Well, here we go. I think this is a theme I’m going to stick with for a while. I got tired of that other one… not because of the way it looked, but because it was so nonstandard. All sorts of screwy workaround and whatnot.

I’ll probably be tweaking this for a while.

I found this in the archives of a messageboard:

Baptism and Circumcision Both:

• Are initiatory rites: Gen 17:10-11, Matt 28:19, Acts 2:38-39, 8:12-13
• Signify an inward reality: Rom. 2:28-29, Col. 2:11-12, Phil. 3:3
• Picture the death of the old man of sin: Rom. 6:3-7, Col. 2:11-12
• Represent Repentance: Jer. 4:4, 9:25, Lev. 26:40-41, Acts 2:38
• Represent Regeneration: Rom. 2:28-29, Titus 3:5
• Represent Justification by Faith: Rom 4:11-12, Col 2:11-14
• Represent a cleansed heart: Deut 10:16, 30:6, Isa. 52:1, Acts 22:16, Titus 3:5-7
• Represent union and communion w/ God: Gen 17:7, Ex 19:5-6, Deut 7:6, Heb. 8:10
• Indicate Citizenship in Israel: Gen 17:4, Gal. 3:26-29, Eph. 2:12-13, 4:5
• Indicate Separation from the World: Ex. 12:48, II Cor. 6:14-18, Eph 2:12
• Can lead to either blessings or curses: Rom 2:25, I Cor. 10:1-12, 11:28-30

[Taken from Children of the Promise by Robert R. Booth]