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Manuel wrote:

Hi, guys —

I have a question about the book of Wisdom, Chapter 3:16-19 from the Bible.

  • Can you please explain to me what these verses mean?

I read on a web site they could mean that children born of parents who are not married, are not going to Heaven.

Manuel

  { I'm confused after seeing this. Are children born of parents who aren't married going to Heaven? }

Eric replied:

Manuel —

I'd avoid that web site. The marriage status of your parents has nothing to do with your salvation.

"Children of adulterers" is not to be understood as anyone conceived in adultery. It means those who live in a pattern of adultery. Think spiritual childhood, not necessarily biological childhood.

Now of course someone who is conceived in adultery and raised by an adulterer, especially if he knows his situation, will likely follow in his adulterous parent's footsteps.

The key is that this does not consign someone involuntarily to condemnation, despite their fervent faith and righteous deeds; rather, it says that someone who is "born of" adultery (in a moral sense) will, if they remain children of adultery, (i.e. follow the pattern of their forebears), come to a bad end.

Eric

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