As you understand the covenants continuity. Not that I want to hash that out again. We remain agreeing to disagree.
Of course, those that don’t believe in the continuity of the covenants (concerning infants) believe that their children are just out there and that God made no “specific” covenant provision for them.
Their children need not ask why God calls them holy at times (1 Cor 7:14) and why Jesus put his hands upon them, and blessed them (Mark 9:36; cf. Num 6:24-26). Oh, no matter they say, I am holy
someway outside of the covenant of God, while yet a total full participating member of the covenant of darkness. I’ll figure this out later.
Oh, yes, a little one thinks, my parents and a group of so-called kingdom people is there to watch out after me, but none-the-less, no covenant provision has been made specifically for me: God left me out in the cold cruel world—in the kingdom of darkness—all alone. Unlike the lesser kings of all the earth, the King of Heaven makes no specific covenant provision for me—a mere child. The King of all the earth has a Kingdom, that has no infants in it—unless we die first. I’ll figure this out later too.
Yes, as a child I hear it every day from my credo parents that God’s kingdom ONLY has the redeemed in it, (though the Bible reveals there are both lost and saved in His visible Church, i.e. Cain and Abel, etc.). But, that is just the Bible. However, I am a little confused to look at another O.T. Kingdom and discover that this Kingdom of God (Israelites) had elect and non-elect children in it and the N.T. had household baptisms, and yes, even today I remember that my parents brought me into their kingdom assembly—called a Church. Well, you know, I’ll deal with this later also.
Now, I wonder about it all. Am I not a hypocrite? I am not in the covenant
in any form, but my parents desire me to be doing covenant things; I am
not a member, (but of the Kingdom of darkness and its covenant), however, my parents desire me to lie unto their God and desire me to worship their God, though He is not my ruler and King, (for I am not a member
in any form of His covenant). I understand now that to become a believer in Christ, I first must learn to be a hypocrite in God’s Church. It makes sense to me now, I think ...
Now, I understand Christianity? However, I still wonder why God did not just simply make a provision for children to be a member of His kingdom
in some form. After all, if God had been thinking clearly though all of this, He could have just had two parts to His kingdom, with both elect and non-elect members, similar to His Israelite Kingdom. Thus, then I could understand why Jesus blessed covenant children, (for they were
in some form part of His kingdom and covenant) and why covenant children were sometimes deemed holy,
in some form. Yes, then to ask me a child to worship Him would not have been hypocritical, for that would have been a covenantal condition. Yes, the Bible then would make a little more sense. But, as I have learned there is no continuity here. Too bad, it would have been a beautiful complete Gospel that way, but I am satisfied understanding that God’s covenant is only for so-called covenant adults, for living covenant children never existed. Rock, Rattle, and Roll, the infinite kingdom is the infantless kingdom as well.
I better return to my crib now.
Signed,
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