Is baptism is necessary for our salvation?

Carla Bousard is next.

Hello and welcome to focus,

the Catholic Answers Podcasts for living, understanding, and defending your

Catholic faith. I'm Cy Kelly, your host and I have to admit as a cradle Catholic is

a Catholic from the time I was before I was born. I'm pretty sure I was

Catholic in the womb. It never

would have occurred to me to ask the question is baptism necessary for

salvation so this is one of those reasons were one of those opportunities

where someone presents a challenge to the faith that you wouldn't even have even thought of and it deepens your understanding of that certain aspect of your faith.

This is one of the challenges that's made against Catholicism and Catholic belief in Catholic practice by our Baptist

and other Protestant fellow Christians.

The challenge being, well, there's some things in the Bible that would suggest baptism is not necessary for salvation.

So we asked Carla Russard about that and here's what he had to say. Okay, so I guess the main objection is that people seem to be saved who are not baptized.

Right.

Yeah, no, that's well put. I don't know any clearer way to put it.

Right. So, but we do say you like be

baptized to be saved right so this seems like a contradiction help me out

with it yeah so the the church does teach that baptism is necessary for salvation.

And as we go through our conversation here, we'll qualify what the church means by necessary.

We don't mean an absolute necessity such

that one who is not baptized

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