The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Is Baptism equivalent to making a vow?

I am still not convinced by anything I read, I still believe that Christ was in the flesh, offering His human body "conscration" unto the service of God. I read people who said He did it to identify Himself with sinners, well, He already did that when He was born of a woman. Others say He did it to be part of the covenant people of God, identifying with them there, but wasn't He already that by His lineage? I see no other reason for His baptism other than what I said. I know it isn't accepted because then we would get into the issue of whether infants should be baptized. The danger is to hold to a belief so tenaciously preventing further understanding., For those of us that are credo Baptists, this isn't a stetch at all, and actually makes more sense than any other arguments for Christ's baptism. Also, if we insist that it replaced the sign of circumcision, then why do we baptize women, when they weren't circumsized? Just more of my thoughts.