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Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.

In the last podcast, I sketched out my view of the meaning of baptism.

If you've been following the podcast, you know that it took a while to get there.

I had to set up my own view by outlining the problems that are inherent in the way baptism

gets talked about.

Now that we've covered that ground and established what we can and cannot say about both circumcision

and baptism, I want to shift the focus a bit to applying what we've learned to believers

baptism or adult baptism.

And we should note at the outset that those labels certainly have a great deal of overlap,

but they are not synonymous.

Unlike infants, an adult can believe the gospel prior to baptism, making baptism an outward

testimony of their faith.

But an adult could be baptized without ever making any profession of faith in Christ at

all.

It just depends on the circumstances and really the teaching of the church that they happen

to be in.

But even in the case of the former, where a profession of faith is obtained, what's going

on at baptism still needs to be clearly understood in relation to the matter of salvation.

So let's jump in.

I argued earlier that the meaning of baptism, particularly in light of its link to circumcision,

was inclusion in the community of faith and access to the oracles of God, the truth

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