#12363 Is Infant Baptism Necessary and What Does the Bible Say? - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Is infant baptism necessary and what does the Bible say?” This episode explores the significance of baptism, addressing questions like where infant baptism is found in Scripture and what it means for babies in terms of salvation. Additionally, we delve into the Protestant perspective on baptism as a saving sacrament and the role of emergency baptisms.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:50 – What made you think we needed a book on baptism?
- 06:30 – Where is infant baptism in the bible?
- 18:02 – If babies need to be baptized, what are they being saved from?
- 24:26 – Do Protestants agree baptism is a saving sacrament?
- 32:10 – Can any person baptize in an emergency situation?
- 36:42 – Can you clarify the presbyterian position on baptismal regeneration?
- 44:40 – Does the book of Revelation say anything about baptism?
- 50:45 – My wife and I are fostering a child. Can we baptize this child in the Church? The biological father is Catholic, and we are not sure if we are going to adopt them or if reunification will happen.
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| 0:28.3 | Hi, I am Sykelet, your host. |
| 0:30.0 | Very happy to be here with you. |
| 0:32.5 | We've got a great show. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to talk about baptism today with the author of the brand new book. |
| 0:36.8 | Baptism now |
| 0:37.7 | saves you how water and spirit give eternal life, Dr. Carla Roussard. So if you've got |
| 0:43.4 | baptism questions, or maybe you want to challenge that notion that baptism saves you, if that's the |
| 0:49.4 | case, whatever your question about baptism is, it is welcome this hour. 888-3187-884. Dr. Carlo Roussard is an apologist here at Catholic Answers, a podcaster, a wonderful speaker, and author of some of, what about, a thousand books now? How many books is it? Are you up to a thousand yet? It's roughly a thousand. Not quite, my friend. I eat Trent Horn. |
| 1:12.9 | But you're getting close, though. How many books do you have really? Do you even know? |
| 1:15.7 | The baptism book is number seven. Oh, only seven books. I hope I could do that before I die. I'd like to write |
| 1:23.0 | seven books. A lot of them are going to just be mostly doodling if I'm going to pull this off before death, |
| 1:28.5 | but congratulations on the book, Baptism Now Save You. Yeah, I appreciate that, man. I'm pretty |
| 1:34.4 | excited about it. I'm very grateful to the Catholic Answers team for all of the hard work that they |
| 1:40.7 | put into it in producing it from Todd and Drew and the editor editing group |
| 1:47.1 | and the marketing and everybody who worked to create the cover all across the board. |
| 1:53.9 | Super grateful to the team for producing it. |
| 1:55.9 | Very excited for people to read it. |
| 1:58.1 | I think they'll find it very enjoyable and easy read. It's packed with |
| 2:03.3 | content, some deep theology, but I tried my best at least to write it in a way that's digestible |
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