[kosta50]

• I’m content to follow Paul who tells us in 1 Corinthians 7 that the children of one believing parent are holy, and that even the unbelieving spouse of a believer is holy to God.

It was a good sales job, wasn't it, considering the customers he had to deal with, i.e. mixed families? He knew nothing would turn a mother interested in Christianity away more then to tell her that her children are not saved by an all-loving God just because her husband is a life-long pagan! That would have been quite counterproductive.

So, being clever, he told them what they wanted to hear.  After all Paul sought to "please all men in all things," and I am content to see him in light of his own brutally honest words:

"For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some." [1 Cor 9 :19-22]

• That’s enough assurance for me.

So, you suggesting that the children of Christians are automatically saved? Oy!

• That tells me that while my responsibility is to raise strong Christians who kneel to none but Christ I have His promise that He will not let the feet of my children slip so far away that they will not be brought back to Him

Where is this responsibility mentioned in the Bible? If God decided to save your children that would be a decision he had made before you even existed and certainly irrespective  of your works. You might as well just sit back and relax and the end result will be the same.

If they are "saved" the Spirit will tell them what to do. Your responsibility ended when you gave birth. The Bible says be "fruitful and multiply." It says nothing about raising children to kneel before Christ.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Well, you can think Paul is just offering a competent "sales job," but I have put his teaching into practice and seen the benefit of it.

Good trees produce good fruit, as Christ told us.

It says nothing about raising children to kneel before Christ.

Apparently you've never read Proverbs. Or...

"For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. " -- 2 Chronicles 30:9

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"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." -- Ephesians 8:6

[boatbums]

The Bible says be "fruitful and multiply." It says nothing about raising children to kneel before Christ.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.