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1) We love our children and hope that God saves them. So we apply the means God has instituted.
What is the basis for this hope?
The basis for the hope that as we teach our children the gospel that God will save them? Is this a serious question?
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
2 Corinthians 4:5-6 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
This should be enough to show that we promise we hold onto is that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for our children as we proclaim it to them day after day. We do not hold onto a promise that God will save our children because they are our physical descendants.