Trent Horn
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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But what a Catholic would say, and many others, including their, I believe it was Oscar Coleman, he was a Lutheran theologian.
He says that, well, what is the pledge of the clean conscience?
It's baptism.
Baptism itself, that is the pledge.
Not that it's a symbol.
That what Peter is saying here, he's saying, look, baptism doesn't save us in a magical way.
It's not like just that the water is some kind of magical property that makes us clean in the same way that water takes dirt off of our skin.
So if you just receive baptism and you just think, oh, well, this is just some kind of magic incantation and I can go to heaven.
Well, no, that's not how baptism works.
But what he's saying is baptism saves because it washes away original sin.
What it does is that it takes away any original or actual sin that has a metaphysical effect on our souls, and it saves us in that way.
But I would say for me when it comes to baptism—
I would say that what often happens in these kind of debates between Christians, I kind of feel like it ends up being the person who believes baptism saves, he puts up verses, and the other person says, here's why I don't find those convincing.
But I think at the very least you would say there are at least like five verses that sort of sound like baptism is what saves us.
You say they at least sort of sound like that.
Yeah, I mean, you got the Mark 16, 16.
Whoever's not baptized will not be saved.
Acts 2, 38, repent and be baptized.
But to me, I'm like, okay.
But I noticed this paucity of data, an absence of like five, you know, where are the verses that say,
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