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Originally Posted by Dan....  If I remember correctly, Dr. White brought that passage as a response to Pastor Shishko's challenge for the baptist to prove discontinuity in the household principle.
The burden of proof is on the baptist to prove that there is discontinuity in the inclusion of children (or households) in the administration of the covenant.
Dr. White attempts to use this passage in response as a reason to believe that there is a discontinuity in the New Covenant.
Personally, I think that to use Dr. White's argument from this passage, one must first prove that variance of son against father and daughter against mother is foreign to the Old Testament scriptures.
To find variance in households in the OT, you don't have to look very far. Look at Adam's household, or David's household, or Samuel's household, or Isaac's household.
Where's the discontinuity? |
Not to mention that it tortures the meaning of the text. Every time I see a Reformed Baptist distort this passage to support the idea of discontinuity I wince. It's as if God has one hand behind His back through the whole of Proverbs and every other Scripture that speaks of the joy of spiritual blessing at having your children follow you in the faith and seeing your children's children calling upon the name of the Lord. Jesus supposedly comes along with a huge wrecking ball. Where the Old Covenant saints rejoiced in seeing their children grow in faith from the knee, Christ proclaims good(?) news to them: "...in this new,
better Covenant I've coming to
divide households."
Yippee!!