The Anabaptist/Baptist Confusion

Many are perplexed as to how the Reformed can tie OT circumcision with NT baptism and how infant baptism, practiced by the universal Church of Christ for 1500+ years prior to Anabaptism, is biblical, both on theological and exegetical grounds.

The fretting will cease (at least it must for the thinking Christian!) after one goes through this essay by Rev. Professor-Emeritus Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, entitled, From Circumcision to Baptism "Circumcised...in Baptism" – Colossians 2:11-12 (Biblical refutation of the baptismal views of Baptists and Anabaptists).

The material can be accessed here or here.

All Trinitarian Baptism is Valid—Hence, the Invalidity of Anabaptism

Christian baptism is not a baptism into a denomination, group, etc., but a baptism into the Christian faith, as grounded upon the ontological Trinity. This speaks of the universality (catholicity) of the true Church of Christ, marked by its confession of the Trinity, and that baptism in any of the different denominations, groups, etc. that have this Trinitarian confession is a valid baptism, as it is a baptism into the Trinity. Hence, Anabaptism (rebaptism) is definitely error of an egregious sort, if not utterly sinful (as absurd as regrowing foreskin for recircumcision!).

Dr. Francis Nigel Lee explains: