Infant Baptism and the Silence of the New Testament (Biblia.com)

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Since the time of the Reformation some Christians have argued that the historic church’s practice of infant baptism is without proper biblical warrant. The most frequently heard refrain from those in this camp is that because the New Testament contains no explicit command to baptize the infant children of believers, the practice is ultimately based upon an “argument from silence.” In Infant...

is it necessarily valid to say that baptism is the New Testament replacement for circumcision? And if so, is that sufficient warrant for assuming that, like circumcision, baptism was designed to be administered to the children of believers? Is baptism, as Reformed Christians argue, ‘the circumcision of Christ,’ with all of the implications that attend such a statement? Colossians 2:11–12 seems to answer those questions in the affirmative. That passage reads as follows: In Him you were also circumcised

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