Hi,  This is in regard to your letter yesterday, Dianne. You said, The issue of babies "not knowing" what is happening to them is exactly what
happens to the little male babies at circumsision into the Blood Covenant..
The parents are to educate and train the child in that Blood Covenant.  Never
in Jewish thinking is one entered into the Covenant because of sin!   Our
children are of our household and as I read The Word The Father deals with
households.
 
 

Circumcison was given to the JEWS for an outward sign of the Covenant that God had made through Abraham. When Jesus went to the Cross in the New Testament, He made a NEW Covenant.

Paul makes this clear in his letters to the Corinthians and the Galatians.

    "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

      Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

     You have become estranged from Christ, you who atempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace,

     For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

    For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith  working through love."  Gal. 5:1-6
 
 

"For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circucision that which is outward in the flesh;

    but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcison is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God." Rom 2:28,29

To compare the outward sign of circumcision to baptism is like comparing apples to oranges. They both are "outward signs". However to say

The issue of babies "not knowing" what is happening to them is exactly what
happens to the little male babies at circumsision into the Blood Covenant..
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would tend to justify that just because almost all babies are circumcised these days just as almost all children are baptized as infants, that both are saved. This is incorrrect based on the Word of God.

"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name:

  who were born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."  John 1:12,13

You also said,

Never
in Jewish thinking is one entered into the Covenant because of sin!

Well, we see John the Baptist preaching to SINNERS to come and be baptized. If we look at Yeshua as our pattern, He was baptized as an adult. We see in the gospel accounts, that John tried to prevent Him saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?" This indicates that John (as an adult) associated Baptism with repentance.

Baptism is an outward sign of our entering into the New Covenant by faith. (1 Pet.3:21) Baptism in and of itself does not save or bring us into it. We do it in obedience to the Word of God. (The Ethiopian believed on Jesus and said "See here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?")

Lest the argument be made that he was an Ethiopian and not a Jew, the truth is -- The Scriptures denote a pattern that even Jews (who understood circumcision, felt the need to be baptized in association with repentance in Acts 2:41.)

"Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them."

Jesus HImself said, "HE that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but, he that believeth not shall be damned." Mk.16:16

 An infant is no more saved by baptism than Jews today are saved through circumcison. The outward sign of baptism is an antitype of the saving resurrection of Jesus Christ as Noah's ark was prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.
 
 

No decision for Christ is made by another. Nor is it attained by being born into a family that has trusted Christ as Savior. God wil deal with individuals on that Day.