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Whatever your interpretation of the verse is, the same strictures apply to any pastor who pronounces 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 to even only professing believers. There's no getting around it, unless you refuse to say that Christ died for anyone person in particular.
Again, the pastor has a Scriptural warrant to presume the salvation of ADULTS who have made a profession of faith and thus he can with good conscience say that Christ died for THEIR sins. But he has no warrant to look out to a congregation of mixed individuals, some members, some not and say that Christ died for everyone's sins. Infants are incapable of displaying marks of grace. Election is only known unto God and thus we cannot presume the election of anyone without evidence of a profession of faith and a life which exhibits the fruit of the Spirit. And even then we have no warrant to make a pronouncement but only a hopeful conjecture. We deal in the temporal, not the eternal. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Lastly, I seriously doubt that those who "left us", those false prophets were infants in diapers. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Again, they were ADULTS.

What we DO know is that ALL, with perhaps the very rare exception, is that ALL are born in sin. ALL have a corruption of nature. ALL have guilt imputed to them. ALL are in need of a radical change of nature; aka: regeneration. ALL are in need of Christ. ALL need to put faith in Christ and be justified. That much I can presume!

In His Grace,

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