Then don't be so foolish as to teach them that. Teach them that God loves them because He has given His own Son to pay for their sins because God's "promise is to believers and their children."
Tell them God loves them so much He will bring them to Him, one way or another, and that He will never, ever let go of them.
Tell them that because God loves them they are precious in His sight and that they will believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior because God has numbered them among His family from before the foundation of the world.
Then leave the rest to God. Our job is to bring up children who kneel to none but Christ and who know their salvation is by Christ alone, confident that He loves those whom we love because God gave us our children in the first place.
Maybe Christ will grab you by the throat, carve out your heart of stone, and put one of flesh in them that is receptive to His redemption - there's no basis in scripture for that.
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If you really think that, after I've given you Scripture for every word you just wrote, then I've done all I can to aid your vision. After all, it's God who gives eyes to see and ears to hear.
No one is beyond redemption prior to their death.
We don't know the names of the elect, so we judge men by their fruit.
But it's clear from Scripture that some men are "beyond redemption." Christ Himself said it would have been better for Judas never to have been born than for what awaited him, and that Christ knew from the beginning who would betray Him so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.
Was there ever a chance Judas wouldn't betray Christ, the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?"
“Maybe Christ will grab you by the throat, carve out your heart of stone, and put one of flesh in them that is receptive to His redemption”
I quoted YOU! You wrote this in that thread!
“We don’t know the names of the elect, so we judge men by their fruit.
But it’s clear from Scripture that some men are “beyond redemption.” Christ Himself said it would have been better for Judas never to have been born than for what awaited him, and that Christ knew from the beginning who would betray Him so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”
This is the definition of the doctrine of Election. Maybe you’re chosen, and maybe you’re not. Hope you got lucky!
I feel sorry for you.