
Episode 48: Believer’s Baptism (Part 3): The Old Covenant Background with James Renihan
Theology in Particular
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The Old Testament Background to Baptism
Luke gives us all the information that we need to make that conclusion. Circumcision has nothing to do with baptism. The antitype of circumcision is regeneration. So despite all the arguments that our peto baptist friends want to make, circumcision has no direct relationship to baptism at all. It's the washings of the old testament, not circumcision. We come back to colossians two, 11 and 12. Verse 11 describes to us our conversion, our regeneration. And then what would you expect? Well, we're buried with him in baptism. That's what follows after that's the the pledge,. using first peter three 21 language, that we make you believe in your
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