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NASB | Isaiah 7:16 "For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 7:16 "For before the child will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land (Canaan) whose two kings you dread will be deserted [both Ephraim and Aram]. [Is 7:2] |
Subject: infant death |
Bible Note: Lets have a look how a loving and merciful God views young or little Children:- KJV Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. It would seem there is a time during a young ones life when God views them as not having knowledge (understanding) of “good and evil” so then we must ask the question if that is how almighty God thinks how can he justly condemn an innocent whom he view as not knowing the difference between the two that is “good and evil?” So if we follow what the Paul said at Rom 12:1 I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent – Here the Greek word is logiken (Logic)) service and spiritual worship. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words Reasonable logikos pertaining to "the reasoning faculty, reasonable, rational," is used in Rom_12:1, of the service (latreia) to be rendered by believers in presenting their bodies "a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God." The sacrifice is to be intelligent, in contrast to those offered by ritual and compulsion; the presentation is to be in accordance with the spiritual intelligence of those who are new creatures in Christ and are mindful of "the mercies of God." So if I follow Paul’s example and apply reason/logic it tells me that as God is Just he would not condemn those he would consider that do not know good from bad, so the only just thing he could do is to give them another chance? This is what I feel the scriptures say to me and that it is a logical conclusion to draw, you don’t not have to follow it if that is what you feel. That’s ok by me. Thank you for your thoughts I do think about them, I fact most of today. Christian Love DBR |