If we are to take seriously the Genesis story and the strong injunction to circumcise all the males, whether or not they were old enough to know what was going on (and you don’t know a lot at eight days old!), there would seem to be some case for baptising the children of believers, but we shall look at that in a later chapter. The other point to note at this stage is that if we see baptism as the fulfilment under the New Covenant of what circumcision was under the Old, then, like circumcision, it