Hi William:

You quoted the following, I presume to support the postion taken in your other posts:

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Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

But to me the text is clear that:

1. It is a circumcision "made without hands", thus, not one of mans' doing, it is "the circumcision of Christ", thus, it is not water baptism, by either mode.

2. This "circumcision without hands" seems to be equated in the text with "buried with Him in Baptism", an "operation of God", thus, it seems to me what is in view is the baptism of the Spirit, which is the sign and seal of the true and everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, made in eternity past, between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and from which all subservient covenants proceed.

In Him,

Gerry