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Old 05-25-2008, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by InevitablyReformed View Post
You are FUNCTIONALLY excluding the child from a rite of the covenant community.
...which is what the church does with the Lord's Supper. How is that different from excluding them from baptism?

2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

I'm unclear. Based on God's promises, (the way I understand it) you presume the child to be saved, until proven otherwise. In the case of the Lord's Supper, does the church presume that the child is not in the faith? That Christ is not in them? That they are reprobates?

Thank-you for your patience with this thick headed, inquiring baptist.
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A reoccurring thought:

Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.