Yes Alamo-Girl -- that is my hope as well. Yet would it be accurate to say, for example, that Hitler was deceived? If so, is there any point in such a deception when a person can become morally culpable? I ask that, because it seems we are most easily deceived when the promises we are tantalized with are the things we really do want.
Which is why I am so happy simply to leave the judgment to God. He will save whomever He Will. Maybe even a Hitler -- for all I know. After all, we musn't forget Christ came to redeem sinners.
Yet would it be accurate to say, for example, that Hitler was deceived?
I don't know. I take hope in the passages in Romans and John which speak of God's mercy to those who didn't know better. Because of those passages, I wonder if willfulness will factor in the judgment somehow.