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Infant salvation (Age of accountability (Can't be harmonised with
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Infant salvation
Age of accountability
Definition: Assumption based on the premise that children are born saved and the attempt to then explain how and when they become lost.
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Logically and biblically, you would expect a child to remain lost until s/he becomes saved.
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What can we know?
The Bible is very clear about God's special love for children. That's why I believe it's very likely God in his mercy and special love for children covers them with the blood of Christ.
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Jesus says the angels assigned to children 'continuously behold the face of my Father in Heaven' (Matthew 18:10) => this special treatment opens the door to other acts of special treatment, including salvation apart from the normal process of recognising sinfulness, confessing and repenting.
God's favour is unmerited for all of us (recognising sinfulness, confessing != earning salvation).
Children should be viewed as guilty sinners who are lost and need to be saved. Then, if children go to Heaven when they die, God must have some just way of doing it despite the fact that they have not made a conscious decision to embrace the gift of salvation in Christ.
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Summary
Scripture is largely silent on this subject -> draw from principles and trust in the character of God.
I believe that babies who die go to Heaven. But even as I say that, I realise it's a big stretch and I cannot prove it scripturally.
Maybe God doesn't want us to know the answer right now, so we have to come to him in faith. It also protects us from the presumption it can foster.
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