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Well welcome back to today's edition of the show.

Today we're looking at your questions on baptism.

We were looking at the other end of life on recent shows, but this time looking at often what

happens at, you know, at a very young age, but often at an adult age for other Christians,

depending on your theology of baptism. So we've got some general questions, some very specific questions on today's show.

Before we leap into them, Tom, I'm assuming you were baptized as a child.

Would that be correct?

Yes, yes, I was.

Yes, and has that the choice you've made for your children as well along the way?

Yes, all four of our children were

baptized as infants and all our six grandchildren have been baptized. Indeed, the grandsons,

I baptized all of them myself, all four of them. Oh, what a lovely privilege to have that.

We'll come to a question on infant baptism

a bit later on, but let's start just with more of a general question, this one from Matthew in

Leiden in the Netherlands, who says, in previous episodes you've answered some questions about

baptism from specific angles. I want to ask a more general, but in a more fundamental sense, though,

what happens at baptism? I grew up thinking of it as a symbol that communicates to the world

that you decide you want to die to your sin and live for Jesus, with as a consequence that you're

not supposed to baptize infants because they can't decide that. But from what I've heard and read

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