Cornering Rome

Responding to this:

http://www.puritanboard.com/f31/kingdom-covenant-71536/#post915133

Rev. Winzer responded with this:

In effect, modern antipaedobaptists have etherealised "covenant;" relating kingdom to that etherealised covenant requires the antipaedobaptist to etherealise the kingdom. That is all that is accomplished by the OP. As an exercise in consistency it has gone a long way towards accomplishing its goal. As an incorporation of biblical and dogmatic theology, however, it is disastrous. In terms of biblical theology, the Davidic covenant is the covenant of the kingdom. One must neglect that important development in order to tie covenant and kingdom together from the beginning of revelation. In terms of dogmatic theology, "the kingdom of God" has always been understood as being connected with the visible church in some way. Even the modern modifications of it accept a partial connection. An etherealised kingdom which relates to an etherealised covenant destroys the claim of the church of God on earth to serve a kingdom which is in the world but not of it.

You're right, Rev. Winzer. Rome is not going to be pleased with this turn of events.

(Having said that, I must also state that the author of the post linked above, in rather uncharming man-fearing fashion, threw too many bones Rome's way in the last portions of his post. Anyway, I must also say, this is a step in the right direction, overall, but these guys have further to go. Kingdom, warfare, holiness. They don't involve things you can touch, or eat, or have sex with. Think about spiritual warfare. Rome and its unconscious followers would mock the biblical teaching on spiritual warfare as 'etherealised.' Right, because we must actually burn people at the stake if we are to engage in spiritual warfare. Right? Right.)