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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:31
AM
Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Whose Names
are Written in the Lambs Book of Life?
A
dead baby may not be your problem, Judy, but it's many people's rather
traumatic problem. People wonder where their family members GO...especially
their children.... when they die. Death is a very real problem most of
us have to deal with at one time or another. The death of a child is
probably a pain so great that I can't even imagine it.
John is simply saying babies aren't accountable. Haven't you ever had
a friend who miscarried or lost their baby to being stillborn, or died from
SIDS, hit by a drunk driver, or from their immunizations? Haven't you known
a family whose child died in an accident? Catholics would tell you the child
goes to some in-between place unless the infant has been
baptized.
We
don't have to know everything, but we can certainly have some tools to be an
encouragement to others so we may minister to them in empathy and love. If a
young mother just had a miscarriage, or had a baby stillborn, would you say
to her.....Gee, your dead baby isn't my problem? I have a heavenly father
whose nature is love...... What if that young mother was a
non-Believer? What do you think she would think/feel about a God who is
love?
Kay
jt: JOHN a dead baby is
not my problem. I have a Heavenly Father whose nature and character is
love and so I
leave all those kinds of problems with Him
cause I don't have to know everything. However, what about the babies
of the Amorites and these other nations God was
so disgusted with? I mean the ones where Israel was told not to let even one animal live?
In a message dated 1/10/2005 11:42:20 AM
Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think....correct me if
I'm wrong, John....
that John is saying that a child is "saved" when he is
born. A newborn is not cast into hell because he wasn't "born again".
A child who dies goes to heaven...until he is of the age of
accountability and makes his decision...either for God and
"heavenbound", or against God and "hellbound".
Kay
Interesting and close to what I do
believe. Judy - is a dead baby going to heaven or
hell. I am sure your theology allows for such --
just interested in how that happens.
John
