<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]The next question I ask myself is whether or not someone who merely hears the Word but has never been a part of God's covenant community (has never received the outward administration of the covenant) can also be a covenant breaker.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>Jason,<br><br>I would answer no to this, simply because we have already defined "covenant breaker" as (a) one who was to be baptized but wasn't {e.g., offspring of a believer}, and (b) one who was baptized but did not profess faith (i.e., a hypocrite). It would be a monstrosity in reason to define the term one way and then use it in another way. Please appreciate, the only reason I am even entertaining the term in the first place is because it is an approximate derivation of the term God used when instructing Abraham. However, God never had in view the way in which you are now considering using the term. <br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Ron
