It is my understanding that according to the Christian religion, any child who dies before being baptized will go to hell because of original sin. My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that the original sin is passed down from parent to child and originated from Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit in Eden.
This raises a lot of questions, and I'm not sure where to begin. Would an all-loving God allow an infant to go to hell? If that is true, then doesn't that imply a flaw in a newborn infant, signifying that God would have made some sort of mistake?
When is original sin conferred upon the infant? At conception? At birth? If abortion is murder, as most Christians feel it is, does this imply that the soul and original sin are present at conception, and that aborted fetuses go to hell? Do miscarried fetuses also go to hell? If original sin (and the soul) are conferred at birth, then is abortion really murder?
2006-11-05
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Dave B.
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