packsaddle said: Lutherans see Baptism as mostly "Gospel".
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The Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, Law and Gospel, teaches As the distinction between the Law and the Gospel is a special brilliant light, which serves to the end that God's Word may be rightly divided, and the Scriptures of the holy prophets and apostles may be properly explained and understood, we must guard it with especial care, in order that these two doctrines may not be mingled with one another, or a law be made out of the Gospel, whereby the merit of Christ is obscured and troubled consciences are robbed of their comfort, which they otherwise have in the holy Gospel when it is preached genuinely and in its purity, and by which they can support themselves in their most grievous trials against the terrors of the Law. . . Anything that preaches concerning our sins and God's wrath, let it be done how or when it will, that is all a preaching of the Law. Again, the Gospel is such a preaching as shows and gives nothing else than grace and forgiveness in Christ. . .
What part of baptism, strickly speaking, is not a preaching of grace and forgiveness in Christ but a preaching of our sins and God's wrath? Could you provide citations that support your view from scripture and the Book of Concord?
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packsaddle adds Baptism brings a person into a relationship with the Triune God.
Could you clarify that statement? Does baptism bring the unbelieving into a relationship with the Triune God? If so, what kind of relationship?
