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Originally Posted by A little brother
If the contrast in Luke means the slave is a believer, then the concern would be the believer is treated the same as unbeliever. Could it possibly not just be severity but duration as well?
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I think there are far too many places that show that if a person is rebirthed with the new life (they at one point accepted that Christ died for them and Christ's life gets into them), therefore they are in fact God's children, then they won't suffer eternal punishment. They may be really BAD children, but nonetheless His family.
And that's also a good post by
Ohio regarding Cyrus, king of Persia - He will have mercy on and chooses whom He pleases!