In the Old Testament, circumcision was physical and spiritual. A portion of flesh was sacrificed to represent submission of the flesh to God. In the New Testament, your fleshly sin nature is buried in baptism and you arise to submit to relationship in Christ.
Colossians 2:11-14 (NLT) 11 When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
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