I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but I alway like to refer to 1 Peter 3:20-22.

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20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him
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I believe this also makes it pretty clear that Baptism is an outward sign of an already renewed heart as well as a sign and seal of covenant membership.

Meaning that faith comes prior to baptism in the case of a professing believer and not that Baptism causes faith.

So why baptize infants? Because Baptism is a covenant sacrament not a salvific sacrament. It IS a means of salvific grace used by God, but not in a physical application to the one receiving it way. But in a spiritual way. i.e., if the professing recipient is still in unbelief and or any who are witnesses to the baptism who are still in unbelief.

If that makes any sense.... ?

Sorry, I'm still a novice here, so I'm sure I'll need someone like Pilgrim to come in behind me and clean what I just stated up. Because I probably made a mess of it.

Dave

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16