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This excellent book demonstrates how conditional theology "in the covenant" damages and corrupts Reformed doctrine, and denominations! The book shows how the church must apply the particularistic theology of the Canons of Dordt to the covenant of grace and its administration in the families of believers. The author, an emeritus minister and professor of the Protestant Reformed Churches, contends with other Reformed and covenantal views, showing that the only approach which truly does justice to sovereign grace being confessed and preached in the sphere of the administration of the covenant, is the theology being developed by the PRC. Heretical movements like the Federal Vision and the New Perspective on Paul, with their Reformation-denying, and grace-corrupting views of a conditional salvation in the sphere of the covenant, show where conditional theology, if followed through in its implications, eventually must and will lead ... Recommended also the sections against the compromising attitude so widespread in Reformed circles towards Baptistic churches and theology, an attitude which is not that of the founding father of those churches, John Calvin, nor of the Reformed Confessions (cf., Belgic Confession, Article 34). One of the reasons, perhaps the most fundamental reason, for this attitude, is that most, contemporary Reformed and Presbyterian churches, have a paedobaptistic practice, while themselves espousing a Baptistic theology which views the children of believers as essentially unsaved, until contrary evidence! This book is a call to reformation! A call to let "election theology" (the theology of Dordt!) govern the covenant! If it (election) doesn't, the author asks, what will?
This book is undoubtedly the single most important book on 2 related theological questions which are intensely practical for all Reformed believers and especially parents: 1. How ought believers to view their children? 2. Is God's covenant conditional and established with all the physical children of believers, or unconditional and established only with the elect? All this comes to a head in the debate over the exact meaning of the biblical and Reformed practice of infant baptism. The author shows that the Federal Vision heresy plaguing conservative Reformed churches has its origins and cause in a false view of baptism and wrong answers to the above 2 questions, which false views & answers are sadly common to most conservative Reformed churches. With simple biblical arguments, the author refutes all the various "Reformed" views of infant baptism after quoting their proponents at length. Reading the book at a time when I was not yet sure of all these matters, I would read the lengthy quotations by the various false positions and would be almost convinced by them, only to have my eyes opened immediately afterwards by reading the author's response to each. In nearly all cases, the answer is most clearly shown in Scripture in Romans 9, which, contrary to common Reformed opinion, is not a chapter simply on predestination, but on predestination WITHIN THE SPHERE OF THE COVENANT (i.e. the visible church) that God has mercy and hardens whom He wills, even from among the physical children of believers. For they are not all Israel which are OF Israel.
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