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NASB | Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble and sin [by leading him away from My teaching], it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. [Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2] |
Subject: Do all little ones believe? |
Bible Note: Charis, I do have other scripture I could present, but from what I have already stated as what Mat 18 is saying to me, I can't really say it would be anything that would sway your thinking. Mat 18 is my best shoot (for now anyway!). I admit that the WORD is pretty silent (not totally tho) on the fate of young children of both believers and non-believers. 1Cor 7:14 has been presented as "proof text" that children of believers are secure in Jesus. But to me, it is less convincing than Mat 18 that all young children are secure in the Lord. I believe in salvation of all young children, but if I based a belief of salvation for the children of believers only based on 1 Cor 7:14, I would also have to believe it as proof of salvation for their un-believing spouse. I, like you, am confident that God is just with young children (even aborted children), and that to me has to mean that he will not send them to Hell. If only the children of the saved were secure in the Lord, and the children were kept secure until they had the knowledge to accept Jesus (no saved-now/lost-later scenarios), would not everyone that has been born since Noah be saved, because all would have had to have salvation passed down from their parents? How could the chain have ever been broken? Thanks for your pleasent exchange, tho we disagree. retxar |