According to the church, unbaptised infants will go to hell if they pass?

Question

Why? what have they done? what sin have they committed?

Clarification: The Catholic church

I came across this info from 2 close relatives. there is no need to attack me i was just asking a question. I am a pagan did you see the moon symbols next to my name? Calm down you vigilantes.

I also find it amusing that you put so much faith in the pope, apparently he can change the word of God?

Answer 1

Nope they go to heaven. There was never a definative position on where unbaptized and aborted babies went and many Catholics assumed they went to Limbo but Pope Benedict made it official that they go to heaven.

Answer 2

I think that is one way we can tell that the "church" isn't of God. We're actually taught to be like a little child. Read Mark 10:13-16.

Also in order for us to committ sin, we have to know the difference between right and wrong. I hold out my hands to a little kid one with a candy bar and the other with 5 dollars, most kids would take the candy bar, not knowing they can buy more than 1 candy bar with the 5 dollars. So if they don't know between right and wrong, how can they sin? Little kids are sinless and therefore can't be sent to hell, a place for sinners.

Answer 3

According to what church? I have never been to a church that believes this.

Do you remember that Jesus, when baptized, said that He was doing it, "in order to fulfill all righteousness?" This was done, in part, for those who were unable to be baptized, such as unborn infants and the thief who showed repentance on the cross but was sentenced to an unavoidable death. Infants, however, do not need to be baptized since they have never sinned. In order to sin, one needs to know the difference between right and wrong and choose to do wrong, and an infant can not make this distinction.

The doctrine of original sin, if you are familiar with it, is monstrous and unbiblical.

Tom

Answer 4

I'm not trying to say Catholics don't know what they're talking about but that is just a Catholic belief. Though we are born into sin an infant dosn't know what sin is. So the infant gets a free pass to Heaven if it passes. It is said that God loves all children.

Answer 5

I do not know what church you are referring to, but it is not Biblical. Unborn, infant, babies, and young children who have not attained the "age of accountability" (which is 12) if they die, or are killed, go back to Heaven. They do NOT perish.

Read Revelation in the New Testament.

Almighty God is so fair and loving that during the rapture of Christians, prior to the Great Tribulation, that ALL unborn, newborns, young children, any at or below the age of 12 are taken to Heaven too. Almighty God and Jesus Christ will not allow the innocent to suffer the wrath and torment of the Antichrist & his demons when they are loosed upon the Earth.

Answer 6

Thanks for this question! I just posted a similar one about 15 minutes ago and I am so boiling mad at my neighbors- oh, I know I'm not supposed to judge, but this is a hard subject not to be offended by. She said that all infants that die that were not baptized go to hell and that if you do not get baptized as an adult and give testimony of your faith and baptism, their church- Fellowship Bible Church- teaches that these adults then go to hell too. I was raised Lutheran and we don't believe that. Now I am super confused and really, kind of hurt!

Answer 7

That is not the teaching of the catholic church. Unbaptised infants do not go to hell. We believe that God in his mercy saves these unbaptised souls also.

Answer 8

The unbaptized going to hell got here from Augustine interior the early centuries after Christ. He grow to be fed on together with his own sinful nature, having lived a life-time of drunken intercourse filled lust till now he switched over to Christianity at his mom's demise mattress. He observed all humanity as being born into unique sin (see Adam and Eve) and the saving grace of God because of the fact the sole street remote from the depravity he had general. for that reason he observed each toddler as wanting to be baptized. as though guy's works could trump God's grace. i think of he ignored it. And the Catholic church has run with it ever because of the fact that. Please understand that no longer each church, and in no way each believer follows Augstinian coaching.

Answer 9

whatever gave you THAT idea? infants lack the understanding of sin, and thus are still spiritually 'clean'-and baptizing an infant has no effect at all on the infant, except maybe to frighten them-salvation is a gift from God that one needs to freely accept-you can't 'save' anyone else. i know of no church that ascribes to the notion that infants, baptized or not, would go to hell should they die-period

Answer 10

I wouldn't worry to much about it. It's a dogma that has been swirling the catholic church for hundreds of years and just now they sort of "revised" it to fit a broader spectrum. If there is a god or gods or whatever, I believe there is a special place set aside for babies that die. Hope this helps you in a way.

Answer 11

Yes, according to some churches. But that does not happen according to God. He loves children and He will protect children until the age of accountability. All children that pass away, will be in the presence of the Lord. : )