If you think infants and children should partake of communion because they partook of the Passover meal, you just made the Garden of Eden, Sinai, the Tabernacle, and the Temples, entirely redundant. Children never ate at God’s table. Only their guardians did.
I don't know how you could arrive at the position that Abraham was merely circumcision of flesh, when Paul makes so clear that his legacy was spiritual (Rom 4, Galatians 3) and that true circumcision is a matter of the heart (Rom 2).
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No, the Abraham *sign* was carnal - tribal. Membership began with circ. of flesh with the telos of heart circumcision. In contrast, NC office begins with circ. of heart.
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So the OC was a social order with an ethical telos. The NC is an ethical order with a social telos - witness to the nations. History is chiastic.
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In order to say the Abraham sign was carnal/tribal you would have to say that the covenant promises made to Abr were carnal/tribal and that would be a big no-no. They are the initial promises that undergird our witness to the nations... God's promise to save the world (Gen 12:3)
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You’re not getting it. Circumcision was a “land and womb” sign. That doesn’t mean there was not a spiritual component. But our promise is not seed or real estate.
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