Hello everybody and welcome back to our formed book study on the Bible and baptism,

the fountain of salvation by Father Isaac Morales, O.P., who is kind enough to be joining me once

again. Hello, Father. How are you?

Well, thanks. How are you, John? Are you as well as you were in the last episode?

More or less. More or less. Good. Okay. So in our last episode, we had a great discussion of what it

means to be baptized in the name. And it turns out that this phrase that we kind of take for granted

or don't think a lot about is incredibly rich in biblical resonances and talked about how we we ourselves are attached to the temple that Christ is and in a way become

temples of the name of God bear bearers of his name.

And I have to stop myself because there's so many things that then kind of go off at once I want to talk about.

But we thought in this episode we could talk a little bit about some of the other ways that

scripture talks about what happens to us in our baptism and then kind of what that means

for how we understand our lives

as Christians.

Maybe one of the most famous ways that the New Testament talks about baptism is something

we see Jesus alluding to in John chapter 3.

Father, could you talk about that a little bit?

Yeah, well, so we were talking

earlier about this notion of being a born again Christian, which is redundant. Has anybody ever been

asked that? Yeah, and you're saying it's redundant. It is, it's redundant. You know, being,

Christians are, they have been born again, or born from above. That's the interesting thing. So in

John chapter 3, we're not going to read it,

but there's this conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus. And Jesus says to Nicodemus,

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