WhatThe -- just one more nod in your direction. The baptism and eternal life was incredibly apparent to me.
The other MAJOR Christian theme that was very apparent to me was free will vs. manipulation. There is a difference between free will, making forced choices, and making choices while being manipulated. When people making choices under manipulation, they THINK they are making choices of their own free will, but they are being unknowingly guided toward that very choice. In Christianity, Jacob works much like Jesus/God does -- he shows us how it is, and gives us a choice to make. The MIB works very much like Satan -- he tells us exactly what we want to hear to either stroke our ego, or feed our fears, to make us do exactly what he intended for us to do in the first place; he manipulates us to use us for his own purposes.
I absolutely LOVED this episode, and it actually made me appreciate and sincerely like Richard a lot; it's definitely my favorite this season.