Baptism the new circumcision

Colossians 2:11-12 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

	Circumcision	Baptism
Sign of a covenant with God	for Abraham's offspring (Gen 17:10-11)	for the Church (Mt 28:19)
Covenant family includes children	of eight-day old males (Gen 17:12)	infant baptism based on faith of parents (Acts 2:38-39)
Natural / supernatural action	performed by human hands (Gen 17:23-27)	a spiritual circumcision through Jesus (Col 2:11)