If you place what you've said in the spiritual sense of water baptism, the circumcision of Christ in the spiritual realm, then you'll be in accordance with Col. 2. "Buried with Him in baptism and risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God."
Then you can see that the physical water baptism is a symbol of your spiritual rebirth that took place in the heart of man.
There is symbolism but not only symbolism, Water Baptism is Regeneration as well.
I have seen the effects of Baptism anyway so I’m in a different category, I’m not just taking it on Faith.
You don’t have to be shown by Grace like I was, you can arrive at this by reading the scripture.
Also the fact that it was Universally believed by all Christianity for the first 1500 years.
Universal belief means it’s the Truth, because of Christ’s promise that the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Church.
If all Christianity was universally deceived for 1500 years on Baptism, then the gates of Hell did prevail against Christ’s Church for one thousand five hundred years. This would make Christ a liar, which He could never be. Thus affirming the universal belief.
Universal belief is a very very different thing. You only condemn yourself by going against it, same with the outcomes of the Ecumenical Councils which are all the heads of all the churches combined gathered to settle questions of belief. Because they are universal, the whole Church gathered.
Symbolic baptism is a heresy founded by Ulrich Zwingli in the 1500s, and most Protestants and Baptist’s I meet don’t even know that he is the originator of this fallible human, unscriptural and unhistoric doctrine.