do infants understand the Word?
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Do any of us understand the Word?
If we start putting limits on levels of understanding—you have to know THIS much and no less or else—then we turn grace into a work.
But I would argue that infants DO understand the Word, at least enough to understand need. Need, and the inability to satisfy that need. Why else would they cry?
Faith is faith, after all, not intellectual assent.
Yes.