<blockquote>Genesis 15:6 "Then [Abram] went on believing in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness."</blockquote><br><br><blockquote>Galatians 3:6-9 "Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'All the nations will be blessed in you.' So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer."</blockquote><br><br><blockquote>Isaiah 41:8 "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Decendant of Abraham My friend,"</blockquote><br>(see 2 Chr. 20:7, James 2:23)<br><br>Does this not seem like a covenant of personal salvation as well to you? Abraham was justified by faith, as are we. The gospel was even preached to him. Abraham was called the friend of God on three occasions. That seems rather personal to me. The problem, in my opinion, that you seem to be having with this issue is how the Old Testament and New are linked. All of history points to Christ, His perfect life, and His death on a cross, and resurrection. The Old Testament talks of a coming saviour directly and indirectly everywhere (use of metaphors and imagery). All of history pre-Christ looked foward expectantly to His coming, just as we look back now in rememberance of His coming. And now we all wait eagerly the consumation of all history in His second return.<br><br>So I still don't see the discontinuity. If God, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Mal. 3:6, Heb. 13:8), had decided in His infinite wisdom to stop dealing with His people as He had in the past (Not including believing parents' chidren in the covenant), then where is the uproar? Where are the chapters devoted to calming the Jewish Christians who have had their children included in the covenant for thousands of years? It just isn't there.<br><br>Chris<br>