holy otherwise they are unclean.

In Acts 16:15, Lydia and the members of her household were baptized; Acts 16:33

shows the Philippian jailer and all his family were baptized and Paul baptized the

household of Stephanans. 1Cor 1:16

Since circumcision is equivalent to baptism, how could we not baptize our children?

There is nothing in the Bible to cause us to adopt a different program.

In receiving the sign of baptism, this does not mean that the that the children

of believers are automatically saved. We must call our children to repentance and

trust the promises represented in their baptism.

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