If the common grave is how you understand "hell", then it would be easier for you, and those hearing you, if you were to say the "grave" instead of hell. Imagine, on an Easter Sunday, you are going with extended family to the cemetery to visit your departed grandparents, who were of a different version of Christian faith than yours, say Catholics, to lay flowers and such. What do you think their reaction would be if you were to say, "I enjoy getting together each year to pay our respects to grandma and grandpa in hell"? I think you get my point.Even if a person can't think of anyone going to hell, the Bible teaches that the day Jesus died he went to hell - Acts of the Apostles 2:27
Not to some religious-myth hell taught by false clergy, but to the Bible's hell which is simply the temporary grave for the sleeping dead.
I find salvation comes at the end, so a minor child is protected, so to speak, by the parent until mature.
Just like dead Jesus, dead people go to hell, Not to some religious-myth hell but biblical hell which is the common grave for mankind.
That aside, back to my issue about the 'technicality' of the believing spouse or child supposedly covering them so they can get saved, while they themselves don't have any belief in Jesus as the messiah. You still did not answer the problem about God just letting billions of non-Christian children, born to non-Christian adults, in other countries and cultures where Christianity is not the main culturally adopted religion, in essence just being annihilated verses saved.
"Tough luck, little ones! You weren't covered by a Christian parent. To the grave forever with you, unlike your 4 year old friend from Kindergarten whose parents joined the Jehovah's Witnesses last week!" Does that seem just, moral, and fair of God to parse out destinations based upon club memberships covering family members, like a YMCA pass?
If we think about these things with our hearts, they just don't match up with a loving God very well.
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