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NASB | Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:23 since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, |
Bible Question: Can child aged 1,2,or 3 go to heaven if he/she should die? Do aborted babies go to heaven? |
Bible Answer: Well, No they cannot. Acts 4:12 says that 'there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved' and since toddlers of those ages cannot believe in Christ for their minds are not mature enough to do so, they will not be members of the 'overcoming' Church, who alone with Christ will be given heavenly glory and be given authority over the nations in His coming Kingdom. However, they are of the stock of Adam and will all receive resurrections back here to human life on earth as John 5:58,59 states they will, and the Bible seems to indicate that they will be resurrected at the same age that they died, so that their parents and or other family members will be able to raise them during the Millenial Kingdom of Christ to manhood or womanhood. They will remain here upon the earth forever, as God's perfected human children in the paradise that will be restored to mankind by the Church class in the coming Age. Aborted babies? Same answer as above, but as far as the Scriptures say, unless they have breathed the breath of life, unless they've come forth from their mother's womb in birth, then they are not yet 'souls' and therefore will be as though they never had been, i.e. they are not promised a resurrection because they were never born and thus shall they stay. This is also in agreement with the Jewish concept of birth, a baby in the Jewish mind is not a soul until it has taken it's first breath after leaving the mother's womb, before that, the baby just isn't a soul yet so it has no promise of a resurrection. Because soul in the Hebrew means an 'air-breathing'creature and embryos are not yet 'air-breathing'. This also the same in the Spiritual sense as well, as 'bogotten again' New Creatures, we are not 'born again' until we take our last breath as a human and take a our first 'breath' as it were, as a Born Again child of God of the divine nature-although I do not believe that we'll need air as divine creatures, just using this as an illstration. To be 'born again' would be to already have partaken of the divine nature and to already be spirit creatures and hence, no one in the flesh may say that they are 'born again', but only 'begotten again'. Hence, if we fall away and are condemned to the Second Death, as the Church is under the treath of the Second Death being that we are the FIRSTBORN of God's new creation, just as the FIRSTBORN among Israel were subjected to the Death angel in Egypt, so also, we must REMAIN under the blood of Christ until we finish our earthly course or else Christ returns and we're changed in an instance in the twinkling of an eye in the FIRST resurrection. IF we, as members of the Church, fall away, Hebrews assures us that it is IMPOSSIBLE to restore us again to repentence and we'll die the second death and hence not be 'New Creatures' any longer, but dead ones for all eternity. I hope this answers your questions. In Him, The Good News Minister! |