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MHeath wrote:
I agree with you up til this point. I think maybe you meant to say that they simply will not hear the gospel from their immediate influence? They can be saved because it is the drawing of the Father to Jesus Christ that brings anyone.. whether from a Christian home or not.
Correct, because the parents are not believers, it is not likely that the children will hear the gospel nor witness any godly influence nor be exposed to any other of the ordained means by which God calls His elect to Christ. However, I must insist that if those means are not existent in the family, then it must come via an outside source. What we know is that the ordinary means are those which God uses to call sinners to Christ. We must not presume that without them one can be saved. Thus the "drawing of the Father" comes by hearing the Word of God. This has been the Church's burden for sending forth missionaries into the world. (Mk 16:15) What God chooses to do in secret is not our concern. We are to know, depend upon and do all that has been revealed. (Deut 29:29)

In His Grace,

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