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Well friends, we are back with a new episode in the Ask Anything Theology series.

Thanks for your patience and our couple of weeks break there. I needed to do some research

for these episodes and get everything ready to go for the next couple of weeks.

There is a lot of research that goes into these, and so I appreciate your patience with that

process. In this episode, you might also hear Ivan, he's hanging with me in my office,

and possibly a lot more because it's Saturday and we don't have snow on the ground anymore.

Yes, that is an actual concern in Michigan in May. So without further ado, we are jumping

into discuss four views of baptism. This has been a top request, both on Ask Anything Monday

and via email and on the blog. And so I thought this would be the fastest and most effective way

to educate on some of the different views of baptism throughout the Christian Church.

And we're going to be looking at four different views, but they are housed within two sections,

or two different, I would say, categories. The first category is paido baptism, or infant baptism,

and the second category is credo baptism, or believers baptism. So paido means child, credo

indicates creed or testament. So you are basing the baptism off someone's personal testimony.

And they have to be an adult in order to do that. So the two main categories being paido baptism

and credo baptism underneath those categories are different ways of understanding what baptism

accomplishes and how it should work. And so we're going to look at two subgroups within

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