2006-08-19 02:00:55 · 45 answers · asked by naughty boy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I mean how does God decide. The baby hasn't lived yet. It has done no wrong but it hasn't done anything good either
2006-08-19 02:02:20 · update #1
what about ORIGINAL sin?
2006-08-19 02:05:34 · update #2
Heaven of course. The child has never committed actual sin.
Original sin is the propensity to sin. Actual sin is what in the end can send a soul to hell.
2006-08-19 02:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To heaven of course. I believe everybody goes to heaven anyway, because we all are born pure and it's only the things that happen to us that make us err (or sin). Babies don't think of cheating or harming each other, although they have a strong survival instinct.
We are all still the pure innocent creatures we were born, no matter what we've done. If we had cruel parents (who also inherited that from THEIR parents!) then we would more than likely grow up to be cruel and angry ourselves. (Unless we had an adult friend who we could tell our troubles to as a child) If we were sexually abused, likewise. We learn from the people in our lives when we are young. We start off innocent and become perpetrators ourselves (No, I'm not a sexual predator. It's just a f'rinstance!) but we are still the little innocent person inside. I imagine it like having dog-poo on your shoe, unpleasant and anti-social but not intrinsic to you! And it can be "scraped off" with the help of a very good friend or counsellor!
2006-08-19 02:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by survivor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what type of Christians they are. According to the Catholic church, unfortunately it's clear cut that the baby will go to hell - precisely because of original sin as you mention.
To the person who said its not on the soul as they haven't been born yet - again, unfortunately, the Catholic church doesn't see it that way. As far as they're concerned, abortions are wrong because you're killing a human life, therefore the unborn baby is considered as fully human as any baby or adult after birth, and therefore original sin applies.
It's dogma like this, that causes many people to have issues with the Catholic Church.
However, other sects of Christianity are not necessarily the same.
2006-08-19 02:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by gsp100677 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creator is the source of life. He says that those who have died are in his memory. The point of this question, however, is not clear. Mainly because there is no burning hell, and only 144,000 go to heaven. So, this means that this child will either be resurrected to life on a paradise earth soon, or because this child never breathed the breath of life, it may never have an opportunity to live. I guess we'll have to wait and see how God handles this. We are not the judges. Jehovah read hearts and he will do what is just.
2006-08-19 02:10:45 · answer #4 · answered by Gail B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baby goes to Heaven.
What about original sin? The baby has not committed any sin.
2006-08-19 02:11:57 · answer #5 · answered by IN Atlanta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not very religious so i really dont know if there is a passage from a bible with this matter.
Well the baby was never born. So even thou its a miscarriage, its still may be a death, but not a recorded one.
Usually miscarriages are only a few weeks into the pregnancy, this usually means many organs, limbs have not had time to grow.
If there is a heaven, it would not be a full baby running around because it hasnt had time to grow or even be born to experience that. So what would be up in heaven i would not know.
2006-08-19 02:09:47 · answer #6 · answered by lonely as a cloud 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
what does the baby do when it gets there. it cannot communicate - since while it was alive there was not sufficient time for enough neural connections to form.
why not just let the baby fade out of existance - rather than keeping it in a place it cannot comprehend?
if ur answer is that god can magically give it the personaility it would have had if it had lived longer - then god will also know whether it would have been a christian ir a non christian. in that case god would be justified in sending the baby to hell
2006-08-19 05:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by aurora03uk 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is a compassionate God. The child never sinned. It never rejected God. Further to an earlier post, it is not true that you have to be baptised to go to heaven. What about the thief on the cross? He was never baptised, yet went to paradise. Jesus himself said he would be in paradise so must be true. And we talk about original sin, but what about the original glory of humans in the garden of Eden? What came first?
2006-08-19 02:13:27 · answer #8 · answered by monkeywoman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should the child be punished for the sins of the parents? Children are innocent they do not know sin or evil yet so they would go to heaven.
2006-08-19 02:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by wantoxcape 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven
2006-08-19 02:06:01 · answer #10 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋