Tom,

I couldn't find any verses directly saying that, but the question came up with those who claim that in discussing assurance, we should look back on our baptism. As if our baptism is the primary gauge in realizing on professing our assurance.

For me, my baptism would not be among the first things I think of when tracing back my salvation and the assurance of it. I think it is when I discovered that it is by grace through faith and the Bible becoming clear in my reading and understanding of it. It is God's Word and it opened itself up for me. I can think of subjective events as a change in my better outlook as I became immerse in my new faith. It was life-changing.

I know somewhat of the mysterious biblical concepts of union and others. So, I am not sure about neglecting my baptism altogether in this discussion, but some appears to make it as somewhat regenerative in their idea of it.

I hope this helps in clarifying,

John Chaney

"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7