Careless ninks to the Make it Bible Podcast.

Welcome to the Make it Bible Podcast. Today, and in fact for our inaugural

podcast, we want to jump into the subject of baptism. The subject of baptism is a

favorite of mine because it's a telling example of a point of biblical

theology that virtually everyone would think they understand but it's one

that rarely gets close attention when it comes to the biblical text. Now I know

what you're thinking. Come on Mike, everyone knows about baptism. What's there

to think about? A lot actually, and I'm not just talking about the debate over

where their infants should be baptized or not or how the mode of baptism is

performed. What I'm thinking about goes a lot deeper than that. Christian

traditions rarely examine the theological dilemmas that their own positions on

baptism cause by creating tension with other points of doctrine. Now you may not

believe that but I think you will after we're through. In this first session I

want to briefly define two terms so we're all on the same page. There are

a range of viewpoints and associated jargon that come with the topic of

baptism so we need to cover them. First there's what's known as believers

baptism. That's the belief that only those who have first made a profession of

faith in Christ as Savior are proper candidates for baptism. Once baptized

believers become members of the church. Now one result of this view is that

only regenerated believers should be church members. The mode used in

believers baptism might be immersion it typically is. That is dipping the

recipients in water but it could be sprinkling or pouring. The mode is

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