WHY do you keep RUNNING from the question?? Are you that ill-equipped to answer it??
Tell me HOW an 8-day-old Baby could be brought into the Covenant with God by his PARENTS making the decision FOR him - but a baby under the NEW Covenant CANNOT have his parents speak FOR him.
Can you answer that??
I have already answered you.
I could answer you AGAIN UMPTEEN times.
I can not UNDERSTAND IT "FOR YOU".
Babies NOT yet conceived,
Babies NOT yet born,
Babies NEWLY born,
DID NOT MAKE A COVENANT with God!!!!!!
It is not rocket science.....THE ADULTS Made their Covenant with God!
They promised to RAISE any baby they would have, in the WORD of God.
(Your parents having a Priest drip water on your head, was your parents PROMISING your catholic church, they would raise you, according to the Doctrine of the catholic church)
The Covenant men made WitH God, or your parents making a VOW to your church....is between ... men and God
between ... your parents and their church
It did not SAVE (soul) of any child, not in the OT, not in your church.
It did not QUICKEN (birth a new spirit) of any child, not in the OT, not in your church,
It was a Promise of the Parents to PREPARE the child......FOR THEM TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE of GODS WORD.
Babies, being RAISED in accordance with the Parents PROMISE, and the child died...THAT CHILD would be SAVED unto God.
Babies who lived and grew and aged WOULD have to make their OWN Decision to Commit to Belief in God........or NOT.
Some did, some didn't.
Those who DID believe, and REMAIN in belief to the end of their lives, became SAVED unto the Lord.
Those who DID NOT believe, and never came INTO Belief, were NOT Saved unto the Lord, at the end of their lives.
Under the NEW COVENANT, the Lord, who knows us before we were born, knows the Heart of a Baby, and takes unto Him, Babies that die.
Children who grow, and age, can DECIDE for themselves to Believe, Commit, Become Converted and Receive their Salvation and Quickening, BEFORE their natural life ends.
You have confusion because you are taught by your church a MIX of the OLD and NEW Coventant DULEY APPLIES.
The OLD Covenant APPLIED to Hebrews and Jews who continue UNDER the LAW. You are neither.
Glory to God,
Taken