WrittenFromUtopia
Puritan Board Graduate
If I am correct in assuming that most paedo baptists take Colossians 2:11 to be a proof text for justifying New Covenant baptism as a "sign of the covenant", then I have some basic issues with this idea.
Looking at the context of the verse, I don't see how anyone can use this as a proof for anything, other than the condition of the hearts of Believers under the New Covenant and proof for the visual sign of Baptism being related to burial and resurrection with Christ (obviously by immersion, as the word literally means).
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11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.[/b:1023c476d5][/quote:1023c476d5]
If you look closely, Paul says this is a circumcision "made without hands", obviously not referring to Old Covenant infant circumcision ... unless you want to end up with a lot of butchered babies! :no:
What do you guys think?
Looking at the context of the verse, I don't see how anyone can use this as a proof for anything, other than the condition of the hearts of Believers under the New Covenant and proof for the visual sign of Baptism being related to burial and resurrection with Christ (obviously by immersion, as the word literally means).
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11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.[/b:1023c476d5][/quote:1023c476d5]
If you look closely, Paul says this is a circumcision "made without hands", obviously not referring to Old Covenant infant circumcision ... unless you want to end up with a lot of butchered babies! :no:
What do you guys think?