In other words, you have to earn it by your own merits.
Thanks for playing; you're clearly enamored of the same "works righteousness" you condemn.
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I would ask them, who do you love? Little ones would generally respond mommy/daddy etc. I would ask them how they showed mommy/daddy they loved them. They do chores, they bring flowers, etc. You get the picture.
As I taught older ones. Same question, how do we show God that we love him?(He does not need our affirmation) If the teachers have been doing their jobs, then by 7th and 8th grade the answers are the Corporal and Spiritual Acts of Mercy. If they have not done their job. It's where I began.
Paul baptised whole families, including children. When we look carefully at the teaching of Scripture, we see that the sign of the covenant was applied to infants prior to Christ, and presumably continued to be applied to them when Jesus changed it to baptism. And when we look closely at the household baptisms described in Acts, there can be little doubt but that infants were commonly baptized in the apostolic church. They were baptized then, and they should be baptized now, on the basis of God’s promise to bless the children of believers. The faith of a parent qualifies a child to be baptized and raised as a disciple of Jesus. He welcomed them into his kingdom, and so should we.