I don't know if you read my earlier post on this thread, so it is.OK - I don't want to enter this argument, really - but where does it say, in scripture, all babies go to heaven? And CW, I have real empathy for you because you are presenting as a politician who won't kiss babies (grin). I would like to think all babies go to heaven and afterall Jesus did say "let the children come to me". Billy Joel swiped an old homily, " only the good die young." If there wasn't a grain of truth, someone would have run over Hitler's mother when she was pregnant. I don't know where babies go when they die, but I hope heaven.
No body is born sinless on planet earth except Jesus Christ! If infants are why would Jesus need to have given his life for sins?
Peter tells us that even children need to have their sins removed for salvation.
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Jesus said nobody can come to the Father except by Him! There is no other name under heaven were by one can be saved.
King David had a very young child with Bathsheba through adultery and Lord took him because of his sin. Even though he fasted and prayed for his life the death of his son still happened. Yet, after his death David said ...
2 Sa 12:23 ut now he's dead. So why should I go without eating? Can I bring him back to life again? Someday I'll go to him. But he won't return to me."
David knew he would see his son again, but not in this world. He would go to him to see him again indicating that his son was with the Lord.
A infant can be a sinner and yet be innocent at the same time. When Israel disobeyed and did not take the promised land which God commanded them to do but led through the desert for forty years until they all died except their children who were innocent from their parents sins because they did fully understand their parents actions.
Deu 1:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Deu 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Even though these children were sinners they did not fully comprehend the difference between good and evil so they were innocent.
All children when growing up know when their parents tell them "no" not to do certain things, but they still do it smiling back at us. Sometimes they think it is funny when they disobey, and we laugh at them too because they are so cute, and adorable. This proves their guilt, but the Lord holds man accountable for his actions based on comprehending his actions as being wrong. Children all grow up to come to this comprehension at different times in their life there is not certain age were this comes.
God is righteous, merciful, and just in all his ways. The Lord knows all the circumstances in life and always does what is right in his eyes. There is no injustice with the Lord.
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