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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: Rom 10:9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Rom 5:9 Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ's blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. So how can a e.g. 1-4 yr old do the above? A prerequisite for salvation and gaining a place in heaven, God cannot brake his own rules so to speak otherwise what he said would be untrue, and that Cannot be. I will answer, they would not have the mental ability to do so, how would they understand sin and to repent from it? What would they understand about the Shed Blood of Jesus, they probably would not be able to spell Blood. How can a baby or young child do the following? Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]. How can they understand faith when they have not what finished using the bottle? Acts 17:30 Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people everywhere to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins) If God is willing to let pass by him pagans who worship false gods in "ignorance" of him, are you saying that God will not let pass by him the death of a young one who died in "ignorance"? Some one said to me will God give them a 2nd chance, as I see it they have not even had a 1st chance as yet. As God 4 cardinal qualities are 1, Love. 2, Wisdom, 3, Justice, 4, Power, Not to give the innocent a fair trial would be wrong, it even is in the eyes of sinful men (and some of them atheists), so how much more so in the eyes of God, remember we are in God's Image and can reflect his thinking to some degree even though we are sinners, we have a sense of fair play, how much more so for a God how IS Love, not that he has Love but IS Love.? We could think of it this way, God seems to have 1 of 3 actions to take: 1 Send the to heaven, this has been ruled out by the above texts, God has to stay by his word. 2. Send the dead child to Hell, unthinkable as he was prepared to forget the past actions of ignorant demon worshiping pagans if the repented, the child has not got to the point of knowing about repentance etc. much less demon worship?! 3. Resurrect and let the child get to the point that he can understand about God, Christ and his ransom etc., which he or she was not able to do because of circumstance total beyond and out of their control. The latter I believe would be the action of a Loving, Wise, Just and Powerful and we can add Forgiving God, as Jesus died for all sinful humans so that they might be able to have a Good relationship with him God, children they died young did not get that chance to show Love of and For God Love says they need it. These are my scriptural reasons. DBR |