All children are covenant children. Change my mind.
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Replying to @MrBully67
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. **Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.**
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Replying to @weisjohn
Nobody baptises unbelieving spouses who are “made holy.” And nobody can explain why not. Logic fail. So why would baptism be extended to the kids? Anyway, it just means that despite the conversion of the husband or wife, God still honours the marriage.https://colvinism.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/sanctified-by-the-believer-1-corinthians-7/ …
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Replying to @MrBully67
Woah, who said anything about baptism? You asked about covenant membership. I take Paul to be saying: parents who have children in this mixed marriage have a responsibility to bring them up in the admonition *of the Lord*; they can not relate to them as unclean.
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Replying to @weisjohn @MrBully67
And therefore, those children who holy are obliged to "obey your parents *in the Lord*", for they are part of the *saints* that Paul addresses (cf. Eph 6:1, 1:1). They can only obey in the Lord if they obey according to faith, as recipients of promise.
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Replying to @weisjohn @MrBully67
And Paul is right to give ethical commands to obeyed by faith to "those inside the church" (cf. 1 Cor 5:12). How can children obey their parents in the Lord if they're outside of the faith, and certainly not members of His church?
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Were those Israelite children outside the faith? Nobody is outside the New Covenant. Circumcision (and “bapcision”) died at the cross.
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