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Originally Posted by Kevin WooHooo!!
Paridigm shift ahead.  | Ditto.
And, Dennis, I think that you have put out a very accurate summary analysis regarding that issue. Ecclesiology is the root of the argument indeed. Enjoy your reading  |
Yes! Ecclessiology and the nature of the covenant. Who is in the covenant? And how does one become part of the covenant?
Certainly the Old Testament pattern of "circumcision and indentification with the covenant body" seen in Israel is
more than a type and shadow of the New Covenant. In the new covenant, circumcision is replace by baptism and the infants of believers are included in the covenant body-- as were the infants of Israel of old.
There is one church. One people of God in all ages! The church extends from the beginning to the end of time.
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| This is really the turning point of the controversy concerning infant church membership. If the church is one under both dispensations: if infants were members of the church under the theocracy, then they are members of the church now, unless the contrary can be proved.
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Hodge, Systematic Theology, III:555).