RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
Although I have just become paedobaptist, I am still having to iron out a lot of my theology, so please bear with me.
This evening my mother and I were discussing my switch to paedobaptism and I think she saw all my points save one: "What of the person who receives the sign of the covenant and apostatizes from the faith?" At first, I didn't know what to say but it did get me thinking. I realized several things then: 1) God commanded that Esau receive circumcision fully aware that he was going to be a covenant-breaker. Yet the word of God is not made void is it? No, for Paul says, "For not all who are Israel (receive the sign of the covenant) are Israel (actually elect)." Here is where I struggle, [i:3f1d612144]v.8 It is not as though the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise.[/i:3f1d612144]
I guess the insightful credo who has actuall read Romans 9 might suggest that the true children of the promise are those who believe, not those who receive the sign of the covenant. That is the only possible objection I can think of right now. Thank you for helping me straighten out my theology.
This evening my mother and I were discussing my switch to paedobaptism and I think she saw all my points save one: "What of the person who receives the sign of the covenant and apostatizes from the faith?" At first, I didn't know what to say but it did get me thinking. I realized several things then: 1) God commanded that Esau receive circumcision fully aware that he was going to be a covenant-breaker. Yet the word of God is not made void is it? No, for Paul says, "For not all who are Israel (receive the sign of the covenant) are Israel (actually elect)." Here is where I struggle, [i:3f1d612144]v.8 It is not as though the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise.[/i:3f1d612144]
I guess the insightful credo who has actuall read Romans 9 might suggest that the true children of the promise are those who believe, not those who receive the sign of the covenant. That is the only possible objection I can think of right now. Thank you for helping me straighten out my theology.