2006-06-17 20:06:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
also, why baptise babies. They have commited no crime. Wouldn't the Attonement cover the Fall of Adam.
2006-06-17 20:13:33 · update #1
As much as I know, in Islam, any kid dies before attaining puberty will be accepted into heave directly without being questioned.
2006-06-17 20:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Abdulhaq 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"He recommences a new existence."
If a man had but a single existence, and if, after this existence, his future state were fixed for all eternity, by what standard of merit could eternal happiness be judged to that half of the human race which dies in childhood, and by what would it be exonerated from the conditions of progress, often so painfully, imposed on the other half who live throughout adulthood. Such an ordering could not be reconciled with the Justice of God. Through the reincarnation of Spirits, the most absolute justice is equally meted out to all. The possibilities of the future, are available to all, without exception, and without favor to any. Those who are the last to arrive (Perfection) have only themselves to blame for the delay. Each man must merit by his own right actions, as he has to bear the consequences of his own wrong-doings.
2006-06-18 03:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Carioca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babies and all other people who die are asleep in the grave until Jesus resurrects them, according to the Bible. In John 11 Christ makes the state of the dead plain in reference to Lazarus. Here is another text to consider: "Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5: 23-29
Babies have not done evil, and since Isaiah speaks of children in the new Earth I believe some or all of these babies will be there to grow up.
2006-06-18 03:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Buttercup 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King James of bible fame executed a Baptist who claimed babies did not require baptism for the absolution of sin.
The debate has been ongoing for hundreds of years and was one of the divisive issues in the Protestant movement.
Catholics teach that babies go to hell if they are not baptized.
According to general Christian doctrine,. babies are born with the original sin.
In other words, if Christians actually followed their own teachings, they would consider babies as evil as Adolf Hitler.
But, they don't, so they don't.
2006-06-18 03:15:44 · answer #4 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that they go to heaven, because technically you go to hell due to the signs you've committed throughout your life, and if you die at birth then you haven't had time to commit any signs, so by default you'd go to heaven.
2006-06-18 03:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by smurfette_au2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
babies who aren't baptized go to limbo (not going under a bar)
limbo is where the unbaptized souls who have never committed any personal sins besides original sin stay forever
2006-06-18 03:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by ShiningCrimson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've asked this a few times and no one can agree if they go to heaven or not. In reality they go wherever their bodies go, souls don't exist.
2006-06-18 03:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They go to heaven of course because souls do exist and they stand blameless before God.
2006-06-18 03:12:56 · answer #8 · answered by blueEyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they werent meant to face such a cruel world, they could be assigned a special place in heaven itself . thatswhy they say that there are baby angels.
2006-06-18 03:22:20 · answer #9 · answered by paladin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my baby passed 1 and a half hour after being born .i know he went to heavin hes waiting on me god rest his soul
2006-06-18 03:11:30 · answer #10 · answered by doug and heather 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋