Loved this post. This, plus the other reading I've been doing today, really shows how similar in nature baptism & circumcision are. (Am I spelling that right?) Baptism is a great thing when everyone involved understands it's a sign of salvation and not the actual means of salvation. I think the problem is that in this day and age, we don't really talk about doctrine anymore, and very few people have an interest in learning, so people come up with their own imaginative ideas as to what baptism means.

So now my question is... do you think the Lord intended for baptism to be performed on infants? Circumcision was mandated to be done at 8 days of age, but as far as I can see there's no mention of age for baptism in scripture. I ask because if I were to have kids any time soon, with my husband in the state he's in I'm 99% positive he will put his foot down about the child being baptized. Not on doctrinal grounds, but because he's against religion of all forms. And I know the Lutheran contingent in my life will raise a roar about it. Would I actually be sinning by not having any child of mine baptized at birth?