Our Baptism Form (2)

Our Baptism Form starts out with speaking of the sacrament of baptism as a holy sign. It is more than that, for it is also a seal as well as a sign, but it is nevertheless first of all a sign. To the question, Of what is it a sign?, the answer can be given, that baptism is a sign of our entrance into God's covenant through the washing away of our sins. By nature we are outside of God's covenant, a part of the fallen human race, dead in trespasses and sins, without hope and without God in the...