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The fearful poster earlier should know that if you teach your children about Christ from the beginning, actually [i]believe[/i] the Gospel, and model Christ-like behavior as a parent (and friend, spouse, brother/sister, etc.), [b]the chances of them continuing in the faith are really quite good.[/b] But if you encourage all sorts of "spiritual questioning," which is really just a way to deny Christ, you probably [i]will[/i] end up with who-knows-what.[/quote]

That is actually false info.  People are leaving organized religion and adults are especially leaving fundamentalist religions after being threatened as children by what would await them if they questioned Christ.  Even if the chances were very good, if it still asking a mother to give birth with the threat that her beloved child will go to hell.[/quote]

Again with the children in hell?  :roll: [/quote]

Again with the glossing over of false information.  So far no one has an answer for the prospective mother whose protecting her children from hell by not having any  -- except for having lots of kids, increasing the chances that some will accept Christ and get to heaven.[/quote]
In 2 Timothy 1:7, we are told, "God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." I would say to the fearful mother that God does not want her to live in fear, and that if she raised children to love the LORD, and if she loved the LORD and loved those children with that same love, she will get to spend eternity with them. I do not have children myself, but I work with some, and I have friends who raise their children in loving Christian homes, and those kids love God. I am sorry for those who were raised in strict church upbringings, but that is not the way we are taught Christ. We are taught in the Bible to love the LORD with our whole hearts and that there is joy and peace in this. This is why there is such a debate about whether we are saved by doing good works or by faith. We are saved by faith, and in this faith, we are helped to good works by the Holy Spirit. It's a loving God who made it this way, to save us by our faith and not our works, because in works there is a constant striving for approval and a never-ending worry about whether we will be "good enough" to go to Heaven. Well, no one is good enough to Heaven. Which is why God in His love and mercy said just to believe in Christ, and rest in that. If you truly love Christ, you will do good works out of that love, but if you mess up, He will work with you and love you the same way a loving parent on Earth would. I could go on and on, but we do not earn our favor with God by being good. We earn it by trusting in His beloved Son. And this is extremely liberating. The "fear of the LORD is the [i]beginning [/i]of wisdom" -- it leads us to accept Christ -- but once we've put our trust in Christ, we become adopted children of our Heavenly Father, and we do not need to live in fear of a loving father. 
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