When I began to study paedobaptism I saw that it was linked to God's dealings with Abraham in Genesis 15 and 17. At one point, God promises that those who do not receive the sign of the covenant will be cut off from their people. I am wondering whether the paedobaptists here believe that this is still God's ordinary means of dealing with the Church. Does this warning apply to the children of believers today?

If you answer in the affirmative, do you believe that the modern state of the Church, by which I partially mean the numbers that are leaving in droves, may have something to do, not totally but perhaps to some extent, with the move away from traditional covenant theology toward Baptistic dispensationalism and even "Baptistic covenant theology"?

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DAVIDIVS DOCTVS VTRIVSQVE LINGVAE
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Currently in the process of transferring membership to an as-yet-undecided church in Chapel Hill
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics