Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, in today's episode I'm going to go through a recent video that Gavin

Ortland did on baptismal regeneration, where he questions the universality of this teaching

in Scripture and the early church.

Now a few caveats.

First, I like Gavin a lot.

I even offered to debate this issue with him instead of doing a rebuttal video because

I think direct engagement can be more productive.

He graciously declined saying he's really busy and I completely understand that.

Sometimes I feel like I'm barely trading water with everything I'm doing at Catholic answers.

And I myself have three or four debates or dialogues coming up in the next few months.

So I might need a dialet back as well.

So I totally understand.

However, we are tentatively scheduling two debates on Soloscriptura and Apostolic Succession.

We might do both in the fall or we'll only do one in the fall, one in the spring.

Stay tuned for that.

I'm very excited about those.

Also this video will be very catechism heavy to explain the church's teaching on baptism,

but that's a good thing because the catechism is awesome.

Finally, it's important to know that Gavin is not giving a comprehensive defense of arguments

for the anti-baptismal regeneration position.

So I've tried to raise other objections people might make.

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