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Originally Posted by prespastor  As you can see from the responses thus far, the answer to your question is 'Yes' and 'No'.
Yes baptism is sacramentally an assurance of salvation in that it is sacramentally united with the thing itself, though it itself it not that thing. |
Can someone unpack this? I either ain't smart enough or I don't have enough faith.
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For the scriptures teach us that those who have been baptized have 'put on Christ', and have 'washed away their sins', and 'have died and risen in Christ', are 'one with his body'. The same scriptures teach us that justification is by faith alone.
The one does no violence to the other. When one understands that baptism is sacramentally connected to the reality but not the reality itself, one can see both sides of the coin. When you consider your baptism, in faith, believing the gospel, in view is your sin being washed away and your life being made new in Christ. In such a way baptism is indeed an assurance of your salvation.
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How can I believe this and not be a credo-baptist? I can't possibly have had instrumental faith for any of those bolded things to have happened as an infant. I can see my folks believing that I will be saved, that God has promised to be my God too, but I can't possibly have died and risen with Christ at that age.