Why do we have to go under water to be baptized?

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New Testament scholar Nijay Gupta joins Kaitlyn to answer another baptism question: why do we have to go underwater?! Dr. Gupta explains the significance of water in the ancient world and in the Bible, and shows us how something scary can also be beautiful.

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0:29.8	I don't know.
0:33.3	That doesn't make any sense.
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:37.6	Curiously.
0:39.4	Okay.
0:40.2	Yeah.
0:43.1	Dr. Nijey Gupta, thank you so much for joining me today.
0:46.7	My pleasure.
0:47.4	Always good to be talking to you.
0:49.2	This is Dr. Nijey Gupta.
0:51.2	He is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and the author of many books,
0:55.6	including the recent Tell Her Story, how women led, taught, and ministered in the early church.
1:02.2	Yeah. So let's hear our kid question today. This one's a fun one because this is a kid that our
1:08.0	producer, Mike, this is his kid, and he is really thinking a lot about
1:12.2	baptism and has a variety of questions, and this is one of his questions.
1:16.5	Why do you have to go underwater to be baptized?
1:21.1	I have to say two things before I hear your initial reaction, Dr. Gupta. One is you can hear
1:27.1	a robot toy in the background,
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