Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and on Sunday I had a debate with Ryan from need godnet on whether or not water baptism saves.

Since I'm actually recording this on Friday, a low from the past, I can only pray that the debate went well.

Now, you can follow the link in the description to view the debate for yourself and you can let me know how you think I did.

But in any case, in the course of preparing for the debate,

I found a video of Ryan responding to six of the Bible verses

that seem to support the idea that water baptism does, in fact, save.

Now, Ryan claims that none of these verses mean what they plainly seem to mean,

but I think that even without all the other Old Testament,

New Testament, and early Christian evidence for the doctrine that water baptism does save,

these six verses alone would be pretty strong evidence that this is indeed what the Bible teaches.

So I want to look at each verse here, Ryan's objection to those verses,

and then explain why I think these

verses really are good evidence for water baptism saving. And as always, I want to thank those of you

who are supporting me over on Patreon at Shamelessjo.com. You can support this ministry for as little

as $5 a month, and I'm trying to give bonus content for each tier of support. For example, at the $5 level,

you get weekly hour-long Q&As. At $10, you get two weekly Q&As and your questions are answered first.

And I actually did a special members-only debate after party on Sunday night with the donors at a $25

month level, or at least I assume I did. Remember, I'm recording this last week,

so I may not even be alive anymore. I don't know. And for the handful of you who can donate at the

very top tier, we actually have a signal group chat that is very active. So let's unpack these

passages beginning with. Passage number one, Mark 16, 16. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever

does not believe will be condemned.

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