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→Colossians 2:8-15: KJV text of Colossians 2:8-15
Some opponents of the practice of infant baptism claim there is no biblical passage connecting the seal of [[circumcision]] of infants eight days old in the covenant with Abraham and the seal of water baptism of infants in the covenant of Christ in salvation. For example, Baptist John MacArthur says: {{quotation|[I]nfant Baptism is not in the Scripture, it’s not New Testament Baptism, and it is not, please, a replacement sign for the Abrahamic mark of circumcision. One of the other things that Reformed people say is that infant Baptism takes the place of circumcision. I’ve heard that argument for years. So my response is, what verse says that? Where is it? Show me the verse. Where in the Bible does it say, by the way, Baptism is a replacement of circumcision? Where does it say that? It doesn’t say that anywhere.<ref>[https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-369/is-infant-baptism-biblical Is Infant Baptism Biblical?] by John MacArthur</ref>}}
Some opponents of the practice of infant baptism claim there is no biblical passage connecting the seal of [[circumcision]] of infants eight days old in the covenant with Abraham and the seal of water baptism of infants in the covenant of Christ in salvation. For example, Baptist John MacArthur says: {{quotation|[I]nfant Baptism is not in the Scripture, it’s not New Testament Baptism, and it is not, please, a replacement sign for the Abrahamic mark of circumcision. One of the other things that Reformed people say is that infant Baptism takes the place of circumcision. I’ve heard that argument for years. So my response is, what verse says that? Where is it? Show me the verse. Where in the Bible does it say, by the way, Baptism is a replacement of circumcision? Where does it say that? It doesn’t say that anywhere.<ref>[https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-369/is-infant-baptism-biblical Is Infant Baptism Biblical?] by John MacArthur</ref>}}
'''Colossians 2:8-15''' is cited and [[Hermeneutics|interpreted]] by ''paedobaptists'' as explicit scriptural evidence and justification for the doctrine and practice of infant baptism as being a replacement and fulfillment of the ''[[Typology|type]]'' of the seal of circumcision of an eight-day-old infant.
'''Colossians 2:8-15''' is cited and [[Hermeneutics|interpreted]] by ''paedobaptists'' as explicit scriptural evidence and justification for the doctrine and practice of infant baptism as being a replacement and fulfillment of the ''[[Typology|type]]'' of the seal of circumcision of an eight-day-old infant. {{cquote|8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
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:
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.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
—King James Version (KJV)}}
[https://biblehub.com/commentaries/colossians/2-12.htm Multiple commentaries on Colossians 2:12 on the biblehub.com site] explicitly connect circumcision and baptism:
[https://biblehub.com/commentaries/colossians/2-12.htm Multiple commentaries on Colossians 2:12 on the biblehub.com site] explicitly connect circumcision and baptism: