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Susan,

Did what I have written before to JoshT, an adamant semi-Pelagian, which Carlos gave you a link to, suffice to answer your question or would you need further input?

Again, the error of the Auburnites is that they equate one's standing in the covenant to be salvation, rather than accepting Paul's teaching that there are those who are externally related to the covenant and those who are internally (salvifically) related to it by being united to Christ by God's election of grace and faith.

Romans 9:6-8 (ASV) "But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel: neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed."

Thus God's "promise" is salvific, immutable, efficacious and infallible.

In His Grace,