Originally Posted by Robert Truelove

Without saying where this quote comes from, could my fellow paedobaptist brethren tell me if this is a proper articulation (especially the first sentence) and why or why not?

"Baptism is also the means by which communion with the death and burial of Christ comes into being (Rom. 6:4), the place where this union is effected (Col. 2:12), the means by which Christ cleanses his church (Eph. 5:26), and God has saved it (Titus 3:5), so that baptism itself can be called the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5). All these formulations speak clearly of the significance of baptism in mediating redemption; they speak of what happens in and by baptism not merely what happened before baptism and of which baptism would only be the confirmation.”