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Pints With Aquinas

23: Is baptism necessary for salvation?

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It is written (Ezekiel 36:25): "I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness."

I answer that, As the Apostle says (Romans 6:3), "all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in His death." And further on he concludes (Romans 6:11): "So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Hence it is clear that by Baptism man dies unto the oldness of sin, and begins to live unto the newness of grace. But every sin belongs to the primitive oldness. Consequently every sin is taken away by Baptism.

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the Passion of Christ is communicated to every baptized person, so that he is healed just as if he himself had suffered and died. Now Christ's Passion . . . is a sufficient satisfaction for all the sins of all men. Consequently he who is baptized, is freed from the debt of all punishment due to him for his sins, just as if he himself had offered sufficient satisfaction for all his sins.

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As Augustine says in the book on Infant Baptism (De Pecc. Merit. et Remiss. i) "the effect of Baptism is that the baptized are incorporated in Christ as His members." Now the fulness of grace and virtues flows from Christ theHead to all His members, according to John 1:16: "Of His fulness we all have received." Hence it is clear that man receives grace and virtues in Baptism.


ST III, Q. 69, A. 1; 2; 4.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pints with a Quietness Episode 23.

0:05.1

I'm Matt Frad.

0:07.1

If you could sit down with St. Thomas Aquinas

0:10.2

over a pint of beer and ask him any one question,

0:14.6

what would it be?

0:16.0

In today's episode, we'll ask St. Thomas the question,

0:19.6

is baptism merely a symbol,

0:22.7

or does it also regenerate the soul?

0:25.6

MUSIC

0:36.7

Welcome to Pints with Aquinas.

0:39.0

This is the show where you and I pull up a bar stall

0:42.5

next to the angelic doctor and discuss theology and philosophy.

0:48.4

And today we're going to be discussing one of my favorite sacraments,

0:52.5

the sacrament of baptism.

0:55.1

Now for my Protestant listeners,

0:57.7

I just want to say kudos to you, first of all,

1:00.2

for even being open to listening to me a Catholic,

1:03.8

talk about something you probably don't believe in

1:06.1

and to share with you what St. Thomas Aquinas has to say.

1:08.9

But can I just say this before we look at what Aquinas says?

1:14.0

I think that if I were a Protestant Christian,

1:17.9

the historic understanding of baptism

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