Here are a few of my initial thoughts on baptism, particularly thinking about the continuity it has (or doesn’t have) with circumcision:
- circumcision identified people with the visible people of God – it was not a sign of circumcision of the heart (salvation from sin)
- baptism IS a sign of being baptized with Christ into his death and resurrection – identifying not merely with the visible church, but pointing to the reality, the salvation from Christ that makes one a part of the invisible church
- circumcision was a sign of the redeemed from Egypt, not the redeemed from sin
- baptism is a sign of the redeemed from sin
