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Originally Posted by CalvinandHodges I will restate what Spurgeon says here, "Children, and those like them, may freely come into the kingdom of the Lord of heaven." Spurgeon underlines this point by stating that this is "the banner of the Sunday School." In the passage in Mark the word "infants" is used as well as "children." | This is how one can have children in the kingdom but not in the kingdom: by creating a second level kingdom called "children's church." | Is a "children's church" not an attempt to ignore the very weight of the Scripture passages in question? |
I think it is. Imagine trying to recast the NT teaching of the kingdom so as to make it fit within this two-storey dimension. It is impossible. Almost like trying to make some passages refer to the church and others to the kingdom, as in dispensationalism.