Why We Believe Children Who Die Go to Heaven
Jul 3rd, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General ChristianIt is one of the hardest things to explain. Especially to grieving families. Can you assure them their child is in Heaven. I have always attempted to do so, though I often admitted that my Scriptural validation for my belief was more or less founded in the goodness of God and His mercy.
The alternative is the cobbled together and poorly thought out, completely un-Scriptural “doctrines” such as the “age of accountability.”
Recently, Drs. Danny Akin and Al Mohler, Seminary Presidents of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, respectively, have produced a series of concise arguments from Scripture to lend a sense of affirmation to the belief that infants that die go to Heaven.
Between The Times|Why We Believe Children Who Die Go to Heaven
While some of the arguments edge quite close to the “age of accountability” thought process, though not crossing the line, some are better. Such as David’s sense of confidence in seeing his lost infant son again, and the vast multitudes of saints in Heaven that appear to possibly outnumber those that have lived to adulthood in service to the Lord.
If you’ve ever struggled with the loss of a child, this article should bring some sense of comfort to you.
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Two things about this topic have really held my interest lately. One is that nobody ever seems to refer to Isaiah 7 in the discussion. We all know 7:14, but the following two verses, twice, refer to a time when Jesus Himself did not yet know enough to “reject the wrong and choose the right”. I think that’s a little clue there that this God-Man didn’t, at one time, know right from wrong. I can think of no other reason for those statements in the Word, than if He wasn’t expected to, neither could mere mortals.
Second is that I’d really rather trust God, than my own ability to assemble enough “facts” to soothe myself about any particular issue. If God isn’t the God of love He says He is, and has shown Himself to be, then there isn’t much hope for anybody. Young or old. (Last statements are, of course, absent any scripture dealing explicitly with the issue.)
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To go further… What if you have a child that has severe mental illness… He knows (seems) right from wrong. Yet his illness cause him to do bad things… And he is certainly past the “age of accountability” by a long shot…
He hears voices.
Get’s violent.
Acts out sexually.
He was baptized but I suspect he doesn’t know what that means…
And then suddenly a car crash.
Is he in heaven or hell?
Dave, (HO)
First, I’ll give you a dollar for every time you find the “age of accountability” in Scripture. It ain’t there.
Second, to answer your question, I believe there is a valid argument to be made that he or she is in Heaven, which is the point of this post and the article that I referenced.