Baptist view of children

[Isaiah40:28]

What was the purpose of including children in the renewing of the covenant as seen in the following passages starting with Deut. 29:9-13?

9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do. 10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, 11 together with your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water. 12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, 13 to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Also Joshua 8:35

35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the aliens who lived among them.

And Joel 2:12-17

12 "Even now," declares the LORD,
"return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning."

13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.

14 Who knows? He may turn and have pity
and leave behind a blessing—
grain offerings and drink offerings
for the LORD your God.

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.

16 Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
gather the children,
those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
and the bride her chamber.

17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD,
weep between the temple porch and the altar.
Let them say, "Spare your people, O LORD.
Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,
a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?' "

It appears that children from the very youngest are included by God in His covenantal dealings with Israel.
Based on passages like these and similar ones, what is the position of children before God?

 

[Jkdbuck76]

Children are people, too.
Israelite children were Israelites, too, so the
Abrahamic Covenant applied to them also.

 

[Isaiah40:28]

Children are people, too.
Israelite children were Israelites, too, so the
Abrahamic Covenant applied to them also.

Just the Abrahamic covenant? what about the Mosaic?
In what way was the covenant applied to children?

 

[skypair]

Just the Abrahamic covenant? what about the Mosaic?
In what way was the covenant applied to children?

It appears to me that all families and "aliens" were included in the temporal aspects of God's covenants with Israel, Isaiah. Lot's family was included in his flight from Sodom, Noah's in his ark, the children of Israel in Moses "salvation" from Egypt. You'll see that the latter were even said to be "baptized in Moses through the cloud and through the sea." This means that they were the earthly equivalent of believers spiritually buried with Christ and risen. :godisgood:

Then, in Abraham (not Abram), they were included in the spiritual aspects of God's covenants through faith such that they went to "Abraham's bosom" when they died. Now, obviously, we all go to Christ's "bosom," right?

skypair

 

[Isaiah40:28]

So I take it Baptists haven't thought much about a child's covenantal status in the OT?
We've left that alone for the Presbies to articulate.

 

[skypair]

So I take it Baptists haven't thought much about a child's covenantal status in the OT?
We've left that alone for the Presbies to articulate.

Children are "sanctified" by having believing parents. Basically, "sanctified" means learning and doing God's will and it can happen before and after salvation (although before it is for naught unless it leads to a salvation decision).

As this relates to the covenants -- you can see that God was sanctifying Israel through their traditions as they grew up unto salvation. By contrast, the infant in the lost home is not being taught and doing God's will and not in earthly covenant with God in any way.

skypair