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Old 05-13-2008, 05:54 AM
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The Promise is to you, your children, and to those who are afar off...
"As many as are called". The promised has been rounded out quite a bit, hasn't it? Also, there are many other qualifiers in the passage and in the language that make this more than a promise for infants.
But it is a strange thing to say if believer's children are now excluded.
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