Children in the Covenant: Part III

I have been extremely busy and have not had time to post. However, here is some grist for the mill from Schenck's book.

"The Reformed church has always believed, on the basis of God's immutable promise, that all children of believers dying in infancy were saved." (p. 118)

"Baptized children were to be taught and trained to believe, feel, act, and live as the children of God, not merely because it was wrong and perilous not to do so, but because failure to do this would be inconsistent with their position as members of the church." (p. 134)

"This [the classic reformed view] high conception of the promise of God and the significance of the baptism of children inculcates confidence, spiritual joy, and a high conception of God. It leads to reverent praise and thanksgiving. Furthermore it is an incentive, a stimulus to the Christian education of children. But where the truth of the covenant promise of God was forgotten, the consequence, Calvin thought, would inevitably be ingratitude to the mercy of God and negligence in the proper Christian education of children." (p. 149)

Obama as Fool

Biblical Horizons has been putting up some really good posts lately. In this latest one James Jordan analyzes Obama as the fool and does some surface comparisons to Nazi Germany. It is an excellent article pointing out the biblical requirements for leadership and how Obama doesn't have them. Here is a short quote from the end of the article. "The sooner God destroys the world of evangelical gnosticism, the sooner authentic Christian churches can begin to do what we are called upon to do." It is worth your time to read this. The link is here.