toldailytopic: How does God handle babies when they die?

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I go no farther than the WCF summary on the matter:

Chapter X:

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, (m) who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth: (n) so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. (o)

m. Lk.18:15,16 and Acts 2:38,39 and Jn.3:3,5 and 1 Jn.5:12 and Rom.8:9 (compared).
n. Jn.3:8.
o. 1 Jn.5:12; Acts 4:12.

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Ask Mr. Religion said:
I go no farther than the WCF summary on the matter:

Chapter X:

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, (m) who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth: (n) so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. (o)

m. Lk.18:15,16 and Acts 2:38,39 and Jn.3:3,5 and 1 Jn.5:12 and Rom.8:9 (compared).
n. Jn.3:8.
o. 1 Jn.5:12; Acts 4:12.

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so what happens to the ones who are not elect?
 
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Ask Mr. Religion said:
I go no farther than the WCF summary on the matter:

Chapter X:

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ,...
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Quite obnoxious, I have a picture now of non-elect infants :vomit:, your version of God really is beneath contempt.:plain:
 
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alwight said:
Quite obnoxious, I have a picture now of non-elect infants :vomit:, your version of God really is beneath contempt.:plain:
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Not unexpected from one who with their every breath and being hates the God who is. Carry on.

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Allow me to stir this pot a little more ...

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
 
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toldailytopic: How does God handle babies when they die?​


I would like to think that God handles babies at their death the same way a mother does when she her baby is born...Loved, caressed and welcomed home...I believe He does.

I would like to think that God handles babies at their death, like parents do when they have a new arrival in their family...With a song in the air, and an excitement for the new arrival in heaven...I believe they are.

I don't know how many here on TOL have lost children to death, believe me it is hard to forget the moment it happens, or happens twice. I've seen the look in that mother's eyes, and the only words at those early minutes were, "Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast, there by His love o'ershaded, sweetly my baby's soul shall rest," from the hymn "Safe In The Arms Of Jesus" — I believe what that mother said was true, it came from her heart, I was there.

From the days I was a funeral director, I was assigned to three different funerals for babies, and one grown child; out of all the those who attend and are touched by the death of those babies and child, it is the mother who knows the most sadness and a hard pressing grief, and yet that mother knows the most sweet presence of the Lord, and I believe a mother's faith is strong.

In ministering I have officiated a a few funerals for babies, those are the tough ones with the toughest of questions, to which I often reply as that mother replied, "Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast, there by His love o’ershaded, sweetly this baby's soul shall rest."

A baby dying, that is something that no parent should have to go through, believe me I've (we have) been there.

For a moment apart from what Jesus was doing in dying on the cross, picture Mary and imagine how Mary felt when she saw her son, Jesus, dying, and think of a young mother/and father watching their baby child die, what would you really think.​
 
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For a moment apart from what Jesus was doing in dying on the cross, picture Mary and imagine how Mary felt when she saw her son, Jesus, dying, and think of a young mother/and father watching their bay child die, what would you really think.
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Mary saw Jesus a few days after his death ... alive.
 
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But God isn't always loving and compassionate, is He?
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Yes. God is always loving and compassionate. Scratch that. He is Supremely Loving and Supremely Compassionate. In all that He does, He does it with perfect love and perfect compassion. He does nothing without care for all rational beings, nothing without the tenderest love and the most abundant generosity for all souls.

"Timaeus: Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be. This is in the truest sense the origin of creation and of the world, as we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all things should be good and nothing bad, so far as this was attainable" (Timaeus by Plato).

Glory and Praise to Our God
 
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