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by richard

In “Reformed” Is Not Enough, Douglas Wilson quotes Lewis Schenck,

The principle of the Reformed faith, that the child brought up under Christian influence should never know a time when love to God was not an active principle in its life, was displaced by an assumption that even the offspring of the godly were born enemies of God and must await the crisis of conversion

So my question is… isn’t this still an issue for those in the Reformed Tradition that believe baptism is the transferal from outside the covenant to inside? Now, though, instead of waiting for a profession of faith, we are waiting for the children to be baptized. The assumption is still that they are ‘enemies of God’ until they are brought into the covenant through baptism.

August 14, 2003   No Comments