“Since baptism and circumcision signify the same spiritual reality, as Paul insists in Colossians 2:11-12, and since the children of Old Testament believers were always included in the covenant community and bore the circumcision-sign of that inclusion, it follows that the children of New Testament believers be received as members in the covenant community, the church, and receive the baptismal-badge of that membership.”
Jim McCarthy, Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Baptismal Water
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