Do Babies Automatically Go to Heaven?

[Snowdoove]

re: Do Babies Automatically Go to Heaven when they die?

[followerofjesus]

I would say yes because they are not at age of accountability.

[Faith]

Dear Snowdoove I believe very much, that babies that die, go to heaven. They them selves, have done no wrong. I also believe that babies that have been aborted, and miscarriages also go to heaven. The reason that I believe this, is because, the minute that the sperm meets the egg, there is the start of life. At least this is what I believe. God Bless, Faith

[Work in Progress]

Anybody want to go fishin'?

[IslandRose]

This is an explanation I got fro somebody else a while back. I think it explains it pretty well.

Age of Accountability

God sends the children of the children of Israel into the land because they did not have enough understanding to reject God. --

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.

There is a time in life when a person does not receive the FULL measure of the consequences of wrong doing. It is in childhood, where understanding is being developed.

Isa 7:16--For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Unborn children and yes aborted children are not capable of doing right or wrong and are there fore not culpable.

Rom 9:11--For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, ...

Now, here is the real crux of the matter: If the dead will be judged in Rev  20:11-15 according to "their works," how can those who have no knowledge of good or evil (infants, young children) and those who have not yet done any "good or evil" (the unborn) be held accountable for their lack of understanding?  Understanding the w-o-r-d-s of the law was necessary in the giving and teaching of the law.

Neh 8:2-- And Ezra the priest brought the law before  the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 

God does not require children to understand doctrine and doctrine is necessary for redemption.

Isaiah 28:9-- Whom shall he teach knowledge?  and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

James 4:17--Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

[OneAccord]

This is an explanation I got fro somebody else a while back. I think it explains it pretty well.

Age of Accountability

God sends the children of the children of Israel into the land because they did not have enough understanding to reject God. --

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.

There is a time in life when a person does not receive the FULL measure of the consequences of wrong doing. It is in childhood, where understanding is being developed.

Isa 7:16--For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Unborn children and yes aborted children are not capable of doing right or wrong and are there fore not culpable.

Rom 9:11--For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, ...

Now, here is the real crux of the matter: If the dead will be judged in Rev

[Guest shiloh357]

re: Do Babies Automatically Go to Heaven when they die?

Of course they do.

[OneAccord]

Ah, but this implies that there is another way to heaven---salvation by innocence.

[Guest shiloh357]

Ah, but this implies that there is another way to heaven---salvation by innocence.

Oh please...

Edited March 13, 2004 by shiloh357

[papasangel]

I concur shiloh with your statement. I have several babies that didn't survive. The only thing that gives me peace is knowing that they are in heaven. This is where faith in God's word comes in. Those wee ones were not able to either accept or reject God's gift because they were too young. Any mother who has had a miscarriage, or lost a child through illness and accident and is christian has that saving knowledge in her heart that her babies are ok and being cared for.