Water baptism

Some of that which was in discussing the image covenant relates to baptism. Our likeness dies with Christ. And we are raised with him and given life through it also. It's purpose as a sign of justification and propitiation cannot be ignore. It was not in Catholicism because it was thought to cause it. Somehow it has been divorced from it by appling the principle of a covenant to those who may never see any saving grace of the nation that it is an ordinance of.

Since it follows likeness and justification, I believe that this is for believers. This inward regeneration and grace signified in water baptism is for
1) an outward sign of circumcision that lets believer's bear a sign of their citizenship to nation of heaven in their bodies as well as internally in their life.
2) It is an the first act of obedience for believers to be set apart to God.
3) It is an allegence to such a nation to follows its laws.
4) It is also an appeal to God for help to follow those laws.

It is not
1) Washing away of Dirt or Sin
2) It is not something that supplies the grace
3) the same as baptism or application of Christ's blood
4) independant of the grace in the person.
5) to be applied to non-believers.

I think immersion is more proper but I cannot exclude sprinkling as a baptism.
Immersions stresses the burial and the tomb of Christ, moving to life from death. Sprinkling stresses the propitiatory sacrifice, application of blood, and the annointing of grace. They both signify enterance into the covenant and nation. They are an outward showing ordinance of something inward.